Metal Gear Solid 3 pachinko is a surprisingly complete remake, for better or worse

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Konami has released a new promo video for its 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Metal Gear Solid 3 themed pachink♓o-slot machine, and man! I wish that was a game I could play more directly than by feeding steel balls into a cabinet! The seven-minute-long video shows off a bunch more of what appears to be Snake Eater scenes fully rebuilt in the Fox Engine (which powers MGS5), from Snake's ♏first confrontation with Ocelot all the way to his final duel with The Boss.

Skip to the two-minute mark if you get tired of listening to the Japanese narrator intensely describe pachinko feꦏatures.

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There are a bunch of minigames themed after moments from the game, including the aforementioned Ocelot fight and a chibi Virtuous Mission. But the breadth and quality𝓰 of these scenes has led some to speculate (with varying degrees of sincerity) that this pachinko cabinet may be a tease for a 🧸full-fledged, regular-video-game remake of Snake Eater.

Konami has said that it 澳洲幸运🀅5开奖号码历史查询:plans 🍰to keep making Metal Gear games even with series creator 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hideo Kojima gone. And, if 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary are any indication, these days it's fashio🐓nable to let a new team of developers cut their teeth on an existing series by remaking one of the series' most beloved entries.

Others theorize that these assets were intended for an unannounced MGS3 remake, until Konami canceled it and decided to use the leftovers for a pachinko machine. Which is a little bit distressing to think𝓀 about, if I'm being ho🐲nest. Oof, feeling a hearty round of existential dread coming on now.

With the most optimistic and pessimistic interpretations addressed, it's also worth remembering that pachinko machines are a really big deal in Japan. After Kojima walked out of the office like the Pied Piper of game development, it's entirely possible that Konami 🐻just put together some cool MGS3 scenes with the staff and engine it had left, intending all along to use them solely in a super-complex ball bearing gambling machine.

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