![]() ![]() Despite some small hooks into the greater Metal Gear canon, the narrative is largely forgettable and keeps out of the way of the gameplay. Although it tries to bring in some of the political machinations and pseudoscience the series is famed for, each narrative beat is a thinly veiled excuse to repeatedly send the player out to retrieve memory boards for an AI companion, rescue survivors, or activate machinery. Survive's story is mostly uninteresting and plays out through text and voiceovers on static screens, similar to the iconic codec conversations of its forebears, minus any of the charm. There you're tasked with finding the cure to a parasite that has infected you, and also seek out what has become of your comrades. scientist named Goodluck through the wormhole to Dite, a barren, drab-looking parallel world that's made up of recycled Metal Gear Solid V locales. During this siege, a wormhole into a parallel world appears, sucking in a chunk of Mother Base, along with the members of Snake's Militaires Sans Frontières and the attacking XOF forces. The game is set shortly after the attack on Mother Base in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes. Every once in a while its disparate ideas synergise for a thrilling set-piece where you're battling waves of enemies while frantically placing and maintaining defenses, but these only serve to highlight what Survive could have been, were it not so consistently choking the life out of you. The core loop of venturing out into the unknown in search of resources to make your existence just a little bit more bearable is gratifying, but it always feels like a desperate gasp of air before the fingers tighten again. It stacks stiff, repetitive gameplay atop survival systems that are unforgiving and unrelenting, making the overall experience feel like trying to break out of a chokehold with one arm tied behind your back. Metal Gear Survive is emotionally and mentally exhausting.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |