I like to think of Peace Walker, Ground Zeroes AND The Phantom Pain collectively as Metal Gear Solid V. Two seasons of an expensive tv show with special in between

I like that Strangelove is named after the movie about this same situation, an automated doomsday device that will end us all if someone, anyone makes an erratic choice. I see Peace Walker as the serious counterpart to the satirical movie, taking the same ideas under a different lens. It also happens to be my favourite stealth oriented Metal Gear game, I'm glad we're on the same page about it being underappreciated.

Having to kill The Boss the first time brought me to tears. Watching an echo of her soul overtake all logic and reason just to sacrifice herself again, and prevent thermonuclear war a second time was another punch in the gut. For the short time we got to actually know her, I can think of few characters that can have so much detail written into so little writing. What an unbelievably powerful character design.

That masculine urge to build a mother base ✊😩

This game is really underrated. The true MGS V, since we see the point where Big Boss heart changed and abandon The Boss ideals. Can't recommend this game enough.

Being from Costa Rica I have inmense respect for this game, their representation of my country wasnt perfect but it was dam good and is an honor to be in such a great game.

Something that seeing now in retrospective, if more people had played Peace Walker before the release of V, they would've known that V couldn't be about Big Boss turning in to a villain

It's odd that the initial mission of the boss is rarely mentioned when talking about mgs3, the boss was sent to retrieve a philosophers legacy for the US, a source of unimaginable wealth for the U.S. but to gain Volgin's trust she had to give him a nuclear weapon. The U.S. used the boss as a pawn to retrieve the philosophers legacy and accidentally caused an international incident by arming a splinter faction within the Soviet Union.

30:54 just to interject, i personally love this mission, because of the fact that it's Big Boss taking on an entire base filled with soldiers on red alert. Even though Metal Gear is still Tactical Espionage, the fact that for this one mission it's a straight up run-and-gun gives the game the breath of fresh air that it needed. All the other missions have ranged from sneaking to battling vehicles, but for this one mission, it's a firefight. There was one other "firefight" mission before the Cocoon boss fight, but it was more campy since you can sit in one spot and take everyone out easily, giving it that "Sniper Elite" feeling. However for this one mission, you have to run-and-gun, and i love it. 💚

Finally someone talks about PeaceWalker. It deserves it. Edit: But I do wish you talked more about the surreal dreams snake has about the boss and the robot having the butterflies too.

The most compelling thing for me that came out of MGS 3 and Peace walker was how the various parties interpreted the Boss’s Will

I got to admit those comic book esque cutscenes are very Stylish.

Absolutely one of my favorites, it definitely was underappreciated. But you build mother base up, recruit all these soldiers, and do so much, so when you got to the end of Ground Zeroes, you feel what Kaz is feeling: "We built it dammit!"

The fact you can't crawl is what pissed me off in this one but loved it and me and my little brother managed to beat this epic game on our PSP Gos back in 2010.

Grew up with this on the PSP, vividly remember fighting Peacewalker during a family luncheon in Nicaragua, my cousins couldn't believe our country was centre-stage for any game. We were kids and didn't quite grasp the political underpinnings nor loftier subject matter, but the comradery of MSF stuck by me for life. Replayed it when I was older, found it just as great, couldn't agree more that it is essential to the totality of MGS V; by far one of my very favourite games. Also remember teenaged me blushing at the "date with Paz" op.

Peace Walker despite its flaws has my favourite MGS story. It builds on MGS3 so much and the evolution from Snake to Big Boss is so good. His speech at the end "...our heaven, our hell, this is Outer Heaven." is to me Kojima's finest writing work

I love the co operative online mode in this, put so many hours into it but it's impossible to find populated lobbies now unfortunately. I still try from time to time. Was pissed to discover that MGS V was strictly pvp only as it could have expanded so much more on the Peacewalker co op gameplay, damn shame.

This series of video essays have been some of the most concise and insightful on the subject of Metal Gear. Great work, thank you.

I've never played a MGS game, but I've watched all your videos about them and feel like my understanding of humanity is better for having seen them, thank you!

The most touching thing of this game is that Big Boss endured all the sufferings and proved The Boss' innocence, and released himself from the bondage of the past, as signified by him letting go of the bandana.

Finally a video that fully Analyses this game's brilliant story One of my favorites games for sure

Man, seing this video just reminds me again of how much I love this game. Peace Walker has my favourite story of the series.

excellent. I absolutely love the longer videos and hope to see more!

i love it dude, your way of breaking things down and looking over them is fascinating to me, and inspiring.. it makes me want to endure and do the same with life and its many scenarios.. as well as games and films and shows ive watched, looking for patterns and comparisons.. its amazing, keep it up ^__^ so much effort and work goes into these, just awesome :3

Great video (as usual), thanks for the effort!

I just saw your community post about it, and it appears right after, I feel lucky today! Diving in that new Metal Gear video :) My favourite saga for sure

My favorite game in the series with MGS 1 and 5, you just made my evening 🥰

Max you keeping me in suspense! Love your content!!

Loving your Metal Gear vids. Keep them up! :)

Your analysis are just out of this world. If the game was available, it already had my money on it. Man you do have a talent to this 🙂

Love this channel man, love the deep dives and the high-quality writing you produce. Especially after watching every MGS video on KZfaq lol. Ty and happy new year!

Great visual essays, thanks for sharing and creating great content. Subscribed.

Peacewalker is definitely one of my favorite mgs games. Shame it got overlooked because of it being a psp release.

What a God tier video I’m just blown away by this

I never ended up finishing this game when I played it over 10 years ago. After watching this. I learned that I was pretty much right near the end when I stopped playing. Because I remember watching and interacting with many of those story cut scenes.

There's only one thing, that would make Peace Walker a perfect game. One thing, MAKING THE TORTURE SEQUENCE LESS DIFFICULT!!!

4:28 Would love to replay the game on Switch. Its bite-sized missions are a natural fit for the portable console.

Beautiful video my friend ! Very clear and concise.

Great analysis, thanks for the video. I loved the okie is this game even though I never had the chance to experience it myself

I actually snatched the ID card in my playthru and still tried the default route of breaking out of the cell. My xbox bricked and i sprained my wrist before i could get out that way. Before this video i genuinely believed the Xbox hd collection was bugged and you couldn't get past the torture scene.

Love the video and the game , this was my introduction to the Metal Gear Series and a showcase for the PSP .

Peace Walker is an absolute MASTERPIECE, only held back by hardware limitations. MGS3 is my fav game of all time, but if PW was a console game, ooowee it would be an easy top fav. One of the most important titles in the entire franchise, if not thee most important, period. Edit; not only does Snake finally fully acept and take on the moniker "Big Boss", but this is also where he reshapes the ideals given to him by Gene, turning "Army's Heaven" into "Outer Heaven", and starts to put that ideal into motion.

I recently found your channel bro and the amount of high quality content here is breathtaking. I'm slowly working my way through your older videos and learning so much. Thank you for taking the time to produce all of this.

'When I inevitably discuss the events of MGS5..." Nice, I wouldn't mind seeing that. Just lemme open his channel and find that other video he probably made years ago. [Realizes the vid I just watched is only 14 hours old.] _GODDAMNIT!_ Definitely appreciate leaving out Paz's part. The best vids like this filter down to just the core elements that speak to the theme being examined and basically all of this vid did that which was great. (There were rare moments of weirdness, like mentioning shrapnel hitting a door to provide access to a facility, but overwhelmingly the video covers the theme of peace and is a fantastic vid overall! Thanks for sharing!)

My first experience with MGO was on Peace Walker. The HD Collection on 360 was amazing! This is one of my personal favorite Metal Gear games

a couple of corrections, the crew of the sub did not believe the charges were nuclear detonations, but they did believe they were under attack the sub did have nuclear weapons, but it was a nuclear torpedo, not meant to attack surface targets like cities, however there was a risk of DRAMATICALLY escalating the conflict, because after you use a nuclear weapon on someone else, the genie is kind of out of the bottle

It's so cool seeing Quiet's origin story in this. Seriously tho, your metal gear solid content is the best there is. I can't recommend these videos enough

Great video Max, I've been needing to complete PW for such a long time, to prepare for V. I may now have enough info to jump into Phantom Pain. But now I want to play Peace Walker even more now.

another spectacular and thoughtful essay, love it. cheers and stay yellow.

A really interesting story I would not have witnessed otherwise told in a very clear way, thank you!

Idk anything about this game but I love listening to your voice and insight, very relaxing and enjoyable

I didn't expect to watch the whole video, but I did. I never even played this game or any other MGS, but bruh, this shit apparently goes deeper than I assumed. Great video!

So good, Max!

One of the most underrated MGS, I loved it a lot! Also the limitation of the psp hardware gave me some feeling of the original ps1 MGS mixed with Phantom pain stuff (Fulton, mother base development). Ashley Wood drawings for the cutscenes were also amazing

you just casually be dropping the fact that you're working on a MGSV video at the end of this one? insanity. I look forwards to it.

man i love this series, mgs is one of my favourite franchises ever

Metal gear as a series is a work of art. Almost every game is thought provoking...except for survive.

YESSSS BABY THATS WHAT IVE BEEN WAITING FOOR, LESSS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I'm just heading about this "peace" of ART. 👌 Wow this is so amazingly AWESOME. Thank You so much. I will now sit through this whole BEAUTIFUL storyline on KZfaq. EDIT: WAIT.... IS THIS SNAKE EATER/ WELP JUST HEARD IT, HE SAID "YEARS AFTER SNAKE EATER"

My fav of the series, and I’m a hardcore MGS fan.

I was just thinking of the story at the start while watching the video before I chose this. Your MGS4 Retrospective where you mentioned Snake proving one man can save the World. Synchronicity is truly a fun thing.

Dude that ending is no fair I can’t wait to see the video on the phantom pain max has a way of making me see things I thought I knew extremely well and just turns around and flips my life and understanding of it on its head all while teaching me extremely intelligent things about it and doing it with ease his mgsv video is gonna be nuts

just discovered the channel and series! cannot wait for the phantom pain retrospective!

Incredible. I'm playing all the Metal Gear games chronologically and started this one a few days back. This definately deserves a remake with PS4 graphics.

Amazing video man. Although I can't believe you missed the most important part.. There was a talking cat.

oh god you killed those names

I happened to play MGSV before this one, but boy, Peace Walker was intense. I think it was even better, because I was heart broken after V (the main plot twist plus other companion's stories). Playing PW after V was some kind of cure. All the BB struggle was so well put. The Boss's backstory, the feelings, and *the horse scene...* (You know which one). To this day my top three is: Snake eater, Peace Walker and MGSV. Linked story, same characters, the strength of the plot decreasing each title. But beautiful nonetheless.

I was going through your metal gear videos a few hours ago. I decided to get to work so I watched your scymchronicity video and logged off KZfaq. Now the first video I see when I start my break is this... Max what is the universe trying to tell me!!!???

Amagad. Another MG video. Life is a dream.

I know you might not be getting as many views doing these vs other types of videos. Just wanted to tell you that it is really appreciated nonetheless. Thank you for all of these retrospectives.

When I beat Peace Walker I didn't touch the Epilogue. So when I picked up Ground Zeroes it was spoiled for me. Haha. I find it very fitting that you left out the part with Paz

Cool video but don't let this distract you from the fact that EVERY CHRISTMAS, NORAD SETS UP A HOTLINE--

Finally, Peace Walker deserves more love.

It's funny that Coldman was sure a person would value their reputation over their lives when we have THE BOSS as an example of somebody who sacrificed both.

0:09 Да ты чего, Максимка! Это герой 20 века! Мир спасти - не море переплыть, это поступок настоящего человека. ☝😔🙏🇷🇺

Peace walker is for the hardcore mgs fans. A phenomenal game that did things that console games, even mgsv FAILED to do.

I played it a lot, love it.

Loved this game on my PSP when I was a teen

This game needs a remaster so bad

Great video! Kind of a shame you never did a video over Portable Ops (the other PSP game with Big Boss) since I’d also call that kind of underrated. But I get it, Kojima didn’t make it, and it’s still debatable whether or not you can call that a mainline game in the saga.

I have not finished peacewalker. The complications of the real world politics of Mgsv made that my favorite for the past few years but listening to this, I’m going to finish peacewalker asap!

In the end i had more fun playing this and MGS Ground Zero in preparation for MGS:V than with MGS:V itself.

I thought Vasili said "no" because he thought they couldn't be sure it was nuclear missiles and didn't want to jump the gun.

Great video, despite his limitations, Peace Walker is a great game, eager to play the phantom pain and reach the conclussion of the franchise (my expectations are low)

Honey, wake up. There's a new Max Derrat Metal Gear video out.

damn it, now I have to go back and beat MGS5 so I don't get spoiled. Good videos btw

Perfect as usual ...thank u max Plz explain silent hill the room

This game is hands-down the best game on PSP in terms of its size and what it made the system capable of

Fantastic video as usual. I have an issue with how the use of nuclear weapons is portrayed in common parlance. Vasili Arkhipov is a heroic individual but we do not all owe our lives to him. Nuclear war does not mean humanity's extinction, nor does it necessarily mean the end of civilization as we know it. There are an infinite number of possible outcomes in a nuclear exchange and some of the most extreme involve the death of billions of people. Hyperbolically assuming that all life on Earth will be snuffed out in a nuclear exchange diminishes public understanding of the threat of nuclear weapons. It also presupposes that countries that are nuclear powers encompass all of humanity. They do not. Arkhipov saved thousands and maybe millions of lives, but suggesting they saved Earth from a black hole is inaccurate. Again, fantastic video, just hoping to push discussion of nuclear weapons in a more realistic direction as it's a big part of Metal Gear.

This video somehow escaped my notice, so when I saw your MGSV video, I thought you skipped PW because “not numbered” (even though it’s just as important as a numbered game). Glad I was mistaken!

Good point on how people have varying definitions of "world peace." My personal definition of "world peace" is "every human on earth is my personal slave"

I'm so glad i still have my hunter green sppecial edition psp that came with the game.

19:46 "At least to those willing to crack a few eggs." That phrase has two meaning in the Metal Gear context.

I think you didn't do the surreal elements of the boss's involvement in the story justice. Those dream sequences i feel have a heavy impact in snakes resolution to change, a surreal spector of her challenges his thoughts in his dream memories, while a cold real machine threat scrambles to recollect the the words for everything

Hey man! Love this series you made. Would you talk about "Portable Ops" someday?

Now we need the retrospective for MGS V. A+

This timestamp 13:32 may also cause some "conflicts" of massive magnitude with the viewer's "internal timeline" lasting for about 1 minute and 14 seconds "for a S-Special reason."

Thank you for telling me what song that was

Well done.

Komani would make a killing out of a mobile app with all the motherbase micromanagements. Like an MGS version of Fallout Shelter