Nice to see Paz again pre-bomb impregnation.

"Started with a fairly grounded story." I don't know why people remember it this way. It was certainly not grounded. You had a magic psychic flying man making you change the control, butt based fact finding and cyborg ninjas taking out specially trained super soldiers. The series was never grounded, it was always ridiculous.

I can't believe you mentioned bipedal gecko robots without also mentioning that they moo like cows and periodically poop green mush

The Monster Hunter crossover missions are to this day my favorite random video game crossover

Peace Walker was originally supposed to be MGS5, but Konami said no.

6:36 No, that's Ashley Wood's work, not Yoji Shinkawa's. Ashley Wood provided the art for Peace Walker's cutscenes. He also did the art for the comic adaptation of MGS1 & 2... which were the reason he was hired for Peace Walker. PS Peace Walker's control scheme was adapted from MGS4's, as it came out afterwards.

I'll never forget getting this for Christmas and ignoring everyone and everything all day playing it non stop

Man. As a person who loved MGS3 back then and couldn't afford a PS2 and had just a PSP, this game was the closest thing to 3 for me. One of my favourite moments of Peacewalker was the last Peacewalker battle. From the battle, to the cutscenes, full of emotions and suspense. Sad that this was the last of David Hayter's Snake before MGSV.

Man the PSP had some incredible games

I was appalled when Paz turned out to be a villain at the end, and I laughed my ass off when she was wearing underwear. Kojima is one magnificent pervert

my hand hurt so much after that torture scene

This game has a special place in my heart and one the reasons MGS it's my favorite franchise. I'm from Nicaragua and have been to Costa Rica multiple times, and seeing my country, the Nicaragua's/Sandinista revolution of 1979, the contra war that followed, having the FINAL BOSS battle in Lake Cocibolca (which it's a landmark in the country and the only game to date to do so), plus having couple of Nicaragua's NPCs (Chico and her sister), missions located in Nicaragua and all of this mixed with the context of the Cold War and how the country was in the eyes of the USA and Soviet Union through Kojima eyes was nothing short of amazing. Thanks for reviewing this masterpiece.

If my mom told me ''We have MGSV at home'' and it was Peace Walker, i would't complain.

literally all metal gear solid games for psp are surprisingly good (acid 1 and 2, portable ops and peace walker)

"Who the fuck just texted me?!" I love when he keeps mistakes in the videos lmfao

this game presented a kinda dark setting for the protagonists as a fun family on mother base and heck it worked and i totally felt millers pain and felt bad about all that happened to the members in gz and mgsv

You know you gotta make that Twin Snakes video eventually, right?

I remember this game being on the news of my country when it came out, mostly they talk about how crazy it was for this game to say Costa Rica had a secret army with robots when we abolish our army back in 1948 hahaha, anyways this game is a master piece and i always loved how they show my country on it ❤

I like how there are 3 massive games that serve as a prequel to the original MSX games that barely anyone plays or has the will to.

I've been replaying the MGS games in chronological order and I'm currently on Peace Walker, so clearly Gman is watching me.

MGSPW is a game I literally grown up with. I remember back when I was 8ish my mom bought me a PSP. Without context on what the franchise was, in the hands of a kid who would play anything such as Need for Speed Most Wanted, Medal of Honor, Soul Calibre, Lego Starwars, or Tekken 6- I fell in love with MGSPW. It took me months to learn how to play the game. At some point I couldnt get pass the PTSD the torture chamber scene gave me. Everything about it feels so nostalgic even with my bad experience somehow I found myself playing it on an emulator on my phone(my psp got stolen in a church). The game was simply as beautiful as the day i lost it. Unfinished and hopefully ill get my closure. There's just so much about this game to digest even if it was spoiled to me the content within itself is unparalleled. A true timeless masterpiece.

As shoddy as the first collection was, I hope Peace Walker is added to the next collection with the multiplayer intact.

Heaven Troops to this day have one of the finest "realistic" fantasy military armors. Though I'd say that Prototype 1 Blackwatch troops are still the example of perfectly nailing both sides of the style.

Reminder that Ocelot did the "possessed by an arm" bit in MGS2. Game has always been kinda wild. Psychics that read your memory cards, special pathogens made to target specific genomes, replacing snake with a twunk himbo in the sequel. And a man who has lightning blood.

Both Yoji Shinkawa and Ashley Woods did the 2d cutscenes. Ashley did all the 2d cinematics in Portable Ops, so they brought him back for Peace Walker.

The boss fights and grinding to beat the boss fights damn near killed this game for me. It drove me nuts.

I remember playing Peace Walker when I was in Iraq. Got me thru deployment lol. Such a great game!

The torture scene in Peacewalker really tested the durability of my Y button.

Man, the PS1 intro to MGS was just...damn. The future had arrived!

I loved the co-op feature that peacewalker had, sneaking through heavily militarized locations in the later stages of the game with a stranger. What a thrill...

I farmed so many S-rank soldiers that half the important characters like Miller and Amanda ended up in the waiting room lol

I remember playing this on the PS3 remaster. Really enjoyed it. Then when Phantom Pain came out, for me at least, it was an easy transition for gameplay on that game. It’s like Peace Walker was a training game for Phantom Pain.

Sank *HOURS* into this game. To this day I can still remember the elation of getting my skills up and finally doing a non-lethal takedown on a helicopter. The only grind-heavy game I ever got into. Still never unlocked most of the really cool weapons and the true ending. I’d sink another 200 hours easy. Really wish it would get a phone/3DS rerelease. Don’t even need a graphics update, it’s style still holds up imo

My favourite MGS personally, hopefully it is included in the second Master Collection :)

its absoluteley crazy how you upload a video about whatever games I am thinking about playing through again

This game was mindblowing on my PSP Go back in the day. It was my first introduction into MGS!

Welcome back Gman. Love your videos. A new one is always a good day

This gameplay style was so fun and unique back on the psp. there really was nothing like it that fit the hanheld so well. The face button aiming was a little odd true and its grindy, but its really hard to appreciate a lot of the gameplay outside of the use case and time period if the psp. having a relitively deep 3d action game of this caliber woth a LOT to do on handheld was really something else. And it was absolutely packed with content that allowed you to go back to it a bunch since it was in your pocket. Unfortunately that can turn into more of a con now if playing it on consols. I still think the whole fulton system is a great innovation. collecting enemies that hep you to develop more stuff. A lot of the character interactions were pretty charming too. like Snake and santa. I was kind of disappointed that outside of millers hamburgers there wasbt much light hearted bonding stuff in mgsv’s cassetes. Music was great too, heavens divide is an absolute banger. it was super ambitious as a project.

Reminder that in Metal Gear 2 MSX you had such grounded characters like running man

What I loved about PsP games is that you could have played different soldiers for different missions, each giving you different way to complete mission. Like I remember taking a GRU commander and just strolling over the base and issue orders to others, or going as a scientist and blending into laboratories. But man ... the stories in those games were dark as hell ... But I love those games, and I'm sad that MGS 5 story was not the greatest when continuing on the event's of those PsP games. And loved hanging out with Paz and uncovering her story, and it was kind of nice to see her in MGS 5 ... just wish there was more to it, because I seriously still have no clue how Paz survived .. or if it's even Paz.

Yes, co-op levels out the longer missions, especially the vehicle ones. I guess that's why I didn't mind them. Co-op is so much fun!

fun fact, in the japanese release strangelove doesnt electrocute snake she instead tickles him with tickle rods and snake is just laughing like a fucking maniac. probably one of the funniest things ive seen in an MGS game

Peace Walker was my introduction to the series and I love this game. The vehicle missions you could total stealth. If you got all the soldiers, the Captain would pop out and be like wtf lol

I unintentionally S-Ranked a lot of missions in the various MGS games, been playing them for so dam long sneaking around is like breathing at this point.

``Stay with me´´ enjoyer... Man of a great taste.

This game is one of my favorite ever. It has a special place in my heart. Thanks for covering it.

GmanLives, Subscribed because your videos always make me smile!

I rarely get platinum trophies, but I had to get it in Peace Walker because it was so addicting.

Me who recently played Peace Walker. Total 140 hours in ps3. Ai battles in extra ops became easier when i switched rocket launchers to light machine guns with armor piercing rounds. I really hope they get this on volume 2 for pc.

9:38 this is character development through gameplay. on first playthrough you're badly equipped for heavy non lethal combat and just wanna save the world. but as you progress you unlock heavy non lethal weapons and the harder tank missions will teach you some japanese tactics. wich are usefull throughout the game to get all S-ranks. and once you've s-ranked everything and read all the motherbase soldier's dialogs you become truly immersed in the role of big boss.

playing this with my buddy ad hoc on psp back in the day was a truly awesome time.

The triangle button mashing bits in this game are pure frustration, absolutely the most difficult in the series... still one of my favourite MGS games though (MGS 1,3, PW).

Peace Walker is the silly fun game where Big Boss somehow has the physical strength to stop a walking tank from stepping on him, fuck Sam, he's the original "no cybernetic augments" guy

Love you for this, my favourite game by one of my favourite video essay man!

In regards of the long boss fights, I remember that Peace walker for the PSP was developed as a multiplayer Coop game kind of in the vain of the Monster Hunter games and that up to 4 snakes would take on the voss fights together

My all time favorite Metal Gear game. Thanks for covering it, gman

Yay! New Gman video on MGS. YOSH!

Peace Walker is my favorite PSP game ever made. The level of quality and the huge leap from something like Portable Ops blew me away at the time -- honestly it still does. Peace Walker, the Ready at Dawn God of War games, and Persona 3 Portable were games I played to death back then, good times. Regarding the games easy difficulty, much of that comes down to the fact that you’re playing the title’s remaster and gain access to a second analog stick. The game was more challenging on the native PSP since you had to aim with the face buttons and some of the controls couldn’t be done as easily on the fly requiring you to stop and take it slow or do a weird sort of claw grip at times for specific stance changes while moving iirc so it sort of reminds me of Kings Field 4 in that part of the experience is really built around those control limitations and those changed how easily you can interact with the game. The remaster with a second stick is indeed very very easy. Less so the original (not that I’d claim it’s an especially crushing game either).

The best part about the co-op of this game is that you can share your inventory with your friends to the point where they can borrow your granades to trow them right at you.

Great video, gman as always

Big Boss was ripped af in Peace Walker. I always forget that whenever I revisit it lol

The Heavens Divide song from that game brought me to tears 🐍

Personally the big boss fights were the highlight of the game for me Its like one of the few times you can actually play around with the big guns rather than exclusively using the tranq pistol/mosin and you can damage each boss part by part (like how most of them have fuel tanks you can destroy to stun them for a bit and do massive damage) which gives the game a fresh new spin away from just one or three tapping heads

I have every acheivement for this game. Meaning i have beaten all main and extra ops with s rank, solo. Its only difficult with the vehicle capture missions. You end up running out of their fulton rockets or regular rockets.

OH HELL YEAH FUCK YES I HAVE BEEN PLAYING MGSV AND BEEN FEELING SO NOSTALGIC FOR PEACE WALKER

24:34 oh god. I still get Vietnam flashbacks from the extra ops Peace Walker fight solo. That nearly broke me. Never before have I had a boss fight last nearly an hour and make me use every last bullet and make each shot count... AT FULL STOCK!!

Nice. I just found this channel, saw the MGS 3 Video and thought "huh, maybe he has a peace walker video too"

Peace Walker is my favourite MGS. Portable Ops is also pretty good but the PSP controls hurt my hands!

Lmao those cuts in the beginning are too good

"Who the FUCK just texted me!?" 🤣🤣🤣

Getting S ranks on all extra ops was hell. From tranqing a T-Rex to kidnapping 36 soldiers and the driver of an insta-kill tank. Getting the slingshot pieces as a solo player from the monster hunter missions too. I completed the game 100% on both psp and ps3 ;(

The grinding becomes insane as some point when you don’t have a single partner to play with

OMG i was not expecting a peace walker review

This game was like dopamine heaven, back when i played it on highschool. I loved playing the online coop on ps3 when getting back from school. Good ol' days.

This was my first metal gear and it was enjoyable and so cool aesthetically it helped me jump into the series

Whoa mate how many awesome vids can you deliver in such a short time?? Damn!!

6:40 this part is actually drawn by Ashley Wood. Shinkawa's drawings are usually in later cutscenes

I'm shocked you didn't show off how you can FUCKING CATCH Peace Walker's ground slam attack as Snake

That game is a must play, remember coop weapons increase camarederie a lot.

Ive literally just started this game for the first time two weeks ago 😂 honestly out of all the ones I've played it's my favorite.

"Heavens divide" slaps no cap

Gman's videos always make me check out games I didn't like at first

Was absolutely blown away by this game.

23:00 this felt like one of those endless staircase moments in a horror game. at some point I even ran around looking for anything hidden. so to me it really sold the desperation of the story.

Would love to see a gman video on mgs5. I can't believe it's already been 8 years since it came out

I loved the boss battles. There's definitely a learning curve but it grew on me after a while.

For the end fight you can just wait a week and then start the fight and hes just dead from old age. Fun fact, also when he is being wheelchair around on an even earlier level you can just sniper him them and there and skip that mission way before it happens.

Hey Gman do you plan on doing a re-review of the phantom pain? Im interested a more in depth analysis of that game from you. Its not my favorite metal gear but looking back on it theres some stuff i can appreciate.

this is probably the first time ive ever heard MGS1 be described as "fairly grounded" lol

thank you for this video I have been meaning to replay it, what's the best way for me to do it now? also ocelot willingly acted like liquid and got hypnotised to improve his acting

Peacewalker should DEFINITELY be included in a Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake if Komani actually goes through with it, it wouldn't even be very difficult to them to accomplish this. Minimal new assets, mostly just the bosses, no new dialogue and voice recordings necessary, and this will give A LOT of casual MGS players more insight of the events between MGS 3 and MGS 5. I have a dream..... that Konami counts Peacewalker as MGS 3.5 and adds it (as a DLC even, wouldn't that be actually smart of them for once?) to MGS3 Remake!!

One thing I remember from this game was unlocking the minigun then using it to mow down most of the bosses.

Nice. I'd really love to see you cover the Onimusha series one day.

The psp version was so good, for strange reason the controls of PW were adapted for the 3ds version of snake eater(the photo camo is the easy mode even for european extreme) but never for the hd version.

If you have the Fat PSP, it has the same Wolfson Brand Audio DAC as several Classic iPods. The Fat PSP is still pretty great

I love this game, easily my favourite mgs. I may have to fire up my 360 to see if I can collect the last few circuit boards

Back when I was junior highschooler this game's hard hard. I don't understand how things work in this game like the side ops, the build (?) & boss fights are such pain in the butt and the story + cutscenes feels like fever dream. Played it on psp go though along with MH, Midnight Club, GTA Stories, God Eater Burst, & some lewd puzzle game lol

Genuinely it's amazing such an underated metal gear

The bullet sponge bosses that are balanced for multiplayer are most likely because it's aiming for the co-op hunting game market like the Monster Hunter, since it was a boom during the PSP era. I mean, it does have the Monster Hunter collab missions as well.

I didn’t really have the PSP when this game first came out so this game and Portable Ops were the only two mainline MGS games that I missed out on (well, Portable Ops has since been semi-retconned). Anyway, I finally played the HD version on the 360 in the months leading up to MGSV’s release. And despite not initially having high expectations for it since it was an MGS game designed for a handheld, I ended up FREAKIN’ LOVING IT.