Memory Beats Reality

Oh my god, where to start with this? This review has taken longer to write than any other review that I have done simply for the fact that there doesn’t seem to be any way to review this title without addressing it’s controversial nature. Having said that, let’s just get the BS outta the way. Yes, you get charged for a second, third, or fourth save slot. Yes, you have to pay for more expedition team slots. Yes, your hunger and thirst gauges drain very quickly, almost ridiculously so. This game has problems but, it’s actually not bad, a fact that may even be it’s biggest problem. There, I said it, Metal Gear Survive is actually a pretty good game….if you like survival games. Now, onto the review. The game starts off almost feeling like an interesting spin off of the beloved Metal Gear Solid series, you get a beautiful cut scene recounting the end of the MGSV prologue known as Ground Zeroes. It is from the end of that “prologue” that the story of MG Survive begins, w

                                                                                                                                         Hey there memory buffs, it your old pal: Ein Jakaal, welcome back to memory beats reality the place where I examine the old and how it holds up to reality . Obviously I do other things here too and today we have a tasty op ed by yours truly.    So, as you may know, Metal Gear Survive came out about a week ago and most people won’t give it a chance after the messy break-up between creator Hideo Kojima and his former employer Konami. This is not to say that some people out there (myself included) aren’t going to give it a try out of curiosity if nothing else and, I have to say (after about 20 or so hours) that it’s actually kind of fun. This experience of mine is kind of where the op ed begins.    My piece here begins with the lecture I received from a long time friend who was more than a little miffed at my decision to spend M