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.

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!

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'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.

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.

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

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

"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!)

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I was one of the people super hyped about this game when it came out, so I'm definitely biased towards this version over the original, but it's cool to see more breakdowns of what exactly changed from version to version. Slight note on the voice acting - according to david hayter, the original audio was effectively recorded in a stairwell either due to the budget not letting them get actual studio time or to try and achieve an audio effect per request from kojima (I've heard both get said, no clue which is true, but both are believeable). This was fine on the PS1, but when they scaled it up to the GC, the audio was so poor, they had to redo everything. It's also why a bunch of other small changes got made - they had to kinda scramble to get everyone together and in a studio to meet the deadline.

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 just had an idea on how to balance Ocelot’s boss battle with the FPV aiming. Have Ocelot deal a lot more damage to Snake, like one shot and he’s half health. That implores the player to keep moving to dodge the bullets since you can’t move in FPV and you don’t have a lot of time to manually aim your gun across the room.

The thing with the rat eating the key exists in the original too, i think it depended there on how often you got spotted. I also think you can find the PSG1 in the Wolf cave in a hidden area, meaning even less backtracking. Same goes for the pal key temperature backtracking, there is a small area you can drop onto with 2 pipes, one with hot stream and one with cold stream, when shooting the pipe. Weich, when equipped, instantly heats or freezes the card as needed

I'm not sure if anyone else mentioned this yet, but you actually can fire in first person during the final chase in the original MGS too. It's something the game doesn't tell you and it makes the fight much easier as you can keep liquid stunlocked doing it.

There are two things I hate and one thing I'm torn on - Sniper Wolf's death is one of my all time favourite gaming moments and changing that scene(especially by removing The Best Is Yet To Come") bothered the hell out of me. Secondly, they made Otacon way too goofy and clumsy(he was already goofy and clumsy enough)which lead to some scenes, like the ending, being tonally ruined. As for the director, Kitamura, I'm a huge fan of Versus and his flare absolutely Elevated several scenes, but Some were just too much(I'm looking at you rocket jump.. ..)even by Metal Gear Standard.

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’m not a gamer by any means, but I love the metal gear franchise and going back to these games always bring me comfort. I am 28 going on 29 and I was introduced to metal gear through the twin snakes when I was around 13. I love this game.

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

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.

To me, the only flaw this game had was the music change.

Good video. This was a balanced look at what was made better and worse in the gameplay of Twin Snakes. Some previous retrospectives had overstated the case against Twin Snakes’s gameplay. I think the style of the cutscenes is strange and wrong, but a lot of popular arguments misdiagnose why. The problem can’t be the sheer fact that they are over-the-top, unrealistic, or use slow-motion-the later games do all this as well, but generally do it very well. I think the problem is more subtle stylistic issues, such as too many long awkward pauses. However, this is hard to articulate.

Enemy AI was improved, giving enemy soldiers the ability to communicate with each other and detect the player more intelligently with senses of sight and sound enhanced.

I play a version of MGS The Twin Snakes that has the original PS1 soundtrack modded in, and it really does make the game more fun, I also use an HD Texture Pack which makes the game feel more modern and in the original version also had a chance to have a rat eat the pal card, they also added where you could change the card closer to the end area where there are some pipes to the side of REX instead of having to backtrack to the hot room and cold rooms

Whqt i love about the last cutscene with Liquid in Twin Snakes is that as he falls down he get back up to reach Snake, shows that even in near death he hates him.

Something that may help people understand and appreciate this remake more- is that while it may not be canonical (though some parts of it remain almost unchanged storyline wise) imagine framing it through the lens of Otacon telling Sunny what he thinks happened on Shadow Moses and his idealized version of Snake as a Badass Action Hero depicted through anime action set pieces with matrix slow motion Max Payne bullet time is how he imagines Snake to have handled it. Snake recalls it differently, but there’s further details that support this… mainly that every Otacon line isn’t reprised, and the details of what cyborg Nina did before snake showed up are captured in detail- because he had a closer connection with the events that unfolded in the nightmare hallway.

This has been an incredible journey so far re-experiencing the highs and lows of Metal Gear with you! I'm really excited for you to cover Snake Eater. But also Portable Ops and Peacewalker which I think get unfairly overlooked (especially Portable Ops). And what about Acid 1 and 2? Since you covered Snake's Revenge, it seems you are even covering non-canon titles. Will you be covering the Nokia mobile game, as well? I've never played it and have only heard tales that it bridges the gap between Solid 1 and 2.

It took me ages to finally play Twin Snakes, i bought a copy but never owned a Gamecube or Wii, so i got around to emulating it a few years ago and massively enjoyed it. I think playing it after so much distance from all the other games makes it feel like less of a "serious" thing and that helps, if it came out now the memes would be insane, it's like i'm playing a ridiculous fan remake from someone who is obsessed with The Matrix and the silly additions and cutscene direction just make me chuckle. The gameplay of MGS2 is my favourite in the whole franchise so naturally i have a blast playing Twin Snakes, almost to the point where it would be my preferred way to experience the first game, i've played through MGS1 and watched other people play through it many many times all of its conversations and cutscenes are burned into my memory, it's in the core of my being, so while i myself am not missing anything by playing a weird version of it i would of course recommend the original vision to new players.

You can level up your grip to level 2 by doing pull ups while hanging just like in MGS2. They also added pipes near the PAL key consoles that you can shoot and quickly change the card cutting out a lot of needless back tracking.

First of all regarding the PAL Key, in the original, there's also a chance for a rat to eat it so that's not new to the remake BUUUUUUUUT, and this is a big but. The backtracking has been completely removed if you know where to look. Instead of going back to the warehouse to cool it or back the blash furnace to heat it. On the same floor of the computer room, on the other side. There's are two pipes that's colour coded. One is blue and is one red. You know what that means? Equip the PAL key, shoot the blue pipe to cool it and then shot the red pipe to heat it. That eliminate the backtracking all together. A lot of people don't know about this haha. I'll be 100% honest, as much I adore the original, I simply prefer playing this remake and I hope it will come to a master collection one day soon. Just have all the Nintendo references removed, sounds easy enough lol. The cutscenes never bothered me. C'mon it's metal gear lol those cutscenes is nothing compare to MGS4 & 5 especially regarding "realism", you'll see 😅. Like you said the fans of the original just tends to overreact lol. A couple of things I would change/add, would be.. Add the VR missions from the original, have the ability to switch OST between the original to the remake. Lastly when you're fighting Ocelot, the ability to shoot in first person would be disabled to fix the balancing issue with this boss battle. I'm glad they kept codec faces the same lol. That was Kojima's choice to change the accents of Naomi and Mei-ling. Mei-ling is in fact Asian-Amercian and she was raised in America so it's makes more sense to have her Chinese accent removed. Same thing with Naomi, but the biggest difference is, she originally Rhodesian but she was raised and worked in America most of her life so it wouldn't make sense to have a British accent lol. They even kept that re-con in MGS4.

Without Silicon Knights i would have never experienced the Wonders of the Legacy of Kain

Great video! Just a quick note, the part of a rat eating the PAL key is present in the original MGS game. It just doesn’t happen all the time. I believe it’s random.

This may be the first time I’ve seen you use footage from your streams in your reviews

This game was my first intro to the MGS world when I was a kid since I didn’t have a PlayStation. Loved it and it got me hooked. Proceeded to save up my money to bought PS2 and played MGS2, The original and so forth. It became my fav series and to this day MGS3 is still my fav game of all time. Looking back at the twin snakes, while it is goofy. I still love it. They did a good job porting it over for the Nintendo audience that otherwise wouldn’t have touched this series.

Also, to help with backtracking, the developers added liquid nitrogen and steam pipes to the Metal Gear Rex's hanger, so now you dont have to run all over Shadow Moses trying to change the pal card.

I’m sure for some people this was their entry to the series but for me and my friends who had all played the original on PS1 this was just a fun remixed bonus version so I didn’t mind the balance was messed up or the cutscenes were cheesy. Not to mention it was an amazing technical showcase for the GameCube at the time.

(Just wanna say that already wrote this under a comment) I always say it mgs twin snakes is as faithful as it can be for a remake. It's even better than the original yep I said it. The whole direction of the game came from Kojima himself. He was producer and designer. Every mgs game had over exaggerated scenes.... I probably wrote this a dozen of times under mgs twin snakes videos in the past 2 or 3 years back then nobody ever said a bad thing about twin snakes my brothers who introduced me to mgs 1 even played it and they really loved twin snakes on paar with mgs 2 because they played mgs 2 before just to see a remake of mgs 1. And I swear nobody ever said all that crap that people are saying now against that game. And the thing is it's because of silicon knight games in 2013 to 2016 I saw all those youtuber people shitting on twin snakes because it was from silicon knight games and they had a big Controversy going on against epic games and they lost and needed to shutdown and I think they all just wanted to destroy the reputation of silicon knight games because the Media and people on youtube did thier part and said so many bad things about tts and silicon knight and thier games in general. And for now it all make sense because people are still doing it now and even worse with youtube as soon as some gaming news coming in people lying tellin things left and right and tellin story's to get views and get people based against a company or against each other. And twin snakes suffered because of all this. Till this day I getting angry seeing comments where people saying always the same stuff to twin snakes and those things are still all those things I firstly heard from some youtubers back in 2013-16. At least that's my observation with tts.

Teenage me thought the action and crazy cut-scenes were cool and I look back at them with goofy nostalgia. Grown men will complain about that but say that a game featuring bosses that shoot lightning, ghosts, and bees at you is the peak of Kojimas work. This game gets dogged a little too hard. I'd kill for remakes to put this much effort in as the norm.

Glad to see your thoughts, happy to see it today!!

I loved twin snakes when it came out (I was 14) I look back on those memories fondly , I loved the original too

I bought this title when it first came out in 2004. Last time I played it was around 2011. And I just started playing once again, and at least for me, it aged well. My experience with it got much better, with my earbuds the soundtrack is way cooler

In the original one, Car chase in the end of the game, you can press Triangle and shoot with square at the same time and have a first person view same like twin snakes.

Right off the bat some of the complaints are pretty stupid. Looking at the footage here, it's pretty clear that it's not being played on Gamecube hardware, but emulated at a much higher resolution. Not to mention the fact that the game's not being played on a CRTV which the game was designed for, but instead on a different type of screen that it wasn't made for known to make games of that era look significantly worse. When you don't take that context with you when talking about the graphics like expressions and whatnot, the criticism about it simply isn't valid. Also the extra ninja flips and slo-mo were all Kojima approved and mostly even suggested. This is what the original MGS1's cutscenes would've been like if it was possible for them to make on PS1 hardware at the time. So in regards to that, Twin Snakes is pretty much what MGS1 was envisioned to be in many ways.

For some reason the rat eating the PAL key, while present in both versions is dependent on how many times you were caught up to that point from what I’ve read

I personally think the Psycho mantis theme and the Disposal facility alert theme sound very good for this remake💙

You've probably already been told this by now, but the 1st person-shooting at the end of the game in the car-chase scene, and the rat eating the memory-shape alloy key card, were both apparent in the original game as well.

Twin Snakes was a great way to replay this back in the day. I played the original in 98 and was thrilled to get to replay it with updated graphics and gameplay. I loved it.

That drainage ditch/Master Miller thing isn't new content. It was in og MGS. Also he suggests using the mine detector to find the key/track the rat.

SC Knights did a fantastic job .. It gave us the option to play 1-3 proper on the same engine. Thats a vibe..

Agree 100%. Not a bad game, but in terms of a remake it's inferior to the original in many ways. I've seen many claim online that this is the "definitive" version of MGS1, using such flimsy justification as "now the cutscenes have been brought in line with how they are in the sequels!" (which is wrong, but I'll spare you my ramblings as to why) or because "Naomi and Mei Ling have their correct accents!" All I can say is, I strongly disagree, and have a nice day. 19:20 Actually, it is possible for a rat to eat the PAL key in the original as well! Whether it happens or not is either completely random, or based on factors that nobody has idea what they are.

The only music I like from Twin Snakes is the boss music for Psycho Mantis and Grey Fox, it just hits different every time.

It _is_ a very faithful remake. Just the voice acting is subpar and the cutscenes are super extra, and the FPS mechanics from _Sons of Liberty_ do not fit into Shadow Moses Island. Apart from that, it is pretty faithful.

The original game had a suppressor for the Socom. You could use the Nikta to knock people over to deal with them (I don't remember if it knocks them out or not).

I always reccomend this over the original, but I know it's mostly impossible to play nowdays, unless they put it on the Master Collection Vol.2. But god I miss the old soundtrack.

So, would you ever try the Metal Gear Solid mobile phone game? From what i heard, apparently it's not a demake of the first MGS game, but actually takes place between the first and second mgs game. At least from what i heard anyway.

Psycho Mantis on Dolphin sounds like a nightmare.................................................................................... Is it?

Despite all the weird inconsistencies I still like it a bit better and the 4k texture pack on dolphin forums just makes the game look completely amazing.

meryl and sniper wolf model are the best additions they could have put into the game

Mei ling is 100% American born and raised. Naomi is SUPPOSED to be convingly American. The accents were terrible because they never made any sense and apparently they were calls by people in charge and not the voice director. Its mentally insulting to hear people praise the story and accents but forget the parts of the story where they insinuate youre suppose to think theyre Americans.

19:36 That also happens in the original. All depends how many times you've set off an alert mode.

What I hated the most about Twin Snakes was the soundtrack change. Not only was the original soundtrack overall much better, they ruined miltiple scenes with the music changes. Best examples for that is when Meryl is shot and when Sniper Wolf dies. The music in the original game was much more fitting for those dramatic scenes.

People say Twin Snakes is bad because of the amount of goofy sh*t that happens in it. Now that would be a legit criticism... If Metal Gear wasn't filled with goofy a$$ sh*t as early as the MSX and the NES games. Not to mention MGS2 which was released before Twin Snakes.

While my friend plays both, he still enjoys both of them. The original for nostalgic and audio being better. Remake for thr better graphics and controls.

In the original MGS a rat can also eat the card. You can use the mine detector to see where he is even

twin snakes was a banger i got it for my birrthday one year and i was more than happy with it, loved the original also

When I played MGS TS, I just took it as the VR testing simulations that Raiden went through b4 the Big Shell Incident..

I wouldn't say it's bad, but the original still reigns Supreme with the voice acting, music, cutscenes, it's defintly a good experience if you've played MGS1/2 but it doesn't mean it's perfect since it's more of a MGS2 mod than proper remake

At the time, I welcomed all the changes because MGS2 was all the rage at the time. For me, the removal of Mei Ling's accent bothered me the most. In the original, the different accents gave the game a realistic international feel. The other thing that bothered me was the non-urgent pace of which the actors read their lines. Campbell's in particular.

Excuse me, I'll now rant for a while about something that has barely anything to do about this video. I hear about people wanting another MGS1 remake (especially lately with those rumors going around) that isn't just Twin Snakes and that gave me an idea. That is, a full on, new MGS1 remake done in the same "you all asked for it so here you go, choke on it" style of MGS2 and MGS4. Like a critique of the concept of remakes itself. Like make it start in Alaska, with a short gameplay section featuring Snake living his normal life as a musher, same photorealistic graphics and over-the-shoulder camera every single triple A game has nowadays, then show him actually being captured by Campbell's men like mentioned in the briefing, turn said briefing videos into an interactable experience, maybe throw in some optional VR training missions with MGSV's gameplay style to give players some expectations on what they're going to play, show Snake infiltrating Shadow Moses through the SDV... and then have the graphics switch from photorealistic to *the same 3d models and textures of the PS1 version* . The gameplay is still based on MGSV, but with PS1 graphics, immobile faces, hands shaped like blocks, the works. And then maybe have the characters lampshade all of this through slightly different codec calls and conversations. And MAYBE do what that cancelled Banjo Kazooie remake was about to do and have Snake remark how familiar the whole thing is every once in a while until it all comes crashing down, the story takes a wildly different turn and the entire game turns into into a completely unrecognizable and original experience a few hours in. And then make it so the real protagonist is Raiden or some never before seen guy or something and have it all be a VR simulation or something similar, with the real plot revolving around the player having gone through said simulation for some plot reason. And THEN (let's just go overboard with all of this) make it non canon to top it all off. It'll probably be hated as all hell but it would be something memorable.

tbh I enjoyed the Twin Snakes more than the original

For me it was a long journey to like this game. While I still think some over the top cutscenes are bad, I actually liked cutscenes with over the top stuff in original the most. What a paradox. Music is hit and miss for me as well. Now gameplay is where things constantly improves for me with each playthrough. As much as I enjoyed original, MGS2 did add what I wished was in original + a lot more. Twin Snakes delivered in spades and guards have a much harder AI even than in MGS2, which is good. While level could've benefit from "remake" treatment, it's surprising how much unchanged layout can give you with MGS2 mechanics like my first time in blast furnace you can skip most of the level, when in original you had to do that moving crane nonsense. And I must say first time I did that nonsense in TT since I didn't know I can skip most of the level. For me it kinda says how poorly some MGS2 mechanics was implemented in MGS2 itself, especially related to M9 shenanigans. Bosses on the other hand in remake is kinda feels like a downgrade. As much as people likes to point Ocelot fight in TT, it's not a good fight in original too. Like at all. But try to do Ocelot in first person on expert difficulty in TT, opinion can change on that front. Tank is boring in both iterations, but at least in TT you can do more with it. Grey Fox is one of the best boss battles in both versions. Mantis while was a mindblowing at first is one of the worst gimmicks in both games, but he is muuuuuch worse in TT for those stupid 4 controller ports. Wolf is mediocre in both versions. Mi-24 is annoying fight in both and I think it's even worse in remake. Raven is a little complicated. I'm yet to fight him on extreme in TT, but he isn't that hard in both version to begin with, but on lower difficulties in TT you can simply stands in first person and shoot him in the head. REX and Liquid are both best boss fights in both games as well. Most of these bosses would've been okay in original Metal Gears, but not in 3D with controls like these. If I remember correctly, Twin Snakes was rushed. There is no VR missions and I think you get nothing for collecting dog tags. And for cutscenes we can thank kojima. If "god" himself wanted these, then "cult of kojima" followers should gladly accept them as well. After all, some of these like Snake trying to drop kick REX is similar to how he jumped after RAY in MGS2. Personally for me the only thing lacking in Twin Snakes is full camera controls like in Splinter Cell. Seeing how fans managed to add it in old PC release of MGS2, I wonder if it possible to do in Twin Snakes as well. Only time will tell. But until then, my enjoyment of Twin Snakes will keep increasing, while my enjoyment of original keeps decreasing with each playthrough.

Non-lethal weapons really made some ethical comments that Liquid makes about Solid killing his "brothers" not land in the twin snakes as you had no choice in the original.

Honestly it's not bad as a game and the dumb cutscenes are fun in a kinda stoner way. The problem was how emblematic it is of mid 2000s "extreme" pop culture, which did lead to MGR:R but at the time it really sucked a lot of the soul out of the original's concept and fans had important, formative memories of certain story beats. For comparison, it's a similar feeling to a FF7 fan playing FF7R and realising the plot about time ghosts is pointedly making fun of them and declaring the original to be a mediocre attempt at the actual masterpiece which now exists. Or, if you like, this is the Raiden of MGS1 games. Hated until a redemption years later with further context.

If it had the original music score i think it would be great. But they changed that and the music in MGS is a fundamental for the experience.

Its well documented that SK just make the gameplay of MGSTS. The 3d models and cutscenes where developed by konami tokio and supervised by kojima.

13:39 They don't show that scene in the original for tension and horror sake. Something MGS2 SOL also does with Vamp inside Strut B. It actually is better for Gray Fox, as it makes the player have a sense of fear and dread of him. The Twin Snakes Showing him slicing and dicing the Genome Soldiers removes the fear and dread and makes it a generic action scene. It lacks atmosphere. Which...is a problem with The Twin Snakes as a whole. It lacks atmosphere compared to the original game.

Nope, it was a great game and it got a lot of hate because ppl can't stop comparing the og to twin snakes. Both are unique in their own ways, and the OG will always be the best. But, i fully enjoyed twin snakes for what it was.

On the original PS1 version, there's a chance of the rat eating the PAL key as well

17:50 you forgot something... CHOLE! Where is my Zone of the Enders ref... CHOLE!? >:@ You know I have Issues. chole (Kidding. Great Video.)

I love Twin Snakes. I agree that the original is better, but everyone always reviews it in direct competition with the original. I think it should be viewed more as a fun novelty. Sure, playing MGS1 with MGS2 mechanics kind of breaks the game, but isn’t it neat that we can?

I believe the director also directed the cutscenes in Devil May Cry 3 😅

I don't watch games. I play them. So, when the cut scenes and voice acting are not up to standard, that is OK. Mainly because the gameplay in this version is so good!

Overall I really enjoyed the game and enjoyed the much updated graphics. Some of the voice acting/actors was a litle off at times and i enjoyed the new action set piecesnfor the most part. I think it's one of those games that just split the gamers a little unnecessarily as we all have string feelings about games.

The only thing i didn’t like about this game was the over the top cutscenes

I personally prefer Twin Snakes over the original, mostly because it was my first MGS experience. Also, Mei Ling having an American accent makes more sense than her having a Chinese accent because she was raised in the US.

This was my first metal gear game and I enjoyed, but after playing the original, I get it, but I would still go back and play it all over again

I never played the twin snake as I had the Xbox and PS2 but man was I jealous of the cutscenes of that game, the few bits I saw as a child looked incredible to me.

His name was Robert Paulson

There are only a few minor things to like about TTS (such as the sniper rifle being easier to control or the ability to aim in first person view). But aside from those minor (and ultimately irrelevant) things, _everything is worse_ in TTS - not just certain specific things. What's mainly responsible though for TTS being worse is _the graphics and music._ While the overly dramatic action scenes are dumb, they're an overlookable non-issue compared to the graphics and music. The TTS music is extremely inferior; it's not just worse, but it completely changes and destroys the atmosphere of the Shadow Moses base. It's entirely inappropriate. And while the graphics is "better", the game _looks worse._ Graphically TTS is overall inferior. Graphics is more than just polygon count, it's more than just how realistic something looks. TTS looks worse than MGS no matter how the two games are rendered and displayed - regardless of whether they're played on the consoles through a CRT, or emulated. TTS has _always_ been worse looking than MGS; already upon release it looked worse - of course it looked "better" than MGS in the sense of the graphics being more technically sophisticated, and at the time it was cool to experience the MGS story through the new graphics, but _also_ it looked worse in the way described here. The difference is even greater when emulating, though. Comparing the two games emulated (with both "maxed out" as much as possible through emulation tweaks) MGS looks _even better_ than TTS. One can get MGS (via SwanStation) to look _vastly_ much more "high definition"; much clearer and sharper, and to simply be much more pleasant to look at, than TTS - which looks like a soft/blurry/fuzzy (not referring to the motion blur) mostly-grayish _boring_ mess, no matter what one does. What makes TTS look worse isn't just its soft/blurry graphics, but more importantly its colors and lighting. Every area in TTS looks lifeless, stale, muted, boring, uninspiring, and many similar adjectives. Compare for instance the Commander's Room (the Mantis battle room; one of the nicest-looking locations in MGS): it looks incredibly good in MGS; the lighting and color is perfect, while in TTS the room looks like utter garbage in comparison. Every area in MGS is eye candy in comparison to the areas in TTS; everything looks better in MGS due to the colors and lighting. There's not a single place in TTS that looks better. And most of the areas in TTS are similar-looking to each other in terms of lighting and color; there's visually a sort of "sameness" across essentially the entire game, whereas in MGS every area stands out more - everything is more distinct and unique in terms of lighting and colors. And it's not just the colors and lighting, but also the overall _visual "composition"_ of each area is inferior in TTS - that's a bit tricky to put into words but if you compare each area in TTS vs MGS and disregard the inferior lighting and colors of TTS then you'll see there's also something else entirely, something more basic/fundamental, about the areas in TTS that make them look worse (it involves the placement of objects and distances between them and the camera angles and other things). And yes the voice acting is inferior, but it's less of a problem than the music and graphics. The main problem with the voices though isn't how the voices themselves sound, but rather _how the lines are delivered._ The delivery usually seems lazy and seems "off" somehow. Almost every line is delivered in a better way in MGS. It's not that we were used to hearing the lines as they are delivered in MGS and therefore their delivery subjectively sounds bad to us in TTS, but rather the delivery really _is_ worse in TTS. It's objectively worse. They clearly put much more effort into speaking the lines in MGS; the voice actors were much more "into it", more mentally invested into what they were saying; like they were putting themselves into the roles of the characters more, whereas in TTS most of it sounds lazy and half-hearted in comparison. In that manner, the voice acting isn't just worse than MGS but also worse than the other games in the series. And while certainly less important than the music and graphics, there's this strange "rubbery" sensation in the gameplay. "Rubbery" is an odd word to use, but it seems the most fitting. It's hard to describe; there's this weird sensation in TTS; things seem "rubbery" and "plasticy" and somehow fake and just _weird._ What causes this strange sensation involves the movement of Snake, certain animations (especially when fighting), and the sound effects, and the music also influences and contributes to this weird sensation, and the soft graphics might be contributing somehow as well. So there's this synergy of things causing this sensation. This strange sensation in the gameplay is something only TTS has; it's not present in any of the other games in the series.

I will not stand for this slander! MGS TS is a masterpiece. Its better in every way except maybe voice acting.

I really don't care what anyone else says. The cutscenes in Twin Snakes are fucking peak. I laughed my ass off for an hour straight watching all the cutscenes.

Well, I for one enjoyed the heck out of that game. Admittedly the extra “John Woo” sequences were cringe at times (especially the cutscene after beating liquid in his helicopter) but overall I had fun.

20:02 you can aim and shoot in first person in the original too

The Gamecube controllers actually do have analog triggers. I'm not sure why they didn't use them though