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Welcome to +1 the series where I look at the free games each month on PlayStation Plus and tell you if they're worth the download
After all the games may be free, but your time is valuable!
We're starting off October with Metal Gear Solid V:The Phantom Pain. Released in September of 2015
Phantom Pain acts as the swan song Hideo Kojima's tactical espionage series. If you're not familiar with Metal Gear,
it's an action-adventure series with a heavy emphasis on stealth.
Phantom Pain takes that focus to its logical conclusion,
giving you essentially a full open-world to roam. You can tackle enemy bases or mission objectives in any order, from any angle.
It's incredibly freeing and even as somebody who was never really in the Metal Gear this had me pretty hooked pretty fast
You know once I wasn't crawling around a hospital for an hour
I'm not gonna touch on the actual story at all here - Metal Gear is a
Special kind of crazy. T even explain the opening hours of this game
You'd have to play through Metal Gear Solid 5 Ground zeroes the first package in the Metal Gear Solid 5 duology
And that's not to mention characters, the whole geopolitical climate of the Metal Gear world, it's all a mess. If you're really into it
You'll absorb every little detail immediately and get hooked
But the stories are always so out there for these games that it just pulls me personally out of the experience
So, I just kind of let it be and play for the gameplay. Do keep in mind though that Metal Gear has always been a
Cinematic sort of game, so there will be a lot of you just sitting there and watching the plot unfolds via cutscenes. While roaming around
Afghanistan, you can collect materials such as plants or metal to improve Mother Base, your base of operations
For this game. throughout Phantom Pain, no matter what you're doing,
You'll be passively improving Mother Base: recruiting new troops, obtaining new weapons,
And so on. All the while the choice is entirely in your hands
Just like in the core gameplay. If you want to be a pacifist, for the most part
You can be! Just shoot tranquilizer darts at anything that gets in your way
I will say that the controls are a bit too specific for my tastes at times
But that does make sense given all that you can do. It
just felt a little bit tedious having to press a button, open a menu, move the right stick in a direction on that menu, and
Then click the r3 button just to call my damn horse. But like I said I can't accept that one
I do have the option to pick up and hide enemy bodies, jump in trash bins, shoot in mid-dive and so on
Phantom Pain pretty much thinks of everything, and because of that it ends up being one of the best stealth games of all time.
And it even has a multiplayer mode, which while it's not my cup of tea, in this case is always a bonus
I think that you should +1 Phantom Pain to your collection as long as you have any interest whatsoever in stealth games, because this one
Is something special. Of course, the plot may not be for you, and if so the unskippable cutscenes
will undoubtedly get on your nerves pretty quickly. Plus there are a few parts
where the game just messes with you as Kojima has been known to do.
But the gameplay alone makes up for all of that, at least to me. If you're a completionist
Getting this game's Platinum trophy will probably take you over a hundred hours, and from what I've heard some of the later missions get pretty
Repetitive due to the game being rushed out the door by Konami, so prepare yourself if you really want to go for it all.
And the game is 27 gigabytes in size, so make some room if I've convinced you to give it a shot!