[Dr Kain]

So I just spent the last 10 hour playing TPP. I am enjoying it immensely, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut, it frustrates me in the same way Peace Walker did.

First, I am enjoying the open world aspect and traveling around. However, driving sucks. It is hard to drive off road, yet, there are A LOT of enemy outposts along the roads, making it kind of pointless to even bother driving. The lack of tranqs and not being able to have a spare suppressor sucks ass though. I was trying to go through the game without killing anyone, but nope, can't do that. Not to mention I just fought an army of bosses and my tranq gun was worthless, so I had no choice but to kill them. I have to admit though, I freaking suck ass at stealth in this game. I died 6 times in the first mission to rescue Miller trying to be stealthy before I said screw it and just CQC'd everyone. Very annoying. I also just found out there are secondary objectives in the missions, which would have been nice to have known about before. -_- The controls are pretty good for the most part and I love the weather system. However, like Peace Walker, I hate this stupid mission system. I don't like this at all. I want the story to flow into each other without breaks in it. Not to mention it has the lazy cheap story telling aspect of just talking over a mission screen. I gave PW leeway for it because it was a PSP game, but this game has no excuse for it being a next gen console game.

Speaking of story, it makes little sense right now. We've got what appears to be young Psycho Mantis and a ghost squad working for some burnt faced dude, which means the other dudes in the hospital at the beginning of the game were not his team. Oooooooooooooooooookay. So then who were they if they are not Cipher? ON the other hand, I'm going to guess that the 9 years BB was out is when they cloned him. Although, I could have sworn Liquid Snake said they were cloned in the 70s. And for only being 1983, they have a lot of high class technology, but then they have cassette tapes, huh? Well whatever. I just hope the story straightens itself out in the end since this game is going to have to lead into the original.