We've played the first 90 minutes of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, which barely alters the PS2 classic at all.
There are two ways to remake a video game. On one hand, you can take the transformative route and reimagine a classic through a new lens. That’s a risky option that could tick off purists, but one that can result in a project that stands on its own rather than in another game’s shadow. Then there’s the much safer route: giving players as much of a 1:1 experience as possible for a more surefire win with a lower-legacy ceiling.
Virtuous mission What’s funny about demoing a faithful 90 minutes of Metal Gear Solid 3 is that the play session translates to maybe 10 minutes of actual hands-on gameplay, tops. Snake Eater’s opening is a long-winded one filled with exposition, Cuban missile crisis history lessons, and wordy tutorials. Those long cutscenes didn’t just give me a chance to remember how strange and wonderful Snake Eater’s story is; it gave me a lot of time to study the remake’s aesthetic changes.
“In order for us to do a faithful re-creation, we didn’t necessarily have anything critical or dire that we had to go back and ask any of the original staff about,” Okamura tells Digital Trends. “We didn’t feel that we had to get advice from them. For us, our goal is, with the team that we built right now, that we do want to make sure we can deliver a Metal Gear title … We don’t want it to feel like we can’t make a Metal Gear game without some of the original staff.
What is different, though, is Metal Gear Solid Delta’s control scheme. The original release features famously rigid controls that can be a little tough to go back to today. To ease that pain point, the remake introduces a new option that makes it feel as smooth as any modern game. It all works without a hitch, allowing for more fluid play.
Konami’s version When I ask Okamura about Konami’s decision to remake it, he stresses the idea that it was about passing on the franchise’s legacy: “We realized that there’s a whole new and younger generation of gamers that are not familiar with the series or have never played a single Metal Gear game before. We couldn’t stand to have this wonderful series be forgotten by the course of time.”
Just as Taylor Swift recorded nearly identical versions of all of her old albums to wrench ownership away from her old record label, this is Konami creating a version of Snake Eater that’s not permanently attached to Hideo Kojima. Konami and the director had an infamously sour falling out after the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain which seemed to leave the series dead in the water.
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