The upcoming launch of Metallic Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater, the remake of 2004’s Metallic Gear Strong 3, marks a serious turning level for Konami’s stealth motion collection. Resulting from come out earlier than the tip of this 12 months, Delta will finish a nine-year drought since 2015’s Phantom Ache (we don’t rely Survive). And whereas Delta isn’t a real new entry within the collection, an advert for the sport teases that it’d open the doorways for Metallic Gear to make a serious comeback.
After exhibiting off Delta’s up to date graphics and distinctive mechanical additions (like a harm system that can completely scar Snake’s physique), Konami launched “Metallic Gear Strong Legacy Collection Half 2” on YouTube. Hosted by David Hayter (the unique voice of Snake), the deep-dive video largely serves as a refresher on the issues we noticed in the course of the Xbox Showcase, but it surely additionally options an interview with producer Noriaki Okamura. That is the place issues get attention-grabbing.
Okamura says that one of many hopes for Delta is that it’ll assist gamers to guage whether or not the brand new workforce is “proper for the job of retaining Metallic Gear going.” That mission is two-fold.
Firstly, Okamura explains that the rationale for Delta’s existence was that Konami seen new players weren’t accustomed to the collection. In tandem with the Grasp Assortment, the brand new Metallic Gear workforce needed to protect the collection’ previous for brand new generations. Delta will act as an introduction to the collection for brand new players, which is sensible contemplating it’s, by in-world measurement, chronologically the primary recreation within the collection.
Secondly, the brand new workforce has additionally been entrusted with “the way forward for Metallic Gear.” This means that Konami is utilizing Delta to check the waters for additional entries. That would take the type of a collection of remakes of previous video games, a method that has been a fantastic success for Capcom with its Resident Evil remakes. However extra enticingly, it might imply that if Delta performs properly, and the event workforce delivers the undertaking Konami is hoping for, a wholly new story within the collection could possibly be on the best way.
After all, with out the involvement of collection creator Hideo Kojima—who left Konami on dangerous phrases shortly after the discharge of MGSV in 2015—many see no future within the collection. Nonetheless, Konami has beforehand expressed curiosity in retaining the collection alive with out Kojima.
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