A Metal Gear Solid game has been trapped on older hardware for 21 years, but there is newfound hope

A Metal Gear Solid game has been trapped on older hardware for 21 years, but there is newfound hope

From Game Rant (Written by Dalton Cooper) on | OpenCritic

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes has been trapped on the Nintendo GameCube since 2004, but with GameCube games added to the Expansion Pack tier of Switch Online for Switch 2 owners, there is some hope that it could one day make a comeback. Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes is a remake of the original Metal Gear Solid game. It essentially remade the Metal Gear Solid experience to be more like Metal Gear Solid 2 while improving the visuals and making the cutscenes more over-the-top and action-packed.

Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes earned mostly positive reviews at the time of its release in 2004, though there are some fans that don't like the changes made to the soundtrack and story, particularly how Otacon is presented as more clumsy and silly. Others felt as though Twin Snakes integrating MGS2 mechanics made the game too easy. Regardless, it's a shame that The Twin Snakes remains trapped on the Nintendo GameCube, and while fans shouldn't get their hopes up, there is at least a little more hope now that it could one day be playable on a modern platform.

The Metal Gear Solid games span across decades,...

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