What Makes Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker The Best PSP Game?

During the development of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, the team came up with the idea for another PSP title to follow it up, and development on this sequel would begin shortly after MPO was released. And while Hideo Kojima had originally planned to leave the project in the hands of the MPO team, he wanted to make the game’s message more clear for a younger demographic, opting to join the team as the project director shortly after development began, meaning that he was working on both this new PSP title and Metal Gear Solid 4 at the same time. This project would come to be known internally as “Metal Gear Solid 5: Peace Walker”, but the team would end up dropping the numbered title as they didn’t feel it was right to put a numbered entry on a handheld system, simply titling it “Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker” instead. Kojima and the team wanted this to be the largest Metal Gear game to date, so they gave it a lot of time in the oven, with the game eventually being released in April of 2010. So would Peace Walker be able to meaningfully build upon the handheld format that Portable Ops brought to the table, or would the game be held back by the split development focus between it and the then newest numbered entry? Well, let’s talk about it.
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Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is a 2010 stealth game developed by Kojima Productions and published by Konami. It is the seventh Metal Gear game written, directed, and designed by Hideo Kojima, and the fifth installment of the Metal Gear Solid series, as well as the fourth Metal Gear game made specifically for the PlayStation Portable, following Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops. A remastered version of the game titled Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker - HD Edition was later released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as part of the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection in North America and Europe and as a stand-alone retail release in Japan.
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[@totalhydration5240]

I still can't believe they made two Portable Ops games and then drop this banger.

[@MCVAMP666]

Yeah this game did so bad they had renew it and Remaster it lol

[@Kenshiro3rd]

@@MCVAMP666 not at all. It did well enough that the release an expansion… just like they did MGS (VR mission) MGS2 (Substance) and MGS3 (Subsistence).

[@MCVAMP666]

@@Kenshiro3rd it actually did in sales check again.

[@l4l01234]

It sold less physical copies in America compared to Acid, but exact numbers are hard to find because digital copies were not counted at the time for some reason. Some modern sources place it at close to 2 million copies total on the original PSP release, although I have no idea how accurate that is. Still, it wasn’t so much that the game itself was a flop, as much as the PSP as a platform was a flop. Most PSP games in general had very low sales because no one was buying PSPs to begin with.

[@Hightower2804TP]

there's only one portable ops game. plus is just a multiplayer expansion

[@legomania2427]

What the hell is Peace walker? I only know Violence Sprint.

[@MemeDogger]

"Metal Gear: Violent Sprint" that actually doesn't seem bad.

[@justinpliskin2919]

@@MemeDogger that's exactly what I do at all times I'm Phantom Pain. Venom is so scarily fast. Folding people in half and never getting tired.

[@Nitecrawlerjpd]

BTW, the missions where you send out soldiers on missions comes from portable ops. You can also recruit soldiers based on the WiFi signal, this also comes from potable ops. I still have some uploaded videos on my channel using the love box, but let's say I wouldn't show my parents.

[@Necrom6]

Wake up babe, new Chole metal gear video just dropped.

[@vixenpeon]

My husband didn't care, I'm afraid lol

[@Necrom6]

@@vixenpeon I'm so sorry to hear that, hope he improves.

[@abcksidu1453]

The reason the animated cutscenes look better is because shinkawa also worked on them too

[@notcole]

yeah that would certainly help 😂

[@tylerritchie2736]

You fought a hind-a because the d variant hadn't been invented.

[@chadgumban3922]

Loved this MGS and played this to death on my cousin's PSP. Ohhh boy, good ol memories. The fight with Zeke + Paz while love deterrence plays was something magical and hard to recreate

[@StylishYeoman]

How are you going to handle Ground Zeros? The game by many accounts only has a few hours worth of game play and is basically just the prologue for MGSV just in a separate package for some reason. Super excited for you to get to MGSV! The gameplay is phenomenal, and in my opinion is takes everything you loved about peace walker and does it even better. I'm sure you've probably been warned by now, but the story is such a tragedy after the second half with the last mission of the story "Kingdom of the flies" being completely cut from the game and only available to be viewed as a WIP development cinematic on KZbin. You can really tell when problems between the dev team and Konami reached their boiling point. So while it is an absolutely fantastic game, it could have been so so SO much more.

[@notcole]

They're going to be two separate videos for a couple of reasons, but mainly just because it was released as its own product, so I want to judge it by that standard. It's also going to allow me to split up the MGSV work load a bit and hopefully not end up with a 2-3 hour video 😂

[@roc5291]

Huge MGS fan. Played this on the 360 with the remaster collection. Absolutely LOVE the game. Felt like a classic Metal Gear game through and through. After the somewhat convoluted story and gameplay of Guns of the Patriots, this felt like Kojima and company had much more focus and restraint. Had a wonderful balance of game play and story and felt like it was still trying to push the envelope with what the medium could be capable of doing. To me, THIS is the last great MGS game to this day.

[@CucasNerdyCorner]

When this game came out originally on the psp, I HAAAAAATED it due to the bad controls. When the HD version came out on the PS3/Xbox 360, that's when I gave it a proper go at it. personally I love the story. But It's one those games, once you 100% it or heck even just finishing the main story once. You never want to go back for various reasons like chapter 5 and grinding for parts. To be honest, the only reason I finished this game and got the platinum trophy was because I was playing it online with random people with OP weapons to defeat Zeke. I still can't believe you done all of that by yourself. Very well done. If this game does come to master collection volume 2. I highly doubt it I'll replay it 😅

[@MrMohaakon]

So your not gonna talk about how the torture segment totally destroyed my triangle button and required a car toy to complete this mission

[@d.watamate8231]

My favorite Metal Gear Solid game! Tho, the PS version..

[@bingus6050]

i literally JUST finished mgs pw today and click onto my feed to see this :DD

[@subtegral]

1) Kojima didn't drop the 5 on Peace Walker. Konami did. 2) It's best to play it on PS3, or at least on a Vita, or Vita TV. 3) The MSF beach HQ was on the coast near the San Hieronymo peninsula. Kaz wanted to move on from it (expand the business) and get away from Columbia. Internationally, the line was grossly misconstrued as a dig against Portable Ops (because it doesn't match up properly to the original Japanese line) when in reality it's meant to be a positive nod to Portable Ops. 4) The PSP wasn't a portable PS2. It's less powerful than PS2 but more powerful than PS1. 5) Ground Zeroes doesn't match up to the final ending of Peace Walker, when in GZ Kaz mentioned to Big Boss about how they BOTH fell for Paz's student of peace story. Why? Because GZ and TPP are the hypnagogia "V has come to" project that Kojima is putting the player though. Therefore V is non-canon. There is also dialogue from EVA and Big Boss in MGS4 that proves V isn't canon.

[@KBXband]

Absolutely love playing this game. But only on a PSP LOL for some reason if I play it on a console it just seems like it's a lesser version. I remember seeing a review by SomeCallMeJohnny where he trashed the game and I was like, am I in the wrong for enjoying this?

[@heardofrvb]

But you didn't do the Monster Hunter missions, which includes a monster made exclusively for this game.

[@stardrago7908]

Hmm need to get the console review for the hd collection version as a whole cause it’s apparently different their like the ps3/x360 is different and more fun

[@KenBladehart]

The stick movement thing might be your controller. It might have borked deadzone for example, which can be tweaked in the emulator Also, youre playing on emulator, the bloom is not blown up on PSP's 480p screen Beside, PPSSPP is still not perfect at graphics. Sony was obsessed with wacky graphical rendering for PSP, just like on PS2 and PS3

[@CheddarGetter]

Dude, just play the HD version. Unshackle this masterpiece!

[@nellofontani]

the best psp game, i loved it

[@hinobye14]

Time for my favorite mgs game rising

[@FsMetal-gk4iw]

I want to like this game a lot more than I actually do. The technology in this game is much more advanced than it is in MGS5, MG1, MG2, MGS and MGS2. In that regard it feels out of place and makes no sense. Also the boss fights are....just....so goddamn bullet spongey. They get so annoying to fight. The final chapter for the real ending flat out sucks. When I was not in a boss fight I tended to enjoy playing it. The moment I got into a boss fight I was like "God not again"

[@sergiomendoza251]

Peace Walker had the WORST roster of bosses,all of them sucks,the most boring and tedious bosses in the entire series.

[@chubz8969]

Peace Walker and MGS V are both really bad MGS games. mechanically they improved the franchise, but they are soulless crap otherwise.

[@Sniperk1ng187]

Peace Walker is one of my favorite MGS games mechanically. I love developing gear, fultoning the guards, doing co op. FREAKING CO OP METAL GEAR!! It's so peak

[@Kraken_Kouhai]

@Sniperk1ng187 right, I was hoping for more but it doesn't feel the same in V, been wanting to get back into peacewalker

[@Kraken_Kouhai]

Right! In V I was hoping for more of that, but it doesn't feel the same

[@LudaneRua]

CO-OP WAS THE BEST

[@Spartan_Mirai-330]

Fun fact: the song in the ZEKE battle was made in-universe for Peace Day, the day where peace would have been mostly achieved throughout the world. This also means that Miller (and by extension, MSF) could have been the very first idol manager if Paz didn't pull all the shit that happened on Mother Base. Also means that Paz knows how to sing in Japanese, and also that Miller is an absolute god of a producer and lyric maker because *gawd damn,* Love Deterrence goes so hard for something about nuclear deterrence theory disguised as a love song about a forbidden student and teacher romance. (Also, Paz is an adult, and her being 16 was a lie. Because Kojima is Kojima and he won't hesitate to make Big Boss become a lolicon without him knowing about wtf that means in a game as long as it's revealed that the 16 year-old schoolgirl was actually a consenting adult and that they just look like a teen.)

[@lesslighter]

its also why Idol Paz is sometimes plastered in MGSV:TPP, sure the bullshit she did in PW was kinda "stupid" but god the people at MSF just forgave her and you blasting Love Deterence in some of the mission gets attention from the dispersed MSF soldiers

[@CoralCopperHead]

(doesn't help that 16 is the AoC in Japan)

[@Spartan_Mirai-330]

@@CoralCopperHead there are laws that prevent a 16 year-old teen having sex with an 18 year-old adult, iirc in Japan a 16yo female and a 18yo male can't hook up, both need to be 18 to fuck

[@mallmann72]

The age of consent is even lower in most of the world

[@CallumHurley]

In terms of why Peace Walker's cutscenes look so much better than Portable Ops', there are three reasons, I feel: 1. Art was done by both Ashley Wood and Yoji Shinkawa, and for fun the two of them tried imitating each other's styles here and there, making for more varied artwork. 2. They're FAR more animated than they were in Portable Ops. 3. They further imitate the comic/graphic novel look using small "frames" (or boxes) and speech bubbles rather than just standard subtitles.

[@PlebNC]

Nah the real box MVP is the Ambulance Box. Aside from reviving downed teammates (and having flashing lights while doing so), it's a great way to heal without using healing items which impacts rankings and most boss areas have cheese spots you can hide in to wait out the healing. This is especially useful in vehicle missions where the vehicles can be obnoxiously powerful in the late game.

[@serPomiz]

the later vehicles fight are thought for multiplayer, full stop, which is a design inherited from monster hunter, and was a pretty wide standard at the time we somewhat moved over from that, luckily, but you can see it onto even the Cheese items be countered pretty hard, which should not happen!

[@2551987ezio]

For someone who used used the Shooting Range like once freely and rest only though Side Ops during my first playthough and didn't have access to internet and look up guides. It took me so 'long' to find Zadornov and unlock the Zeke Battle. I thought I had to like complete all side ops, to unlock a mission to go find him, so as I'm completing rest of Side Ops, I'm like, "How do I find Zadornov?", "What am I missing?" Couple weeks later, I just kinda gave up on it and continued replaying main and side ops, until one day, I thought I'll go to the Shooting Range and improve on my aim. Just as Kaz stopped talking, did I hear Zadornov's little chuckle at the end, looked around and 'finally' found him. I feel sorry, for those who took so long to find him like I did. 😂

[@bird_toe3548]

Since you are presumably going to MGSV soon, you should be aware that there is an an incredibly easy to miss, but interesting side story in that game. Without spoiling anything, after you have completed at least one Wandering Mother Base Soldier sideop, you can visit a room on the third floor of the medical plant to trigger the first cutscene.

[@notcole]

noted :)

[@massive0crunt]

It almost feels like the last mission/tape from that 'side story' should be the end of the game. It gives context to the way the whole of MGSV played out.

[@LumieVT]

I remember this game because the hype and mystery surrounding a mainline entry in a portable like the PSP was so intriguing at the time. It was the last time I bought physical media, buying a gaming magazine just to read the articles on Peace Walker. Nice video!

[@olaf3140]

Yeah I remember reading how it was originally titled MGS V, and was a little worried that I'd be missing out on a proper MGS experience (which I did).

[@subtegral]

​​​@@olaf3140um.. no. It was (and still is) MGS5, not V. V isn't 5, it's literally the letter V, for Kojima's hypnagogia "V has come to" project (transplanting the player into a fictional version of the Metal Gear universe) Look up Kojima's own tweet that explains it's the letter V, not the number 5. GZ and TPP are actually non-canon.

[@superdrinkingpepsi]

​@@subtegralKojima still called it five during interviews though, throwing your entire insane and silly theory out the window

[@subtegral]

@@superdrinkingpepsi look up his old tweet about the V in MGSV. Copy and pasted: "Not MGS5, MGSV. My thought in it. V has come to" I win, you lose - superpepsidrinker.

[@Axle0Bullitt019]

The Hind A, AKA Mi-24A was only five years young at the time of Peace Walker. The Mi-24D was only a year into production so the USSR would likely still be holding onto them instead of loaning it out to rebel cells. Great video once again, it’s going to be sad when you’re done with this journey with how much I am enjoying this series.

[@skeith804]

So, Chapter 5 is one of my favs but not for the usual missions + story structure. Instead it's just all about MSF starting to snowball into a sizeable fighting force. The tone at Mother Base is a lot more sinister sounding, the base starts getting built at a speedy pace, you start sending your own Metal Gear out on the front lines guaranteeing dominance on the battlefield. It all feels like this war machine you built has taken on a life of its own. You became a threat and Cipher tried to make a move on you because of it. It WOULD be nice if it was accomplished without passing time and catching Zadornov 10 times but.. Also I believe Paz is stripped down because the inside of Zeke is using a water system to help absorb the forces experienced on the pilot. If she wasn't in a hurry, she'd probably throw on a wet suit.

[@notcole]

I did love it from a thematic and story perspective... but that mission structure... Edit: Also, Paz being in her undies actually makes some sense now 😂

[@subtegral]

I always knew the cockpit was filled with water, but never put shock absorption into the scenario until you said it. Good job there.

[@ToshisGarden]

Thinking on it now, considering the entirety of the circumstances for that fight with the music and the mech and everything, I can't help but wonder if the fight was designed to be a giant Evangelion reference. XD

[@Kenshiro3rd]

Peace Walker is actually my favorite MGS game. THIS is the game that reveals WHAT caused Big Boss to become a bitter hate-filled man set on fanning the flames of war throughout the world. He wasn't driven by a different interpretation of The Boss' will/dream. Peace Walker reveals that Big Boss was not driven to fulfill The Boss' dream, AT ALL! In fact he was driven by the opposite. Peace Walker's revelation of The Boss' actual goals/dream of world peace, along with the implication that that literally everything she taught him to believe… the very thing she taught him to believe… the very thing she gave her life for… the very core of his being... being true to your mission.... was bullshit she herself completely opposed to festered in & BROKE Big Boss. It poisoned all his memories of her, and turned his love and admiration for her into hatred and resentment. THIS game reveals that he felt completely betrayed by, and hated The Boss... who was also paradoxically the person he also loved & admired most. Consequently he was dead set on avenging himself upon her memory. He didn't want to make her dream a reality. He wanted to turn it into a nightmare, it and shove it down her throat, using everything she taught him & taught him to believe... betraying her memory & dream/will the same way she betrayed him, as revenge for her betrayal.

[@sergiomendoza251]

Sadly the bosses in this game sucks so much

[@Kenshiro3rd]

@@sergiomendoza251 disagreed. The problem is they’re designed & balanced for multiple players. They are fun as hell in Coop… like some of the most fun I’ve had in an MGS game level fun.

[@sergiomendoza251]

@@Kenshiro3rd like in Armored Core 5 right?

[@MCVAMP666]

Disagree all of it if there wasn't portable ops in the first place there be no peace walker story at all lol

[@Kenshiro3rd]

@@MCVAMP666 I loved Portable Ops as well, and you ain’t wrongz

[@bdbgh]

Man I really love the cookie side missions in peace walker, going from taking pictures of ghosts, to clearing a base with a banana, to fighting tigrex, to doing AC style dives into hay bales. I also love that you can tranq and capture vehicle pilot/drivers AND their take their vehicle too. It had so much content for a psp game. Edit: I remember cocoon having a bunch of heat vents underneath it that you can destroy to defeat it pretty quickly, combine with chaff grenades when you climb up to get pass the defensive weapons and hit the pod until you can climb in

[@protoaltus]

Aside from the goofy aah shenanigans Snake and the gang get up to in this game, it's still a very charming part of his life story that we never would have gotten otherwise. They played us like a damn fiddle

[@knight_ki11er]

A diagonal movement thing is probably an emulation issue

[@notcole]

I figured as much too, but when I checked, the emulator was reading the input perfectly. Went to see if this was an issue back in the day and found this thread from 2010 where people were talking about it: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/960566-metal-gear-solid-peace-walker/55069258

[@wanderer2688]

@@notcole I used to play it in the original PSP, the analog controls worked as you would expect. Half distance meant walking slowly, full push meant running, the direction wasn't a factor here.

[@subtegral]

​@@wanderer2688correct.

[@richterdelgan123]

​@@notcole you can calibrate the analog sensitivity in the options menu of the game (the menu options that is on the right of the motherbase menu or in the missions) and the rotatiom speed of the camera.

[@subtegral]

​@@richterdelgan123 he emulated it for this video. Wouldn't even bother to play the PSP version let alone the HD Edition.

[@ThatMetalheadMan]

I mean,the MI-24A is still a Hind. Its a Hind A fight rather than a Hind D fight. Maybe they could not afford the newer Hind D, lol.

[@wanderer2688]

The game has an "upgrade" system for side ops, where you fight in the same map against a harder enemy. So you do fight the Hind-D in most helicopter fights in that jungle map. They get increasingly difficult with a larger health pool and more accompanying infantry. The other vehicles are the LAV-25 with the machine gun turret, LAV-25 with a cannon turret, BTR-60, T-72 with and without ERA, the MBT-70 and the AH-56 Cheyenne

[@aroccoification]

My Weiner is my handheld addiction Peacewalker is a masterpiece and much better on console/emulated. I really hope they bring back co-op for the re-release. Fighting bosses with your bros was peak metal gear

[@yodudeyo100]

Dude!!!! You gotta check out the Monster Hunter missions, Multiplayer! And play it on the PS3! The servers should still be up! You can literally tackle bosses with friends! And and seriously some of the mini games and side missions are hilarious and awesome! Like the ghost missions! Seriously! This game is my favorite game of all time! My brother and I played the whole story co-op on the PS3, it was so much fun! Sorry for rambling. Also love your videos! You kick ass!

[@shamoned]

@@yodudeyo100 luckily the game on ps3 is P2P- so there’s no servers to worry about. I still play around online with a few players from time to time on co op and versus. At least on ps3 through the HD collection/ PW HD.

[@johnlennon_38special]

As someone who played PW on PSP, I found this game to be the worst executed and least enjoyable to play out of every other Metal Gear game I have played so far, simply because of the controls and 3D environment. I am really suprised and also jealous that other fans enjoy this game so much. I really wanted to finish this game as I am playing through the series in their order in the timeline, but the clunkiness of the camera and movememt system just kept me asking when the game is going to be over. I wish they would have taken the top down locked camera approach to the level design like they did with mgs 1, 2, 3 because the PSP just doesn't have enough buttons to handle the new dimension. I guess I should have tried to play this on PS3 for a better control option, but I also found the later boss fights to be a hassle aswell. Even though I was always hitting the metal gears' weak points, I was constantly running out of ammo and having to request ammo shipments to finish the fight, which really took away from the experience. I do think the game had a lot of depth in terms of story telling with its cassette tapes and character connection, but the PSP control system is downright excruciating even after trying each layout. I do appreciate videos like these that break down the smaller components of the game so I don't have to touch it again 😁

[@twocontradictions]

Peace Walker was my go to MGS game after my PS2 finally died and couldn't play MGS2 and MGS3 anymore. There are a lot of things that pissed me off like finding Zadornov and (could be just the emulator being buggy) the mechanized unit boss fights and side ops would take very long just because the commander would not pop out of the hatch or the soldiers falling down the ground to the void, essentially soft locking me on a non-lethal playthrough. Even though PW is at least in the middle for me, I really enjoyed progressing through the game and unlocking cool items like the electromagnetic net, box tank, and the sleeping gas launcher. Great video Chole, I have managed to watched the entire thing. Hope to see your video on Revengeance soon. :) Also a tip: if you throw guards on the floor while they're still conscious, you can hold them up by aiming behind them, they will stay there on the floor permanently until a enemy guard sees them. It has been a thing since MGS3(idk if MGS2 does this), and it will be useful once you get to GZ and TPP.

[@brunocar02]

just FYI the thing about diagonals being weird sounds very much like an emulator issue, on native hardware that doesnt happen

[@notcole]

I thought it was an emulator issue at first, but after checking it was reading the input correctly. I took to Google to see if this was an issue with the game (my PSP stopped working years ago unfortunately), and sure enough I found this thread from 2010 where people are talking about it: gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/960566-metal-gear-solid-peace-walker/55069258

[@DCidiot]

Why do you state every sentence like a question? You end even non-questions with a raised inflection (uptalk)?

[@S9W8N8S1S]

3:53 the analog stick problem you describe is NOT part of the game and must be a compatibility issue with the emulator and whatever controller you're using. I used to have the same issue with Twin Snakes/Dolphin/PS3 controller on PC. Snake is meant to walk and run in any direction just like every other game.

[@TheExFatal]

I was just about to comment this, if you're gonna play the original game instead of the "fixed up re-release" then you should also get the hardware

[@e.f.kotlinski1658]

playing this game back in 2010 was one of the best experiences of my life. I still have the save file from that time... and I found Zadornov by myself. I can't put on words how much I love this game.

[@PlebNC]

Fun fact: This game was intended to target a younger audience due to it being released on the PSP and this led to a number on interesting changes. Some elements such as CQC combos, some fights and equipment were made to be more silly/anime-like to have a younger appeal. In some regions it also led to censorship due to this like Strangelove's torture section was changed to electric tickle torture with Snake's screams replaced with comical high pitched giggles. It's also partly why the US version has brand promotions in it like Doritos that are replaced with MSF brand equivalents in other regions.

[@williamnixon3994]

Snake giggling like a schoolgirl sounds like the kind of thing I DESPERATELY want to find here just to see how ridiculous it really is, thanks for illuminating that hilarious piece of censorship

[@PlebNC]

@@williamnixon3994 Look up the Japanese version of the scene. It's a trip.

[@dansmith1661]

All while his skeleton keeps flashing.

[@electrotab]

Excellent review. Looking forward to the next one.

[@entimomenti7055]

Your commitment to the original version is admirable but holy hell i could not stomach 20fps. The Legacy Collection is by far the way to play. Too bad Portable ops never got the same treatment.

[@notcole]

here's hoping MPO is in Master Collection Vol 2 🙏

[@kimmolaine8069]

Chaingun. Chaingun. Laa laa laa... la la la...

[@MemeLordCthulhu]

Peacewalker was literally the second mgs game I got into, and those controls were so much more natural than the multiple times I tried playing mgs3 on the 3ds or vita. Also most of these complaints just sound like you really wanna play mgsv. It's not mgs5 btw, you need to remember the V.

[@dynamitegaming3856]

Is no one gonna talk about how big boss's eye patch is on the wrong side in the thumbnail.

[@Old_Soul_Shimi]

Flipped image, nothing to talk about

[@subtegral]

​@@Old_Soul_Shimiexcept that the video author is a dumbass

[@jamelherring5359]

Will you do Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain separately, or will it be one video and story together?

[@enoyna1001]

Yes

[@jimmyrolls37]

So, currently on xbox all mgs games sre on sale. If you have alrrady purchased 2011 hd collection you csn download but you cannot buy anymore, duecto master collection. I bring this up because hd collection doesnt include peace walker, that is a seperate purchase...also on sale now. BUY IT while you can before we are stuck with only a master collection version!!!

[@alexdev518]

Dude nice review as always however I just wanna say that I'm a little disappointed that you din't include the Monster hunter collab in this game, yes really and the final boss of said collab has you fight Metal Gear Rex made flesh...as in a LIVING ORGANIC version of the weapon! But still, great vid.

[@notcole]

I didn't get any of the Monster Hunter stuff during my run, so I didn't know about it until after the video was finished 😭

[@zepher664]

Peace Walker is such a terrific game, especially for the PSP. Playing the PS3 version is the best way to play it by far, but playing the PSP version on a PS Vita to make use of the a second analog stick makes playing it much easier too.

[@EnriqueMurillo-gm1pq]

Great review, but I would love to hear your comments regarding the "Monster Island" missions on this game. I really enjoy that extra content, give some good replay value even if the controls are not the best.

[@dansmith1661]

This is better than MGSV in almost every way. Having "Kojima made this" plastered on everything and still not finishing the game after several delays, just makes me hate him. Bravo Konami.

[@GnawedOffShotgun]

I tried playing the ppsspp version and there is no way i can make the controls work 😢

[@NeutralL12]

I could never finish constructing Zeke as a kid. I grinded the AI fights over and over and it just never was enough. I probably missed a part of the process. Sucks cuz I know I would’ve loved to see the ending

[@jerr0.]

I think they got rid of crawling because they removed vents, traps and other areas to crawl under. I do kind of miss those things because the levels could have used a little more variety. I agree on your points about your army, ammo and AI. Part of me wishes it was a little more "traditional" with the weapons, ammo and levels. I still think it's a great game. It's even better when you fix the controls and framerate in the emulator or play the HD version.

[@notcole]

huh, I never even noticed the removal of vents and such 😅

[@jerr0.]

@@notcole Sorry if I broke the illusion for you lol. My guess is vents didn't work well in co-op, so they were omitted. One dude leading the way while potentially 3 others just staring at butts as they human centipede their way through the vent

[@dokutah7374]

As someone who loves the MGS series i’m so disappointed that i didn’t find out about the games until 5 Playing them when they came out is just a whole different experience

[@xxarcangelxx143]

Why tf are you using that control scheme? Just making the game more awkward than necessary dear god

[@BuryZeDead]

Yes i completed the ai with parts from the other 4 weapons When i first battled zeke it was a piece of cake But then i started the grind for the parts After a long time when i completed the ai i taplayed the game and fought zeke for the second time with the ai complete.. Big mistake.. the fucking thing was so fast agile and lethal that even the harrier on mgs2 in european extreme was easier So yeah i had my saves to 100% for all metal gears including peace walker After 2 years burglars came in my house and stole my ps2 ps3 and psp so all those saves got lost with my consoles😢😢 Those saves after 15 years of the burglary incident are still in my mind..

[@Rihcterwilker]

Portable Ops feels more replayable and fun. Levels are bigger, with alot more paths and doors, using the "lego" level design at it's peak. PW does looks way nicer visually, definitely, but you have very simple rooms, that are either blocks with obstacles or corridors disguised as forest paths.

[@evriesman5430]

Fun fact: back in the days in Russia, we had a famous comedian with a surname Zadornov , who also had a similar appearance as an mgs Zadornov, and was known for his hate towards americans).

[@Em.P14]

if you put an extreme ammount of effort in the game, you'll be able to get better soldiers than even snake with special abilidties like less chance of getting support called in or getting extra damage to mechs Also you seemed to have missed out on the monsterhunter crossover in it, it is GOOD

[@dingus_maximus]

I felt kinda sad by the end of PW. I don’t love it, but I still like it. Unfortunately, I really do love all the other MGS games I’ve played, so that puts this one at the absolute bottom for me by default. It’s not a bad game, but it doesn’t meet the standard of quality I’d expect it to. I had heard a lot of positive things going into it, but I walked away feeling like it was more of a spin-off than anything else.

[@Vladysluv]

This game drops at least 1 score point if you are a native spanish speaker, the acting is Breaking Bad levels of bullshit. Every time Amanda or Paz opened their mouth I wanted to shoot myself. Ironically David Hayter is better at spanish than the rest of the cast.

[@gupstaa]

Cutscenes look better because yoji shinkawa (who did all the signature art) also helped out with the cutscenes…you can demo tell which illustrations wood did from yoji

[@ViralPhoenix]

I always used the action type controls, felt more natural to me, plus I play Monster Hunter so I'm used to using the dpad for camera controls

[@S9W8N8S1S]

It's possible to play Peace Walker at 30fps on real PSP hardware using magic.

[@StormOfSin]

but you can't crawl bro

[@subtegral]

but in Peace Walker you don't need to crawl, bro.

[@CoralCopperHead]

I wouldn't call it the best PSP game, but it's certainly in the running for best Monster Hunter game on the PSP.

[@quinby3852]

The combat feels much better on ps3, I think it's definitely worth playing over the original

[@scott2100]

the first four chapters were wonderful, chapter 5 I played until I maxed out the base and personal, and lost interest after that

[@johnsaibot2359]

You didn't know that this game has a collaboration with the Monster Hunter series.

[@johnsaibot2359]

There is another extra content in this game that involves meeting a felyne cat named trenya from the monster hunter series.

[@Poketroid23]

Great video as always, but it was missing the legendary date with Kaz and all of his poses. I love the Peace Walker story and it makes V all the sadder because of it.

[@notcole]

I never got the date with Kaz, didn't even know it existed until after I published the video 😭

[@asimpleram]

Chole coming back with the great metal gear takes 🎉💯

[@ToshisGarden]

Glad to hear you enjoyed this one, as it's also one of my favorite Metal Gear games! I will say just a couple of things, though: Your overall ability to enjoy this game to the max, while it does of course encompass things you touched on throughout this video, I would argue hinges just as much on one particular thing that you can both argue is the game's greatest strength and/or its greatest weakness, if not actually hinging moreso on said strength/weakness. That point of contention is that Peace Walker, from the words of Kojima himself, was designed to be a giant love letter to the Monster Hunter franchise. Almost every basic element of Peace Walker's moment-to-moment gameplay when you're actually control was designed to blend gameplay elements of the Metal Gear franchise with those of the MonHun franchise as seamlessly as possible into something that cpuld potentially work well. That goes for everything from basic movement to boss fight arenas (think Elder Dragon arenas from Monster Hunter) to item procurement (how you were describing procuring boss and AI parts is quite similar to Monster Hunter). The biggest indicator of this is that, while both games can still be fun solo, they were both designed with multiplayer in mind for the true experience. There is even a control option (at least in the HD Version; I don't remember about on the original) that specifically states that it was "designed to mimic the controls as seen in the Monster Hunter Freedom series" called "Hunter Type". There are also actual Monster Hunter missions you can unlock to face off against monsters from Monster Hunter and a unique, extremely cool surprise original hidden boss for fans of both Metal Gear and Monster Hunter that was designed by Capcom's actual Monster Hunter team. It was the Metal Gear half of a Metal Gear X Monster Hunter crossover, and you can complete these missions for exclusive equipment parts, and many functions of those battles work as they would in Monster Hunter such as cooking rations and I believe flashing flying monsters. That adds into another large point of the most enjoyment you will get out of this game: easter eggs. If you like easter eggs, there are many that this game makes in reference to Metal Gear, other videogames such as Assassin's Creed, and even the ability to recruit Kojima himself. One of my favorite types of minigames to play in this entry is actually a deep-cut reference an old Konami game called "Pooyan"! Other than that, the last major thing I can think of is if you like looking into supplementary material. It's not for everyone, but this game has many of my favorite codec-style conversations in the form of the Briefing Files, as I find many of them charming and actually quite helpful when it comes to adding to character depth and development. MGS3 taught us that Big Boss is afraid of vampires, and this game teaches us that he believes in Santa Clause. Solid. Gold. Also, I thought it was quite funny that you mentioned trying this on PS3 since the game is actually most readily playable on every Xbox system except the original, as the HD Collection has been made backwards compatible for every generation since!

[@Skummy123]

My father gifted me this game in a park for my 11th birthday introducing me to Hideo's games. remember staying up late on a school night trying to defeat the Tank and quickly pretending to sleep when i hear mom walking in to check if I'm asleep. just to get right back on the game when she walks out. all of Hideo's secrets he puts in the game just made it feel more than a game in a way. i then stole mgs3 from my neighbors dad, cried at the ending never returned it

[@MalikMehsi]

fck yeah here we goooo my fav!!!

[@Skummy123]

6:50 it was technical choice for how big the game already was from my understanding. Beauty of what Devs/film makers etc. do with what they have to work it. I think it was a amazing choice. The torture bit suuucked and i had to ask for help and then figured i could roll a Hotwheel over the triangle button really fast

[@AxleYukio]

Fun fact it means: "Soldiers without borders"

[@subtegral]

More accurately, "Military without borders".

[@AxleYukio]

I was close

[@subtegral]

@@AxleYukio the game just says "soldiers without borders", so not your fault.

[@cipheruchiha]

This game has some of the biggest replay value and being in a handheld so convenient

[@renatop2610]

I think PW is quite a great game that adds a lot of lore and context to the overall MG story. Strangelove is possibly one of my favorite characters in the series and it's a shame that this is her "only" appearance. My feelings about the last chapter are the same as yours. I gave up after the second Zadornov search and just googled the sucker's remaining locations. Looking forward to the next review which I believe is Revengeance; the game with the most annoying final boss in the series and also the game that made popular the phrase "Make America Great Again" before anyone else .

[@DJHeero69]

the story and gameplay does indeed drag on, but i believe it is also for the reason that co-op exists in the game too... you can literally co-op pretty much the entire game with maybe a few exceptions.... but its mostly 2 players throughout the game with boss battles having 4 players... and imo the co-op really helps make the game... I mean the game itself is amazing in its own right and i completed it mostly solo and had a great time, i love it... but i can also safely say i had a blast playing the game in co-op and it really help deal with all the padding... especially with all the cool and silly stuff you can unlock in R&D... 2 of my favorites being the cardboard ambulance and the cardboard tank lol

[@telecarlster]

My mum got me the PSP mgspw limited edition back when it came out and i spent like 500 hours in it. nearly got it 100% but i was one piece of equipment short and never knew what piece it was. My theory is that there was a dlc walkman or something like that. Because I'm pretty sure i got everything according to the wiki. The monster hunter missions and unlocking the assassin's creed box was epic also.

[@konstantine_c]

Another great analysis! I put over 160 hours into the Peace Walker on PSP back when it came out, and unlocked and maxed out pretty much everything. This game is great for hardcore fans as it offers so much content and play time, even though some missions can be seen as padding. The fact that this game is on a handheld from 2005 is simply incredible.

[@patek2385]

Controls are so much better than in mgs 3.

[@samuelantoniocastillomeza5034]

My only gripe with PW is how easy it is. Otherwise, I love the gameplay and the setting. The first ending also makes me cry when Sing starts playing. BTW, I got the figure of Big Boss in his sneaking suit and it's absolutely amazing how well made it is.

[@sicek7268]

The reason why peace walker did so bad, and nobody knows about it is because everybody did not have a PSP made a legit title for a system. People did not even have that’s what bugs me out this game was a waste of time for the PSP so now I know better size 5 isjust the upgraded peace walker

[@b.z.6845]

Are you going to cover Metal Gear Rising Revengeance? If you S-Rank all the MGSV missions, you get an awesome MGRR Raiden outfit.

[@ThePsychoRenegade]

I played a ton of this game as a kid and never noticed the 20fps limit. Learning that alone makes me not want to replay it.

[@subtegral]

That makes total sense (not)

[@ThePsychoRenegade]

@@subtegral watching game footage in this video made me nauseous. Ain't no way I'm playing this

[@subtegral]

You're so special.

[@ThePsychoRenegade]

@@subtegral i know ❤️

[@ThePsychoRenegade]

@subtegral I'd have to emulate it and I have games I'd rather play that I won't have to mess with to work.

[@clearmountain28]

Are you doing the digital graphic novels? I realize that they would barely count as having "gameplay," but given you did the mobile game, i kinda hoped you would do the digital graphic novels too.

[@gabewatts1704]

Stop saying “though” so much, though

[@cptncutleg]

Paz is in her undies in the Metal Gear because the pod is MEANT to be full of water. You can see in the drawn cutscenes that she's wearing goggles and a breathing pipe.

[@briangarcia8384]

Peace walker was such a banger of a game. I never got tired of playing it thanks to the upgrade system and the opportunity to replay missions. I may buy a psp again just for this lol

[@tomwylie9298]

The reason why the hand drawn cutscenes look better here is because not only Ashley Wood but also the legendary Yoji Shinkawa who designed the look of nearly every game in the series was brought in to do artwork