Metal Gear Solid 2 - Episode 3 (ft. Harper Jay) | Something Rotten Podcast

Jacob Geller and Blake Hester are joined by former Kotaku journalist and current Double Fine community manager Harper Jay to play through the final third of Konami's 2001 title, Metal Gear Solid 2. This episode plays from after the sniping section with Emma all the way to the finale.
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Metal Gear Solid 2 Retrospective by Harper Jay: kotaku.com/metal-gear-solid-2...
A Formal Analysis of Metal Gear Solid 2, by James Clinton Howell: www.deltaheadtranslation.com/...
Follow Harper Jay on Twitter: / transgamerthink
Follow Jacob Geller on Twitter: / yacobg42
Follow Blake Hester on Twitter: / metallicaisrad
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Hell yeah

[@evaninthehaus]

I really like the commentary on Otacon's storyline. As someone who got into the series heavily pre--MGS4, there was kind of a hope that E.E. was going to be a big shatter point for Otacon. His sister's death at the hands of Vamp, the big trauma stuff, there was a sense that it was building to something. I was a very big fan of the character in my younger days.
And then early character designs leaked for MGS4 and he was this very shadowy mysterious figure, you got this sense that he had been galvanized into something else.
And then the game dropped and uh. Yeah. So its a storyline that feels VERY gratuitous in hindsight, and was compounded by MGS4-5. And I think its kinda Kojima at his worst? Both in lack of growth and casual violence against women and uh...Peeing.