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Hands-On with Konami’s reverent remake of Big Boss’s debut
In 2016, Konami released a pachinko machine based on Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater that featured remakes of the game’s iconic cutscenes. For series fans that had been hoping for full remakes of the classics–especially in a post-Kojima Konami–this amounted to a gut punch. It was the slightest hint of what a modern take on Snake Eater could look like, but to see it you’d have to be seated in a pachinko parlor instead of getting the lengthy, cinematic Metal Gear Solid experience we had come to expect.
Eight years later, the dream of a proper remake is being realized with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. Announced via a 2023 Playstation Showcase, questions immediately arose about what we could expect from this update. Hideo Kojima has long been absent from …