Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-26523073-20150623001037

Once you play all the games and start checking the promotional material of the Phantom Pain it sinks in, and it's beautiful. The entire MG saga tackles many subjects, many complex meditations about nationalism, borders, identity, even about poststructuralism and cybernetics. But mostly, for me, it's about loyalty and a very specific one.

When I saw the image attached, a selfie like picture of a candid Naked Snake locking the head of Ocelot, truly, it's bittersweet. At first we had Solid and Liquid, two genetical twins destined to terminate each other to the end, but as the saga progressed we had Naked, a son-like figure for The Boss, and Ocelot, her true son. And their loyalty to each other, their relationship as it is; complex, uneven and sometimes boderline hostile was, above all, of love, to the bitter end.

This is the strongest point with the MG saga: it understand people. It is people. With all their contradictions, faults, moral lapses, weaknesses. And love. Actually, the MG saga is full of love. Sometimes is love for a mother figure, for a nation, for war, for the past, even love for guilt and redemption, and of course, fraternal love. So much love that Ocelot was willing to hypnotize himself, to depersonalize himself, to pretend in his final years he was someone else, just to help Big Boss' (and his mother's) dream come true.

So take a good look at this digital selfie, you are looking at the best brothers in any

gaming series.

Beautiful swan song, Kojima.

 