can I just say that we all owe Kojima an apology for Metal Gear Solid 2? He looked right into the camera and said βthe future of information control will not be censorship, it will be drowning people in trivial noise and misinformation until people partition themselves into their own separate realitiesβ in TWO THOUSAND AND ONE. Three years before Facebook existed. Kojima gave us the biggest Babe-Ruth-pointing-at-the-sky called shot of all time and we werenβt ready for it.
Raiden is a diegetic video game character who is an anxious millennial being told to replicate the past while living in different circumstances who is a parallel between the player obediently accepting the limitations of the game and a soldier taking orders. And he gets sexually harassed by the president of the United States of America.


















