Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Review (Venom Snake)
Don't play unless you want to spend days trying to shoot a bird outta the sky.
But for real; Do play it.
Number 10 and 16 of the DO PLAY section is a spoiler for the main story and Number 1 and 2 of the DO NOT section is a spoiler for the main story as well.
Reasons to play:
1. Photo-realistic but stylized Graphics.
2. Can run on Potatoes. (I know because I did.)
3. Still holds up 7 years after release.
4. Unlike MGRR, this game was made with PC in mind meaning you'll never be at a disadvantage by not having a Bluetooth or Wired Controller.
5. Literally 1984. (not joking)
6. You can find many popular songs from the Era such as; Take on Me, Fortunate Sons, and even the Main Menu theme for Metal Gear Peacewalker in the form of tapedecks/boomboxes.
7. You can smoke and it speeds up time.
8. There's a set of Side-Ops that allow you to sit in a box and then you're target will walk up to you and salute you.
9. You woke up from a coma.
10. You get to make nukes.
11. Misunderstood Anti-war Masterpiece.
12. You can make a water-gun.
13. There's a Sniper that has... uh... a lot of fan service and... umm... jiggle-physics...
14. You can kill you're staff, not telling you where though.
15. It's an open-world game with two separate areas to explore and many Guard Posts you can capture.
16. 50 missions... wait isn't there one more? No? There's no 51st mission? Man, I thought there was gonna be a Lord of the Flies referencing mission.
17. You will be Face to Face with the Man Who Sold The World.
Reasons not to play:
1. It's missing it's third chapter unless all Nuke owners dismantle theirs or others steal them and dismantle those.
2. Missing the 51st mission.
3. Incomplete in general.
4. Overuse of certain areas.
5. Certain missions are recycled and given new parameters such as not being able to go into the mission with any equipment, having stronger enemies and no reflex mode, or total stealth, (My least favorite.) meaning that if you're detected, the mission is a failure and you must return to the last checkpoint.
Overall, it's a pretty good game and I suggest getting it!