OnasiJust like the original, this sure will be one of the games of all time. Jokes aside, I kinda liked the OG DS for its absolutely ridiculous story that was actually taking itself seriously (for better and worse) and weirdly excellent gameplay that took the idea of being a courier delivering parcels and tripled down on executing it really well. It’s a weird game, not sure if it’s a GOOD game and I am still convinced that Hideo NEEDS people who can tell him “fuck no, that’s terrible”, but it’s still one of the veeeeeery few auteur games in the AAA space and I give it props for that alone.

OnasiI kinda liked the OG DS for its absolutely ridiculous story that was actually taking itself seriously (for better and worse)

Onasi@dyonoctis
Nah, that’s an insult to Lynch. Kojima is mostly hailed as an infallible auteur by people who started gaming with the PS1 and have fallen for his very derivative style of storytelling and design. I love MGS as much as the next guy, but people claiming it as some pinnacle of writing in games are tripping. Neither was it a revolutionary stealth game - it was a simple and arcadey radar stealth essentially unchanged from the MSX games and it stayed that way till 3. I mean, MGS1 came out the same year as Thief and that game is not only a vaaaaaaastly superior stealth game, but is also better written than anything Kojima had written up to that point and, frankly, would ever write since. A lot of people consider MGS2 his peak, which is… kinda true? Except that a lot of credit is on his co-writer and the translation team and all of the interesting things that he had done in Sons of Liberty were already done far better in Deus Ex a year prior.

tl:dr - I enjoy Hideo’s brand of derivative insanity as much as the next guy, but I don’t really rate him highly as either a writer or a game director. Not with a benefit of broad experience with both games and other media.