His action is repetitive, he can't build suspense for shit, his vocabulary is extremely limited and he writes with a plain and uninteresting style. While Snake is now spewing one-liners, he conveniently continues to find weapons (like chaffs, frags, Stinger and Nikita missle launchers, etc.) just lying around the base - the only difference from the game is that the items do not spin.įurthermore, he took the transcript of the game, took some lines, added some of his own, and filled the rest with atrocious prose. I realize the game couldn't have been literally translated to the novel medium, and I wouldn't have minded if Benson took certain liberties with the flow of the story some alterations had to be made. Later, Snake pulls a mine-detector out of nowhere, and so on. ![]() Before the mission, the Colonel informs him this is an On Site Procurement mission, only to issue him with a SOCOM. As if they couldn't have discovered only 3 out of the 6 bodies. Snake immediately dismisses they're talking about him, because he had killed 6 people. His reasoning is faulty - when he infiltrates the facility itself he overhears guards talking about "an intruder that's killed 3 people so far". His sneaking mission is more of a slaughter mission, because he keeps piling up the body count, killing almost every guard he comes across. Not only that, but Snake is totally out of character. Need I go on? Cheesy one-liners - more so, BAD cheesy one-liners - do not belong in a MGS novel. he ruminates whether he'd like to kiss Meryl, or spank her. he says "Merry Christmas" to another guard, knocks him out, and says "I forgot to tell you - Christmas came early this year!" he says Gesundheit to a guard before killing him (yes, killing - more on that later) he says Mazel tov when blowing the wall which leads to where Baker is being kept Campbell on the CODEC and tells him his niece Meryl is "one wacky babe" he calls Liquid "the terrorists' head honcho" ![]() To illustrate what I mean, here's some of Benson's addition to the script.ĭuring his mission Snake uses the following words or terms: When the dialgoue isn't copy/pasted from the game script, it's dreadfully butchered by Benson's ineptitude. Unfortunately, he had been given some great creative freedom, which he also used to a great extent. He already had expertly written material to work with, as MGS's scripts are incredibly deep and detailed. Raymond Benson, obviously, didn't touch it. The MGS novelization had to be given to someone who actually has some appreciation for the source material, to someone who had played and loved the game. ![]() ![]() Even though the the back cover boldly states that "this explosive MGS novel ventures beyond the thrilling videogame and delves into the dark heart of Solid Snake's world", that is a fat and blatant lie! Those who've played the game are aware of the magnitude and depth of MGS's plot. During his ordeal, secrets old and new will come to the fore. Of course, Snake is briefed on a need-to-know basis, and there is more of what he doesn't know, than what he does. Ex-FOXHOUND operative Solid Snake is taken out of retirement and given a solo espionage mission to infiltrate the facility, rescue the hostages, and stop the terrorists at all costs. They have issued their demands, and if they're not met a nuke will be launched. The plot is the same as the game: the FOXHOUND unit has gone rogue, and have overtaken a Nuclear Disposal Facility on the Shadow Moses island in the Fox Archipelago in Alaska. Raymond Benson is NOT the person I had in mind. Since Hideo is quite careful concerning his precious, and is reluctant to give someone else rights to mess with the franchise as they please, I had hopes the author commissioned to pen the novel would be someone of the highest caliber. As someone who has played it through and through numerous times, I was thrilled to find out there was a novelization. Metal Gear Solid is, without a doubt, THE BEST GAME EVER.
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