Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes Deserved Better...

The reason why Mei ling Lost her accent was a ctually a small correction on the devteams part. As Mei ling is stated to be Chinese American(this was in the original too). Meaning she grew up in America her whole life so it wouldn't make since for her to have such a Strong Chinese accent.

The only thing that annoys me personally about the dislike for this game is the people who pretend that Kojima wouldnt have done this. Every game after this is flashy and silly and over the top as well. MGS1 being so serious was the oddity, not the norm.

I don't care about the negativity. Having never played the original, Twin Snakes was the first Metal Gear game i ever completed, and as a 14 year old kid it completely blew my socks off and instantly made me fall in love with the franchise still to this very day. And for that I will always be grateful. Thank you Nintendo and Silicon Knights!

People complained about the anime cut scenes, yet all the games after had the same style of action

Silicon Knights wasn’t solely responsible for the new cutscenes. Kojima handpicked Movie director Ryuhei Kitamura, who is probably best know for directing "Godzilla: Final Wars" or his own film "Versus". Also the rat eating the key happens in the original depending on how many alerts you get.

I've always loved this remake but one thing that I can't ignore is that the first person shooting makes the game much easier. Cameras are no longer a factor as they can be shot and completely forgotten about. They don't even send more guards to investigate. Makes a big difference in many scenes.

"The action has been cranked up to the point of absurity-" Me thinking about this fictional game series that features giant robot nuke launching behemoths, clones of the greatest soldier who survived being near two nukes, psychokinetic mental patients, robot ninjas, vampires, ghosts, parasites that turn people superhuman,NANOMACHINES and weapons and items that never run out of ammo or cause that same effect. Yeah never understood the hate for twin snakes, feels accurate to me. (Btw good video keep it up!)

19:49 - In the original game, during the jeep escape you can use first person shooting.

Just a correction the original game has a rat eat the pal key in the drainage ditch as well so that's not a change in twin snakes

The boss fights in the original game were somewhat cheap and clunky. They improved a lot in this version.

The twin snakes soundtrack is so 2001 with the techno beats 💯

The Twin Snakes nonsensical cutscenes are more in line with the other MGS games than the original MGS, though.

The cut scenes were directed by a Japanese action film director, not silicon knights. They had no say in what happened with those cut scenes

I like the ridiculous cutscenes. Metal Gear got progressively goofier anyways, I can see kick flipping a missle happening in MGS4.

The strangest change to me was the removal of the final portion of the Grey Fox fight. Where he starts surging with energy and you can't get near him. You need to take out your gun and shoot him. I thought it was a nice little cap to the fight, where you have to figure out you're n ow allowed to do the thing that you couldn't throughout the battle to finish it off.

Correction: An event of a rat taking the PAL key was present in the original PS1 version but only on extreme difficulty. Also, during the final escape/chase scene, the first-person view was also possible on PS1.

The Grey Fox Hallway scene comparison is why I have a problem with Twinsnakes. It's style and flash over substance. The original scene wasn't supposed to be cool it was played as horrifying and suspenseful. It's up there with Sephiroth's trail of blood in the original Final Fantasy as a tense scene. The mystery is what sold it and had you the player and Snake wondering what the hell was around the corner.

I love how they say it is too over the top with snake jumping on a missile but vampires running on water, man spitting bees out of his mouth like bullets, bullets dodging a woman with a railgun, dislocating limbs and climbing trees, an old man sniper with the speed of a cheetah, lightning power villains, oh that gets a pass, nostalgia is one hell of a drug lol 🤣

I lay all the hate of Twin Snakes at the feet of the Resident Evil 1 Remake. It was such a monumental remake, perhaps the best ever. So when the mgs1 remake was released two years later it couldn't be seen as anything but a failure despite how much fun it is. It doesn't matter if it's a video game, movie, or cartoon show. If a 10/10 hit comes out before you, you will be seen as a failure unless you're also 10/10.

Watching this there are two points that stood out to me was your thoughts on the Dogs and dealing with Meryl in MGS1. I am curious as to if you ever used the Stun grenades much in your playthrough. As those are about the only two sections of the game where they are very useful I just spam the hell out of them for the Dogs, and the second you see any movement for Meryl you chuck a stun and she goes down. P.S really enjoy the content. I really fun watching some experience both MGS and AC for the first time as a lifelong fan of these franchises from their earliest releases. Thanks for these fun walks down memory lane.