
Nothing Groundbreaking, But Interesting Nonetheless

I bought this game (it's not really a game, however. It's billed as a digital graphic novel, which is much more accurate, but the term game is much simpler to use) because I'm a recent convert to Metal Gear Solid and I've recently been trying to get more use out of the PSP that I've had for over two years. Overall, I really enjoyed it. There's nothing particularly novel about the story, but the way they approach the graphic novel medium on the PSP is really interesting: sound effects pop up, lights flash as guns fire, et cetera. Some of the ways that they handle standard video game conventions (what happens to the bodies of killed guards, why are there rocket launchers just lying about?) can be fairly amusing when presented in this fashion rather than in the medium of a video game, which I thought added to the experience.
The database feature included, where you can hunt for and identify various characters, events, and items throughout the pages of the graphic novel does come across as a little gimmicky and is fairly time-consuming (having to zoom in and out of each section of each page to insure you haven't missed anything) but still kind of a neat feature. The controls do seem a little counter-intuitive at first, and took me some time to learn, but it wasn't anything too horrible.
I wouldn't recommend this for more casual fans, but if you're a collector or fanboy/girl (and if you've played any Metal Gear games at all, you really should be), this is a good purchase to make, especially as it's fairly hard to find.
Review ID: 10000000012117270

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