METAL GEAR (SERIES)

merritt k Jul 13, 2022. 2 minute read

The Metal Gear Series Would Have Been 35 Years Old Today

35 years ago today, Metal Gear was released for the MSX2 personal computer. While not the first game that series creator Hideo Kojima worked on (that honor goes to Penguin Adventure), Metal Gear was the first title he fully designed and directed. On the MSX2, Metal Gear was a revelation — it popularized stealth mechanics and introduced…

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Blake P Apr 8, 2020. 6 minute read

The Metal Gear Solid Novelization is a Modern Classic

I’ve never played a Metal Gear Solid game. For years I thought the series was impenetrable, a shadowy and undecipherable opus hidden behind the mythic auteur of Hideo Kojima. By sheer cultural osmosis and the impact of Death Stranding last year, I finally decided to finally give the franchise a…

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Aurora Brainsky-Roth Oct 29, 2019. 7 minute read

Platonic Solids, Solid Snake: Hideo Kojima’s Erotic Formalism

November 8th marks the release of Death Stranding — the new game written, directed and produced by Hideo Kojima. While there has been no shortage of acclaim for Kojima’s work over the past three decades, the majority of it focuses on narrative and misses something essential about his approach. A persistent…

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Moira Hicks Aug 3, 2019. 5 minute read

How Metal Gear Eschewed Realism to Convey the Horror of Imperial Violence

The Department of Homeland Security was established November 25th, 2002. Immigration and Custom Enforcement was established March 1st, 2003. The War on Terror is harder to formally establish a starting time on — do you start at September 11th, 2001, as many people do, or do you fold the conflict…