Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Is A Timeless Masterpiece

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  • Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
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    00:00 Intro
    01:37 Story & Writing
    06:08 Presentation
    08:16 Controls & Gameplay
    12:26 Missions & Extra Ops
    17:45 Boss Fights
    21:35 Peace Walker & Critique
    25:08 Closing Remarks
    26:30 Amazing Patrons
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  • @ChrisHoopes1
    @ChrisHoopes1 Місяць тому +741

    Nice to see Paz again pre-bomb impregnation.

  • @DMitsukirules
    @DMitsukirules Місяць тому +241

    "Started with a fairly grounded story."
    I don't know why people remember it this way. It was certainly not grounded. You had a magic psychic flying man making you change the control, butt based fact finding and cyborg ninjas taking out specially trained super soldiers. The series was never grounded, it was always ridiculous.

    • @tinaherr3856
      @tinaherr3856 Місяць тому +50

      Especially with the original MSX games (Metal Gear 1 and 2), where you destoy a wall via punching, and you hatch an owl egg so that it hoots and an enemy soldier thinks it's night. While in the middle of the day

    • @LadyFrost117
      @LadyFrost117 Місяць тому +22

      Like... I think is a Mandela effect caused by both the Twin Snakes remake and how insane the sequels and spin offs got, so by contrast MGS 1 does look "more grounded" when looking at the franchise as a whole, but yeah MG always had high concepts and fantastical elements ingrained in it

    • @Spillow-C
      @Spillow-C Місяць тому +18

      it was a lie for making mgs4 looking even worse than already is, he even said that the game is about stuff which is not about, the game is still about war, and how has changed with the proxy wars kinda stuff.

    • @TheNwahDango
      @TheNwahDango Місяць тому +6

      I tried to argue that it was way cooler before "V"enom snake was a thing and Big Boss simply survives the ending of MG1, cuz he's a badass, but someone replied "being the legendary big boss won't save you from a nuke"
      ... except yes, it will, because this is Metal Gear, not Arma. It wouldn't even be the first nuclear blast that he survives in cannon (virtuous mission??). This is a universe where cyborg ninjas, infinite ammo bandanas, literal ghosts, and vampires(nanomachines or not he's a fuching vampire) exist.
      So ask yourself, is surviving a nuclear explosion _really_ the most far-fetched thing to happen in these stories?

    • @tinaherr3856
      @tinaherr3856 Місяць тому +8

      @@TheNwahDango granted, the nuke from the Virtuous Mission wasn't the exact same as Outer Heaven. The one in MGS 3 was a Davy Crocket, a handheld portable nuke. A smaller blast radius and radiation levels that a proper nuclear missile, especially given its size. The Outer Heaven explosion, however, was the base's self destruction sequence, and could afford to have a larger mechanism.
      Additionally, the MGS 3 nuke wasn't aimed at Big Boss after he was carried away by the river, but at the research site further away. Meanwhile, Big Boss was *in the nuked building* while it was exploding, after getting shot/rocketed by Solid Snake and being defeated.
      Even by insane Metal Gear logic, it's actually more likely for him to survive Virtuous Mission than it is for him to survive Outer Heaven. This series is truly ridiculous

  • @rikkTV
    @rikkTV Місяць тому +262

    I can't believe you mentioned bipedal gecko robots without also mentioning that they moo like cows and periodically poop green mush

    • @ruekurei88
      @ruekurei88 Місяць тому +11

      The silliness didn't even start there though. I remember some stuff about MGS2, like stuff about Revolver Ocelot that I barely remember now, which was making me go...wait what..? Then you have Raiden being naked, his gf complaining about watching King Kong and his room being empty or some crap, and some IRL video footage of this Japanese chick being played..? It's been more than 20 years ago now, but maybe someone will come along and reaffirm that stuff.

    • @TTH247
      @TTH247 Місяць тому +7

      The mooing is a psychological manipulation.

    • @Neer-yy5nm
      @Neer-yy5nm Місяць тому +4

      I think the idea is that they use cow brains for the geckos, they're not fully robots

    • @glizzygaryglizzyross9109
      @glizzygaryglizzyross9109 Місяць тому

      The liquid they expel is lactic acid buildup from the organic muscles in their legs 👍

    • @ju2tunknown
      @ju2tunknown 29 днів тому

      ​@@Neer-yy5nmthey're entirely mechanical aside from the legs iirc

  • @Kenshiro3rd
    @Kenshiro3rd Місяць тому +257

    6:36 No, that's Ashley Wood's work, not Yoji Shinkawa's. Ashley Wood provided the art for Peace Walker's cutscenes. He also did the art for the comic adaptation of MGS1 & 2... which were the reason he was hired for Peace Walker.
    PS Peace Walker's control scheme was adapted from MGS4's, as it came out afterwards.

    • @RexVergstrong
      @RexVergstrong Місяць тому +33

      Imagine if he did a two minute google search and read the Wikipedia page.

    • @MrLatweetis
      @MrLatweetis Місяць тому +9

      To be fair. Wood did adjust his art style here to match Shinkawa's work a bit. Many of the characters look a lot like classic Shinkawa concept art, so I don't blame Gman for assuming it was Yoji.

    • @szeltovivarsydroxan9944
      @szeltovivarsydroxan9944 Місяць тому +9

      He also did the cutscenes for Portable Ops, Peace Walker's predecessor.

    • @TheNwahDango
      @TheNwahDango Місяць тому +29

      @@RexVergstrong Seriously, how does someone with this many followers not take five seconds to see who made the art instead of assuming, then uploading a video with information that hundreds of thousands of people are going to take at face-value. Maybe not a huge deal, but it's apocalyptically lazy.

    • @bagggers9796
      @bagggers9796 Місяць тому

      @@MrLatweetis To assume, makes an ASS out of U and ME.

  • @zeroattentiongaming820
    @zeroattentiongaming820 Місяць тому +263

    The Monster Hunter crossover missions are to this day my favorite random video game crossover

    • @SL4PSH0CK
      @SL4PSH0CK Місяць тому +17

      Gear Rex!?!??

    • @lilwyvern4
      @lilwyvern4 Місяць тому +30

      There really is nothing like shooting down Rathalos with stinger missiles and light machine guns.

    • @lordfriedrick7911
      @lordfriedrick7911 Місяць тому +7

      Seriously?
      Metal Gear and Monster Hunter as a crossover in the game?

    • @lilwyvern4
      @lilwyvern4 Місяць тому +18

      @@lordfriedrick7911 Heck yeah! Peace Walker has a few crossover missions with Monster Hunter. And yes, you can craft Rathalos-based camo.

    • @omikis2082
      @omikis2082 Місяць тому +11

      That's actually my first Monster Hunter, it makes me get Freedom Unite and become MH fan

  • @bahamutbbob
    @bahamutbbob Місяць тому +450

    Peace Walker was originally supposed to be MGS5, but Konami said no.

    • @HupCapNinja
      @HupCapNinja Місяць тому +108

      Yeah MGS V is technically a trilogy when you think about it.

    • @mrbrex95
      @mrbrex95 Місяць тому +73

      ​@@HupCapNinjaa trilogy that ended like shit

    • @Dukster9000
      @Dukster9000 Місяць тому +14

      @@mrbrex95 Has MGS ever ended differently?!

    • @RexVergstrong
      @RexVergstrong Місяць тому +21

      @@mrbrex95 A triloshit if you will.

    • @DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED-
      @DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED- Місяць тому +1

      @@HupCapNinja GUNGA BEAST!

  • @fabioenchillada2278
    @fabioenchillada2278 Місяць тому +116

    I was appalled when Paz turned out to be a villain at the end, and I laughed my ass off when she was wearing underwear. Kojima is one magnificent pervert

    • @mercury5003
      @mercury5003 Місяць тому +25

      She's definitely the twist villain who blindsided me the most in the series.

    • @officialbananakinita
      @officialbananakinita Місяць тому +20

      More than a pervert thing i see It as a reference to Evangelion, paz even has to put a breather because the control unit gets flooded (just like Eva)

    • @Miuranger1
      @Miuranger1 Місяць тому +3

      Cringest part of the series. Peace walker is so corny, you don't even think its in the same trilogy as MGS 1

    • @officialbananakinita
      @officialbananakinita Місяць тому +11

      @@Miuranger1 its is own thing and i love It for that, "a date with kaz" is peak mgs and you cant convince me otherwise

    • @fabioenchillada2278
      @fabioenchillada2278 Місяць тому +9

      @@Miuranger1 I feel you, amigo, but I've already accepted the fact that Kojima lost his mind after MGS3 and started creating goofy weird perverb shits.

  • @reviathan3524
    @reviathan3524 Місяць тому +75

    Man. As a person who loved MGS3 back then and couldn't afford a PS2 and had just a PSP, this game was the closest thing to 3 for me. One of my favourite moments of Peacewalker was the last Peacewalker battle. From the battle, to the cutscenes, full of emotions and suspense. Sad that this was the last of David Hayter's Snake before MGSV.

    • @Jesse12489
      @Jesse12489 Місяць тому +6

      You couldn't afford a old console at the time?

    • @alrightylol
      @alrightylol Місяць тому +8

      @@Jesse12489 Parents/familys can be poor u know ?

    • @Jesse12489
      @Jesse12489 Місяць тому +1

      @@alrightylol Yeah I grew up very poor. I got a Playstation 3 for 50$ and a PS1 for 5$.

    • @TheL1arL1ar
      @TheL1arL1ar Місяць тому +1

      I still own that limited big boss psp, box and everything.

    • @reviathan3524
      @reviathan3524 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@Jesse12489 Technically little me didn't make money. The PSP was a gift for doing good at a major exam. My parents wouldn't buy me a PS2 and PS3 growing up.

  • @DarshUK1
    @DarshUK1 Місяць тому +101

    Man the PSP had some incredible games

    • @bagggers9796
      @bagggers9796 Місяць тому +8

      Like Peace Walker, and.... Crisis Core.
      Hold on that can't be right.
      Ghost of Sparta. Knew I was forgetting one.

    • @sladelius6174
      @sladelius6174 Місяць тому +8

      Missed about a hundred.

    • @bagggers9796
      @bagggers9796 Місяць тому +1

      @@sladelius6174 My comment is purely a joke but I find it funnier how you neglect to mention even one game out of the supposed hundred.

    • @zuufettegt133
      @zuufettegt133 Місяць тому +7

      I'll throw in my favs:
      Gran Turismo PSP is a technical marvel, despite the lack of a career mode
      Star Wars: Battlefront II and its two spin offs are solid
      Lego Star Wars II on the PSP has extra content
      Rock Band: Unplugged
      Dissidia and Dissidia 012 are great Final Fantasy arena-fighter RPGs
      Final Fantasy 1 20th Anniversary is the best stock version of the game, minus load times
      Tekken 6 has a great port
      SoulCalibur: Broken Destiny is an amazing game
      There's a ton of good JRPGs on the system
      Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite is debatable as to being the best "classic" (pre-4) game in the series
      Phantasy Star Portable 1 and 2 are great games
      I could go on, but most of my favorite games beyond this list are jank in ways that most people don't like

    • @LSSJTHOR
      @LSSJTHOR Місяць тому

      Tenkaichi Tag Team, SW Battlefront 3😂 (basically),Bleach Heat of the Soul

  • @peternatorrr
    @peternatorrr Місяць тому +86

    I'll never forget getting this for Christmas and ignoring everyone and everything all day playing it non stop

  • @Richie_Godsil
    @Richie_Godsil Місяць тому +67

    "Who the fuck just texted me?!"
    I love when he keeps mistakes in the videos lmfao

    • @futureecho4509
      @futureecho4509 Місяць тому +10

      I thought he was just emulating what it's like to be disturbed while playing Peace Walker

    • @thepickles8833
      @thepickles8833 Місяць тому

      It’s hearing Tourette’s Guy for me

  • @slipcase
    @slipcase Місяць тому +34

    my hand hurt so much after that torture scene

    • @bagggers9796
      @bagggers9796 Місяць тому +3

      My hand hurt after I...
      played the game for way too long, those PSP controls, y'know. Kinda rough.

    • @LinkinMark1994
      @LinkinMark1994 Місяць тому +5

      I honestly think it’s the hardest torture sequence in the series. Yes even harder than the microwave crawl

    • @futureecho4509
      @futureecho4509 Місяць тому

      @@LinkinMark1994 Microwave crawl is easy, MGS2 Solidus choke after RAYs is the hardest

  • @nilsrodas6967
    @nilsrodas6967 Місяць тому +19

    This game has a special place in my heart and one the reasons MGS it's my favorite franchise.
    I'm from Nicaragua and have been to Costa Rica multiple times, and seeing my country, the Nicaragua's/Sandinista revolution of 1979, the contra war that followed, having the FINAL BOSS battle in Lake Cocibolca (which it's a landmark in the country and the only game to date to do so), plus having couple of Nicaragua's NPCs (Chico and her sister), missions located in Nicaragua and all of this mixed with the context of the Cold War and how the country was in the eyes of the USA and Soviet Union through Kojima eyes was nothing short of amazing.
    Thanks for reviewing this masterpiece.

    • @seregarublev8915
      @seregarublev8915 Місяць тому +1

      That would be so cool seeing your own home get portrayed so accurately in media, if your home isn't like the USA or some other huge country

    • @Heylanda-fb9xb
      @Heylanda-fb9xb Місяць тому +1

      The concept is also the most original.
      A cold war in Latin America where America, the usual "good guy" in the media, sending nukes to a peaceful and nuke-free country of Costa Rica for a test about gigantic nuclear-loaded mecha design as a new-era deterrence weapon.
      No anime, game nor movie could copy that.

  • @danielurenamora1869
    @danielurenamora1869 Місяць тому +31

    I remember this game being on the news of my country when it came out, mostly they talk about how crazy it was for this game to say Costa Rica had a secret army with robots when we abolish our army back in 1948 hahaha, anyways this game is a master piece and i always loved how they show my country on it ❤

    • @Oppen1945
      @Oppen1945 Місяць тому +3

      Well the "secret army" and robots where in Costa Rica. They just weren't owned by Costa Rica. Not suprised the media couldn't be bothered to do basic research.

    • @Heylanda-fb9xb
      @Heylanda-fb9xb Місяць тому

      ​@@Oppen1945 Kojima also intentionally keeping most of the plot a secret.
      The guy is a movie hardcore fans and a preacher of the "no-spoiler" rule.

  • @totallamacz593
    @totallamacz593 Місяць тому +21

    literally all metal gear solid games for psp are surprisingly good (acid 1 and 2, portable ops and peace walker)

    • @kaijuultimax9407
      @kaijuultimax9407 Місяць тому +1

      Ironically moving to PSP caused Konami to not look over the team's shoulder as much so they got a lot more leeway because Konami was focused on their (failing) home console games at the time like those Castlevania games that everyone forgets even existed because they were just THAT mid.

  • @TheMC1102
    @TheMC1102 Місяць тому +78

    You know you gotta make that Twin Snakes video eventually, right?

  • @lurkinlittlesquares6691
    @lurkinlittlesquares6691 Місяць тому +13

    this game presented a kinda dark setting for the protagonists as a fun family on mother base and heck it worked and i totally felt millers pain and felt bad about all that happened to the members in gz and mgsv

  • @Trowelhands
    @Trowelhands Місяць тому +13

    As shoddy as the first collection was, I hope Peace Walker is added to the next collection with the multiplayer intact.

    • @nomenium
      @nomenium 19 днів тому

      it was only shoddy on release
      its been patched up since then and as of now is pretty great

  • @johnran6015
    @johnran6015 Місяць тому +12

    I like how there are 3 massive games that serve as a prequel to the original MSX games that barely anyone plays or has the will to.

    • @ferrete8967
      @ferrete8967 Місяць тому +1

      Peace Walker, and which two other? Portable Ops?

    • @AarturoSc
      @AarturoSc Місяць тому +1

      @@ferrete8967 Snake Eater, Peace Walker and MGSV.

    • @ferrete8967
      @ferrete8967 Місяць тому

      @@AarturoSc Oh I get It now, I read it thinking those were the games nobody played, not the msx ones

    • @ferrete8967
      @ferrete8967 Місяць тому +3

      Great games by the way, they are both very ambiguos and you can get lost very easily. In a sense they remind me of tloz 1, you need to keep collecting items back and forth throughtout the whole map.

    • @AarturoSc
      @AarturoSc Місяць тому +1

      @@ferrete8967 I think that’s what he meant. How curious that the MSX games that most have never played have 3 massive games in the form of MGS3, MGSPW and MGSV as their prequels.

  • @DCGMatthew1
    @DCGMatthew1 Місяць тому +12

    I've been replaying the MGS games in chronological order and I'm currently on Peace Walker, so clearly Gman is watching me.

    • @Palindrome3945
      @Palindrome3945 Місяць тому

      I just bought the game 2 h ago on sale from the xbox store, and this pops up

    • @Socratic_
      @Socratic_ 6 днів тому

      i did this last year. did you include portable ops? that game was a bitch.

  • @comradecrawdaddy3343
    @comradecrawdaddy3343 Місяць тому +7

    I remember playing Peace Walker when I was in Iraq. Got me thru deployment lol. Such a great game!

  • @Merakudo
    @Merakudo 13 днів тому +2

    MGSPW is a game I literally grown up with. I remember back when I was 8ish my mom bought me a PSP. Without context on what the franchise was, in the hands of a kid who would play anything such as Need for Speed Most Wanted, Medal of Honor, Soul Calibre, Lego Starwars, or Tekken 6- I fell in love with MGSPW. It took me months to learn how to play the game. At some point I couldnt get pass the PTSD the torture chamber scene gave me. Everything about it feels so nostalgic even with my bad experience somehow I found myself playing it on an emulator on my phone(my psp got stolen in a church). The game was simply as beautiful as the day i lost it. Unfinished and hopefully ill get my closure. There's just so much about this game to digest even if it was spoiled to me the content within itself is unparalleled. A true timeless masterpiece.

  • @HenriqueHCA14
    @HenriqueHCA14 Місяць тому +13

    If my mom told me ''We have MGSV at home'' and it was Peace Walker, i would't complain.

    • @nomenium
      @nomenium 19 днів тому

      honestly PW is better than MGSV
      or atleast TPP
      GZ is a bit better me thinks

  • @TheArklyte
    @TheArklyte Місяць тому +11

    Heaven Troops to this day have one of the finest "realistic" fantasy military armors. Though I'd say that Prototype 1 Blackwatch troops are still the example of perfectly nailing both sides of the style.

    • @michaelbenjamin3189
      @michaelbenjamin3189 Місяць тому

      I can’t remember if the black watch troops had the forearm blades in the first one too but that’s my main gripe with them, other than that I love the designs

    • @TheArklyte
      @TheArklyte Місяць тому +2

      @@michaelbenjamin3189 they thankfully didn't before P2. Neither did they have an asymmetric pauldron in the first game. Or chromed helmets for pilots and officers.

  • @zach_the_guy5257
    @zach_the_guy5257 Місяць тому +25

    The torture scene in Peacewalker really tested the durability of my Y button.

    • @garretwoeller7669
      @garretwoeller7669 Місяць тому +1

      For real

    • @DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED-
      @DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED- Місяць тому +3

      Far worse than the torture scene from MGS1 or 2 when Solidus is choking you

    • @kohitatea
      @kohitatea Місяць тому

      Bro stopped me from playing it, that and I took a break then my PSP got stolen

    • @LinkinMark1994
      @LinkinMark1994 Місяць тому

      @@DJPUPPETMASTER-RESURRECTED-man, I heard you don’t even have to press anything since he stops just before killing you

  • @otherprisma7354
    @otherprisma7354 Місяць тому +4

    Both Yoji Shinkawa and Ashley Woods did the 2d cutscenes. Ashley did all the 2d cinematics in Portable Ops, so they brought him back for Peace Walker.

  • @FsMetal-gk4iw
    @FsMetal-gk4iw Місяць тому +5

    The boss fights and grinding to beat the boss fights damn near killed this game for me. It drove me nuts.

  • @paradocks23
    @paradocks23 Місяць тому +3

    Reminder that Ocelot did the "possessed by an arm" bit in MGS2. Game has always been kinda wild. Psychics that read your memory cards, special pathogens made to target specific genomes, replacing snake with a twunk himbo in the sequel. And a man who has lightning blood.

  • @sladeindominus2899
    @sladeindominus2899 Місяць тому +10

    I loved the co-op feature that peacewalker had, sneaking through heavily militarized locations in the later stages of the game with a stranger.
    What a thrill...

  • @21shanks
    @21shanks Місяць тому

    its absoluteley crazy how you upload a video about whatever games I am thinking about playing through again

  • @Drawnartist
    @Drawnartist Місяць тому +1

    Welcome back Gman. Love your videos. A new one is always a good day

  • @misfit1422
    @misfit1422 Місяць тому +4

    This point, at 7:58 , is exactly right. I feel that games back in the day knew they needed to nail art style since they weren’t able to make the game look good graphically

  • @midshipman8654
    @midshipman8654 Місяць тому +2

    This gameplay style was so fun and unique back on the psp. there really was nothing like it that fit the hanheld so well.
    The face button aiming was a little odd true and its grindy, but its really hard to appreciate a lot of the gameplay outside of the use case and time period if the psp. having a relitively deep 3d action game of this caliber woth a LOT to do on handheld was really something else. And it was absolutely packed with content that allowed you to go back to it a bunch since it was in your pocket. Unfortunately that can turn into more of a con now if playing it on consols. I still think the whole fulton system is a great innovation. collecting enemies that hep you to develop more stuff. A lot of the character interactions were pretty charming too. like Snake and santa. I was kind of disappointed that outside of millers hamburgers there wasbt much light hearted bonding stuff in mgsv’s cassetes. Music was great too, heavens divide is an absolute banger.
    it was super ambitious as a project.

  • @elone3997
    @elone3997 Місяць тому +6

    Man, the PS1 intro to MGS was just...damn. The future had arrived!

  • @thoughtsauce7225
    @thoughtsauce7225 Місяць тому

    This game is one of my favorite ever. It has a special place in my heart. Thanks for covering it.

  • @kevins8071
    @kevins8071 Місяць тому +2

    I remember playing this on the PS3 remaster. Really enjoyed it. Then when Phantom Pain came out, for me at least, it was an easy transition for gameplay on that game. It’s like Peace Walker was a training game for Phantom Pain.

  • @fuckhead0
    @fuckhead0 Місяць тому +235

    Peace Walker is the silly fun game where Big Boss somehow has the physical strength to stop a walking tank from stepping on him, fuck Sam, he's the original "no cybernetic augments" guy

    • @mrbrex95
      @mrbrex95 Місяць тому +12

      He's the legendary solid snake

    • @kryster2987
      @kryster2987 Місяць тому +54

      ​@@mrbrex95
      That is NOT Solid Snake

    • @T405_MN
      @T405_MN Місяць тому +21

      @@mrbrex95 NO! That is NOT SOLID SNAKE

    • @tusk1142
      @tusk1142 Місяць тому +15

      @@mrbrex95 NO! That is NOT SOLID SNAKE

    • @xtrwombat4876
      @xtrwombat4876 Місяць тому +11

      ​@@mrbrex95NO! That is NOT SOLID SNAKE

  • @zackdeux
    @zackdeux Місяць тому

    Love you for this, my favourite game by one of my favourite video essay man!

  • @kkay000
    @kkay000 День тому +1

    Reminder that in Metal Gear 2 MSX you had such grounded characters like running man

  • @nosidezero
    @nosidezero Місяць тому

    My all time favorite Metal Gear game. Thanks for covering it, gman

  • @IOSALive
    @IOSALive Місяць тому

    GmanLives, Subscribed because your videos always make me smile!

  • @TobeWilsonNetwork
    @TobeWilsonNetwork 9 днів тому +1

    Sank *HOURS* into this game. To this day I can still remember the elation of getting my skills up and finally doing a non-lethal takedown on a helicopter. The only grind-heavy game I ever got into. Still never unlocked most of the really cool weapons and the true ending. I’d sink another 200 hours easy. Really wish it would get a phone/3DS rerelease. Don’t even need a graphics update, it’s style still holds up imo

  • @mrpill9
    @mrpill9 Місяць тому

    Great video, gman as always

  • @mindsoulbody
    @mindsoulbody Місяць тому +1

    Yay! New Gman video on MGS. YOSH!

  • @scotttatertot69
    @scotttatertot69 Місяць тому +2

    This game was mindblowing on my PSP Go back in the day. It was my first introduction into MGS!

  • @Eddie-vh8ol
    @Eddie-vh8ol Місяць тому

    Lmao those cuts in the beginning are too good

  • @MegaMar14
    @MegaMar14 Місяць тому

    playing this with my buddy ad hoc on psp back in the day was a truly awesome time.

  • @brinksectionz
    @brinksectionz Місяць тому +1

    Yes, co-op levels out the longer missions, especially the vehicle ones. I guess that's why I didn't mind them. Co-op is so much fun!

  • @BlindBison
    @BlindBison Місяць тому +3

    Peace Walker is my favorite PSP game ever made. The level of quality and the huge leap from something like Portable Ops blew me away at the time -- honestly it still does. Peace Walker, the Ready at Dawn God of War games, and Persona 3 Portable were games I played to death back then, good times.
    Regarding the games easy difficulty, much of that comes down to the fact that you’re playing the title’s remaster and gain access to a second analog stick. The game was more challenging on the native PSP since you had to aim with the face buttons and some of the controls couldn’t be done as easily on the fly requiring you to stop and take it slow or do a weird sort of claw grip at times for specific stance changes while moving iirc so it sort of reminds me of Kings Field 4 in that part of the experience is really built around those control limitations and those changed how easily you can interact with the game. The remaster with a second stick is indeed very very easy. Less so the original (not that I’d claim it’s an especially crushing game either).

    • @hundun5604
      @hundun5604 18 днів тому +1

      "...do a weird sort of claw grip..." That's how people play Monster Hunter on the PSP.

  • @SunriseSpringWorld
    @SunriseSpringWorld Місяць тому +5

    My favourite MGS personally, hopefully it is included in the second Master Collection :)

  • @dangerousninjax9475
    @dangerousninjax9475 Місяць тому

    OMG i was not expecting a peace walker review

  • @TheTunedfish
    @TheTunedfish 8 днів тому +1

    Me who recently played Peace Walker. Total 140 hours in ps3. Ai battles in extra ops became easier when i switched rocket launchers to light machine guns with armor piercing rounds. I really hope they get this on volume 2 for pc.

  • @KimboKG14
    @KimboKG14 Місяць тому +2

    9:38 this is character development through gameplay.
    on first playthrough you're badly equipped for heavy non lethal combat and just wanna save the world.
    but as you progress you unlock heavy non lethal weapons and the harder tank missions will teach you some japanese tactics.
    wich are usefull throughout the game to get all S-ranks.
    and once you've s-ranked everything and read all the motherbase soldier's dialogs you become truly immersed in the role of big boss.

  • @IAmTh3Doom
    @IAmTh3Doom Місяць тому +4

    ``Stay with me´´ enjoyer... Man of a great taste.

  • @harbinger9231
    @harbinger9231 17 днів тому +2

    I farmed so many S-rank soldiers that half the important characters like Miller and Amanda ended up in the waiting room lol

  • @SHADOMEGA7569
    @SHADOMEGA7569 Місяць тому +1

    fun fact, in the japanese release strangelove doesnt electrocute snake she instead tickles him with tickle rods and snake is just laughing like a fucking maniac. probably one of the funniest things ive seen in an MGS game

  • @vicchopin
    @vicchopin Місяць тому +1

    Whoa mate how many awesome vids can you deliver in such a short time?? Damn!!

  • @jesusbenavides6300
    @jesusbenavides6300 Місяць тому

    This game was like dopamine heaven, back when i played it on highschool.
    I loved playing the online coop on ps3 when getting back from school.
    Good ol' days.

  • @NightsworkJapan
    @NightsworkJapan Місяць тому +1

    The Heavens Divide song from that game brought me to tears 🐍

  • @KNEEPLAYSGAMES
    @KNEEPLAYSGAMES Місяць тому

    This was my first metal gear and it was enjoyable and so cool aesthetically it helped me jump into the series

  • @nightsider2705
    @nightsider2705 Місяць тому +1

    Nice.
    I just found this channel, saw the MGS 3 Video and thought "huh, maybe he has a peace walker video too"

  • @RileySkye100
    @RileySkye100 Місяць тому

    Nice. I'd really love to see you cover the Onimusha series one day.

  • @bucketfeet5567
    @bucketfeet5567 Місяць тому

    Was absolutely blown away by this game.

  • @nickharmer9722
    @nickharmer9722 Місяць тому +4

    "Who the FUCK just texted me!?" 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Sheepy007
    @Sheepy007 Місяць тому +1

    In regards of the long boss fights, I remember that Peace walker for the PSP was developed as a multiplayer Coop game kind of in the vain of the Monster Hunter games and that up to 4 snakes would take on the voss fights together

  • @cristianlopez_8486
    @cristianlopez_8486 Місяць тому

    24:34 oh god. I still get Vietnam flashbacks from the extra ops Peace Walker fight solo. That nearly broke me. Never before have I had a boss fight last nearly an hour and make me use every last bullet and make each shot count... AT FULL STOCK!!

  • @Omar_E11
    @Omar_E11 Місяць тому

    I loved the boss battles. There's definitely a learning curve but it grew on me after a while.

  • @Mr666999666999
    @Mr666999666999 Місяць тому +1

    The triangle button mashing bits in this game are pure frustration, absolutely the most difficult in the series... still one of my favourite MGS games though (MGS 1,3, PW).

  • @wrench8677
    @wrench8677 Місяць тому

    I love this game, easily my favourite mgs. I may have to fire up my 360 to see if I can collect the last few circuit boards

  • @grapesgamer8045
    @grapesgamer8045 Місяць тому +1

    Genuinely it's amazing such an underated metal gear

  • @LetsPlayKeldeo
    @LetsPlayKeldeo Місяць тому +1

    OH HELL YEAH FUCK YES I HAVE BEEN PLAYING MGSV AND BEEN FEELING SO NOSTALGIC FOR PEACE WALKER

  • @UkraineWarAwareness
    @UkraineWarAwareness Місяць тому +7

    Peacewalker should DEFINITELY be included in a Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake if Komani actually goes through with it, it wouldn't even be very difficult to them to accomplish this. Minimal new assets, mostly just the bosses, no new dialogue and voice recordings necessary, and this will give A LOT of casual MGS players more insight of the events between MGS 3 and MGS 5.
    I have a dream..... that Konami counts Peacewalker as MGS 3.5 and adds it (as a DLC even, wouldn't that be actually smart of them for once?) to MGS3 Remake!!

  • @MarcLeoNyu
    @MarcLeoNyu Місяць тому +1

    The best part about the co-op of this game is that you can share your inventory with your friends to the point where they can borrow your granades to trow them right at you.

  • @trevorcomer6969
    @trevorcomer6969 Місяць тому +1

    Ive literally just started this game for the first time two weeks ago 😂 honestly out of all the ones I've played it's my favorite.

  • @ptrcrispy
    @ptrcrispy Місяць тому +3

    The grinding becomes insane as some point when you don’t have a single partner to play with

    • @CommanderKappa
      @CommanderKappa Місяць тому +1

      Wanted to Plat the game, but stopped once i realised the custom AI Weapon ops are straight up impossible in Singleplayer. And doing all extra ops is just too much unfun grind for me
      If ur still on it and need help, we could play one day

    • @ptrcrispy
      @ptrcrispy Місяць тому

      @@CommanderKappa I'm playing on Xbox so idk if you're on that. but even that there's RL shit I gotta sort out so I'd only have time by the end of the month

    • @CommanderKappa
      @CommanderKappa Місяць тому

      @@ptrcrispy nah im on ps3. But rl shit got priority anyway.

  • @Jnensrevenge
    @Jnensrevenge Місяць тому +2

    Peace Walker is my favourite MGS.
    Portable Ops is also pretty good but the PSP controls hurt my hands!

  • @chris_vp
    @chris_vp Місяць тому

    this is a video i needed.

  • @LaggySnake
    @LaggySnake Місяць тому +1

    I rarely get platinum trophies, but I had to get it in Peace Walker because it was so addicting.

  • @SGVB22
    @SGVB22 Місяць тому +1

    Gman's videos always make me check out games I didn't like at first

  • @guitardude125
    @guitardude125 8 днів тому +1

    I have every acheivement for this game. Meaning i have beaten all main and extra ops with s rank, solo. Its only difficult with the vehicle capture missions. You end up running out of their fulton rockets or regular rockets.

  • @jaythomas468
    @jaythomas468 Місяць тому

    I didn’t really have the PSP when this game first came out so this game and Portable Ops were the only two mainline MGS games that I missed out on (well, Portable Ops has since been semi-retconned).
    Anyway, I finally played the HD version on the 360 in the months leading up to MGSV’s release.
    And despite not initially having high expectations for it since it was an MGS game designed for a handheld, I ended up FREAKIN’ LOVING IT.

  • @kylemountford8572
    @kylemountford8572 Місяць тому

    I love MGS4 and Revengeance, but those cuts at 1:01 and 1:11 had me in stitches. Perfect comedic timing

  • @isaiahgarcia2464
    @isaiahgarcia2464 Місяць тому +1

    Yes to this whole video

  • @GurnieDingo
    @GurnieDingo Місяць тому

    Would love to see a gman video on mgs5. I can't believe it's already been 8 years since it came out

  • @pascalhhhh
    @pascalhhhh Місяць тому

    Back when I was junior highschooler this game's hard hard. I don't understand how things work in this game like the side ops, the build (?) & boss fights are such pain in the butt and the story + cutscenes feels like fever dream. Played it on psp go though along with MH, Midnight Club, GTA Stories, God Eater Burst, & some lewd puzzle game lol

  • @notfunny3397
    @notfunny3397 Місяць тому +1

    "Heavens divide" slaps no cap

  • @kadewood2626
    @kadewood2626 Місяць тому +1

    "Who the fuck just texted me?"
    Had to pause the video and show my wife in one small clip why I love you so much.

  • @tankmerc7632
    @tankmerc7632 Місяць тому

    Peace walker is a game I’ll replay from start to finish once a year I just bought a vita and downloaded it one of my fav of the series

  • @danielcisneros6941
    @danielcisneros6941 Місяць тому +1

    That game is a must play, remember coop weapons increase camarederie a lot.

  • @hauntedheathen2732
    @hauntedheathen2732 Місяць тому +1

    Getting S ranks on all extra ops was hell. From tranqing a T-Rex to kidnapping 36 soldiers and the driver of an insta-kill tank.
    Getting the slingshot pieces as a solo player from the monster hunter missions too. I completed the game 100% on both psp and ps3 ;(

  • @zebug4762
    @zebug4762 Місяць тому

    Excellent review. I share your sentiments about levelling up Mother Base being one of the best things, but it's also one of the worst things since some of those late to end-game items are almost mandatory to beat the upgraded AI weapons, and the requirement to develop them is ridiculous.
    I was, unfortunately, one of those people who would have to date your sister, because I S-ranked everything. In my defense, I was doing my mandatory 2 years in the Army, so I was bored, had loads of spare time, and the PSP became my best friend.
    The thing about taking only missile/rocket launchers is a bit of a trap. It's usually better to bring one missile weapon, and one heavy-hitting machine gun. The machine guns deal more damage overall for their ammo pools, albeit over a period of time as opposed to spikes of damage from missile launchers with lower ammo capacities, but are crucial for staggering bosses. The end-game Gatling gun is an absolute monster in that respect, and the best part is that the infinite ammo bandana doesn't lock you out from S-rank, so they make a perfect combo.
    Lastly, I also agree that the story beats for this game fits right at home as a mainline MGS story, with a great plot line and all that Kojima flair thrown in (with sometimes a little too much ridiculousness). I loved the overall story and it's a shame that MGS:PW has been left on the wayside as a spin-off by so many people.

  • @CaseFace5
    @CaseFace5 Місяць тому +1

    this is probably the first time ive ever heard MGS1 be described as "fairly grounded" lol

  • @bradleydias425
    @bradleydias425 Місяць тому

    I played this first and then 3. It got me hooked into the series. I was very late to the series. I played it co op using PPSSPP.

  • @thefearofg0ds758
    @thefearofg0ds758 Місяць тому +1

    Big Boss was ripped af in Peace Walker. I always forget that whenever I revisit it lol

  • @nucleja
    @nucleja Місяць тому

    thank you for this video I have been meaning to replay it, what's the best way for me to do it now? also ocelot willingly acted like liquid and got hypnotised to improve his acting

  • @KimboKG14
    @KimboKG14 Місяць тому

    23:00 this felt like one of those endless staircase moments in a horror game.
    at some point I even ran around looking for anything hidden.
    so to me it really sold the desperation of the story.

  • @lilwyvern4
    @lilwyvern4 Місяць тому

    My favorite Metal Gear. It just tickles the part of my brain that likes grindy progress. Also we get the legendary "Kojima is god!" bit.

  • @theallaroundnerd9889
    @theallaroundnerd9889 Місяць тому +2

    I'm shocked you didn't show off how you can FUCKING CATCH Peace Walker's ground slam attack as Snake

  • @DeepAPW
    @DeepAPW Місяць тому

    When i played this i only grinded for weapon development as doing missions is the only way to develop weapon. I completed a complete blind playthrough of this game with all things dome in 5 months.

  • @Akabane101
    @Akabane101 Місяць тому

    Well done, Gman. Age hasn't slowed you down one bit.