There are tons of reasons to love Metal Gear Solid, but high up on our list is its unique brand of strange. From the earliest adventures of Big Boss to the tactical escapades of Solid Snake, Hideo Kojima has given us a story that is comic, fourth-wall breaking, at times surreal, and almost always over-the-top, even when it verges into some pretty dark territory.
These are in no particular order and include lots, and lots of spoilers...
1. Letting The End die of old age by either letting a week pass mid-fight or changing your console's system clock.
2. Psycho Mantis reading your memory card and pretending to change the channel on your TV.
3. The Colonel's "I need scissors! 61" freakout.
4. Liquid Ocelot using Sons of the Patriots to disable everyone's firearms.
5. Metal Gear Solid 4's loading screen tips. "Avoid playing when you are tired!"
6. Fission Mailed.
7. Johnny Sasaki's recurring and embarrassing shenanigans in the first two games.
8. Johnny literally crapping himself during a mission in Metal Gear Solid 4.
9. Naked Raiden.
10. Using the picture of the girl in the locker to embarrass Otacon during the Tanker mission.
11. Psycho Mantis failing to read your memory card or move the Sixaxis controller after the Screaming Mantis boss fight.
12. That ladder scene in Metal Gear Solid 3...
13. Campbell, Mei Ling, and Naomi making fun of you while fighting the Hind D if your sound settings aren't set to stereo.
14. Ocelot's weird ocelot sound.
15. The Ape Escape mini-game in Subsistence.
16. Using ketchup to escape from a prison cell.
17. Fatman and his rollerskates.
18. Naked Snake wearing the weird Raikov mask.
19. The fact that The Pain shoots bees at you.
20. The Sorrow's creepy ghost river.
21. Snake crawling through a microwave tunnel.
22. XOF patch dramatically popping out of your belt if you roll around too much in Ground Zeroes.
23. Letting the wolf puppy pee on the cardboard box so it's easier to sneak past the wolves in the first Metal Gear Solid.
24. Fending off Suicide Gekkos while Vamp and Raiden duke it out on the other side of the split screen.
25. Sunny cooking eggs while reciting elements from the periodic table.
26. The last boss of Metal Gear Solid 4 being played like a fighting game.
27. Making awkward codec calls from the bathroom in Metal Gear Solid 2.
28. Mice in the vents getting the "!" alert above their heads.
29. Mario and Yoshi figurines in Emmerich's lab in Twin Snakes.
30. Manipulating the projectors on the Tanker.
31. Creepy singing AI pods in Peace Walker.
32. The hack-and-slash nightmare sequence in Snake Eater.
33. Recruiting Hideo Kojima in Peace Walker.
34. Rescuing Kojima in a Ground Zeroes side op.
35. The Secret Theater of humorous cutscenes in Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence.
36. Recreating classic Metal Gear Solid scenes in the Déjà Vu mission of Ground Zeroes.
37. Erasing the Kojima Production logo from Ground Zeroes in the Déjà Vu mission.
38. The Fox Engine getting "infected" by FOXDIE during the Déjà Vu mission... that was a weird mission in general.
39. Getting scolded by Rose and the Colonel for shooting seagulls on Big Shell.
40. Monster Hunter-style quests in Peace Walker.
41. Hidden Kerotan frogs in Metal Gear Solid 3.
With over two dozen Metal Gear Solid titles (including spin-offs, remakes, and portable games), we couldn't possibly name every single silly, light-hearted, or downright bizarre moment, but these are some of our favorites.
Few games have managed to balance the kind of humor or strangeness present in the aforementioned sequences with darker, serious themes the way Metal Gear Solid has, and it's this balance that brings Kojima's work character. Metal Gear Solid thrives in its ability to poke fun at its own absurdity without devolving into bitter irony; to remain devoted to a consistent experience even with its outrageous tonal shifts.
Feel free to share some of your favorite Metal Gear Solid moments and memories with us in the comments below!
Chloi Rad is a Staff Writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @_chloi.
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