MGSV: Mr. Venom overdoses on Ketamine

We reached the nuclear disarmament yesterday on the ps3. No exploits used. legit.

I didn't realise Venom Snake was being given ketamine, that's what they gave me in hospital after I nearly died in a hit-and-run a few months ago, explains why the opening of the game is so relatable then! I have complete amnesia for the week I stayed there, I still have no memory of the accident either. Now I'm wondering if I'm the real me or a phantom duplicate.

To my knowledge, this is the only modern fiction that integrates the modern misinterpretation of "1984" with the original point of the novel. Most people these days think it was meant to be about surveillance. They don't realize it was more about language. So much so that Orwell particularly despised the term "Orwellian" because it was a perfect example of what he was trying to warn against doing when it comes to language.

Ocelot and V rides on the white horse, signifying that their greatness derives from The Boss in some way. And ocelot is the one riding it, and inviting V to ride with him, because he is the one really in control of the MGS franchise

I wish they would add a patch that allows you to replay all the cut scenes after finishing the game

This is the first time I've noticed that when he punches the mirror his reflection alternated in the shattered fragments. He punches with his prosthetic, but a whole arm is in the reflection, and the horn disappears from his head. I feel stupid.

I can neither agree or disagree with any interpretations presented in this excellent video.

You're telling me that Venom snake in the beginning mission of MGSV is high on ketamine

19:10 you can actually see Ishmael hiding in the doorway when the camera pans around too

Damn, that Jean le Carre quote is so perfect in describing the end of TPP that I'm surprised Kojima didn't actually put it in the game lol

I really don't see anything odd about Snake not feeling pain in his arm until it is reset. My TKD coach was in a fight and someone threw a kick which bent his fingers backwards; He said he didn't feel it until he put his fingers back into place.

I absolutely love geeking out with you on these videos. Super excited to hear you'll be covering "Kingdom of the Flies" later! One minor quibble: you keep saying Venom "broke" his arm or ankle, when he merely dislocated them. You can't pop a break back in to place 😉

I always viewed the solution coming from under "Ishmael" as a ruse to make it seem like his body released his urine after death so the soldiers didn't think they'd have to look at him, and that's why they skip over him and immediately go over to Venom afterwards.

I've said it in another video and I'll say it again: you are doing god's work thank you so so much

Everything finds a way to be relevant in the MGS universe and I love it for that

Ishmael dissapearing and taking fatal hits without dying can simply be explained by the fact that he is big boss.

Could it also be interpreted that the three pigs by the boss' statue could be alluding to the three sons (solid, liquid and solidus), similar to the boss' fight in mgs3 where the there are three snakes that are named after the sons.

Good lord, that audiobook excerpt... I used the audiobook adaptation during high school when I was assigned 1984. Thanks for the flashback.

When I thought he'd fleshed this bit out it turns out he's just getting started. Tremendous knowledge of symbology, mysticism and mythology he's looking at this through I cannot get enough.

I always thought that even if Big Boss woke up before, it was truly the rage inside the Phantom Big Boss that put mantis into notion, even if he wasnt consciously awake. After 5 Big Boss seemed too detached to care about what happened 9 years ago to feel any "venom" inside that could have awakened Mantis.

The greek sign translates to: Cyprus Riding Club Recreational Organization Recreational Area of Dhekelia

The tapes "revealing"conversations between the real Big Boss and others bring called "The Truth Records," with the first tape in the list being called "Doublethink," is so brilliant

If you wrote your own original series I would purchase it so quick. You have a truly unique perspective and I get overwhelmed telling people about your channel. Incredible work @FuturasoundProductions

I recently finished playing MGSV for the first time and these videos are exactly the type of stuff I was looking for after the end more than wiki articles. Keep it up, they're really well made!

MORE! GIMMIE MORE! This is deeply fascinating.

I like the idea that XOF sees their stealthy assassin come tumbling out a window on fire and immediately panicked and went all hands on deck to kill Snake.

I believe that "Lager" is referring to the german word for "camp". Obvious parallel included.

Man every one of your videos seems to give me perspective on a new part of any story you cover.

Everybody's Gangstar until Big Boss' horn start growing

Great work once again, can’t wait for the next one!

absolutely love the thought provoking analysis you give us, can’t wait to see what you say about ep 51

Hey Jorin! Your analyses have inspired me to write some music, thank you for all your thought-provoking content.

23:00 The discoloration of red to white is also present any time during gameplay when you get a critical injury and have to heal it. Unlike Ground Zeros of course, where the screen goes red, not white.

It's a damn crime that Chapter 3 will possibly never see the light of day.

Hi there, Cypriot here. The painting at 6:41 could well be one of the archaeological sites in Cyprus. Possibly Amathounta or maybe even one of House of Dionysus or Salamis. Also, not sure if it was mentioned in earlier videos, but the tunnel shown in Cyprus is not from that area, but rather in Paphos, to the east. And the tunnel did not exist in 1984. It was built much later.

this is easily the best analysis of MGS on youtube, thank you so much for always uploading

I really dug your comments about the ourobouros at the end. I hadn’t ever really made that observation

Also that ending part in 47:52 at that exact moment he probably thought: "So this is what eva felt back then when she left me that way huh?" The way he put down the cigar and exales is like he realized or remembered something. Lleaving a man decieved on its own but telling him the truth after she was gone, and now he is doing the same, replicating the meme.

thanks for the video @Futurasound Productions , looking forward for the next

In most games when there are details like these ones I usually write them off as stuff that really was just a coincidence but never in a Kojima game

This is why MGSV is my favorite game ever. It REQUIRES multiple play-throughs to pick up on the smallest of details that can easily be missed. Great video, as always🤘🏼Can't wait for the next entry!

These videos are amazing. A lot of neat things I never noticed like the helicopter shot down by Volgin later showing up in the lobby.

I've been waiting for this! Made my day

I cant express how much fun I get from watching this videos, man, loved it, it brings me to tears, this saga is so deep. Keeping it real.

Great analysis my friend.

Great content man. I would have never even thought of all these things

Literally the only videos where I'm constantly rewinding to catch all the info

Always insightful with your MGS stuff.

I wonder if Ishmael represents your still shattered mind. Big Boss and the Medic are both inside your head, you haven't fully integrated Big Boss as your core identity yet but still have access to his skillset and personality through the hypnosis, and it is manifesting as a visual hallucination of your alter personality.

These videos are top shelf man. Thanks.

amazing work as always Jorin. I hadn't picked up the XOF members exterminating the hospital to ensure BB is dead. Thanks for that.

Exactly at 19:10 you can see Ishmael hidden in the room he pulls you

39:50 A little note: "lager" is a russian word for "camp", like "concentration camp" or even "summer camp", so maybe it's not an african word in that segment. Still, your theory makes sense, and your work deserves all the praise.

loved the first video, can't wait

your channel is great !

I've literally just discovered this video and is absolutely amazing. Genuinely made me think so differently about this game after its been 9 years.

The point you made about the walls with doctors degrees and such. It's a hospital full of doctors and nurses. I think it only makes sense that they would have them on display.

Shining lights even in death We live and die by your order boss😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 When men cried

This channel is fire! Amazing analysis boss

I cant wait for your interpretation of mgs2 video review. I know you cant do every thing of one game. But what you told us is very insightful that were just waiting to be cracked open and expand the field of this series.

Dude I love your videos intellectual approach backed up with examples. Very astute.

Overthinking is a hell of a drug!

Venom Snake smokes an Electronic Ciggarette while the real Big Boss smokes an actual cigar, I never noticed that.

Venom snake had a dislocated elbow. With dislocations, the pain is much worse when the joint is set back into its socket.

Your content phenomenal, great frking job, you deserve much more praise and subscribers than you're currently getting:)

The idea at the beginning where the patriots use control by using language, and how certain words or phrases makes the unconscious act upon hearing them. It reminded a lot of Bioshock when the main character unknowingly followed orders by the antagonist any time the phrase 'would you kindly' was said. Add to that how you said in mgsv skullface and cipher mightve been doing the same thing with our main character big boss as venom snake. Its a theory that because of Bioshock I can get behind, and that it may play a role here in mgsv.

Something I've never heard brought up is the way Skull Face talks to BB on the heliport in the cut scene before the Skull Face Jeep monologue, where his voice affects Venom's vision. To me, it's very reminiscent of the way Gene in Portable Ops has a voice with special abilities as part of the Successor Program (it's just the Weirding Way from Dune IMO). And in the final battle with Gene, what is one of the side effects of Gene's voice: colors begin to fade and change briefly, not unlike MGSV really. You have to figure as the head of XOF, Skull Face would have had access to technology left over from the Successor Program, esp when you consider the fact that Gene gives BB the assets for his "Army's Heaven" and I imagine the technology that created those powers would be one of the first things Gene would take before launching his insurrection; Gene gives BB the assets and BB almost certainly gave them to Zero after the San Hieronymo Peninsula uprising. After all, what's better than a commander with uncanny speed and psychic powers? A whole unit of soldiers with that power, of course. The super speed Gene shows in PO reminds me of the way the Skulls/Quiet can move faster than the eye can see, their super speed. Or maybe I'm just reading into it? You don't mention PO too often in your analysis, so I'm assuming you don't take it into consideration when writing analysis, but I think if you compare the heliport scene in MGSV and the final battle with Gene in PO you'll see some similarities.

We shall watch your videos with great interest ✌

Awesome, cant wait for more

i just love how this is all the basis for liquid ocelot brainwashing himself in MGS 4. he learned it all here / carried it all out here first as a trial. (obviously correct me if i'm wrong my memory is soooo bad due to all the ketamine)

This game is one of the best games of all time. The gameplay is nothing but perfect 👌

I don’t know if this means anything but if hide with Ishmael where the beds are he and Snake will move in sync to hide from the guards but then again this could be my own brain tricking me into finding signs on if Ishmael actually exist or doesn’t. It’s fascinating to see how V is truly a MGS game but how much it does it on a psychological level and how no matter if you believe Venom to be his own character or not I love that we can see parts of Big Boss’ mind even the morality in a sense. Wonderful video as always I can’t wait for more

The revelation that Huey invented Vaping I think was the most important takeaway of this

Can't wait.

An element of the penultimate cinematic with Revolver Ocelot and the "real" Big Boss that interests me, is that it appears TPP uses the same character model from GZ for the "real" Big Boss (please correct me if I am wrong on this point). This could be interpreted as symbolising how the "real" Big Boss has been protected from the effects of the previous nine years - owing to his "phantom". Furthermore, the number "9" is significant from a religious perspective, as it has associations with "completeness" and "finality" in multiple world religions, perhaps symbolising the ouroboros you mention. Apologies if either of these two points have already been discussed. Thanks for another video, Boss!

'Lager' is a German word which also is used in Russian (Ocelot is russian), which can be a camp or a warehouse in German and only a camp in Russian.

I find it interesting Tretji Rebenok loses himself in his hosts and carries out *their* will spurned on by their hate. Psycho Mantis said his first psychic experience was from his father, sensing his hate for his own son. He *then* goes onto burn down his town. Was that Mantis? Or his father?

The staggered entry of XOF at the hospital is quite logical, the first strike sent in didn't work (might've seen her falling out of the window on fire), as such the big bad big boss is more dangerous after his coma than they hoped, as such team B is activated, a more lethal approach to eliminate everyone in the hospital and you would've killed snake too, with the man on fire sent in aswell, (probably not completely under Skullface's control yet) it just becomes a giant fustercluck, Ishmael and Ahab blowing through atleast two mechanized platoons is telling enough.

Those ''pigs'' under the statue, of which I'm guessing there's four, look a lot more like foxes than pigs to me. Look at those two on the side view, the length and size of the snout is like no pig i've ever seen. Something about it with the horse rearing up above the foxes (if that's what they are) makes me think of a foxhunt, only thing missing is the foxhound. This is my first time really 'seeing' them since this video brought them to my attention, so i'm not certain, I can see the pig in the one facing forward.

As someone who dislocated his shoulder it goes numb till u pop it back in then it burns super fucking bad

Excelent work

Nitpicking, their arms aren't breaking, they're being dislocated (with the exception of MGS3). They're then being shown having their joints being set, which is a fix that would only help with dislocation.

Just performed hypnogogia on myself by taking a nap to this video and the hospital one. I could hear this video in parts of my dream.

When mantis shows up with Venom's horn, it seems to imply that Venom is controlling him in the moments where Volgin isn't. I also thing Venom creates the distraction that prevents him from being caught during the sequence when he and Ishmael crawl under the hospital bed; he looks forward with a blank face and the noise occurs.

The really subtle “nice ass” in 7:56 doesn’t go unnoticed. *Wink wink*

At 29:46 the reverse image of the boss is a symbol for as above, so below.

Love the fact that Huey invented vapes lol

Very fascinating.

Snake's"Telltale nice ass" A true detective

Btw word Lager is also a Russian word Лагерь, which means camp. Considering he used to be in GRU, he may be using Russian words in this case since he's talking about Miller imprisoned by Soviet Army. So, you know.

Love that the most frequent ads I get on this series is Duolingo

34:56 Commitment to the max. It didn't need to be the exact same bike, any Triumph would invoke EVA in our memories, but they went a step adhead

"venom snake gives him a little horn" .....giggidy.....

When you mentioned using words to control the "subconcious", it reminded me of the grammar of genocide from Project Itoh's "Genocidal Organ". I wonder if there are any influences from Itoh's work in MGS V, considering the close friendship he had with Kojima...

Love this take on TPP, thank you Jorin!

Love the content forever ♾

You analysis are very intriguing, i hope to see collab with Python&Salken.

Is that statue literally the boss or it just looks similar enough to draw a comparison? Stellar work as always ☺

Holy shit, I never noticed how Psycho Mantis changes a little bit every time he links with someone. I only noticed when his mask changed to the mgs1 styled mask during Skullface cutscene