The result of this dedication to variables is a game that truly makes you feel like a co-developer. There are so many ways to deal with the problems presented to you in Snake Eater, with so many bonuses, Easter eggs, diversions, and surprises to be found by those who are creative and lucky enough to discover them. Part of what makes Snake Eater special is the lengths to which it goes to first limit the player in their capacity to survive, then allow them to overcome those limits in the most incredible, imaginative methods possible. That’s a pretty common theme in games today, whether it’s Call of Duty or Resident Evil.

On the surface, Snake Eater‘s central theme is survival. That goes for both the game’s scripted events and its allowance for the player to guide the story in a direction that reflects who they are. As far as Metal Gear games go, this one bursts with the most personality and creativity. Snake Eater is Kojima’s best work, combining Hollywood action-movie tropes, pure videogame logic, densely packed Japanese pseudo-science fantasy, a period-piece war story, absurdist comedy, and heart-wrenching drama into a seamless whole. Maybe you’ll have a better time of reasoning that out for yourself after I break down some details for you. It’ll be up to the individual consumer to determine if Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater‘s technical failings are damaging enough to cancel out the worth of the port’s newly implemented features, and the original title’s impeccable writing, scenario design, and gameplay design. There are a few cool new features here, but Snake Eater 3D is also a downgrade from the original in a lot of ways - not something you’d expect on newer hardware. The other part is that Snake Eater 3D feels unfinished. Nintendo’s latest portable is capable of much more than that now-“retro” home console, as proven by titles like Resident Evil: Revelations. Part of that is because the 3DS is not a PS2. Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D does not come off like the paragon of technical excellence that the original title did when it was first released on the PS2 in 2004. It would have been really hard for Konami to make it so I don’t enjoy playing one of my favorite games ever on my current favorite videogame console (the 3DS), but heavens to Murgatroyd, they came pretty close.

I love playing the game, hanging out with other people while they’re playing the game, reading about the game, and watching videos of the game you name it, I love it.

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