Oh god i’m gonna play this game forever.

Yes. I once blew up a watchtower without even realizing I could.

War. War never changes. Wait, that’s not right...

I have heard a couple of big things in tapes, yeah. At the very least they help fill in the blanks and explain what’s happening. This isn’t a bad thing, BTW — the writing in the cassette tapes is wayyyy better than any other writing in Metal Gear, since it sounds like real people talking and not teenage goth poetry.