On Cut Content and a Phantom Pain

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN AND METAL GEAR SOLID 2: SONS OF LIBERTY BELOW.

Let’s talk about review scores, formal analysis and cut content in video games.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is composed of two chapters. The first, “Revenge,” focuses on Skull Face and enacting vengeance for what happened to the original Mother Base in MGSV: Ground Zeroes. The second chapter, “Race,” focuses more on the language parasites with an outbreak on Mother Base that leads to Mission 43, “Shining Lights, Even in Death.”

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