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I've always wanted to play the metal gear games, and i figured I'd start with these ones. I had heard mixed things about them, but went into it optimistic and ready to attribute any issues to age. That being said, I loved the first game, even though there were a couple things that seemed almost impossible to know without looking them up, like the enemy soldier suit and knowing to call someone to open a door (which were the only 2 things that I had to look up). I think it still holds up incredibly well and I had a ton of fun remembering which rooms I hadn't been and solving puzzles. Metal Gear 2, on the other hand, can only be described as a cluster fuck in which the designers' only goal was to make the player suffer as much as possible. It is already harder with a 45 degree range of detection now, but the issue isn't the enemies, although running through a straight corridor just to get seen and stopped every second because a guard turned on a whim and saw a single one of your pixels is annoying. The issue is that the overall design and progression is just extremely poor. I couldn't even tell the door to the predator boss was a door, so i spent about 40 min in the prison trying to use my remote rockets (which apparently have 0 mandatory use in the game, as do several of the other items) and whatever else I had to try to get past the wall, only to find I missed a boss and the items behind him. Don't even get me started on the entire segment of the game past this point either, because past the predator you get a snake and owl egg. The snake eats all your rations, and if u don't get a refill immediately you will suffer soon enough. You use the owl to alert the guard which makes him think its nighttime (?) and then it's just in your inventory forever. Fast forward you get to the next boss, beat him, go into the next room and fucking instantly phase through the ground (which apparently has sulfuric acid that as far as i remember looks identical to the sewer sludge you just walked through without problem). Now you have to do the boss AGAIN because there was no save point after. Then you get to the acid again, get across (which you need 3 rations for so if the snake ate all of them, or you used them up in the boss, tough shit), and oh what's that? The door is locked. You leave and reenter (?) and your guy tells you YOU MISSED A KEY FROM THE PREDATOR. IN THE GRASS. THAT YOU CAN'T SEE. So you run all the way back, get the key after foraging around for a few min, run back, open the door, deal with another shitty boss, and oh what's THAT, YOU NEED TO RUN ALL THE WAY TO THE FIRST BUILDING IN THE GAME TO TURN A BROOCH INTO A KEY (??) BY STANDING IN A FREEZER(???????) AND THEN RUN ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE DOOR. This was by far the dumbest portion of the game, and I haven't even covered the shitty final bosses, or the final run of the game where A HOLE OPENS UP UNDER YOUR FEET IN THE FOREST 5 SECONDS BEFORE YOU BEAT THE GAME. I will still recommend these games because the first game was genuinely fun, but be prepared for some dark souls 2 level BS if you decide to play the second game.