The Original Masterpiece

I wish people read descriptions properly prior to leaving bad reviews. Konami stated (even in the main menu) they haven’t changed anything as their aim was to keep it true to the original experience we all love and that’s exactly what they’ve done, I don’t understand the poor reviews.

Having purchased a steam deck recently one of the few classics I was definitely wanting was MGS. Many of you know it is available to get on the PSX/PS1 emulation so I was curious to see which version was better. I read a few reviews on here and a number of reviewers stated this was a terrible port, very buggy and it was free/cheaper to get the emulated copy, so why would I get this?

Well, It has achievements, it has the steam community, has the original artwork that sits nicely in your steam library as opposed to your emulated library, has full controller support (I played with the Xbox controller). Also there’s been a number of patches/updates to this in the past couple of months which seems to have sorted most of the issues others were having.

So I decided to buy this as I was willing to put up with any issues if it meant having an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Steam version.
There were no bugs, no issues, the game had a gorgeous main menu interface with plenty of extras, also as this game is part of the HD collection it contained all the VR missions, special missions and DLC which back in the day was only available in North America or Japan. The game has better in game settings and options to tweak to your taste. I completed this within 18 hours and I didn’t encounter any issues. Absolutely nostalgic and very thrilled I got this because it works as it should from the get go. Does it look amazing? Nope it looks the exact same as it did 26 years ago and the graphics and controls haven’t aged greatly but you don’t play this game for the graphics it’s for the original experience, nostalgia and the memories of a whole generation of snakes we were a part of.

Thoroughly enjoyed it and an absolute pleasure to revisit especially on the deck. Please note I played this game in the ‘window view’ which is set by default. Full screen for me didn’t look or feel right so I went by Konami’s default recommendations and, well .. “Age didn’t slow me down”.

P.S for now I don’t see a reason to get the emulated version, I may do eventually just to satisfy myself that I tried both but for now this does everything I needed it to.

Hideo Kojima please marry me

game crashing near the end