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Message: [QUOTE="valosagutas, post: 207382, member: 77791"] Metal Gear Solid 3 My own past made me relate to Naked Snake so I did see myself in him. Metal Gear games are cringe because it suffers from a Japanese aspect I really dislike. Even the logic of "Snake, Liquid and Solidus" and whatever bad anime logic drags down the whole series. But they managed to do something different in this game. Finally a video game made me relate myself to digital people who are made of 0 and 1. I won't spoil but only say, this is that kind of story I care in a story because it's mature and it touches the untold realistic aspect of humanity. On top of it Metal Gear humor peaks in this game. So imagine a soldier used as an experiment and threw into the jungle without even a significant weapon a soldier has to has. Naked Snake suffered from the army life but he had no idea how it damaged him yet. In his own way to rebel he still tried to keep a sense of "I'm me" sense in everything he does. In the army you are not a person, you are a tool as much as a weapon or a shovel. You shouldn't be a person. You should only aware of your superiors and only think to how to complete your orders for your own sake. This is the context Naked Snake finds himself in and try to complete his crazy mission despite how nonsense it's. You can see his internal sense of how BS his life is by trying to focus on facts that "it's his mission and he was ordered so". However things are beyond military here. Naked Snake had a mentor who taught him more than being a soldier but Naked Snake was too naive to see it. His mentor taught him to be a person so he can be himself. This added somewhat a dream perhaps every soldier wished but had no idea of. Being in the army but treated as a person. Your commanders may care about you, for your own sake they don't act like you are a person so you can repress your humanity to keep accepting dying. For it you find your own justification. "For my people. For my orders. For this is how it's." Then game explore this aspect in the context of humanity and how politics are via the Boss character. We learn the Boss is legendary just because of how politicians stealing the thunder of soldiers as if they did the thing. Politicians send you to war just for their own fame and when soldiers win the war which means when your soldiers lose their humanity but their lives that politicians calls it "winning a war" in a way politicians advertize this BS as "we won". The Boss is aware of this but like any soldiers ignore how childish politicians are. When you love your people you fight for your people. You fight for the kid who spent his life masturbating to anime girls. You fight for the thief feel entitled to murder people for their gold. You even fight for them because they are your people. But when you lose the war, your will to live, your comrade and even your limbs and then you return home citizens hate you. Yes. Even when politicians sent you to war in a country that's no threat to your people's lives and then "you lost the war" because of it they hate you. What is war? War is protecting my people. When I don't fight to protect my people then I'm not fighting, I'm killing. The Boss became aware of many things through the life she lived as a political pawn. For soldiers being political pawn is okay as long as they protect their country. But what it means to be a soldier when we had to kill the person we loved? The point I see to be a soldier is protecting my country from its childish and ignorant self. It feels like fighting with the parent of the kid your kid fought with. Naturally your kid matters to you despite you yourself think how wrong your kid is. How wrong your country doesn't matter. When your country starts a war it's your duty to protect it and afterwards wishing the peace will last forever but wishes never happens just because you wished so despite how many starry skies you saw in many night guard duties when you were freezing to death to ensure your people won't be killed in their sleep as because of it you sacrificed your own peaceful sleep. MGS 3 has no happy ending. The real ending is stop playing that game in that particular moment. Because it turns out what The Boss tried to teach Naked Snake was null. He misunderstood all of it. It turned out he wasn't a soldier, he was just a murderer. Because of why society and therefore companies use army and therefore soldiers like it's a cool thing in a very ignorant way but then MGS 3 treated the whole situation realistically is why I hold MGS 3 in great heights. Being a soldier is not cool, it's not about power, it's not about winning. You are no soldier if you don't care about other soldier who had to kill you to protect their own country same as you. But it was how it's. MGS 3 explores and tells an untold story that cannot be put into a way a human language can convey, but I tried. However it could have been better without Hideo Kojima's naive sense of how much he seeks for an happy peaceful world. For this goal he trying to brainwash lol. The game hits home hard when I could have been Naked Snake but I dodged it. I just stopped being a soldier. [/QUOTE]

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