The Metal Gear Solid collection is including the non-canon game Kojima hates
Konami recently announced the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1, headlined by remastered versions of the first three games in the Metal Gear Solid series. Some more details have now emerged about what's going to be in the package and, well, colour me surprised: Konami has made the extremely interesting choice to include the NES game Metal Gear 2: Snake's Revenge.
Why is that interesting? The short version is that this is a big middle finger to series creator Hideo Kojima. Snake's Revenge was the 1990 sequel to Kojima's original Metal Gear, but Kojima wasn't involved in it. Kojima would wrest back control of the series and make his own (excellent) Metal Gear 2 with the subtitle Solid Snake, and subsequent games in the series do not acknowledge Snake's Revenge: Metal Gear 2 at all. Given how self-referential Metal Gear is, Kojima's opinion couldn't be clearer: at GDC in 2009, he half-jokingly called it «crappy».
In fact, the mood music around the Master Collection is slightly worrying, and I say that as a Metal Gear nut. The great fear is we're going to end up with another Silent Hill HD collection: sub-optimal ports with no real quality-of-life improvements: I can't help but be disappointed, for example, that MGS will remain in a 4:3 aspect ratio. Like, this is one of the most important games ever made Konami, and you can't make it widescreen 26 years later?!?
Oh well, at least they're packing a lot in, with the full contents being:
That's a hell of a lot of top-tier stealth games, and doesn't Konami know it: pre-orders are open now, the collection costs $60, and it releases October 24, 2023. As well as the games it also includes two MGS graphic novels which, take my word for it, are great: they're voiced,
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