#bossy

Si Betina Jalang, tuan tahu? Tidak mesti seorang perempuan tapi yang jauh lebih buruk dari itu ialah betina beburung, sungguh ampun apabila tersua dengan orang macam ini. Muncungnya minta ampun bisanya, lubang hidungnya tak tanggung besarnya, sungguh tak tahu kita hendak diapakan makhluk macam ini. Kata orang, perempuan apabila diberi hati maka kepalanya akan melambung, berjalan hendak malendo,…

Pre-watch

(Tell Bossy to pause at any moment for clarifications)

Mother Base Fully Built 1min

https://youtu.be/j-FgUNhgBF4?si=IPnZNv9msTZt1wPU

Paz Introduction Cutscene 10min

https://youtu.be/okgd_wPtDVM?si=usgl1zGdJQQy0G6I

Chico Found 9min

https://youtu.be/KVLkLqMUYh8?si=sSqcT7kOpNrt8AE0

Paz Tapes (Optional) 34min

https://youtu.be/doBD37F7keI?si=fkcpaZZpfQS2lv74

Chico Tapes (Optional) 29min

https://youtu.be/1JfgeD4WGeQ?si=Fh95Ijq95zLCkNx3

Chico Love Tapes 3min

https://youtu.be/iAhCtr2GXiQ?si=7edfOnS7lE0IqqPr

Paz and Zero Tape 7min

(Cipher is the organization Zero (CIA Commander) built)

https://youtu.be/680AtkYo2m4?si=nEuOJuXTHhZi7Kz3

Paz Diary Tapes 31min (Essential)

https://youtu.be/1HGkn15Jug8?si=LlyxEL8wKpB1Rq_L

Play Ground Zeroes

(Use checkpoints liberally, don’t restart the mission)

(Watch post credits)

Post-watch

(List of every important phantom pain trailer chronologically)

The Phantom Pain Debut Trailer (Hospital) 3min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfxTOlXF3Kk

Not Your Kind of People 6min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nUMw7japI

Sins of the Father (Red Band) 9min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMyoCr2MnpM

Nuclear 6min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krc1t4HU8GI

Elegia 6min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhseWPWYPBA

Essay Prompts

(Do not read until finishing the main story)

- Paz was brainwashed from a young age. What does this say about her true self? Is she truly an angel of peace or is it all an act?

- Paz wears a peace loving mask. Zizek talks about the mask becoming the true self. What does this say about the real Paz?

- Paz is the only major female character. Does the game’s treatment of her serve the narrative or exploit it?

- Chico enters Camp Omega voluntarily to save Paz. By the end, who has he become, and can that transformation be undone?

- Paz survives by performing compliance. Is her survival an act of resistance or the destruction of the self that needed saving?

- Kaz’s rage is clean and directed. Big Boss’s grief is buried and wordless. Which one is more dangerous, and to whom?

- Chico’s tapes document his breaking point in real time. What does it mean that the player can choose never to hear them?

- Snake rescues Paz and Chico efficiently, professionally, without visible affect. Is he a psychologically damaged man, or has he simply completed his dissociation from ordinary moral experience?

- Paz was a double agent who genuinely may have developed real attachment to MSF. Can ideology and authentic feeling coexist, or does one always hollow out the other?

- Chico and Paz are both betrayed by adults who were supposed to protect them. Compare how each carries that betrayal in their body, their behavior, their voice.

- Kaz builds MSF with Big Boss and loses everything at Mother Base. Is his fury at the end grief in disguise?

- Snake is the most capable person in the game and saves no one. What does Ground Zeroes argue about the relationship between competence and powerlessness?

- By the end, Chico has been made into a weapon and Paz into a bomb. Is this Kojima’s thesis about what war does to the young and the vulnerable, or something more specific than that?

- The camp is fully traversable before the mission begins. What does the player learn by moving through it freely that the mission itself never tells them?

- Camp Omega has no civilian population, no innocents to protect, no bystanders. What does a world with only soldiers and prisoners do to the moral calculus of stealth gameplay?

- Camp Omega operates outside legal jurisdiction. How does the game use that fact, and does it go far enough with it?

- The rain never stops at Camp Omega. Argue that the weather is doing psychological and thematic work, not just aesthetic work.

- You can complete Camp Omega without killing anyone. Does a pacifist run change what the location means, or is the violence already baked into the walls?