Metal Gear Solid

Nice stealth action game. 'Too anime' for my taste, but it was good at that time. I consider Hideo Kojima a cringe eccentric that thinks he is a genius because people praised him like that. The truth can be found in modern days with the games he worked on.

But this one, the first 3D Metal Gear, is good. Sometimes cringe, but good. We all remember Sniper Wolf, where we needed to take clonazepam to get our sniper sights steady, or Psycho Mantis reading our save files (in the playstation version at least) and telling us which games we had been playing and using his "powers" to activate the vibrator of the gamepads (both if you had two). It was smart, it was cool.

Sadly Kojima let the fame go to his head and the eccentric japanese started doing very weird-cringe-comic stuff in his games only to end up with a rather convoluted post apocalyptic and expensive-to-make game featuring real life hollywood actors and another Metal Gear franchise game in which you micromanage stuff and tie balloons to unconscious soldiers to send them somewhere. Weird guy.