We began My Favourite Game’s second season in March with Metal Gear. Tonight, we end it with Metal Gear.
Tied with The Legend of Zelda in terms of most appearances so far on My Favourite Game, Metal Gear Solid 1 is the third time the series has headlined an episode of the show since it started last year, with Jon Brady discussing 2 last season and Leigh Alexander kicking off this season in March with 3 on its European tenth anniversary.
Tonight, it’s time to conveniently wrap Season 2 in a pretty bow and call it done. Who better to do such a thing than someone who’s been massively inspired by Metal Gear Solid to the point he’s making a stealth game based on his experience from it: Thomas Was Alone and Volume creator Mike Bithell.
Tune in for the next 90+ minutes on how his experience playing the game first time might have differed from most of us, why it has left such a defining legacy after all this time and we ponder if Hideo Kojima could also be a marketing brand so to speak (this was recorded before the story of Kojima’s impending departure broke, but in light of his name being taken off Kojima Productions and his games, this discussion is perhaps a lot more significant in light of the ongoing situation between him and Konami).
There’s also some decent Volume chatter in there too as well as talk of future stuff.
