This podcast has served the purpose of helping me work through my backlog (along with some new releases along the way), but the podcast has also helped me work my way through holes in my gaming history. This episode is the latest on my history tour- until December of last year, I had never played Metal Gear Solid. I had a Playstation for a very short period of time when I was a kid, but we only had a few games and sold it pretty quickly because the N64 was dominating our house. My exposure to Metal Gear was limited to the Gameboy Color game (Metal Gear Solid: Ghost Babel) and several playthroughs of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. So when Mick Arcade reached out to me to come on the show, we quickly arrived at Metal Gear Solid as the perfect game to make it happen.
Metal Gear Solid is incredibly outdated in lots of ways, but is overall a fun experience. The gameplay ranges from awful (the final boss) to extremely fun (the second Vulcan Raven fight) and everything in between. The controls are of an age where anything was acceptable. The story is built on plot twists upon plot twists that don't really seem concerned with fitting together. Instead of being a story that tells a suspenseful and compelling narrative, Metal Gear Solid hits you with a major plot twist every hour until you have no choice but to stop trying to make it all make sense and let it wash over you. So despite what a mixed bag of frustrations, comedy, shocking reveals and juvenile choices Metal Gear Solid is, I had a pretty positive experience with it and am glad I played it.
Joining me for episode 61 is the aforementioned Mick Arcade. Mick is a professional voice actor, Twitch streamer, podcaster and overall content creator. It was an absolute blast chatting with him about Metal Gear Solid and hearing him do all the voices from the game. You can check out what he's doing by following this link!
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