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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

aka: MG2SS
Moby ID: 18588

MSX version

Addictive game with for the time some cool features

The Good
The game has a nice adventure feeling to it with a touch of story telling. Mapping is less a thing as it was with Metal Gear 1, which is better in my opinion.

The Bad
Backtracking keys and weapons, walking up and down to find that essential piece of equipment to continue can get tedious. Also: I really don't understand how anybody would have finished the game in the 90s without the internet. There's some things, like in Metal Gear 1 that I think you can never figure out by yourself.

The Bottom Line
It's a 2D top down game focused on stealth, and not so much action shooting. It's got a nice flavor of adventure gaming which feels like the 80s point and click adventure games. Nice (although thin) story, and some cool features and humor. It introduces some features which were pretty cool at the time (noise weighs in, stealth etc.)

by Leon Tiggelman (23) on June 8, 2020

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