Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance

They started off with a game called Jikkyo Powerful Pro Yaku 4 on the N64.

So a lot of these guys were hired during that era and kind of continued on after the N64 ended in the early 2000s and followed up with some PlayStation 2 stuff like You Move Super Sports, Metal Gear Solid 2, Substance.

They did the skateboarding theme or the skateboarding remix on the Substance version.

Then Tatsunoko versus

When the game launched in 2001, critics pointed out the impressive graphics and how interactive the environments felt.

Konami followed it up with an expanded version, Substance, in 2002.

Just a note, that is the version that I own so that's the one that I played through for this particular episode.

So with all that being said, how was my time with the game? Well, I'll preface this by saying that Metal Gear Solid games in general, they're cool, but they're generally not my thing.

There's something about it on the surface that I'm really interested in.

The gameplay from moment to moment is my thing, but it's not for lack of trying.

I do usually enjoy my time largely with these games, but they're usually not hitting home in the same way it does for many others.

So yes, I did play Substance, the version of Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty that technically was out for Xbox and PC in 2002, but I gave myself a little bit of a pass here because I'm really only touching on the main campaign, which remains almost fully unchanged and unaltered, and NOT the added 300-plus VR missions.

Other than that, I struggle to think of a Kojima game that has not been at least initially exclusive to PlayStation for a decent amount of time.

Metal Gear Solid 2 Substance was maybe the closest we got to... them going multi-platform and even that came out like what two three years later something like that something like that yeah so this is this is not small i i don't i don't want to over exaggerate on this but at the same time it's like it's hard to overstate how big this is What really hits me is when you're reading the Xbox Wire article and it says this is going to expand beyond games to telling new stories in film and television.

That screams to me because that was such a huge part of the original announcement of physics was that Columbia Pictures is going to be involved because, you know, Sony has these film studios and it's going to go beyond just being a PlayStation and Kojima Productions thing.

And we know that Kojima has wanted to move into the film for a long time.