Wow. Spending thirty minutes regurgitating the plot of this game in exacting detail only to end with Jack riding his horse into the ocean might be one of the funniest things I’ve ever sat through. Good god. Well done, sir. I might be chuckling about this forever, thank you.

Happy to hear I’m not the only onr who thinks the original MGS had the best soundtrack of the series. So much of that game’s atmosphere comes from the score. It’s so minimal but it lends a lonely aura to Shadow Moses, a haunting feel the series never quite captured again that helps sell a lot of the melodrama. Harry…

No conversation about this game is complete without mentioning the deeply po-faced sneak preview that ran in Official Playstation Magazine years back, in which the developers monologue archly about The Nightmare they would Unleash. In retrospect, maybe this was a very dark and brooding way of telling us their game was…