The MGS games make no sense in the ways that you’ve already pointed out, but at the same time there is a lot of very well thought out plot that does make sense in the context of the universe that he’s built.
In short, lmao it makes no sense and it’s one of my favorite series.
The overall plot is honestly really fucking good, it’s just Kojima has to put in vampires and a dude who shoots bees out of a gun made with bees. It’s great
“He’s called Vamp because-”
“He’s a vampire?”
“No. I mean, yes, he is a vampire, but he’s called Vamp because he’s bisexual.”
Never change, Kojima.
My favorite thing in Metal Gear Solid is around the end of MGS2 where Ocelot has a huge expositional speech explaining the plot and, I swear to fucking god, even he sounds confused at times. But that’s really just the politics in the story; the surface level themes and metaphors are extremely obvious and barely even metaphors with how thinly veiled Kojima is with his allusions. If the character represents sadness, he will straight up name him Sadman and his ability would be that he cries Snake to sleep.
I think my favourite MGS video is the one where Dunkey reads the plot exactly as it’s written.
No additional comedy required.
It’s a ghost arm, but actually…
POSSESSION! SELF-HYPNOSIS! PSYCHIC POWERS BY PROXY!
Unironically, it’s incredible how Kojima has a very clear and fairly substantial knowledge of history and international affairs and decides to just say “Fuck it” and combine it with giant nuke mecha piloted by psychic children and defeated by a brain-damaged man rescued by a Russian cowboy while listening to “She Blinded Me With Science” on his walkman. It takes a special kind of visionary, and I’m here for it
I love Kingdom Hearts dearly (beloved) and will be the first to tell you that it makes no god damned sense. I love the characters and many of the themes so much that it hurts to see them get so misused.
