The Kojima productions team decided to make full fledged Metal gear solid game for PSP and it was a great move.
Story - I love how the story is probably the first in Metal gear saga, that is more character driven, than story driven. It gives it a new take on characters and their development. The whole cast feels like a family and you dont want to leave them. This is the most Uncharted like Metal gear and tbh i quite like it. The weakest part about the story is the main villian Hot Coldman (I kid you not, this is his real name), but everything else is amazing. The game same as Portable ops has a comic stylised cutscenes. In Portable ops, they were underused and were very blank. Here they sproute with life. Even paperlike handdrawn animation feels so alive and fits perfectly on PSP. Snake now struggles with loss, than ever before and has his slow transform into villiany, with even recruiting his first child soldier and embracing his title. The endings were very satisfying in a way, that it didnt even need any sequel and thats how many games should end.
Gameplay - The base gameplay is awesome sneaking through dense jungle, spotting enemy camoflague and eliminating them is very fun. It builds up on Portable ops with building your own army, but now it actually has a meaning. The game tries to utilise the 3rd person shooting mechanic from MGS4 and tries to translate it over to PSP. To my surprise it worked extremely well. The lack of analogue stick wasnt a problem at all. Little unfortunately the ai bosses were just a bullet sponges. The only way to defeat ai bosses was to empty your rocket launchers in them, while dodging their attacks and after you ran out of ammo, you had call an ammo drop and repeat like 4 times. It couldve been much shorter with harder mechanics, but I guess I cant be so hard on a handheld game for system, that was just a tiny bit beefier, than PS1. I have to say, the game was extremely impressive for a handheld from 2004 and its the best game for the system.
8/10.
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