WELL, another sacred cow down. I never had a Playstation so I never experienced games like this, but Metal Gear Solid is inescapable if you spend even a second in any nerd space. A friend of mine said I should finally buckle down and play it and so I did!

I absolutely gosh dang LOVE the way this game looks. It just feels like home in that way. I love it to death--and all the little details. It's adorable. It's cute. It's incredibly charming. It's funny and it's at times genuinely emotionally affecting. On all of those fronts it's a home run for me.

On the gameplay front though, I could not be more nonplussed. I more or less detest stealth mechanics, so I was never going to enjoy that aspect of it. I hated the backtracking (thank god I had a fast forward option in Retroarch) and I was annoyed at the bosses. From a mechanical perspective this game was just one billion percent Not For Me.

But all that said, I had a lovely time. I absolutely understand how this was so influential.