Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5085906-20130627191357/@comment-64.33.250.214-20150823154211

Weedle McHairybug wrote: No, they generally don't hide that many characters. In all fairness, though, we only saw a limited amount of the guide, so it's likely the guide does contain more characters.

So far as misinformation, considering the guide state upfront that they cannot directly state who Ishmael is and even made clear that they were sworn by Konami and Kojima Productions to not state anything, I doubt they were told to misdirect the reader (and besides, trying to misdirect is stupid anyways since the point of a guide is to get through the game.).

And besides, it's not the first time Kojima made a huge lie anyways about a game. Remember how Kojima claimed we'd be playing as Solid Snake in MGS2 and even went as far as to doctor the trailers and gameplay footage to hide the fact that we were playing as Raiden? Whoever took videos of the guide apparently doesn't know how to focus a camera. It's difficult to see every page, but you can see the person flipped through basically the entire book. So if there are other characters in there, they're on one of the pages that got cut off from the video not being centered properly. The leaker did however take footage of the pages showing the main characters. The characters we see on those pages are all ones from the trailers. Quiet, Code Talker, Mantis, etc. There are no new images of Zero, Eva, the Patriots, FOXHOUND, or characters from MG1.

According to the reddit page: "The guide strongly suggests through clues that the Medic from Ground Zeroes is the version of Big Boss who awakens from the coma in the hospital."

Basically, the guide doesn't outright say Medic is Big Boss. It's a suggestion meant to either inform us or disuade us from whatever the game's big secret is.

There are two differences between what the guide says about the plot twist, and what happened in MGS2. 1: Raiden was introduced near very beginning of the game, and was unmasked shortly afterward. He wasn't introduced during at the very end of MGS1, then made to look like Solid Snake in MGS2. 2: Raiden's reveal was new at the time. If Kojima pulls a similar twist, he'll be retreading old ground. The similarities between the guide and MGS2 are that you're not playing as Big Boss, and Big Boss is somewhere on the side lines like Pliskin.