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MGM:R #018 - Portable Ops Pt. 9 - Mean Gene
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Here's to you dear listeners and welcome back to another episode of Metal Gear Mondays
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Reventions where you'll find your favorite conversations around Metal Gear and Kojima
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I'm your host Warren Minix and with me as always is a double agent from the CIA.
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Chris Hampton, how we doing?
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What's up y'all?
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I just, uh, I call me a sleeper agent I guess.
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I'm awake and ready for the mission.
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I love, I love sleepy Chris.
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I can't wait for this.
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Sleepy time.
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And uh, yeah I love it.
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And Tori is actually on special assignment from the Department of Defense as of right
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now.
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Yes.
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So, uh, before we roll into everything I will throw out there.
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We're going to go all the way to the end of the game so this is our last story episode
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for the season.
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So we're going to hold off on like the overall final thoughts.
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We actually had talked about this well before Tori was unable to make this particular episode
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but we weren't going to talk about like our total overall thoughts on the end of the game.
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We're going to hold that until we get to the listener response episode.
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So if you guys can June 25th is the absolute latest you can put in a listener response.
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Actually the email is the best contact the Metal Gear Mondays is the best way to get
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out there.
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So if you guys could send to that email and label it, uh, label it what you guys need as
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far as the listener response episode for that.
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We've gotten a bunch in already so thank you for everyone who has.
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So we're going to go through the end of the game.
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We got a few boss fights to discuss and the rest of this story.
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So do you have anything else to add Chris until I drop our patron that we're going to
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shout out?
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Is there anything else you want to add before we move on?
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You know, uh, I'm just happy to be here and let's hit it.
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I love it.
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All right.
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So we got our patron shout out.
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So our patron for this particular episode is, oh, there it is.
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Nice.
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Thank you.
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There's a little foley for you.
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Yeah.
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Boy Pusse 69 420.
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Boy Pusse.
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So yes.
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Boy Pusse 69 420.
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You are the man and, uh, B O I. So just so we have that and Pusse as in P U S S A Y.
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You are the man.
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Thanks a ton.
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Make sure we're talking to you in discord because I love meeting new patrons and learning
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people's real names.
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This is like one of my favorite things to do in the discord because everybody has silly
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names and stuff in their discord handles.
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But you're the man, dude.
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A proper shout out to boy Pusse for 2069.
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Here's to you boy Pusse.
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Cheers, my man.
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Cheers.
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Cheers.
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What are you drinking?
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Kool-Aid.
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Uh, so I have a Fiji artisian water and put a little, put a little flavor, put a little
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flavor in it and maybe a little, a little something extra to give it a little zip for
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tonight.
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All right.
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All right.
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All right, man.
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I'm ready.
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I think, I think we get started on our final story episode.
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You ready?
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Yeah, let's do it.
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Let's bring this mission home.
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So we, we left off where we had defeated Metal Gear Raxa knowingly killing Alisa slash
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Ursula and Jonathan has sacrificed himself in the name of Big Boss.
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So we are literally hard cut.
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Jonathan has died and now we need to exact revenge, stop this plot.
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We learned that there is another Metal Gear, the Metal Gear we just defeated was a prototype
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or a, you know, not the full practicing model, which is not great.
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So Intel suggests that we go to a power station, which is just south of the ravine.
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Now I only brought this up because if the game had more maps like the ravine earlier
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on, we had talked about a couple of good maps.
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We talked about the town and there was like a couple of interesting places, but the ravine
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is actually like pretty vertical and a pretty large map and we have to get through it.
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We find our way into the station.
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We have to get to the switchboard because we don't have a ton of explosives.
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So if we have a few calculated explosives at the switchboard to cut the power, which
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would then let us know and break into where they're holding the Metal Gear Raja, the
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proper one.
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What did you think of this whole plot slash map of the ravine and the power station?
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I mean, it was sad to lose our boy, Jonathan.
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He's been with us since the beginning.
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I know all of us have had very sentimental attachments to our dear boy.
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Yeah, Jonathan was a man.
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He was.
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Down like a true champ, you know, trying to save the boss.
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And that's got to be a pretty heavy emotional weight to carry for a snake.
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Yeah.
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All these men losing their lives for him, you know.
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But so that was pretty cool.
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Then the like the McGuffin part of like, oh, actually, that's not the big bad.
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The other big bad is.
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It's like, OK, well, the game, it's like it's almost like a near thing, you know,
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where you don't really start until you beat the game.
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Sure. Yeah. Yeah.
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Your Metal Gear is in another castle.
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Yeah, it's like Metal Gear, Portable Ops, Plus Mode, Secret Boss.
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I love it.
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Yeah, to get like ending E, which is the real ending or what?
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I don't know. It's a lot.
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It's a lot in near, definitely.
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Yeah. And yeah.
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I guess it's OK here because it's.
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You know, the boss fights are probably the most standout part of the game
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from a game perspective and where you get like the biggest
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break from the sneaking part and the like dragging bodies around.
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So I'm not really ever going to complain about the boss fights in this game.
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I welcome them. Cool. Yeah.
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So as far as this ravine map, though, because I actually like
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the sneakiness of this particular map, because there is a lot of guards
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between the ravine and the power station that's got the got to like climb
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through the and shimmy across.
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There's the bridge you got to get across to get into the building.
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And there's it's a lot of that.
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If the sneaking that you were sort of discussing
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was more like this, I think I don't know if it would have elevated it per se.
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Maybe it would have been a little too much early in the game to be this,
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I guess, involved.
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But I it sort of really felt like playing
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like a Metal Gear Solid 3, I guess, because that would be the closest
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to the engine slash like timeline of playing the game.
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It felt it felt pretty good.
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Like it felt right. It was a great map, very big and open.
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But also it had a lot of familiar places we had been and a lot
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of places to hide and like we really had to map out, you know,
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what the hell is that guy that keeps finding me?
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I like that stuff too.
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But yeah, I'm glad you like boss fights, because there's going to be a lot of them
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in the story episode. We're going to do a gauntlet, a gauntlet, a rogues gallery here.
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Yeah, to your point, yeah, the verticality of the ravine area is pretty cool.
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And it is you have a bit of familiarity with the space when you go back into it.
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So it's sort of like you've mastered the the the gameplay by this point
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and you get to really do some neat nifty tricks.
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That's always the fun part of any game, right?
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Like where you finally got the gameplay down, Pat, and you can like
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do some movie starship on the screen. Right.
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Exactly. And you don't need to have like a machine gun.
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Like you can do it with the tools you've had since the beginning.
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I totally agree with that.
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Yeah, I totally agree.
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So story wise, we find out so we get to the the red X, which is the switchboard,
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but we can't just drop any regular explosive.
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They claim it's better to have a time detonator because we'd only have five minutes,
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something like that.
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So now that we can choose when we ignite the the detonator,
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then we can use that five minutes to get in.
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And as soon as we drop the charge,
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we see that no, we go into a dope cut scene and no is losing his shit.
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He has not completed his mission.
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Why is Snake alive?
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That all that kind of stuff.
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He's killing everyone that's in his path.
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And he essentially is doing this like whole, why are you, you know,
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why do you choose to live?
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Like what what what do you bring to the table?
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What what makes you so special?
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And he wants Snake to answer.
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It's not that Noel needs to know.
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It's very weird.
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But this is where they finally dropped the bomb that not only is Snake known
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who Noel has been, I guess, after seeing him, but it's Frank Yeager.
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It is Gray Fox, Cyber Ninja from the jump.
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And he knew him as a child soldier in Mozambique.
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And I I'll admit on this, obviously in the research and playing the game,
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but I didn't realize that Frank Yeager, I knew the Yeager part was like a nickname
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because he was a hunter is what they called him.
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But I didn't realize that Frank wasn't his actual first name.
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They called him like what the Frank Yeager is the Frank Hunter
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because he was such an upfront little boy when it came to his training
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or when he was there in Mozambique.
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I never knew that until playing this again.
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I don't know how I miss that, that he wasn't like Frank Jones.
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And they just started calling him Frank Yeager.
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It's a full code name.
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So before we get into the fight, what do you think of this cut scene?
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I think that.
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This is kind of the first time that we see Gray Fox slash Noel slash
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whatever, since he's being crushed by that milk, your rats, right?
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Right. And it's an interesting parallel to like that.
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Cyber Ninja cut scene where he's in the hall, you know,
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in middle of your solid one, you're walking up and it's just gritty,
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gruesome and a little foreboding, right?
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I think this is, from my perspective, a bit of a callback to like what
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witnessing what it what went on in that hallway might have been like.
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That's true. That's a great little piece, because he can, he's clearly capable.
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We've known that since we've known who Gray Fox is.
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Oh, he's violent.
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You know that he can slaughter everyone.
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Right. He's a violent mother.
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He's awesome. I love I love Gray Fox.
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Yeah. Also like, OK.
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So I didn't know that the Frank thing was like,
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you know, the word Frank was his name.
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Right. I didn't know either.
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I really didn't know. So this time, Frank, like Franklin, Franklin,
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Joseph, great, Jager or whatever.
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But it's so funny to me how important names are in middle year.
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Right. Yeah.
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Especially like coming from a place where people are named
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Jim Bob and Bubba, like not a lot of thought is put into a person's name,
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it seems, really.
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But here it's like, oh, my God, this stuff is cemented in the stars.
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Almost. It's like your name is the prophecy of who you are.
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Right. It's weird.
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And yet so so straightforward.
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So Frank.
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Frank. Yes.
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Well, let me be friend.
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Exactly. So yeah, outside of the music being super ominous
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during that like five minute timer that's hitting us,
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we get into our second fight with Noel.
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Yeah. And what I'll throw in there, we already talked about verticality
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because they're starting to really open up the maps.
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And this is pretty noticeable, too, from the first map that we fought
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Noel into this. But I don't know what it was.
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And maybe it's just it seems like the same fight he's supposed to be.
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I would have thought he was going to progress in difficulty.
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But at this point, I was able to like exploit when you get close to me,
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does like that dope like spin with his like his sword or whatever you want to
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call it. And you can just roll past that and just clip him
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with whatever you're trying to kill him with.
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And it was a lot easier in this particular map.
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But I try also wanted to like get a feel.
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So I played it, right?
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Didn't do that just to see how he reacts and some of the, you know,
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the word choices and dialogue.
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He's he's it's a pretty cool fight.
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I like the look of it. What do you think of this fight?
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Yeah, it's interesting.
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I mean, it's the old Indiana Jones thing of like, don't bring a sword to a gun
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fight. So it's not that difficult of a fight,
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especially when you're snake and you're packing an arsenal,
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which by this stage in the game, you are packing an arsenal.
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Sure. Yeah, everybody, your whole team could be packing an arsenal at that point.
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Yeah. So it's not challenging.
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It's almost like this is just sort of like a cameo
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of a character to like give a little bit of fan service.
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You know, yeah, especially after a drop that he's Gray Fox.
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I wasn't expecting a second null fight when I had first gone through the game.
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I figured, oh, cool, no.
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And he's going to be like, you know, once you know he's Gray Fox, it's like,
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and I'll catch you in the next game.
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You know, I really thought that's what was going to happen.
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And it's not the case. You know, it was it was cool.
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And again, you can do the shoot between reloads, you know, the normal
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the normal stuff.
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Aselots taught us well for so many years on how to do a proper boss fight
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when it comes to that kind of stuff.
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But he's cool, man.
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And when we beat him, we it's a nice little reunion.
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I actually I again, we talk about this every time we do this,
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but the character stuff
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is pretty good. It's not.
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And it didn't feel cheesy.
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They sort of have a record recognition of each other.
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And you know, as part of the crew, he literally comes back with snake.
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I mean, he might be a little defeated, but he's we got him.
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Like we just took like their ace in the hole.
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Like that's crazy that we got Noel by the end of this game.
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That's fantastic. Yeah, it's fun.
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It makes no sense at all.
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But it's fun. Exactly.
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It's why he shows up in what metal gear. Yeah.
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Right. The OG metal gear.
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Yeah. So now we have found out where the metal gear is being held
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and they have a silo.
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So Intel gets us to the silo.
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And I don't know about you. The one thing I did notice is the music is like
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we're at the end of this game, baby.
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Like it is boom, boom, boom.
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It's got that crazy like it's super intense.
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But we got the ramp and the silo.
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Now, the silo is a map we've I think personally,
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I think I played like four to five times just story wise moving back and forth.
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So I was able to I knew exactly what to do.
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Like it was really fantastic.
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I really felt like I got like this game is mine.
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And there's some cool platforming for the game.
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You know, I don't want to compare it to other platformers.
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But we get into the complex.
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We I mean, again, metal gear taught me well, chaff grenades.
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You can hide from every camera pretty easily.
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You get your keys to get to the elevator.
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And we all know what happens on the elevator.
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So just before we talk about that boss fight,
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did anything stand out to you when it came to the silo
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before we roll into the next boss fight?
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Because it is quick.
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Well, yeah, it's super fast.
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It's the game has picked up so much pace by this point
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that you're pretty much on rails and just being rushed.
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This is the climax.
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So, yeah, not much to say.
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But it. I do appreciate how like quick they pick up the pacing here.
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Yeah. All right.
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So we get on to that elevator.
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We head down and we get a pretty pretty interesting cut scene
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with a boss fight.
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Now this we did kind of pick on him a little bit
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when it came to the bad guys episode.
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But Cunningham ends up on one of those like hover things that were in.
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I guess they were previously established in Metal Gear Solid 3.
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He's got his own that's like pretty armored, which is pretty cool.
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But there is. Yeah, exactly.
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Think of those old commercials.
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Do you remember those?
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I do remember.
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Do you have the one that also like you could pull the piece up
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that attached to the thing to let you go up the stairs to?
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Oh, yeah. You could like click the thing.
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You could like, I love that.
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But I do remember the the literal hover round.
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They go to the Grand Canyon.
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Those are the two. Yeah.
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Yes. And they look like you can do whatever you can do.
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Oh, that's amazing.
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But you're right. It does kind of look like that.
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Yeah. So yeah.
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So we picked on Cunningham a little bit.
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The main thing was because he did the whole.
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He wasn't like a double agent or anything.
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But this is where we learned that he actually has been working
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for the Department of Defense this whole time.
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So he has had his own motivations, unrelated to Fox, unrelated to the CIA.
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And it was all about how and we did pick on this.
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He has like the bum leg.
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He literally is missing a leg and there are cyborg ninjas and shit.
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Like he really felt like he just sort of got left to the wind.
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So we went to the Department of Defense, who he thinks is going to take care of them.
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It does a lot of exposition, talks about a bunch of stuff.
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And the thing that was interesting is Big Boss was planted to be there
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to be the hero and make Jean launch Metal Gear.
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Like they planned on Metal Gear being launched and he was planted.
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Like they would need him to be in there.
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And he tries to say like, hey, join me, Snake, we're going to do this themselves.
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And I don't know.
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I thought it was a pretty good offer, but Snake says he's fighting for himself
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and a little cheese.
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But I don't know.
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I kind of liked it, especially after losing Jonathan.
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We just got Noel back.
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We, you know, we sacrificed Alisa and Ursula.
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It feels pretty, pretty good before the boss fight.
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I mean, is any of that makes sense to you?
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I know we kind of picked on it in the character focus, but was
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did this surprise you that Cunningham was like he was on his own journey
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this entire game and that Snake was a plant?
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Yeah, I mean, it is.
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I guess like this is the first time this idea has really been presented
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in the game of like, you know, there are there are parallel events happening
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outside of the perspective of the player, which is rooted in in Boss's experience.
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Right. You're just in here.
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Yeah, but for a game where you're actually, I think the first time in
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money or series, you're focused more on collecting almost like
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a Pokemon, these, these different dudes to like outfit your, your crew.
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It's nice to like get more story material behind those characters.
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Sure.
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It really makes them feel like more of a part of your crew or
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like more of a foil to what you're doing.
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You know
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The example with Jonathan for example like I don't think Jonathan that events where Jonathan sacrifices himself
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We would have the impact that it has in the game if you hadn't built that relationship
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With a character by playing with them. I
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Agree yeah in Cunningham. We like I said we talked about him, but he's he's compelling his voice acting is really good
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He makes a very good impression. He screams bad guy
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But he he's good. He meant he he did do the whole you know, you and I aren't really that all that different
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You know the the obvious thing that happens in every villain
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But but yeah, I agree. I thought the story wise it makes sense
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It's he it's he it's obvious why he's so compelled to to I guess achieve his victory that he's looking for
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But now let's talk about the boss fight because it is a little
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Comical I don't know. I don't know what it is. I
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Am flying around you're on an elevator moving and I
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Don't know it just you throw up you throw I threw grenades or flashbangs or chase anything that would get him to like drop his little
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Elevator thing down
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Shoot him pop pop pop rinse and repeat
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I don't know it looked cool like I did like the moving background like all constantly moving because you're on a
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You know, you're on the descending elevator, but uh
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outside of that
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He does wheel the Davy Crockett. I will give him that yeah
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What do you think of this fight though? And I don't want to like poo poo on it
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But I don't know it didn't seem as mobile as I wanted
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Yeah, I think it was a little stale after a while
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I don't really like
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The
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Encounters in this game where you're fighting against things that are flying around you. Yeah, it feels like a really unfair
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Advantage to enemies because of how clunky the controls are sure
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Especially without that second joystick, you know, I
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Agree I agree. So what do you think of his pretty unceremonious death? He just sort of oh, yeah, it's like
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Just squished up. He's gone. You know
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Yeah, I mean a
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It's a bummer because I like I like him a lot and I mean they all can't be winners when it comes to
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the whole I guess his biggest reveal is he had the dope intro to the game and
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He had ulterior motive that does tie in
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We'll talk about it when we get to the end of the game like the end end of the game
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It really does tie to the motivations that inform the future of the games
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So he does have like plot like juicy
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But I don't know pretty pretty unceremonious fight it felt very like just whatever
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You know what I mean? I had no desire to like trank him or I was just like let's get on with this
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Where's the fun fights? I don't know just didn't do it for me
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Yeah, well
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All right, our boy dies and we get down to
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Jean in the control room so we get to the control room and this is where I
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Like Jean and we you guys had swayed me the other way when we did the episode
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I was high on Jean and then you guys brought me to like regular
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Jean I'm lukewarm now
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However, I think this is where I was referencing it Jean now has killed everyone and we know that he's capable of that
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He did the whole you don't know who the traitor is and they all kill each other
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So clearly he's a sociopath. He whatever gets him to his end is what he wants
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But out like this is cool. It's a pretty awesome idea
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for a boss arena like just the massive control room for
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Metal Gear Raja the true one
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But this is where like my notes here man. I have a whole page on
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It seems Jean knew everything all the time
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He planned to launch the Metal Gear Raja at the Pentagon
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So it was never he wanted to make it look like it was Russian
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Going on American soil that messes with NATO and the United States and especially the philosophers the New World Order
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He wants to make the peninsula the armies heaven to breed the perfect soldier making him the true successor
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And it just felt I don't know it was a lot
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It was a lot when I was like, oh my god, what is happening?
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What did you think about this there was a little bit of rebooting which we'll talk in a minute
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But what did you think of at the end of the day? Jean's reveal of his real plan?
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Yeah, I mean well
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His plan is like this New World Order, right and the philosophers legacy is the key to that which is the
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The persisting MacGuffin right now is the philosophers legacy, right?
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I don't know
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Jean has some big aspirations
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in his world domination scheme
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but
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I was listening to this when we were when I was playing through the game and thinking to myself like
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Yeah, no, like the patriots are not gonna allow this to happen
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You know, like you would you would think right zero would not allow this to to be a thing
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Right, but zero can't be involved Kenny
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Dun dun dun
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Yeah, I mean
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Jean has this like big boisterous soapbox moment
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But it's clear
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When he's giving this exposition that he doesn't realize like the the part that he's playing
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in the the game
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Right around the philosophers legacy, you know, he's he's
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Seeing his moment and he's going for it just like vulgan did before him
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Well that whole vulgan thing too
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He I don't know if he's throwing shade at the boss like this is where they
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They like retcon a slight bit of the mgs3 story
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They basically say that
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It was planned like the whole thing where boss told us because vulgan
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Shot the davy crocket into russian soil that informed her plan moving forward
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But now he's saying
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That that was that was planned
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Like vulgan the whole vulgan decisions he made was also a plan and kind of throw shade at the boss saying like
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You know, you let her to this decision and all that like I don't know I
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I'm okay with it because gene is clearly like he's out. He's off in his own planet now
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So he can say and do whatever he wants
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It's a little bit of unreliable narrator because that's something I do really like about him is you will listen to him because he has like that
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Parasite thing so he can alter the history books by just saying what he wants
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So I do like that in a sense
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But I don't know I just felt the shade was a little real for the boss and I just want to make sure I
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Personally say like don't don't fucking throw shade at the boss bro. Yeah, that's not cool
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That's not cool. That's a line. You just don't cross especially with snake
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you know
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Snake very much sees himself as the protector of the boss's legacy and that's gonna be
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That's gonna be the source of conflict for a lot of events moving forward in this game
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so this is like
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I don't know gene saying like
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Telling your mama jokes to snake. I mean it feels like that right? Yeah, and he's like no, you don't do that
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You don't tell you you don't that's a line. You don't cross about the boss
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Exactly. Yeah, and he's just like you're a dictator like you're not a you don't have like a special calling
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You're not going to be the savior here. You're just another asshole in a long line of assholes. Like that's just what you're doing
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um
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So yeah, so gene launches metal gear and his little
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Duel like he I think he I think his exact words are he takes out both bases of the philosophers
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But with hitting the pentagon and Russia like he's gonna screw over they basically if you take down both
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They're not going to be able to recoup and he wants to wipe them off the earth
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And in a crazy surprise thing
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Ursula and Alisa survive
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They survived the metal gear raja fight. They show up
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To I guess help because now they're both against gene and this is where I think like gene is pretty bomb
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She can read thoughts. She's a telepathy. She's a telepath. She's a she has that ability. She's a psychic
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But genes reflexes are so fast
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I was like, oh shit. It's gonna get real and the next scene. Bam. She's killed
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Like he just stabs her dead on the floor
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Uh, that was pretty shocking. I thought that was actually
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like pretty
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Pretty pretty like bomb and they reconfirm that big boss's son
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Sons quote unquote will both save the world and create metal gear and attempt to take the world by like
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They really like hammer home like metal gear solid one's gonna happen. Like like it's it's it's pretty cool. Um
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I I liked it, uh
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Did were you shocked that they survived that that Ursula Alisa thing? Did you yeah? Are you I was absolutely because like that was a big explosion
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You know
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Yeah, we lived through that
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I guess a telepath that can probably control maybe protect yourself in like a gene gray kind of way
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maybe like a
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Some there's some psycho mantis
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Shit going on. Yeah for sure. Definitely as usual pretty common in our metal gear games
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That's the thing is like what is this like x-men supernatural
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layer
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in metal gear games that really just I don't
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Feel it was a huge part of one
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Like psycho mantis was yes. I was just gonna ask you this. Where do you where do you think it shows up?
[00:29:32]
It starts in two in my opinion with vamp, right? Is he the first one vamp and fortune right? They feel the most
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Right. I totally agree. And I it's that is that an artistic choice. You think that is it like a kojima?
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like
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Trying to one up himself in that sense because I think that's why like
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Three and one feel so special three had x-men. I mean they do control bugs and shit
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But I think that's why one is still like I always find a way to argue back that that's
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That's my favorite like I don't know. It just feels very it's more about shadow moses and the incident not
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The special powers of everyone. You know, I mean, yeah, I agree with you. I mean
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Shit uh
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I guess it's like I don't know that it it's some weird like well, we just have to make things interesting
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But maybe it was uh, well, how do how do we design interesting boss fights?
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You know, sure in the first game it was a lot of guns and tanks and like typical military stuff
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Same for the nes games and then
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you know
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Now we have like people using projectile bees and
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Using and apparently doing instant transmission. Yeah, or whatever whatever gene calls it
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Right instant transmission psychic
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robot
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Controls. Mm-hmm and hyper reflexes and all that stuff. Yeah
[00:31:02]
Well, all right. So speaking of instant transmission and crazy reflexes. What do we think of this boss fight?
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I'll let you start this. Hmm. I mean
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The fight is really good, you know
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uh
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This is like
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sort of a cqc
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Up close. Mm-hmm these boss fights with gene and I really like that
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Because it feels like
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Mono-y-mono very fair
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level
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Footing, you know, sure definitely
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um
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But other than that, I don't know if they were
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It's so funny that he dis is the boss, right? He dis is the boss right before this and we get into this
[00:31:48]
This fight where he's using like some cqc stuff himself and a knife to
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In a in that in like a way
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That reminded me of the boss fight from three
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At the end of the year
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Because absolutely getting up close with him is really dangerous. You have to like kind of
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State keep your distance and like whittle him down a bit before you go in
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If you rush in he'll like combo you and you always just get stuck and
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and whatever but um
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Yeah, for him to like shit talk the boss and then like now face my cqc. He's not that great
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Uh of a funner
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Outside of the cool
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I like he when he throws like 55 knives. Yeah, because he has the super crazy reflexes. It looks cool
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Like it's it's it's presented. Well, it's like a little bit of like an oscilot
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fast shooting
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Knives right?
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Yeah, exactly and that's I like that. It wasn't just another gun, you know, it wasn't like another like
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Osilat adjacent. Well, I mean shit. It's not like they could give him a deck of cards and rip off of gambit
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They had to do something
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Put it past them if i'm honest with you
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Get out of the card
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Be amazing
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But i'm gonna be honest that I know we don't make it as a strategy guide
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But my my main thing was if I go into like a fight I do my best to have stun grenades and they are
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So helpful like you can almost win anyway
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As long as you stun him because he is still a human like his reflexes are fast, but
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A grenade's gonna work no matter how fast your reflexes are. That's true
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So I like that. So yeah, man. So not an unceremonious fight. I I I like this whole chat the fight
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we beat gene
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And he sort of admits that obviously in his defeat that snake big boss is the true
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successor
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And he basically gives snake a bunch of money that he amassed to make armies heaven like he just sort of says like here's the ropes kid
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and uh
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He does do the whole I already you know, I already put in the
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coordinates
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For the metal gear like you can't stop it. There's nothing you can do about it
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It's I I we're I we're past the ending already my fight with you was to distract you
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and uh
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It's pretty funny how I was like, okay, and they just shoot a bazooka at it
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That's the answer it's not bad
[00:34:20]
So what do you uh, what do you think about like so after all this shit we just said gene
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Still sort of saying like hey
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Maybe i'm an asshole, but my plan's pretty cool. Like it's not a bad plan
[00:34:32]
We should do something like this because aren't you tired of
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You know being a tool of war
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For someone else kind of a thing
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So I like that gives him and it has nothing to do with the philosophers money if i'm not mistaken
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It's just all the money he's amassed
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By being his own thing. So it's like his own
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Some of money that's probably not accounted for somewhere
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It's got he's got a little checking account. It's been yeah putting 10% his paycheck in there. Yeah slowly building it over time
[00:35:00]
Yeah, you know might have a couple of
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stocks
[00:35:04]
Yeah, gene's got a pretty diversified portfolio. I would think probably got some real estate
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Kind of like blue chip stuff real solid investments. Nothing risky
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Exactly just slow playing it, but just aggressively slow playing. I totally agree. He's a safe guy. It's a safe bet
[00:35:20]
Probably owns a lot of walmart stock
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Yeah, if I was to think about
[00:35:26]
Mean gene's portfolio. Yeah, think about recession proof, right? Yeah able to to survive any sort of issue where you're gonna go
[00:35:33]
Walmart that's why he invested
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So we're gonna talk to gene about he gets a great deal on all this
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Oh, that's amazing
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Ah, so yeah, so we blow it out of the sky. It detonates in space
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I guess after everything and it's it's pretty cool. Oh, they're watching it free fall like I like that that that was that was pretty fun
[00:35:57]
and
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We're pretty much, you know
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Nice job. We saved the day and the cia director
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Is now doing his own thing obviously in some undisclosed location
[00:36:08]
And he's interrupted by
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Ocelot, which is really the first time we know it's ocelot. We've we've we know ocelots in every game
[00:36:16]
So we're not we're not an idiot and there's been a secret informant like sort of
[00:36:20]
Funneling information to gene and all these other people. So we kind of had an idea but adam
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Is the triple spry from like he's the triple spy for the philosophers the director has the briefcase
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He's got the documents. He's got philosophers names the data where the parts are scattered across the world like the legacy
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and
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He's prepared to take it to a bunker
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because metal gear was launched in the space so
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The intent is is that no matter what happens the philosophers would survive if the plan succeeded
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They were always going to be they were always going to be able to keep moving on
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And ocelot basically goes like is this everything and they're like, yeah, we got him and he just clears the whole room
[00:37:01]
Fucking kills everybody
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And I the line I like and then I'll let you I'd like to hear your thoughts on it
[00:37:08]
He says he destroys them because they stole quote-unquote and they're not, you know in line with the true
[00:37:15]
the spirit of the true patriot
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And I kind of like that. Yeah, that's a pretty good line
[00:37:22]
So what do you think of the cia plot with oscelot towards the end here?
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Uh, I mean it makes sense. You know oscelot is
[00:37:30]
gonna be our sneaky
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switch agent
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Um for the whole series really
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So this is in character for him for sure
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Um, I think it's it's great that oscelot gets to come up in with gene to
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Give it. Yeah, you know, I agree
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Yeah, I think that's cool. Um
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Yeah, and of course like the patriot shadow
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Whatever this is like totally setting up
[00:38:03]
four, right? If I if I have the timeline correct
[00:38:08]
When this game came out four came out shortly after
[00:38:12]
Yep, you are correct. So so we're headed up to like
[00:38:16]
Really figure out who the patriots were, right, which is we haven't gotten much information on that
[00:38:22]
Since the ending of melior solid 2
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Right, they were right a very small piece of melior solid 3
[00:38:31]
Just it was more of a setting up the story
[00:38:35]
Explaining to us what the legacy was why it's important and why people are after it
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But now we're getting into the meat of like the patriots themselves who are
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Setting up this like
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The next big event
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And it's gonna change the world, right? Like we're really not we're just not gonna recognize
[00:38:59]
The world that we come back to after these events
[00:39:02]
Yeah, it's it's good
[00:39:05]
Story stuff, which is what we always have been going back to with this. It feels very especially knowing
[00:39:11]
Everything afterwards now it this is cool. Like this is
[00:39:14]
This is pretty good seeds that are being planted to
[00:39:19]
Establish just what the fuck is going on with
[00:39:23]
This story wise because if you go from three to four, it's pretty bonkers. Like you're like, what the fuck is this like?
[00:39:29]
We were in the jungle now. It's there's like the they sound like cows. They have muscle tissue
[00:39:34]
They're jumping all over it. Like it's just a war zone everywhere all the time getting dropped pretty big
[00:39:39]
by pedal cow robots
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That have little whips on them
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Yeah, and and I think I so I think I'm gonna say this here
[00:39:48]
Because I we I know we've all said it and I think it's like the kitschy thing to say but oscelot
[00:39:54]
Really does find a way to be a fucking great character in every game
[00:39:59]
I I tried to like challenge myself to be like, what's the weakest performance of oscelot?
[00:40:04]
And I don't know if I have an answer because I obviously you could say this game, right?
[00:40:08]
But he's in it for such a short time that like you can't really give him crap and he is
[00:40:13]
monumental in
[00:40:15]
affecting the plot and he's got great lines and I love that he's been fucking with everything from the beginning like that's
[00:40:21]
Oscelot's cool, man. I really appreciate like what he does
[00:40:25]
In every game. I I know that he's like remembered but everybody's sort of like he's always like the bronze medal
[00:40:31]
In most people's like rankings, but he's
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He's really cool, man
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And he finds way to be interesting in every every game and it's it's just special
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And I this was the time where I really noticed it, you know oscelot's probably one of the more fun characters to write
[00:40:49]
In this series if I was a writer, I would have a lot of fun writing him just because he's so
[00:40:55]
He's so animated, right? Right
[00:40:58]
It's great and motivated like he he has motivation
[00:41:02]
Every time you meet him and even and again three was the funniest thing because in three
[00:41:07]
He's so different than we knew him. He's this young
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You know hot shot colonel kind of a thing like it's nothing like we have seen him in previous games
[00:41:17]
And it's just interesting. I really like that and for him to like drop that spirit of the true patriot
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We see the seeds are being planted for the patriots, which we'll learn about later
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And uh, so yeah
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All is well snake makes it out. We we have won the day and the philosophers are not going to be able to pull their bullshit
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In the future, so we'll learn about future, you know issues, but fox's rebellion was covered up
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And camble which again an awesome performance. He confirms that snake is one hell of a hero
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And snake learns to fight for what he believes in so this is where we're finally
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Snake makes a massive move of not just trying to make mom happy, right?
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He now
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Trust himself to make his own honestly in his own way
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I I can't really vouch for because we talk about this every season the will of the boss
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I do think when it comes to snake
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The will of the boss for the snake is for him to stand for what he believes in
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Regardless of what that is. I do feel like there is some decent closure
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He doesn't have to mention her but you can tell that he has resolve
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He has
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moved forward from really this is the last time I know they're gonna bring it up in peace walker and things like that
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But this was like the real time that he has like post-traumatic boss disorder
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You know what I mean?
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boss post-traumatic
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boss disorder
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Yep, what are the symptoms?
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symptoms of that are
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self-doubt
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Probably probably can't sleep well would be a guess of mine
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Probably mood swings would be my guess heavy drinking maybe out dependence on substance. You think twitchiness?
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Maybe uh, I don't know. He's
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Fidgets with his gun so much
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He could so you're right because maybe the sneaking suit like masks some of that because it makes like calms his body down
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That's that's a good point. Yeah, I think I think that's a thing
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But I liked it if it feels it did feel like a way for like all right the snake
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We knew is getting much closer to the snake. We know
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in previous games
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And it felt pretty logical. It didn't feel
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Forced it felt like the game was building towards that and you know going back what we know about
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Outer heaven and all that we get it. We see why big bosses the way he is
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that's
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That's pretty bomb and we see a fox dossier on snakes bedside
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Is he back? I don't know. We'll see
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Gray fox is a wreck
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We have no idea if he'll ever recover. I mean, we kind of have an idea
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Yeah, I think we have an idea. Is he gonna recover? Yeah, we kind of have an idea. That's not true statement
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Uh, we have the the benefit of
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Having been to the future already
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Right like three to four games that include him in some way or another. Yeah, so what do you think?
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Uh, like I said, we don't have to do final thoughts as far as like how it involves everything anything more than what we've discussed
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But like as an ending story bits
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Everything how do you feel about the ending of this game? It's really solid. Honestly like this game does not waste
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Any of its breath when it was telling a story?
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I love how
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Right from the silo and the game picks up pace
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It carries you right through which is great for this game, right? Because it's it's been designed as such a pickup put down thing
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Up into that point that you really need some sort of like big
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Climactic moment to carry you through the ending and finish the story off
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So I'm glad that they decided to get
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away from like sort of the rhythm
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the gameplay loop that you have
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To throw a bunch of like boss gauntlets at you and finish out the story in a really strong way
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I like that. Yeah, it's good. Uh, like I said, I I
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Think the progression it feels pretty good and we've picked apart this game in so many ways
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But story was something we always sort of said
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That's you know, and they lean on it. They know it's a strength and they paid attention to it and for what it's worth
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the design of the game was
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Understood they had to that was they had a big challenge. They did
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And we'll we'll talk about that when we get to the listener response
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But I'm interested to see a few of them. I've read a few of the responses already
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There's some fun ones in there. I'm gonna be honest with you. Yeah, so we get to the after credits
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We know it's coming right credits roll
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We know we're expecting a phone call or something. We hear a phone ring
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and oscilat
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Picks up the phone. We know it's him from the voice
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And he's being given like really great intel
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That even gene was confused about
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And oscilat is on the phone with his informant. So someone's been giving oscilat the advantage to
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What information to feed everybody throughout the game? And he's talking about genes
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genome soldiers
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creating the perfect soldier
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And when they have the ability to do that
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They establish
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the patriots
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Which is pretty fucking bomb
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Now with the code name chat
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They talk about I think he says something like someone, you know, know who shares a code name with yourself kind of a thing and
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We are we kind of get the vibe. We are aware that major zero was
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basically channeling this information through oscilat
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To establish the patriots and this here now we can talk about this because it ties in with melgiosolat 4
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I think we can talk about this a little bit
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This is pretty cool that this is the game because I don't remember this
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This is the game that establishes the major zero is like
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The big bad for the fucking series at the end of the day, right? At least as far as emotionally
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What do you think of this? I think this is a pretty dope
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Uh of the call scenes because there's some good ones the mr. President is pretty fucking bomb
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But this one's pretty good. Like I like this. What do you think about this after credit?
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Yeah, I liked it. Um, you know, this is like
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More hype to me than the marvel post-credits scenes
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So I I love the the phone call
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Uh, I don't know if you'd call it like a cold cut or what the term would be. I'm not educated in that way, but
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Yeah, the the little
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Almost like a spoiler setting up like a teaser that's like, oh shit. Well, what's gonna happen in in next time in the middle of your universe
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Um, yeah, these are great little
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Comic-y bits that I feel are just so over the top in the way that they try to like do this
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Mission impossible
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clandestine spy thing
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and tell that story
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But it's it's perfect. It's kitschy. I love it
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I
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Agree I and I I know we I love them all but it was kind of refreshing after playing that'll get solid three
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Which was like super not that it was confusing but
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Eva was working for the Chinese and she didn't get the right half
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So now the other half it like there was a lot of stuff going on. This is pretty
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Cut and dry like it's the the mystery is who's talking to oscilat
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But they do sort of tell us like they do and it's
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How fucking cool is that that it they what they the choices they make in metal gear solid 4 story wise for that ending
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And that's the fucking stinger from the previous game. That's fucking cool
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Like I when you think about it, they set up zero and then the next fucking game story wise
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Which is the end quote unquote of the saga to turn it into that outro with the end blank blank is major's and you're like what?
[00:49:14]
Big boss shows up. It's that's it's cool, man
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I got I got a little goose bumpy about it when I was just like this is fucking cool
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Really dug this
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Yeah, me too. It was it was awesome. I really loved it
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Yeah, this this whole thing justified like
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Uh, I don't think we have to argue about canon and all that we've definitely talked a ton about it in the discord with the patrons and stuff
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But it's stuff like this it's moments like these where I'm like, I don't
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It is canon to me like this was this justified itself completely this fucking story was awesome
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Like this was fantastic. Even if I want to pick apart some of the gameplay, but
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I can't if someone were to ask me the story of metal gear
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I would have to include portable ops in my outline, right the some of the stuff that happens in this it establishes some pretty fucking
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Big deals major zero is massive
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And he I know he's exists prior, but he is
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Involved starting at portable ops, which is like the second in the timeline like it's crazy how long they
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Pay attention to this that's good writing. I think that's that's good stuff and I I like that
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so
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uh before we
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Before we close out. Sorry. It's a little shorter guys, but uh, it was tough to pace this out and with the boss fights
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I tried to make this make sense for everyone when it came to it
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I mean, it's still a pretty full up here
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But uh, we just we didn't we didn't want to uh rush anything or make anything too crazy long and crazy short
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But to get through these I mean the game really ramped up in pacing for the last like two hours of the game
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At least in my experience the last two hours or what we just talked about
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Um, do you have any final thoughts that aren't just like to involve conversation?
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But before we as far as story is concerned
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We are wrapping up
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Portable ops. We are through our second game. Yeah in our long
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timeline that we have established in this
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MGM are yeah middle gear pocket monster edition was great. Uh, I
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I joke but you know, it it was a great little slice of the middle gear universe to to play through
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And the story if you if you haven't played this game
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You should check it out just for the story alone
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Um, definitely the gameplay if you've not played it before
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You're gonna go back to it. It's gonna be dated and you're gonna be thinking that the whole time
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Uh, but just power through it
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And this the last two hours that we covered in this episode this alone is worth the price of admission
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Agreed. I totally agree. It's kind of why I like that. This is a concise episode because this
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This is a great
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Like if I were to pick our episodes going back like maybe the opening and the outro would be enough to like just go back
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You probably don't have to you know, re-listen to everything if you wanted to but I love this is the stuff
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That's like really good and for anybody that was wanting to hear Tori
[00:52:14]
And her thoughts on the ending and all that trust and believe guys when we get to the listener episodes
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We will have this out
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So we'll be able to make sure that she gets asked the same questions because
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We have talked obviously off mic about all the stuff
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But I have been going out of my way to not know how everybody feels about the games until we get to recording the episodes
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Because it makes for more fun of a conversation. So I don't actually know
[00:52:38]
Tori's exact thoughts on how she feels about this game by the time she gets to the end of it
[00:52:42]
I know how she generally feels about metal gear. She tends to be more positive and forgiving of some of faults
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But when we get to the listener response
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Uh, I will make sure that in some way shape or form
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I want to make sure she gets to answer some of these questions because I know she wants to answer them
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So yeah, man, we have finished
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Our second game in the long timeline that we have established and we have wrapped up not only another episode
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But another game for metal gear monday's revisions
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Guys, thank you for listening two seasons down wherever you guys are grabbing our stuff
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We would absolutely appreciate a rating a review feel free again listener responses to
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contact at metal gear monday's
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for 2069 uh
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Easier said than done to just be able to have free cash to throw around and for the community that we do have
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I feel good. This was a great way to end
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This one this one didn't feel really drawn out or anything like that. I had a really good time with this
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I thought this was gonna be like a dark spot in
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The timeline and we might have a couple in the future, but
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I I had a good time with this and I'm like super thankful
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For still being a host here and even being offered last year or whenever I was been part of this crew
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But this was this was a fun one. I really had a good time and thank you to everyone who listens. Thank you to the patrons
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And thank you chris and tory but chris and you're here. Where can people find you on the internet and what else you got?
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uh, you can just go to metal gear monday's dot com
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and
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Or hop in the discord say hi
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at proto dude
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that's uh
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Gonna be all my gamer tag stuff
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and yeah
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Just uh instead of checking me out though. You should just get this game and check it out
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I like it. That's a good point man's got a point
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And yeah, you can find me at warren minix across all the things
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I am untaggable gamer if you're into gamer tags, although i'm not really an online player per se
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Um, but yeah, you can catch me in the discord
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I usually do the film stuff and I talk too much about music
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So I have to figure that out, but that's my thing
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And uh, yeah big old thanks to everyone again, and I think it is time
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To let it rip jack
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Let it rip
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You