I think I’m closing in on the end of this.
I was enjoying the world a lot but the story has waded knee deep into Kojima-nonsense. It was going well until sodding Heartman turned up. His dialogue is just endless exposition, “theory” and bollocks that wouldn’t have been out of place in MGS.
Plus I was getting a bit fed up of making deliveries but was really enjoying the traversal over the mountains.
Only problem is, that I only had to ditch my vehicle once in the mountain section. The vehicles are almost too OP as you can bounce them over the roughest terrains without much fuss. Sure, they can explode but you’d have to be pretty rough with them to make them do that. You know your limits after you do it once...
. I think I’d have preferred vehicles being stripped away somehow for this section just to hammer home how difficult it is to navigate the mountains (lord knows, Kojima can come up with bullshit excuses for most of his gameplay innovations). He didn’t so you can bounce a van around the rocky ranges with impunity. Well, deliveries were getting a bit long in the tooth anyway.
After that comes the last third of the game and the “twists” in the story and, yes, they’re handled in typical Kojima fashion: Some bloke talking utter nonsense at you for fucking ages. The quality of the game takes a real dive as you do a few crappy and unchallenging boss fights and have a lot of rubbish spouted by the cast. Kojima cannot do dialogue. And the interesting premise at the start of the games takes a kick in the shins too. Mind you, you do get to do a few deliveries and build some more road if you fancy it. Which I did; it’s the best bit of the game!
There can’t be many more chapters left and I’m keen to get it over and done with so I can get back to building that fucking motorway I’d started. I want to bulldoze through the middle of the map with beautiful tarmac so I don’t have to navigate that nightmare rocky section. I’m kidding really, I won’t play it again when it’s finished.