I really hecking enjoyed that Sahelanthropous fight. Something about the whole thing, how Chip aced (and paced!) it, the cinematics of it, the lighting, the SFX, how the Evil Robot moved like some mix of the Iron Giant and the Predator… yeah, I absolutely rewatched that fight as my Saturday morning cartoon. Good stuff. I’m so glad Ironicus was losing his mind over how good it all looked too.
I’m here for Huey being the last straw breaking the camel’s back on the whoopie cushion of the narrative tension in this game’s “plot” honestly. Him nixing Skull Face was… kind of perfect, yeah - it made SF’s death less abstract and avoided that whole “well we maimed him severely and left him to die but Big Boss did not kill him, he’s a Hero!” deniability nonsense. BB and Miller got to have their bro moment and Huey got his, too - and then that ending of BB getting his very own Rock Em Sock Em Robot.
It’s a rare thing something is so cringeworthy and awesome at the same time. I’m with Quiet, crossing m’ arms under my boobs judgementally.
It’s a really weird decision to have the bad guy’s plans fall apart as he’s showing off to the protagonist, without any influence at all from said protagonist. He captures you, monologues, then his subordinates revolt and run over his fire man with a train… thing, while Snake stands around and furrows his brow.
Combined with Kojima’s insistence on having Snake be played by a VA they can barely afford, Miller sort of becomes the driving force behind the plot. The way he bosses Snake around while still calling him Boss, the best of the best etc, makes Snake look like someone with absolutely no convictions at all. He does stuff, goes places, kills people because Miller wants revenge. He personally doesn’t give a shit.
I’d be inclined to call it subtext but I’m not really sure what it’s trying to say.
In the video before he brought up the no traces bonus and that there’s a few missions that it can’t be done on, sahelanthropus? that’s a mission you can get no traces on. It sucks to actually do but it’s kinda funny.
The missions shown so far that can’t get it are: the prologue, 2: Diamond Dogs(the on base tutorial), and 12: Hellbound
I can’t believe Snake says more than two consecutive sentences in this episode. The game almost tricks you into thinking he’s an actual character for like five minutes.
Of all the things I expected to happen in the AI pod recovery scene, rocketing through the ceiling and flying away like an Aqua Teen Hunger Force gag was not one of them.
i expected explosions or something else. It did lead to the funny thought, that, that was how the soviets also transported it. So several of their bases just have holes in the roof from a flying ai core.
That’s definitely how you saw them moving around half the time in Peace Walker IIRC, outside of a time or two before they’d been activated when they were on helicopter.
The whole premise of Sahelanthropus being a technological milestone because it’s bipedal makes no sense in the context of its own game. We’ve already got AI and precision guided reusable rockets, antigravity, cybernetics, frickin GEOMANCY… but yeah, good job making a robot that can stand upright with the help of a baby wizard.
Maybe the walker gears and Huey’s legs don’t count because Kojima thought of them after he’d written all the Sahelanthropus stuff.
It’s not that it’s bipedal- ZEKE was bipedal too. It’s that it stands upright, which even the walker gears don’t do, they’re front heavy. Huey’s legs might use similar technology but they’re more assistive, I’ve assumed they use his body for ‘input’ so to speak.
Considering the state of modern robotics in real life, actual upright bipedal robots is still something that is impressive since they haven’t quite managed to do it and make it look natural and be self-recovering iirc.
That all said, it really wasn’t completed- thus why Huey was legitimately confused why it was moving and being deployed, I think he legitimately thought that since he left without completing it that all that work he did for them wouldn’t be useful for them, while also meant he was someone Skullface wouldn’t want to kill because he was still needed. It wasn’t designed for a pilot either, so even Metal Gears don’t quite have the same level of technology, had Sahelanthropus had been completed.
Good stuff. I’m so glad Ironicus was losing his mind over how good it all looked too.