Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-212.35.14.225-20150704132426/@comment-26638644-20150912173225

212.35.14.225 wrote: after the 2015 interview, can it still be a spinoff canon? i dont belive mpo is at the same stage, as acid 1 and 2.

No, I don't think so. Kojima specifically said that only the games he named were a part of the "single Metal Gear Saga". Therefore, the games are not included in the main timeline and instead occur in offshoot timelines. In another interview( here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6OGvhlKNzw), Kojima specifically says that Metal Gear Rising takes place in a "parallel continuation", which I believe is an odd translation that might be phrased more clearly as "alternate timeline". We can assume that the same applies to MPO.