Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-25168690-20160817194149/@comment-26985269-20160907135528

Samuspartan wrote: Well Ishmael seems like a hallucination, I even thought that when I played the game the first time, because he "cheats death" several times throughout the mission, and some of them seem like the laziest writing I have seen, for example:

-during the first encounter with "Fire Man" he gets lit on fire, and two seconds later he is perfectly fine, nither his clothes nor him get any visible damage.

-When the XOF are shooting the bodies in the corridor, he pisses himself, only to be revealed that he happened to be liying over a bag of pouring serum, so the XOF don't shoot him, and instead focus their attention on Venom Snake.

but once again this is just my own delusional opinion :P

Is Ishmael a hallucination to Ocelot too? Remember, Big Boss popped out of the vehicle that Venom and Ishmael were riding in. Venom would not have been able to hallucinate the details of that seen, unless Ocelot was also hallucinating.

Aren't Volgin's fire attacks psychic based? Ishmael could have avoided damage through sheer mental strength. But if that's not how it works, Kojima may not have wanted to program in fire damage effects to character's skin and clothes.

I'm confused as to what wetting oneself has to do with hallucinations...