The Story Of... Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

While making this video I decided I am going to make a "how MG1 + 2 shaped the franchise" edit detailing all the similarities and callbacks to the two originals throughout the franchise. Since many people still haven't played (or in my case, finished because it's hard lol) there may be a lot of details that fall through the cracks. The beauty is in the details and I didn't want to bombard this video with references so look for that in the next couple weeks! :)

[@malik87breaker]

Oh, i was trying to subscribe to your channel. Turns out i am. lol

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

@@malik87breaker hahah thank you!!

[@jatzjosef]

I would still be interested in that vid if u ever make it

[@nicholasmccloud9204]

Great MG videos! Would love to see this video made in the future. I had no idea how many call backs there were to these old games in MGS1 but it makes sense, most games that went from 2D to 3D have a lot of call backs since the developers have a totally new way to present their vision to the audience.

[@ner1849]

Hey I have never heard of you before this video.I was going through the history of metal gear and wanted a refresher course on metal gear 2. When I found you. I listened to the whole thing believing that you had at least 300k subscribers, this video had 50k likes and you had a full community. I did not expect such presentation, quality, and a talented raconteur for someone this early in the KZbin career. You are going to dominate this niche

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Appreciate your kind words!! 🥰

[@QuxMax]

Instead of remaking MGS3 I wish they would remake the first Metal Gear or Metal Gear 2

[@ramiel007]

I was so eager of some sort of reboot after mgsV was getting closer to outer heaven, too bad it never happened

[@clc81990]

They need to remake and rewrite both in a single game similar to MGS2 Tanker-Plant.

[@mendeleyev1790]

@@clc81990that's almost what metal gear solid is

[@chumorgan443]

Madnar got some of that old man grip strength 😂

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

For real 😩

[@Ahito1984]

1:44 The line that sounds like TPP is how Zanzibarland seized every nuclear weapon. Looking at TPP infiltration missions to neutralise nuke stuff around the world, this subject was well used 25 years before TPP. Every Metal Gear game have connections between each other, that one is part of it.

[@JacOfArts]

12:30 This part is hilarious to me. The snake is probably dangerous but there's something so silly about a snake literally just chilling in the inventory screen.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

The snake is such a great bit

[@dantran9962]

Fun fact Madnar returns behind the scenes that helps Raiden numerous of times. Getting his real blood back after MGS2 and giving him cyborg parts in MGS4 and upgrading his body in MGR.

[@niles8576]

currently playing mg games in story order and i could not play these games as they sure have aged. so im very glad these videos exists

[@Viroh]

Same, had to skip these trash games

[@heitor916]

Thanks for the videos about the Story of Metal Gear 1 and 2! I finally decided to play for the first time the whole Metal Gear franchise, so I bought the Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection for the PS3, tried to play the MSXs ones, but it's so hard and the are a lot backtracking that I decided to watch KZbin videos, now I feel prepared to play Metal Gear Solid, hope that I can finish that one

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

They are very hard for me as well! I think as long as you know the story of the first two you’ll be good to go! Metal gear solid is sooo much easier to play and enjoy!! Have fun!

[@alexpye5315]

Just finished both og metal gear videos of this and it was amazing. I loved the way you did it because it kind of felt like I was playing it again and refreshing on what I knew and learning some stuff I forgot or never picked up on. Definitely watching your other videos.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thank you so much!!!

[@BigGainer98]

One of the best games I ever played. My favorite in the Metal Gear franchise.

[@erikwennerholm4792]

totally agree. This game is still criminally under rated.

[@damienjohn]

Love this little recap, nice work!

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thank you!

[@MrPubs01]

Thank you for the video! Great editing, must have taken awhile. Finally opened my copy of mgs legacy collection and after a couple of hours playing metal gear saw your channel!

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thanks so much! Did take a while 😅

[@Cosmic-Bear.]

Thanks for these vids, they are perfect for knowing the world before I start playing through the MGS games for the first time.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Enjoy the journey!

[@ibraheemayyad6875]

Splendid video and what makes it more splendid is your style and touch.

[@NeO_SaNdMaN4040]

Holy crap. Never been this early for a game synopsis. This is awesome!

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Haha thanks 😊

[@RandomGamerKnight25]

Amazing video, especially you knowing your Metal Gear knowledge! I’m a huge fan of the series.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

thanks!

[@blackhawk65589]

Nice video! Was not expecting this in-depth synopsis. I enjoyed MG2:SS a lot. I thought it had very unique puzzle, such as the two different eggs

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thanks for watching!

[@birdmanhero]

My favorite game series ever. I just recently finished this game for the first time (I'd been putting it off for some goofy reason haha) Been with this series since 1999 after I played MGS for the first time. Your videos are great and this video is what made me finally decide to finish this game. So thank you and hope you keep making more in depth videos!

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thank you! Good luck I still have a hard time with the first two!

[@justchan2443]

thank you for making this recap. If MGS1 goes on sale, I might give MS2 a shot again.

[@jehutyinp]

I love your commentary this was so fun!!!

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

thank you!

[@minnmax]

This is the perfect summary, thank you!

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

thanks for watching!

[@kevinc9292]

Amazing work, thanks

[@DontPretendtoCare]

I beat Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2 when I was in Eastern Europe. This video brought back fond memories. Thank you.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

thanks for watching!

[@tomwylie9298]

Finding your channel literally made my day

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Your comment made mine!

[@tyo101]

Great video, thanks, Amanda.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thanks boss!

[@GTaylor69]

Never played metal gear but headed into mgs 1 with this new found info. Thanks!

[@laurenkaitlyn6341]

Metal Gear loves Hind's. I love AmandaLemon's. Only because of the software manual and that thing on the back of the CD case

[@Rams-ram]

Metal gear my favourite saga ! After a looonge break from gaming (10years+), im restarting the metal gear serie, juste finished the MSX MG1 ( 6h playtime on 5 days 😂 ) and just started the 2, i love your work, thanks ! 💯💯💯

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

have fun reliving the saga!!

[@ybazzoun313]

I just came across your page. I am in love I love everything you do don’t ever stop!❤❤❤

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thanks for being here!

[@snake7686]

Excellent review and story analysis 👏

[@seanmcnallyactor]

Thank you for the video. Saved me playing the game

[@daboos6353]

One of the only videos explaining the plot of this game, great vid.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thanks for watching!

[@Polaco3230]

I loved both videos, new sub!

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thank you!

[@2oonGamer]

Just finished your MG1 video, and halfway through this one now. I tried playing MG1, but found it a bit too hard for my modern day gaming brain 😂 and wanted to get the story in full before I play MGS1 again. I was 14 when MGS1 came out, and it's still one of my all time favourite games (and franchises). I'm loving these story recaps, you make them enjoyable and not too long, thank you! And I only knew the brief outline of story from the original Metal Gear games. Keep up the great videos, I've subbed and will be watching more for sure!

[@kenshiro7960]

Just completed metal gear 2 today on my 44th birthday and 0:58 is what I really wanted to know I would like to know the other characters like Natasha and Holly etc Now to carry on watching the rest Plus love your voice

[@tristanjones7682]

The neat thing about this and metal gear solid is that they follow the same story beats but with different characters and locations I’ve only played the metal gear solid games and only knew about metal gear and metal gear 2 from my instruction manual and it said the games only came out in Japan which would be the case until metal gear 2 was included in metal gear solid 3!

[@jorgeferreira6937]

Came looking for a summary of MG1=2 before replaying the MG series so I could be more in the loop of the story. Came across your channel and these videos are awesome! Subscribed and looking forward for the mentioned "how MG1 + 2 shaped the franchise" 😎🤘

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thank you!! I still need to make that 😅

[@osricen]

Nice video and I love your voice! I agree with the guys here, the remake should've been MG+MG2 in a single game, keeping it simple, but taking it to modern levels of graphics, sound, and gameplay. Chapter I could be MG and Chapter II MG2. I don't know why, but I imagine something more like MGS2 and 3 than 5 with that hypothetical remake.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

thank you!

[@gmoney4024]

Awesome video all the way through I wish I had played those games but didn’t have the pc for it and I was just a kid then! I hope you would do a video on the metal gear game for Nintendo I never got to finish it. The second game on Nintendo felt out of place for the franchise and got away from the spy stuff and sadly to say more Americanized than the other games! But awesome work on narrating these games great old school classics kids today will learn alot from this! A lot memory and drawing maps to know where you are. Games today no longer require you do that stuff less thinking. Please keep up the great videos you got mad skills and glad to know metal gear fans out here!

[@conciise136]

What a great video!

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thank you!!

[@linovr6142]

Great job! Ghost Babel please

[@navylaks2]

They should remake the first 2 Metal Ger Games, Metal Gear from 1987 my birth year and Metal Gear 2: Solid snake from 1990

[@eppskevin]

“ITS NOT OVER YET!!!!!”

[@KBXband]

I played and beat this on PS Vita. It is a great game, very epic. But I hated the swamp. That part totally brings my fun factor to zero very quickly. Other than that it's be cool if we got a new game that had Metal Gear 1 and 2 with modern graphics and a revised script.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Would love to see these brought to life with current tech!

[@jmlkhan5153]

Hot take: I think the graphics and presentation are fine, and I would like to see the series remastered on the msx engine, but with quality of life upgrades like cqc, hold ups, and persistent guard bodies.

[@KBXband]

@@jmlkhan5153 are you saying you want it to stay 2D with sprites but include modern day quality of life improvements? Then why release the original game at that point? That is something I could see fans making happen but not KON-ami

[@guerricdeveauxv.h4261]

Awesome !

[@thequestion8697]

Does this mean that Madnar should be like, a ridiculously buff, old, Russian doctor? Thats so awesome.

[@BrawlerZant]

Still don’t understand much of the story just the big details, like metal gear’s, big boss. Crazy to see such a complex game though for even that time period. Thanks for the vid

[@Joetime90]

1990 is my birth year too Also Kyle Schneider is Null from Portable Ops. Frank Hunter is Frank Jaeger (Jaeger is Hunter in German) so... Grey Fox.

[@jboogie915]

He’s not null grey fox is null…”Because Jaeger was the only surviving test subject of the project, he was deemed a lost number and was given the codename of "Null.”

[@Joetime90]

@@jboogie915 really now, I'll have to look more into it. Thanks for the clarification.

[@Joetime90]

​@@jboogie915you are correct, my source was an old magazine referencing Portable Ops.

[@jalipeno97]

just beat this game and mg1 after playing them inbetween classes,i have way more motivation to go finish mgs2 now lol i got stuck on vamps fight like a month ago

[@viceadmiralq90]

We need a remake of the first two msx metal gear games with metal gear solid v gameplay and using the same fox engine.

[@ShaazamR]

Great video on this! Im watching these in order of the playlist on your channel and i got a little confused about the ending of this one. Is this big boss... the real big boss? Or is it venom again? At the end of your first Metal Gear video you mentioned the twist with phantom pain so im a little confused who is who in this game

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thank you! & yeah this is the real big boss as venom was taken out in mg1. The patriots recovered his body after mg2 and Frankenstein’d him and kept him comatose until 4 when the system freed him

[@ShaazamR]

@@ItsAmandaLemon ah got it, that clears it up! Thank you!

[@ahmadabdelmawla5405]

Insane how similar MG2 to MGS. Probably could have been the superior if had the similar development technology

[@game-u-cation]

Dope channel

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

thanks!!

[@Shokisan1]

This game actually looks decent. Would be great to play a good remake.

[@Fearless3773]

Nice to know Konami has been sayin “fuck kojima” since the 90s 😂

[@christophervargas3625]

“Snake what the fu..” 😂😂😂

[@adamantium4797]

Nice

[@thatlat5831]

I really would have liked to recommend these videos for new comers to the series as a starting point instead of suffering in the old school game hardness. But the amount of spoilers you give for the future games kind of ruins it for that aspect. Otherwise nice video 9/10.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

@@thatlat5831 what spoilers?

[@thatlat5831]

@ItsAmandaLemon anything you show of future games counts as a spoiler. And every time you said Grey Fox. You showed his cyborg ninja form which is actually a plot twist.

[@whoami9573]

Good stuff, decided to play through the franchise and wanted to skip the first 2 and just watch a recap

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Enjoy the journey!

[@tigerishrumble7976]

I'm so grateful for these videos. I'm just getting into the metal gear franchise but these games HAVE NOT aged well. I understand that people love these game. but getting into it in 2023 just isn't for me lol. I finished the first one but it was actually insufferable for me. the backtracking and the map design was a huge turn off for me. I get that for 1987 standards the game was great, but 36 years later... it's rough. at least MGS1 is much better in the gameplay department as well as MGS2 and ESPECIALLY 3. Thank you so much.

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Thanks for watching!! These still kick my ass lol

[@cuddlypoetatoe5589]

maybe make one for mgr for funsies, its technically a sequel

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

maybe I should...

[@cuddlypoetatoe5589]

@@ItsAmandaLemon if u made one for survive too tho…

[@jazzochannel]

18:02 presumably because they are more compassionate then men?

[@ThatzGuru9]

didi aapko pata hai kya ki ek human jlnese nhi explode hota (simle emoji)

[@kerryclark5130]

Metal gear 2 needs a remake

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

100%

[@Mgpalau1]

Definitevely

[@rayfoxcocus69urmutha30]

Hello , my name is solid snake and I have a hamster

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

poisonous hamster!

[@nessy3338]

I wish you didn't keep spilling micro spoiler references to future titles, that's really annoying lol

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Nessy why are you still watching my content when it annoys you so much? 🤣

[@minecraft360guy]

How do you spoil something that’s 30 years OLD?

[@hoobaguy]

The newest game is 10 years old. It's your fault if you haven't figured out what happened at this point.

[@nucleja]

this is less the story more the gameplay, wax poetic please!

[@ThatzGuru9]

chahe ye game ki galti hai par aapke gamers ki feelings nhi hurt karni chahiye

[@MetalGear_Markie]

Rooy Campbell!! Lol

[@ItsAmandaLemon]

Gotta love him

[@Gwyn1stborn]

Wow. I was only familiar with the terrible nes metal gear. Didn't expect all the story and lore this early in the series

[@srujan00]

This game's mechanics were so clunky and unresponsive that they pissed me off to the point where I prefer MG1.

[@ThatzGuru9]

didi pehle aap gray ki spelling soch ke likha koro kabhi aap "grey" likhti hoo jab game me "gray" kya dikt hai aapko

[@jaredt2590]

Metal Gear 2 is so bad, it and solid 4 are the worst entries in the series. The best one is solid 3, that one is the perfect game.

[@ThatzGuru9]

didi tum thodi pagal ho kya

[@metalngames509]

Snake left Holly for the same reason he left Meryl. His PTSD nightmares and struggles with finding purpose in life. In the end Big Boss was right to an extent. Snake knew nothing but combat and could never truly live his life in peace... That is before Big Boss in MGS4 told him it's finally time to set aside the gun and live as not a soldier, but as a man. I think after he broke up with Meryl, that's why he never perused another relationship after. Although he did show a bit of interest in Otacon's sister. Lol