The Importance of Psycho Mantis

[@daffyhat]

No joke, right after the in-video pause, I had some new jersey number call my phone and immediately hang up. Despite the fact it was 100% impossible Meti could have done that, I half expected to hear Psycho Mantis or some sort of code when I called the number back. Meta narratives get to me way too easily.

[@a_jerry808]

You: hel- Hello!? Mantis: so, you like watching Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist. You: :0

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Bonus meta narrative hook, just for you! S3 Plan actually just stood for "Snake-3 Plan". They took a person with a childhood like Liquid's, put him into a situation built on Solid's career, and pit him against Solidus in order to create a perfect memetic clone in the same way Solidus was a perfect genetic clone. See, Python Selkan spends hours saying what I can say in a single comment, why don't *I* have a huge following already? ;p

[@QueenMonoChrome]

Imagine if you picked up the phone and on the other end you hear in your own voice "10 21 16 47" before the line went dead

[@imadrifter]

@@Pensive_Scarlet ok, I will sub because you are right, and you deserve it more than that baiter

[@Liex59]

You were almost in a real life creepypasta

[@Nagram_]

Psycho Mantis: Now i'm gonna read all of your folders Snake! Psycho Mantis: Ohh some kinky stuff heh- what the... eyeball licking? 10000 year old vampires? Snake: I can explain.

[@Joawlisdoingfine]

Psycho Mantis: This shit is why I hate humanity

[@ZyroShadowPony]

@@Joawlisdoingfine me: humanity can't understand eyeball licking, that's why it must be destroyed!

[@latviandragon2718]

eyeball licking?

[@TheEnmineer]

@@latviandragon2718 Second Floor Basement? Psycho Mantis? You're that ninja!

[@partyrock4144]

Psycho mantis: . . . Ok how and why do you have THREE ENTIRE TERABYTES OF PORNOGRAPHY!!

[@solidskullz5736]

Him commenting on what you’ve played and messing with the console is one of my favorite moments in any video game

[@mandalorianhunter1]

"You have been playing Super Mario Sunshine" *Johnny looks to his left*

[@Combustible_lemon]

ah, I see you're a man of culture as well.

[@mandalorianhunter1]

@@Combustible_lemon glad I got to meet him twice. He is such a cool guy

[@HyperFlame64V1]

AHH, ANOTHER OF OUR CLAN!!

[@toastedjambread]

In MGS4 when you fight mantis. When you assign the controller to a different player other than 1, an automatic codec call comes on with snake muttering "I...can't...move..."

[@slynthehedgehog8061]

Missed it. I did the trick, but nothing.

[@Zerobasssoul]

*Psycho Mantis searching thru my YT history* : I see you too enjoy watching Meti NTBG videos

[@Abdega]

Psycho Mantis: Hmm… what other videos have you watched? … I’m calling the police

[@peterkonyar4946]

Psyco mantis searching MY yt history: i see you like watching Nuxtaku, i see you like watching videos on anime power systems

[@smokeymcbongwater4141]

Hmmmm, I see you enjoy Zeducation and SC reviews. 🤣🤣

[@icehoof]

"huh.. I see you like watching yoga videos dispite not practicing it yourself"

[@channel45853]

@@icehoof *takes off mask and raises eyebrow*

[@nathandrake459]

Age 11 I woke up crying because of a nightmare about psycho mantis with my grandmother rocking me back and forward saying it was only a dream sweetheart. The words "good care....just like that" have always given me chills to this day. R.I.P gran , I miss you.❤️

[@imadrifter]

Your new movie sucks

[@assman3862]

I had a nightmare cus of kid ma tis cus mgsv was my first mgs game but i knew all the story

[@ewanb1086]

Honestly that’s a pretty wholesome nightmare

[@UriahElroy666]

I went to see a work-from-home psychic the other day. I arrived at her house and knocked on the door. She asked "Who is it?" So I turned around and went home.

[@slynthehedgehog8061]

To be fair, unless Psychic power are as easy to control as breathing, I don't think anyone would use them 24/7, let alone for that (unless they're paranoid of course, but in that case they probably wouldn't advertise themselves as psychics).

[@UriahElroy666]

@@slynthehedgehog8061 I believe it exists to an extent. Edgar Cayce fascinates me.

[@UriahElroy666]

@@mrreyes5004 Oh, simmer down mate. It was a joke I didn't even remember making until you replied. Go to a party sometime or something.

[@mrreyes5004]

@@UriahElroy666 Nah, parties are loud af, not sure how you think that's a good way to chill when it's just barbaric noise. Didn't even know this was here until I checked this video out again. Check out a book to actually learn something, "mate". If you don't have the attention span for even that much, that's just on you. And yeah, I know the comment dates say that it's been years. I just don't care. Peace out, kiddo.

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

I hope that with the release of MGS1 on GoG, PC players will finally get to experience the dread of Psycho Mantis reading your games' library. "I see you like... nekopara"

[@hsd6716]

bruh whats gog

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

@@hsd6716 Good Old Games, CDPR's version of Steam. They have a lot of fantastic offers and they're DRM free. If you like old games like Heroes of Might and Magic they tend to have them on their marketplace.

[@hsd6716]

@@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves thanks

[@PASTELXENON]

That would require new voice acting

[@Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves]

@@PASTELXENON crazier things have happened, but you're right.

[@ActualAlienBoiiii]

Psycho Mantis reading my internet history: "Get some help man. Nah but for real tho get some help man."

[@randomt-9034]

Imagine Psycho Mantis seeing walls of rule 34 and 🅱️entai in your history. Bruh

[@SamHoward-l9q]

@@randomt-9034 he just fucking explodes

[@kumi6797]

@@randomt-9034 i don't think he would like that

[@pbrn2533]

Psycho Mantis? Metal Gear? The Patriots? The La Le Lu Lei Lo? Crabs?

[@oom5768]

You're that ninja.

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

So... how does it taste?

[@crystalalumina]

@@QuantemDeconstructor tasty

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

@@crystalalumina That's *DAMN* good!

[@SSD_Penumbra]

Boss...?

[@m3Devv]

"You like to play Castlevania, don't you?" I will admit, I got scared shitless when he said that.

[@GoldLight73]

Nowadays, that would be met with something like “but I don’t even play pachinko!”

[@abysschef5078]

@@GoldLight73 so true it hurts

[@KevinGsWK]

Super Mario sunshine

[@DrCrabnuts]

“Ah... I see you like to play Suikoden...”

[@Rahnonymous]

Psycho Mantis was the DDLC before DDLC (I'm keeping it abbreviated as to not spoil any potential people that haven't heard of it) Edit: I made this comment thinking I was going to be original but alas, he also makes the connection in the video. Oof me I guess :/

[@TheMan21892]

"Compared to you, I'm not so bad." Daaaaaamn I still remember hearing that as a kid and thinking "Holy shit, what did Snake do??" lmao

[@godnyx117]

LMAO! Yeah, I love that line! Really shows you what Snake means be saying that "soldier" is just a nicer word for "killer".

[@yourmomshouse6984]

​@@godnyx117definitely crazy to think about the amount of random soldiers a man as skilled as Snake has probably killed his entire career lol still a hero though

[@godnyx117]

@@yourmomshouse6984 Yeah, he is a hero.... from his side! Remember! The difference between "good" and "bad" is our perspective. Hence, why I don't believe in these two terms anymore.

[@mrreyes5004]

@@godnyx117 Except no, because genuinely evil people do exist. Unless you seriously want to argue that unrepentant serial killers, rapists, and dictators (I.e., Josef Mengele, Pol Pot) have any kind of "good" perspective, because no. Just no. That thought is a bad attempt at being edgy, at best. Obviously, most wars have nuanced sides, but Solid Snake's entire character is that he is a good man determined to stop genuinely bad people (For f--k's sake, Volgin is literally called *"Evil Personified"* by _his own_ theme title).

[@godnyx117]

@@mrreyes5004 Yes there are some objectively bad people but even then, they can still see no wrong from their actions. The environment you grew up in, influences the way you think and see the world, the way you think and see the world, influences your personality and your personality influences your decisions. This goes DEEP! In fact, probably the deepest thing we can talk about.

[@TurokRevolution]

But was he able to pass on his Memes, the DNA of the soul? Also, he despised everyone for wanting to pass on their genes. He was sending everyone to horny jail

[@radioraptor9110]

A true good man/child

[@thenexus8384]

Why did i read this as snake

[@godnyx117]

He passed his memes actually. Search for "antinatalism"

[@smokey12823]

You’re giving me ideas of making a Monsoon vs Psycho Mantis battle

[@ShatteredGlass916]

"Changing controller won't help you defeats boss" **laughing gas mask**

[@thenexus8384]

Psycho Mantis: *laughs in gas mask mantis

[@JustinY.]

Whenever Psycho Mantis gets mentioned seriously I can't imagine anything but Dunkey.

[@philswiftdestroyerofworlds1988]

Justin "My guy" Y.

[@jonjon4634]

Why do you have such great tastes in youtube channels?

[@FaLaN69]

Me no like u >:(

[@heretohear1847]

hello

[@threehotdogs]

psycho mantis??

[@Kerrisive]

"You like watching Shimoneta: A Boring World Where The Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn't Exist, don't you?"

[@thenexus8384]

Get out of my head Mantis

[@8-bitsarda747]

I would like to plead the fifth on that one

[@Overlordien]

LMAO Thiscomment is underrated

[@mberka12]

Quick, someone change Your controller panel

[@seemoore9175]

...and then every indie game designer recreated psycho mantis in their game.

[@GeorgeCowsert]

There needs to be more "Psycho Mantis" type characters. The kind that forces the developers and players to get clever with the technology they interact with, or using metadata to create moments where the player thinks for a moment, no matter how brief, that the game is actually real.

[@nathanthompson6720]

It's ironic to think that the sorrow a medium slash psychic killed volgin by frying him with a bolt of electricity but kid psychomantis another psychic brought volgin back to life by reanimating him

[@nonamehours6428]

Other than blowing the minds of every 90s gamer yeah I'd say he's pretty important to gaming as a whole

[@nopingengie2102]

I like how upset he gets when he discovers the controller can’t vibrate

[@nathanthompson6720]

It's crazy to think that the salanthrupus being controlled by kid psycho mantis was the final boss in mgs5 instead of skullface

[@chance9512]

"starting first by changing the channel on the tv-" *Ad break* That was majestically timed.

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

"I see you've intentionally mispronounced 'Cyprus' as a part of some convoluted plan to implant a desire to watch Shimoneta into every creature with eyes to see it!"

[@teslashark]

Altis!

[@Kerrisive]

Psycho Mantis has always been SICK and acting as a metanarrative tool for storytelling. MGS is always great about that--see MGS2. Hell, even MGR has a good amount of metanarrative aspects to it through its analysis of how Raiden's real motivation is violence and how he enjoys it. This acts as a great parallel to how players play games to enjoy the gameplay and how many games are centered around violence or killing, despite how journalists and gamers may convince themselves otherwise. Enjoying or being wired to violence isn't a bad thing in and of itself though. People who are typically use it to be a productive member of society via military service, sports, or other hobbies.

[@blumoney6001]

I remember being a kid fighting psycho mantis. I must of died 30 times before I was told to put the controller in the second slot. Shit was epic!

[@genogamma13]

"I've never used my psychic powers to help someone." [cuts to excising vocal chord parasites from Eli in a way not even the best scientists Diamond Dogs had could do] Just a friendly reminder that retcons are fine and not every writer is flawless, as long as you enjoy the ride... But it's still funny to catch contradictions.

[@GBDupree]

It could be construed that Mantis wasn't being selfless when he removed the parasite, since he wanted Liquid to achieve his own goals. While helping Snake was never beneficial to Mantis himself, so it is selfless in a way he never did before.

[@mrreyes5004]

@@GBDupree Exactly. Mantis still had something to gain from letting Liquid live. However, with Solid Snake, he had literally _no possible benefit_ from opening the hidden door. Mantis was going to die from those wounds either way, and he truly didn't care if either Solid or Liquid won. In that moment, he was truly selfless, just like his mother giving her life for his. Not a contradiction.

[@slynthehedgehog8061]

Maybe he thought he was being selfish by doing so ? Or that he was just following Eli's orders ? It's also fun to try and resolve contradictions.

[@genogamma13]

@@slynthehedgehog8061 mind blown

[@genogamma13]

@@slynthehedgehog8061 Also yes, didn't realize until the replies I was thinking too literal.

[@Ronin11111111]

"Radius of Big Boss' hatred" fucking killed me XD

[@donaghwilson7715]

The angy zone

[@jaypea30]

@@donaghwilson7715 Frustration Area.

[@spin6872]

@@jaypea30the infuriation dimension

[@JustADioWhosAHeroForFun]

Still creepy that a psychic can read your memory card

[@daffyhat]

Whoa whoa, hold up. How can both the ending where Meryl dies and the ending where she lives both be canon? I know this is a game made by Kojima, but I'm going to need an explanation for that one.

[@demi-femme4821]

I dunno, the ending where she dies seems pretty non-canon to me.

[@kh2fan145]

I think that it's referring to that in the series as a whole the ending where Snake rides off with Otacon is the "canon" ending of MGS1, where Meryl dies. However, Meryl is still alive in the rest of the series so it's some kind of weird amalgamation of the two possibilities.

[@MrFluffyWolf]

@@kh2fan145 at the end of the Meryl ending, Snake tells the colonel to send a chopper to Shadow Moses to pick up Otacon. There's no need for the Otacon ending to be canon, he gets out either way

[@davfree9732]

Think of it as your experience instead of official canon, Ala Mass Effect. If you explored the variations of Meryls game state then Hideo isn’t going to argue with how you experienced his game. … but later on in MGS4 Otacon and Meryl are both alive so a series canon does exist. I reason Hideo’s intent is not to seek to control player interaction, interpretation or sway the player to his way of thinking. He strikes me as a man who wants to know other peoples experiences so he can experience aspects of the series he created he wasn’t aware existed until the player experienced the game and applied their mind to the gameplay and narrative… Or in other words, 100 people can have the same experience and have 100 subjective interpretations. Going through those 100 interpretations will yield good, bad and middling results that can lead to ideas as to what and how to build in a later game. … but seriously, the series does have a canon.

[@imadrifter]

He made not caring about canon canonical

[@donaghwilson7715]

For his "Third child" phase there is also the scene with Shanbani where he can be seen to be wearing Shanbanis necklace

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

Mantis didn't pass on his genes. He passed on his *memes*. Monsoon approves

[@SnowBaller985]

I got an ad and thought that it was just part of the video

[@luissantiago5163]

Oh hell yeah! This'll be great

[@Vision5318]

Psycho Mantis going over my YT feed: "I see, you enjoy watching vtubers...a little too much."

[@alienated8113]

"no matter who he went through it always came to the same sickening result, and this only built upon his inner hatred of the world" sounds like when i try to meet new people

[@kawinkawin]

Y'know, if psycho mantis just met an asexual person, he'd probably not be as evil

[@CesarGonzalez-bw2hz]

The Flair Guy cameo at 14:14 took me for a hell of a ride, very nice

[@rafamore9912]

wasted a minuto inputting the link for Doki Doki Literature Club! OST - Your Reality (Credits)

[@ceresthestarspinner4609]

I mean it’s not really a waste

[@overseerpjoe9477]

Just -Mantis- Monika

[@chokahn6677]

The link don’t work no more

[@michaelzhang9806]

Is this the link that Monika says or the more code that appears later in the vid?

[@nkyfong]

They really have to port Metal Gear to the switch so a new generation of gamers, myself included, can experience the mind fuck that is his boss fight.

[@berbtheherb]

Just buy a PS2?

[@lovethesunlovethemoon]

have i got some news for you buddy

[@hypnoticskull6342]

Gotta say, his kid self in MGSV was pretty cute. I really wanted to feel his hair

[@Mate_Antal_Zoltan]

🤨

[@cinder_9144]

Ur weird bro

[@richardwalker2881]

On PlayStation: "oh, looks like I found some more USA supersoldier projects, that more powerful than the metal gears: gears, specifically Adam and Eve and their child": guilty gear On GameCube: "oh boy, despair, a whole of despair, not only that, but one of your games was inspired by Cthulhu mythos"

[@cadeyoung4406]

The fight kind of reminds me of the Telence T. D'arby fight in Jojo with the mind reading and having to changing controller ports.

[@adlidoeslifting4563]

IKR

[@8-bitsarda747]

that was D'arby the younger, right?

[@cadeyoung4406]

@@8-bitsarda747 Yeah

[@AMaidenlessRunt]

When i first played mgs5 and saw psycho mantis during the hospital raid i let a loud yes! In excitement.. He's one of my favorites characters.

[@dedan496]

I hope someone will translate the binary code from the beginning and the middle of the video and look up that link

[@tryinglyon]

@@cohenvale6342 What even is shimoneta?

[@SnowBaller985]

@@tryinglyon an anime about ecchi terrorists

[@cohenvale6342]

@@tryinglyon Just imagine a world where sex jokes and vulgarity of it was removed and banned by the government. even saying the words was banned. Meti always mentions it at the end of his videos. and sometimes a thumbnail will show this black haired yellow eyed girl with a school uniform on or the same girl with panties on her head. I haven't been on the channel long enough to know, why he references it

[@dedan496]

@@cohenvale6342 In my gut i knew it would translate to something like that

[@pidgeonpatrol861]

The first time I played the Mantis fight his channel change actually worked on me- I panicked from the load noise, accidentally pulling the box out of the TV plug. I didn't know what happened so I manually changed the channel, thinking that's what happened. Whoops.

[@gus7067]

Him reading out my hands felt like the original dox

[@pidgeonpatrol861]

Ok so very neat thing! (At least in my eyes) Most of the lore from the MGS guidebook is completely outdated, but a part of Mantis's extra lore got worked back in by Phantom Pain: The "fact" his powers are parasitic.* This parasitic nature might help explain why Mantis is so much weaker in his MGS appearance. Basically, guidebook lore stated that personalities he parasitized stacked onto each other and came out while he's parasiting someone else. So he literally is "like the men he met as a child" during his time with Foxhound. But since he compartmentalized his parasitic nature as it's own personality after he killed his father**, while back with Eli it takes over again. The guidebook describes that the two personalities joined Foxhound for competing reasons- "the parasite" wanted to kill, while Mantis himself only wanted his own death. This odd bit of old lore might be the key to explaining why he's so much weaker during MGS- he's trying to hold back so Snake can kill him, because he doesn't just want peace from everyone else's mind- he wants peace from his own. *The guidebook posited this as the reason for the "Mantis" name, but as Mantids aren't parasitic I've got to doubt that. But the parasite label already isn't correct (it would be more accurately described as mutualism, given that while he feeds off a person they gain access to his powers- but that's pedantic.) **Given when this split happened, it could be inferred that the fire that consumed him and his village wasn't just a fearful psychic blast- again, while parasited his powers belong to whoever is the stronger willed, potentially meaning the blast damaged himself as well as killing his village because his powers were contested between himself and his father's will.

[@josephdobson6956]

As crazy as it was when psycho mantis read my mind, Eternal Darkness got me better with “Please insert disk 2”

[@jackass315]

even after all these years , i still get goose bumps , i love these games so much , im glad the creators know how awesome their work is , psycho mantis blew my mind , exactly how he was supposed to

[@The_Invoid]

I don't he realized the url he put in at 7:19 is effectively useless due to the font

[@chs9999]

Big boss was so angry he caused another guy to explode

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

I’ll never forget how Phycho Mantis told me to put my controller on the floor and then moved it with the vibrator.

[@Kupomasters57]

Will ya do the sorrow? That dudes a mystery to me.

[@SSD_Penumbra]

I think he's a mystery to everyone. He's a medium who turns into a straight-up ghost.

[@HalfTangible]

7:20 Not sure where this one is linking, I keep getting 'video unavailable'

[@pikraft84]

It's BYBBOtyuNgU

[@Bighomie39]

@@pikraft84 why is there a link to a Rance video?

[@SuperSilver7591]

Monika showing up was hilarious I'm digging the metal gear videos for sure !

[@GameVeteran86]

One of the most unforgettable boss fights I’ve ever faced

[@Beelzebaes]

Thanks monika! Have a good day too!

[@gummy2955]

Imagine if metal gear solid releases on steam and psyco mantis says "i see you like to play among us"

[@Comkill117]

You’re a cautious man, and quite skilled. You don’t save much. Still don’t believe me? I’ll read further into your mind: You seem to enjoy role playing games. I see you like action games. You’ve played a couple Konami games. ...You like Castlevania don’t you?

[@MarkArandjus]

"You like meeeen!" "You can see into my mind?!" "No." "Fuck."

[@cytesnda]

so much information at once i gotta rewatch and really understand im too drunk for this right now but its amazing thank you

[@Shinano1944]

"A bit sad" he fuckin got ANGY

[@justinvzu01]

Psychomantis also appeared in Resident Evil: Revelations. lol

[@recommendit908]

The fact that mantis was silence in 5 Damn

[@ShawnbobShady]

Dude I just finished doki doki like a week ago. I had to rewatch the video to make sure I wasn’t crazy.

[@tobi2960]

that surprise appearance of Dough Walker really caught me off guard

[@TBDF12]

I clicked my screen you check the time and I saw a big pause icon pop up. Nice

[@TarynBeeswax]

The third child being psycho mantis never crossed my mind while I played V, but it makes so much sense now having learned that

[@Sand-Walker13]

Mantis will always be one of my favorite characters.

[@cyber-phoenix01]

Everyone knows that the most successful execution of trying to scare the audience that Hideo has ever done was to show Olgas' armpits

[@LouiesLog]

Urraaag!

[@Whatsdogpee]

Kaoru was the 5th child though. The 3rd child was shinji.

[@antcolony12345]

Wait wasn't the Third Child in NGE Shinji?

[@nikobellic42]

Still remember when he read my mind and moved my controller, i was young at the time and was scared completely shitless how this guy KNEW i played castlevania.

[@narutofreak974]

At 7:16, did anyone know where that KZbin link led to?

[@firefox3793]

Doki Doki literature club ost

[@DaturaDemo]

Big boss was so full of hatred it had a fucking area of effect??

[@windhelmguard5295]

interesting fact: you can beat mantis without switching controller ports. i've tried it once just to see if i could and the key is to punch him, instead of shooting him with guns, if you just keep dodging his attacks, which isn't that difficult, you can walk up to him and just punch him, which is still not an optimal strategy as he will dodge at least two hits of the three hit combo snake does when he isn't armed, but you will usually get one hit in, which will eventually wear him down, the infrared goggles make this particularly easy to pull off. this is actually a huge oversight in the game because mantis will still ask why he couldn't read you mind after you win, when he did read your mind throughout the entire fight. in a later instalment i'm quite sure this possibility would have been considered, so if anyone can confirm whether or not this is possible in the twin snakes and whether or not it is recognized in mentis' dialogue, please reply.

[@DIVING_BELL]

if he read my computer it would litterally just be random 3 hour videos and madness combat spritesheet

[@segagod92]

The alliteration in the intro is inspiring.

[@joshcamacho6342]

say the video isn't available anymore

[@icebreaker913]

You like to play Castlevania, don't you?

[@TheJigsaw1591]

7:21 Anyone figure out what this link was for? Says video doesn't exist

[@connordervoncyberlifegesen8529]

7:19 what is that?

[@ninjammer726]

please do a video on otacon and huey

[@Gaz66d]

I think the part about “both endings of MGS1 being cannon” needs to be re-evaluated. If you escape from Shadow Moses with Otacon, it’s because Meryl is dead. There’s no plot hole, that’s just how it is. You can’t “but they both escaped” from that. She’s a hashtag. #ripMeryl When you escape with Meryl, Otacon will tell you he’s planning to stay behind, growing a pair and saying even when the bombs fall he’ll do whatever he can to help you escape. But the bombs never come. The pentagon want the Metal Gear Data. If you didn’t skip the last codec call you’ll hear that the Chief of Staff was removed from his post and the air strike was called off- making Otacon’s “noble self sacrifice” just a bit of a wet firework. But… he lives. Meryl and Otacon both live. Snake and Meryl have to escape on the Snowmobile, but it’s likely that the pentagon send in a crew to acquire what they can from this Op. which includes Dr. Emmerich as HES much more of a valuable asset- given he built Rex and they want him alive cos there’s no M.O disk In the Meryl ending- Otacon still lives, and probably gets an armed escort back to civilization. In the Otacon ending- she gets her own special Game Over screen with “no continues, my friend” and can’t appear in MGS4. Saying “both endings are canon” makes the timeline a nightmare when there’s literally a much easier solution, even though people assumed (because Otacon was in MGS2 and Meryl wasn’t) that the Otacon ending was canon and still cling to that- thinking MGS4 Retconned her death. But if the Meryl ending is the Canon ending nothing changes except that Snake has to get Otacon out of the Pentagon to set up Philanthropy. That’s all.

[@BJ-zf6tq]

I have a 3rd party ps3 controller, so when I played mgs4 the Psycho Mantis part confused me

[@MrLightningBlt]

Where can I find the second player port on the IPhone?

[@KahosSaint]

You don't. The way to beat him without switching the controller is to take out the statues with the bandages wrapped around them.

[@MrLightningBlt]

@@KahosSaint you’re pretty good 👉👉

[@KingKalashnikov]

Entirely unrelated, but it's cool that there's a youtube channel that talks about my 3 favourite things -- JoJo, Castlevania, and Metal Gear.

[@CardinalSn]

Hey, if you didn't catch it I did so you don't have to. 3:05 Doki Doki Literature Club! OST - Your Reality (Credits)

[@babyzorilla]

The boss battle with psycho mantis drove me insane I still have not recovered

[@TheMock5000]

Thank God he can't search through your search history.

[@MN-jw7mm]

When you were talking about horror and showing Olga, I legit thought you were going to make a joke about her armpits lol

[@7uring]

So. What's the binary at around 4:17?

[@kyledonnelly8069]

Lol my copy of mgs was pirated so I couldn't check the CD case... I was so frustrated and confused lol I didn't get what they meant and kept checking items in my inventory. I eventually just called every number until I got Meryl. Point is, don't pirate games.

[@CoralCopperHead]

It happened to me when I rented Twin Snakes. Luckily, easy internet access was a thing by that point.

[@Abdega]

Psycho Mantis? Meti? You’re that bad guy…

[@mrreyes5004]

It's honestly pretty easy to overlook Mantis' actual personality and character. Like, yes, he set precedents for 4th-wall-breaking and connecting video game software into the game's universe itself (which Flowey and Monika both ran with). But that also ignores Mantis himself as a compelling character too - even without his added backstory from MGSV, it's painfully easy to see why he views humanity as beneath him with so much contempt, given that he experienced things like a loving family and people's friendship rather than his father's hatred and people's depravity. Whether you go with the "it feels... kind of... nostalgic" or "it feels.. kind of... nice" translation, it's clear that Psycho Mantis was not born a monster, but rather molded into one by his toxic surroundings. Ironically, the psychic known for being a puppetmaster was, himself, influenced and shaped by others more than he would ever want to admit.

[@chilly456]

What's th link at 3:05? I tried searching it but nothing comes up.

[@MetiNotTheBadGuy]

It works

[@FoolishFew]

Wait there was more to phantom pain?!!

[@dumbassesanonymous]

Your picture makes this comment much better

[@FearsJourney]

I feel like mantis could have been he world's greatest million dollar magician