Awesome, thanks for the heads up. The Final Fantasy and Metroid bits they did last year were excellent.

A new video went up yesterday. Playing Metal Gear Solid on the PS1 brings back some good memories.

Yeah, memories of when the minutes of gameplay used to outnumber the minutes of cutscenes.

Part 2 is now up. This time detailing MGS1. Spoilers galore!

I got the essentials vol. 2 with my pre-order and really liked it. I was kind of wondering where vol. 1 was. Where did you pick it up, snowsquirrel?

Surprise, surprise; there apparently are very lengthy cutscenes and Konami doesn't want you to know about them. Gee, don't you think people would have found out about them when they, I don't know, played the game and talked about it online?

"Such details wouldn't have been plot spoilers, but perhaps the publisher was concerned that they would be viewed as negatives?"

Rat Boy wrote:

Surprise, surprise; there apparently are very lengthy cutscenes and Konami doesn't want you to know about them. Gee, don't you think people would have found out about them when they, I don't know, played the game and talked about it online?

article wrote:

"Such details wouldn't have been plot spoilers, but perhaps the publisher was concerned that they would be viewed as negatives?"

Dumb enough to put them in the game but not quite dumb enough to shout it from the rooftops.

Nei wrote:

EuroGamer - 8/10 for MGS4! Review

Sony Fanboys are going to eat them alive!

I think it's still a good score but I just think it wasn't that good of a review especially from Eurogamer which is normally a really good reviewer

Metal Gear Solid has always been a love it or hate it proposition. Millions love it for its involved, conspiratorial plotting, its arch sense of humour, its demanding stealth gameplay, its sprawling cinematic ambition, its preposterous stylishness and pretensions toward artistic weight. Millions hate it for exactly the same reasons.

Then there are those - this reviewer included - for whom Metal Gear Solid is a love it and hate it proposition. Flawed, intractable, unspeakably tedious at times, and yet blessed with incredible production values, imaginative design, and a brilliant, brave willingness to think and do the unexpected and impossible. At times they're barely videogames at all, but they're capable of moments of pure videogame genius, joy and shock that few other series can match.

So how do you review a new Metal Gear Solid? Do you assess it on its own terms, ones that its legion of fans will understand? Do you play the sceptic, and take Hideo Kojma and his team to task for their stubborn refusal to catch up with what the rest of the world expects of a videogame? Or do you walk the path of compromise, down the middle?

Rat Boy wrote:

Surprise, surprise; there apparently are very lengthy cutscenes and Konami doesn't want you to know about them. Gee, don't you think people would have found out about them when they, I don't know, played the game and talked about it online?

More from the Escapist.

The latest issue of EGM includes a short note on the status of its MGS4 review and why it was delayed an issue:
"Metal Gear Solid 4 will hit store shelves shortly after this issue of EGM lands in your hot little hands. And four EGM editors - Matt Leone, Jeremy Parish, Andrew Pfister, and Shane Bettenhausen - have already invested plenty of time in the game. So why don't we have a full review in this issue? Simply put: We weren't happy with the limitations Konami wanted to impose on our comments, and rather than publish compromised reviews in the interest of being the first to rate the game, we'd rather wait until next issue, where we can be completely open and thorough with our thoughts."