As of today, this review has become the first review I've made to surpass 10k views. Pretty small compared to other, much larger channels, but it means a lot to me all the same that so many folks seemed to get something out of this video, definitely makes the many many months that went into making it feel that much more worth it. Thank you all very much for your support! I appreciate it tremendously and hope y'all enjoy the reviews to come! In keeping up with stealth action genre, the next review I'm currently working on is for an indie stealth game called 'Disjunction'. I'm hoping to have it done within the next few days, beyond that, I've got quite a few others in the works so stay tuned for that!

"You can swap weapons mid aim as you are still shooting just by hitting square" Me with more than 300 hours in this game: "You can do WHAT??!!" Seriously, it's amazing how years later one can still discover a lot of secret mechanics and possibilities in this game

"F*** the R&D Platform" Now that statement is food for the soul.

46:20 “Boss, how did you defeat Sahelanthropus so fast?” Venom: “I punched it”

2 hours long and it has a 3 second intro. Amazing

I have nearly 2000+ hours in this game and I feel like I've only truly experienced half of what it really has to offer.

this game will always hold a special place in my heart despite the many flaws. great review, i agree with basically every point.

Kojima voiced frustration that the player doesn't see their action as bad when they're in control. I personally think he was talking about Peace Walker and how nobody thought twice about building a nuclear weapon in that game. Really that showed Big Boss's descent perfectly... but nobody saw it, because they were controlling Big Boss. Ok, so how do you get around that? How do you let the player control BB and still make them hate BB as a character? Simples! Have the player be a victim of BB's ruse. It's SO clever.

Any jackass can massacre children and threaten the world with nukes. But it takes a special kind of narcissist to do what Big Boss did to Venom. It took me awhile after finishing the game to piece this together, but it ended up being so much more impactful as a "fall to the dark side" story than what I was expecting.

The part I liked was where he talked about how the choices.presented are meant for the player to organically build the legend of Big Boss, and by extension, their own. Love when people actually pay attention to what they're playing.

There’s points I disagree with in your story analysis, but overall, this is an amazing review. I can tell you absolutely adore this game as I do, and your ability to honestly critique shows how you love it. Everything is covered, with personal reasons why you loved or didn’t like something. It’s really refreshing and thanks for your hard work in this flawed masterpiece. One of the most creatively ambitious games ever, in gameplay, themes, and story. For better or worse.

I bought this game on day 1 release. It's almost into 2023 and I'm still playing it. I love this game.

In my opinion, this is possibly the most detailed review of MGSV I have ever experienced. Brilliant assessment and the bookmarks are a delight. Thank you again ✌🏻

1:13 "[MGSV:TPP] plays better than [...] just about any single Stealth/Action 3rd-Person Shooter I've ever played." *Still true in 2022.*

Just 5 minutes in. Certain sequences sure I would play action but damn, don't think that I have seen this type of very aggressive playstyle in MGS5 before, gotta say you really make it look cool.

Stealth games: oh no alert everyone knows my every move Mgs v stealth: oh no I’ve broken line of site and the guards aren’t blocking my path to a objective because they’re investigating my last known position 👌 Mgsv open world is basically Valhalla (mythology not the game) nothing to do but fight, just another day in a war without end

1:21:12 I want to say that Raiden and Armstrong in Rising have an amazing back and forth where they’re basically just throwing half truths at each other EDIT: ironically, Armstrong was the one villain who wasn’t written by Kojimbob, maybe that’s why Rising has my favourite characters out of all the games

Your love and appreciation for this game clearly shines through - well done 👍

Thank you for not having an hour long intro about Moby Dick

This was by far one of the best (all-encompassing) reviews I've watched about this game, which has made me go "Yes, exactly!" basically all throughout. But did you forget about my man Peqoud? Who's at our beck and call every mission/side-op, with his insanely acurate aim during cover fires which always obliterates everything, but miraculously not Venom. And seems to be the only man that gives an actual fuck about Venom with his 'Be careful down there, Boss.' Oh, how I love that guy! But honestly, great review! Was a blast to watch and now I wanna dive back into it.

Love the idea of going to Camp Omega as Venom. The layout could be completely different from the previous game because he was never even there originally. Awesome.

No one will ever convince me this didn't deserve to win GOTY over witcher 3 and bloodborne.

*Best mgsv experience* = turn off HUD including markers (I keep weapon reticle on though), turn off reflex mode, only take a low level Tranq gun and a lethal primary with no suppressor (plus a few basic grenade types) only use D horse, and play no alerts/non lethal . This is the European extreme mode we should have gotten. No markers forces you to actually be aware of the direction and proximity of patrols (as well as opening your idroid often during infiltration to plan youre next move based on gaurd locations) and the lack of weapons forces you to use CQC and other more grounded tactics Also, get some headphones because you’re gonna be operating based on basic sight and sound. The sound design is immaculate.

It's crazy. This game came out over 7 years ago now and it still has the best free form third person action/stealth combat to this day. I remember playing Sniper Elite 5 wondering how is it the designers of this game took nothing from Phantom Pain after all these years? I really hope we see something like this from Kojima again. Of course it won't be Metal Gear Solid but Kojima and his team are the masters of stealth action.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, for the timestamps in the description. Now my quick laugh or that section I wanna look over in this over-2-hour review is just a click away.

Damn, huge video! Awesome that you managed to finish this behemoth of a review finally lol

Saw your review featured on J'S Reviews and gotta say you really made some great points. Obviously there's a lot I don't agree with here and am not as big a fan of MGSV, but I also fully admit to not considering a lot of factors you did. One of my biggest problems with MGSV was how easy it was and how every boss fight felt the same. But when you look at it from the lens of how every mission can end up going, then it makes sense it wouldn't be the hardest game in the world. If it were, then all the action wouldn't be as viable a gameplay approach as you state. There's also a lot of stunts you do that I never thought to do because I'm someone who always wants to play a mission as stealthy as possible. Whereas you seemed to adapt to getting caught and just made it part of the fun. So that might be why you enjoyed the game a lot more than I did and I can admit that might just be a 'me' problem since GZ felt a little harder for me and that's what I was expecting from MGSV. I agree that Skullface should have been fought and a fight like Clifford's fight sounds fitting for him, but I think the boss problem extends further than you comment. I don't think the Skulls should have been bosses. To me, they should've just been minibosses like the haven girls or ocelot unit bois. They're mechanically extensive like bosses but don't have as much resilience. If they were just minibosses who turned up a lot with more XOF assassins like Quiet or Volgin showing up as proper boss battles, then that would've solved everything. It isn't that the bosses of MGSV are bad or even boring. They're just so repetitive and so underwhelming when you compare them to the sheer depth of MGS3's bosses which even you acknowledge. I was even more disappointed because the concept arts showed some cut bosses like Chico or Scorch, who was an XOF assassin with full body armor that had weakpoints on his suit and flamethrower you had to target. That sounds like a lot of fun and I wish MGSV had deeper bosses like that, especially since actual antagonists are always so much more entertaining than monsters. The point I never considered was with Eli aka Liquid Snake. I'll admit that I'm someone who is still sore about KotF, but I also never considered what that entire ending would've been like if Eli never showed up at all. Because you're right, his introduction is completely unrelated to everything going on up to that point. If anything, Eli's story even feels like he would work better as DLC since it really doesn't have anything to do with MGSV's plot. Reserving that whole story as a separate chapter sold separately could've saved Kojima Productions a lot of hassle and even worked out for Konami, because they would've made serious money off of that chapter which most of us would've certainly purchased, and that could have have covered the development costs. You just earned yourself a new subscriber, dude. Even if I personally wouldn't rate MGSV nearly as high as you did, the points you raised were really sound points and have got me thinking. So keep up the great work!

"D-Walker, the answer to Johnny 5 is alive." Subbed immediately.

This needs way more views for the time and effort it obviously took to make. Also this is some of the best gameplay I’ve seen of this game, how do you play like that

How is there still no game that nails gameplay this tightly? The controller layout and animations are so perfect

this review... gave me the closure i needed and explanations i needed to finally understand it thank you for making this review, you earned a new sub

I've recently played through the entirety of MGSV. I have played it before, but never all the way till the end. I always loved the gameplay, but only until my last playthrough has it shot up to one of my favorite games of all time. I look at a lot of the videos from when the game first came out and it is all painted over with "Screw Konami" rhetoric, but I don't think they actually looked at the core game and the sheer variety and depth that this game has to offer. Thank you for bringing to light how incredible this game is in this video, it was worth the watch, I give this a Kaz Burger out of 10.

Needed a video like this, tired of seeing videos on how disappointing of a “metal gear” game. As a huge fan of the series I was blown away w the in-depth gameplay and I actually like how the story was handled

I think what you missed about mother base is that it's the perfect training ground. I practiced melee combos, movement techniques, how the two interact, and so much more there. And then I used them to destroy the enemy. Plus the shower, which incentivises regularly returning and the cutscenes which reward that return.

Amazing this has got to be THE best MGSV review and discussion ever, I'm on the side that love this game and so far as an overall it is the best MGS game and it went out with a bang, I'm also to this date keep coming back to this game over and over hell I re installed it again completely both Ground Zeroes and Phantom Pain, love it your passion for this divisive game among the fans is admirable

This video was phenomenal, i LOVE your voice, the script and editing. I hope you will ever attempt to make another review at least once more, from your words i feel like you don't want to make more and that's fine, sadly you don't have ads on ur vids (i hope you will turn them on someday, i watched this video a few times now and you're not making a single buck from me) but still, i think this video is phenomenal and i can only wish for you to do this once more someday. Thanks again, happy new year and stay healthy!

@ 1:38:00 “If you care more about making some misguided unnecessary point than you do writing a satisfying story, then maybe your priorities as a writer are a bit fucked up.” Most hilariously vicious and accurate stab at Kojima being a writer. And the delivery was spot on 😂 I wish someone would say that to his face.

You make an excellent point about putting in secret bosses in the open world, I think it absolutely would have benefited from it. Like imagine if there was another HARDER secret sniper fight, or a CQC type fight that would keep you on your toes

I can't believe I never thought to use D-Horse whistle-warping on rescue missions.

Other than the fact that your assessment, criticism and pinpointing were highly detailed, justified, discussed and objectively proven. But your fast jokes and out-of-nowhere witty remarks and sarcasm left me chuckling while keeping a focused eye on the different subjects you brought up. Excellent review my guy, video games SHOULD be reviewed thoroughly and in-detail EXACTLY LIKE THIS! I wish you all the best in your future works!!

Great Vid. You weren't kidding about running away from the skulls on D horse...that part was unbelievably almost PTSD tense for me. I'm sure you wouldn't look at it this way but..I like to believe that Venom Snake embraced his new identity

OK, so Demon Snake does affect gameplay, enemies can spot you from much farther away. To the point of it being unfair.

The rhythm you maintained through this video is incredible. Probably one of if not my favourite video on the platform.

I feel like the breaking up into chapters and only having 2 was kinda smart if you look at MGSV, not as a movie, but a TV show. A lot of shows do end after 2 seasons and because each main mission is labeled an “episode” my theory doesn’t feel too off the mark.

There's some parts I agree with and some parts I don't agree with. Your comments about the gameplay are on point. What I took away from your video is that you know how to play this game the right way. You use every option available to you and really play this game for all its worth. I've never seen gameplay that looked this exciting in any review I've seen on youtube. I wasn't a fan of the boss fights because Quiet and the Skulls are level capped so if you play with high level weapons they go down like chumps. And Volgin dies in one hit if you just push him in that obvious pool. Eli and Metal Gear were the only fights that worked for me and I agree that the game needed more fights like Eli's. I feel like the Skulls should've been reduced to mini bosses and the game should've had proper boss characters like Skullface and a squad of superhumans with personalities like the Cobras. Especially since Phantom Pain reveals that the cobras were powered by the parasites. So it would've made a lot of sense. Where I mostly disagree is the story. You can argue that Phantom Pain may have been technically better in the writing but it wasn't as engaging. Snake is just way too quiet and too much of the game feels like it happens around him instead of him participating. You mention that and I agree with you but you didn't mention that the other games had more satisfying storylines. Even if there's a lot more exposition dumping the end of each game always felt like a complete journey that left me satiated regardless of the nonsense. Phantom Pain felt like it left me hanging. Skullface's storyline ended on such an abrupt and unsatisfying note, Eli's story didn't even get an ending and Snake's story is too ambiguous to be satisfying. I know you mention all of those and I agree with those points but I think the big difference is that I really didn't like the story much for it or find the mysteries it was building up particularly interesting because so much of the story development comes in these static radio calls of Kaz and Ocelot talking over slideshows. And no matter it's framed, "Vocal Cord Parasites" is just a really stupid plot device in my opinion. I agree that swapping from the same Metal Gears to bio-weapons is a fun spin but this was taking oceanic amounts of piss for me. But even despite my disagreements I really liked your review. I've never seen a video like this where someone wasn't a fan boy just blindly dismissing valid criticism or an openly hostile hater who just wants to dump on everything and exaggerate all the issues. You approached the game very fairly from the perspective of a person who clearly knows what they're talking about and very clearly loves the thing they're reviewing. I respect this kind of dedication enormously and really enjoyed hearing your perspective on this review. So much so that I'm going to watch all of your other MGS videos as well. Thank you for sharing something that didn't waste my time and kept me engaged the whole way in, even if I had to watch this in batches instead of all at once. Keep up the great work.

I know this is 2 years later but dude, why is Ocelot even in the fucking game? He does nothing that couldnt have been done by ANYBODY else. The audio cassettes are nice but not really what I wanted.

Going fully prone isn’t useless because it actually increases your camo index

😆 Sally is Sahelanthropus Kojimbob is Kojima Red Skulls discolored cousin is Skull Face Anyone I’m missing?

I played this game in 2015 and didn't get all the weapons, started playing 2 months ago and i'm getting there now. I totally agree with this review. Feels like a lot of people slept on this pearl and never gave it a shot

Very impressive, you weren’t kidding when you said this would be a video with a lot of new insight on this game, keep up the good work!

Best review i've seen on this game. Also i love that short intro.

I love all the different approaches to the man on fire gimmick fight. My favorite way is placing c4 on the water tower supports, leading him over there and dropping it on his head

I put in 1500 hours on this game on the PS3 when it first came out. I refused to play any online crap, so it was offline only. A month ago I rebought it and started from scratch on the PS4. About 275 hrs in and 75% done and it was just as fun as the first time. Was just taking a break when your video popped up. I can’t believe I sat here and listened to the whole thing….great job. You talk just like I do renaming characters and such. I always called Jonny Sasaki Jonny poo pants. At any rate, thanks for the hours of entertainment . You made me laugh out loud multiple times, and I rate you right up there with Futura Productions and Python Selkin. Great Metal Gear channels and btw…I just subbed you 👍

Love this video, really illustrates a lot of how I feel about this game even years after its release. A great game with some flawed execution but I cant stop coming back to to it.

Daym I’m finding a lot of hidden gem KZfaqrs these days

Amazing review. I really mean it, thank you for this huge work you've done

11:35 - everyone follows the path to extract the kids. But I got annoyed and neutralized everyone in the outpost of the mine. What I didn’t realize is I blew up the anti air radar so.. I tranqualized the kids and called the chopper pretty easy and simple

The checkpoint system is so bad during "Listen to all conversation" objectives. So many times i listened to all conversations, then died and it put me again at the start of the mission. Or maybe the guy i was tailing stopped talking for no reason. Or maybe he saw D-Dog, D-Horse or the D-Walker and stopped talking. It's way too easy to break the scripted dialogs and if you listen to all conversations and don't get the luxury of an autosave, most of the times you will need to redo everything if you die/break the script. I wanted to snap the game in half when this bullshit happened. Also why in the f do i need to redo these stupid objectives on the repeated missions from Chapter 2!? I love this game, but seriously the guy who made the "Listen to all Conversations" objectives needs to be fired.

AWESOME review bro!

Such a fantastic review I find myself rewatching it every couple of months.

I wonder if you'd do a video on the missions of MGSV. Hardly anyone ever talks about the game's level design and the various ways to do each particular mission. Missions like "To know too Much" for most people would just be: go to desert, blow up robots and rescue the dude whilst completely being unaware that if he gets captured before you get to him, a completely new mission emerges at Lamar Khate palace. So a mission review and ranking video would be something I'd be very interested in.

Wow. You did amazing work here sir, good job.

Great video. Very detailed. Loved everything you had to say about it !

I'm making this comment early in the video and mostly using it as background audio while I do other stuff. For me, my biggest gripe with TPP is the resources system. If not for how *terribly* it is handled, with being completely unable to AFK the resources being refined and the pain that grinding them is, the game would likely be a 9/10 for me, with a point knocked off due to it being incomplete. But because of how much they fucked up the resource system (along with the weird insistence on online gameplay for resources, those resources being separate, etc etc) it drops to a 6/10 for me. I've been in a mood lately to replay it again bc the main story and gameplay _is_ fantastic, but my ADHD brain just hates the need to grind out resources or mindlessly run around just because I want to be able to develop stuff.

I really appreciate your take on the game and your views on it. Now I want to give it another run even after doing everything I'm interested in and feeling a tiny bit burned out by the ending, even after all these years (I bought my first gaming rig just to play this game). Thank you.

Honestly it was the fact you said you could never Fulton anyone and still be fine that got me to replay this game. Where I would attempt each mission with stealth, but almost always take only lethal weapons.

Love this video, and really appreciate that you were not only fair but also to the point. You're pretty good

watched the whole thing and you changed my view. really eye opening lol and i really liked those tweaks you suggested at the end with chico and such

One small question, besides MGSV, which are some of your favourite games that are 10/10 as well in your opinion?

Only game this whole generation that kept me around longer than year. And KH3 I waited 6 years for

even the head shots feels so smooth in both games

There's is brilliant shit here, you were in the cusp of it. The story of V is a dual narrative told by the same events with different perspectives. The unsatisfying version is told by the first playthrough, it seems messy and doesn't make any sense by design. Then you beat the game realize that you are a body double then second playthrough starts with the same story but with more context. Your second playthrough of mgsv is knowing you are the double, and every piece of Intel is a face-to-face lie just to get you to execute skull face and get zero's revenge. Then the Patriots (and the game) tell you to fuck off while you're still sitting in it. So in short, Metal Gear Solid 5 is a metal gear game that lets you complete the "story" (ch1). Then it lets you sit in a breaking down operation. V is an interesting art piece. It's the equivalent if Kill Bill kept lingering and continuing to show the main character spiral in to crippling depression from the PTSD from the murders. Then leaving us in the middle of one of her nonsensical breakdowns. But in this case the Snake eating it's own tale is thematic. It seems like the truth tapes should integrated into your second playthrough, which makes a lot of the motivations make sense. The characters that seem off are playing a role. Those roles were specified in the truth tapes. The only person that didn't know he was playing a role was skull face. Additionally I don't believe that skull face knew Big Boss was a body double. Another detail from the truth tapes that skull face used a copy of the The Boss's PIN to infect zero. Imagine the insult just Skull Face if he knew that he carried out his revenge on a body double, he wasted his amazing plan on the wrong person. That's why skull face is revenge is as limp dicked as the players revenge. Everyone lost except Zero. This is why the body double looks like someone who is bored during skull faces big plot reveal. The double did not live the moments that skull face is referring to, had big boss been in that seat he probably would have been in there with his mouth open to be honest. Again reaffirming the main point that revenge is never fulfilling. And you were frustrated with all the juxtaposition and dual characters, well that was there on purpose as well. "We are not you kind of people, everything's a lie". It's the lies that make this the most Metal Gear that's ever existed. Nothing but lies created The legend of Big Boss. Which is the bigger plot that Kojima is trying to say. Every superpower will eventually slip into the truth/power struggle that the Patriots realize. What part of this struggle is your nation in. This is why he didn't miss, he's giving you a look at how lies turn into a tale of legend, then pass on for generations as a narrative. Skullface did have the last laugh, his meme was put into the system as he said. And repeated in Metal Gear Solid 4 by rogue Patriot AIs. Literally his taunting words as he died. Big boss's dark Shadow was the greatest Metal Gear villain because he was a pathetic little shit, but he was right about how much more evil zero and the Patriots were going to become without him. He knew where the Patriots were going and he thought he could kill them from the inside out, when in reality he set up the awful world that was played out between MGS2-4.

Holy cow. Bravo. This review was STUNNING! I feel like I developed a friendship and appreciation of your true self just listening to this. You just get me!

I also like how if a vehicle goes missing or if you have Snake steal an item, then there's a chance a guard will realize something is missing and thus will alert everyone

This was fucking great man, went arm deep into a game I also consider great, keep it up brah, hope your channel grows exponentially

I never knew you could punch tanks to death.. I need to play again.

What a phenomenal write up as well as masterful editing.. you’ve just earned another subscriber o7

A mission editor... You're a genius! That was all it needed! I hope the modders pick that idea up.

amazing review. Keep on keeping on!

My fav tactic in taking out the skulls is to stay hidden in the start (at least in the missions where you can hide), place all c4 in the inventory in front of snake and then wait for them to stumble towards me, while you back off. Once they’re close enough, you just let it go off. Most of them will be out for the count

I just got to say that this is one of the best MGS5 reviews I've seen out there and mad respect for keeping up the rhythm throughout the video some people can't do that but you did A plus review

wow, i watched only 16 min, but i'm already feel full of energy and information about this game from you, that's interesting

No way. Only 500 subs? This was the most objective and meticulous MGS5 review I saw to this day! And I watched a lot of them. Congrats! 👍

Really amazing review, man !

Damn dude. You have a gift or these kind of videos. No joke you will be the next Whitelight/Joseph Anderson, just a matter of time! Amazing game, amazing review, not much more I can add.

Honestly the game has some awesome charm, It makes you think outside the box to make it more fun like stealth can be boring but rewarding or you can fist fight an entire base to complete a mission like some MMA fighter on drugs. The game has some insanely funny mechanics to it that just bring out the hilarity in it

amazing review. love the story remix. excellent critiques all the way through. thank you!

Don't know how you don't have more subs. I've never finished it. But I just might, thanks to you.

This dude deserves more subs and views. I mean, look at this vid!

Damn fine review that also put into words many of my sentiments. I think that it would be good idea to link the sources you cite in the video in description (MGSV piggyback or MGS2 design documents for example) for people to check out (there's more chance they'll do it by that than by sending them to the google).

Amen to everything you just said brother... 🙏🙏

I cannot stress how much I love this review hell I literally fall asleep to this at night not even kidding thanks Keiv!

I just watched it and bro, what a review. Bravo. Really love your insights on the metal gear games. Really opened my eyes to stuff I didn’t see when I played them. Cheers

this video is underappreciated af

Thinking about it, I always went with a semi perfectionist checkpoint reload heavy no kill playstyle, though going in with a rolling with the punches mentality sounds fun too

My favorite aspect of the game is getting to call in the evac chopper anytime you want and with pc having custom music its amazing having fortunate son play as you are busting captives out with the cover fire above. Wish more games had chopper mechanics like this

Hot damn dude this was well worth the wait. You hit every point clearly and directly. Your editing was fantastic. The script was great. I loved everything about this review, especially the personal touch about your family and grandmother. Well done.

I'm torn on many parts of this analysis but your video is so comprehensive that I not only really enjoyed it, but felt the empty gap of appreciation towards this game's story was filled and I loved your interpretation. This game has had my head spinning for 3 fuckin years since I first completed it and it is great to see smaller creators like yourself covering the game with this level of passion.

This came can be summed up to "This is the best unfinished game I've ever played."

i fucking love this game and love the dedication you displayed making this video. Good luck on your journey. Going to play Death Stranding soon, would love to get your opinions or even a review on that