Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-166.137.88.23-20130610185107/@comment-58.111.73.213-20131210090444

Given Kojima's habit of, for lack of a better word, decieving his fans in the earlier stages of MGS games - Playing as Snake for the first section of MGS2, then a masked Raiden under the codename Snake in the start of the second section, Big Boss wearing a Raiden mask in the intro cinematic of MGS3 under certain conditions, Raikov in MGS3, Olga as the Cyberninja in MGS2, ect... It would probably be safest to say that this character is not Liquid, but is designed to make us think he is Liquid, or as a tribute to Liquid. The similarities between the two seem far too obvious, as if we're intended to jump to the conclusion that it's Liquid. The other new characters for this game have had only cryptic hints dropped about them that probably won't make any sense until we actually play the game, wheras 'cursing his fate' seems altogether far too straightfoward. It's more like Kojima to keep us guessing while never quite giving us enough to figure it out, so that it's a surprise when his identity is actually revealed during the game - a way of getting the player more involved and immersed in the story.