The weirdest part about his infinite adoration of the series (which, let's be honest, is just because it was a pretty good game that he played between the ages of 13 and 15) is his apparent total inability to appreciate the story beyond a bunch of cool guys doing cool shit. Like, nothing about the nature of MGS2's story being about the very nature that it is a video game and how the players playing the game just wanted another MGS game so it's literally trying to recreate the events of Shadow Moses? How Raiden facing the truth of his own reality during Ocelot's interrogation correlates not only with the game's very nature breaking apart at the seams as if Raiden is waking up from the dream (i.e. simulation) that he's been going through, but also with the gameplay forcing you to use his actual well-worn skill in slicing people up instead of attempting to ape Snake's shoot-'em up style (Jack the ripper, etc)? Instead all he talks about is some stupid retroactive acronym about "Meme Gene Scene"? I swear to the Maker, if he doesn't comment at all - not one iota - about, like, the cynicism of modern game development in MGS4, where Old Snake is practically an avatar of Kojima, a classically trained fighter, being forced back into battle one last time, but now on a field where all of the participants are a bunch of young wide-eyed kids who grew up playing violent video games and don't know anything but violence, and couldn't fight worth a damn if their tech doesn't work, etc. etc. etc. I will be furious.
