Board Thread:Metal Gear Solid V/@comment-5085906-20140619165117/@comment-64.33.250.214-20140813225547

Mr. Grave wrote:

64.33.250.214 wrote:

Just for the record, I don't mind more gays/trans in video games. But if Quiet were the only female and turned out to be trans, that would be a HUGE deal. It'd be heavily scrutinized by both progressives and conservatives. There are much easier, less controversial ways to include gays. Ways that don't involve making them torture victims or renegade snipers. Which is one of the reasons why this theory can't turn out to be true, but then again Ground Zeroes very well showed that Kojima doesn't excell in spreading his intended 'war is cruel' message. Maybe it's because it's his first time taking a dark narrative path, but I really didn't like how the Paz thing was handled. Implied rape? I get it. Gut-wrenching (pun intended) operation scene in which they try to remove a bomb from her stomach? I get it. What's with the 'oh wait guys i have another bomb inside me' fad. It makes it look like Kojima is just using Paz as a narrative and plot device, which is the least thing you'd expect from a guy like him.

I just hope he does justice to females in TPP. Last thing we need is another game in which women serve as morality pets. That's one thing about Kojima's style that either grows on you or gets in the way of the story. Many of his female characters are relegated to traditional roles. They are either mothers (Olga, The Boss, Eva, Rose), love interests (Sniper Wolf, Meryl, Strangelove, Cecile, Paz, Naomi), or women scorned (Fortune, Beauty and the Beast Unit). Not knocking Kojima's work, but he does tend to pigeonhole himself by adhering to the same tropes.

He's also well known for basing his work on films. Snake was inspired by Kyle Reese from Terminator and Snake Plissken from Escape from New York. Kojima has Tweeted about Batman and the Dark Knight films. Paz being implanted with bombs was clearly inspired by the bomb implant scene in Dark Knight, and the love interest character being blown up.