Finally, the ending. I did end up calling the twist, down to actually who it was in the helicopter, which is pretty funny. With that said, it was executed spectacularly well, and ties the modern series to the MSX games better than any before it. The idea of Venom being used as a decoy in Outer Heaven while the real Big Boss builds Zanzibar Land is brilliant, since it retroactively explains why you fight Big Boss twice in the early games, as well as how Big Boss could be working with Foxhound and running Outer Heaven simultaneously. Additionally, it established Big Boss as a villain in the perfect way, in that he was a man pulling strings from the shadows as a means to achieve his vision and change the world, not caring who gets hurt. This establishes him as a villain better than any sequence of him shooting kids or some shit could every have, simply because it's believable and impacts on characters we already know, like Miller and Venom. Speaking of Miller, the justification of his breakup with Big Boss is so much more elegant than I expected, and I thought it really helped to sort of tie the series together.
