My name is Snake, Snake... uh, wait a second... - Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. Games with the most shocking endings
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- Release date: 2015
- Genre: TPP action adventure game
- Metacritic score: 93/100 (reviewers), 8.2/10 (players)
The Metal Gear Solid series is full of surprising threads or strange themes, but little has made MGS fans as angry as the unexpected plot twist from the end of the fifth part: The Phantom Pain. After a typical Kojima plot, full of burning whales, levitating zombie warriors and sneaking around the Afghan mountains, in the end it turns out that our protagonist - the famous Big Boss - is not no Big Boss. From the beginning we played as a completely different character!
Everything starts at the end of the previous game, a direct prequel called Ground Zeroes. There is a big explosion, helicopter crash and boom - after 9 years of coma at the beginning of Phantom Pain we wake up in a hospital. Big Boss has to be protected and hide well, so after talking to a doctor we create our character by choosing a new face, only to see Snake's face a moment later. Something's wrong, but what is it?
At the end of the game we go back to the hospital from the first mission to find out that it was really all one big fraud and we were controlling not Big Boss but one of his loyal soldiers. The hospital was the birthplace of a plan to "replace" the original Snake, and distract the world's attention from the precious commander. A man, commonly known as a "medic" got his face, memories and became our playable character, while the real Snake helped him escape the hospital during the attack. Additionally, the whole thing is very neatly intertwined with the first installment of the series from 1995. The fans were left with a controversial thing to swallow, and Kojima said goodbye to his character in his unique, perverse way.
