Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots by Project Itoh - 5/5 stars I was impressed, to say the least. This book will be a lovely treasure and memory.more
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Not only is it the end of a wonderful series it also invigorates for all that is to come. This was a lovely book to end the year and challenge under. Sure I missed the B & B gals, but I'm happy the author took the direction he did. But many were insightful, beautiful, and brilliant. Sure there were hads and thes which could have totally been cut. And in ending on such a sweet note, I was invigorated as I had been by the game. I was reliving the first game play in which we face Snake's predictament. Project Itoh was a dying man telling of a dying heroes' story. In a way many of the books I read up to that point in the year were building up to this since many dealt with war and spies. I excitedly await for this book to come in the mail. I love the Metal Gear Solid games and I figure why not give this book a shot? Especially when Kojima approves. I was reliving the first game play in whi I was struggling to find a book to finish my PopSugar Reading Challenge for the Esponiage Thriller prompt. I was struggling to find a book to finish my PopSugar Reading Challenge for the Esponiage Thriller prompt. I love these characters so much and it's clear Itoh does too.Īlso the scene where Otacon talks Snake through the MICROWAVE HALLWAAAAAAY was the most romantic damn thing I've ever read.more It was pretty easy to read, but took me so long because every few pages I had to put the book down and take a break because I was overwhelmed with Emotions. And by just how much of that was weird, repetitive, convoluted, and sometimes straight-up incoherent (what was Ocelot even doing? Why did Naomi do half the stuff she did? Who knows), that's an impressive feat. I loved some of Itoh's additions (I agree with like, all of his headcanons about Naomi), and appreciated a lot of his other artistic choices (cutting out the Beauty & Beast Unit was honestly a really good decision), and just, he did his damnedest to make all the stuff in MGS4 make coherent narrative, emotional, and thematic sense - and still be compelling in non-interactive, non-visual prose form. I didn't fully agree with all his character interpretations, but unlike the other MGS adaptations out there, I see where he was coming from with them, and respect them.
Reading this novelization was reliving MGS4 through a new perspective, with new ideas woven in, in thoughtful and fascinating ways. Project Itoh is an author who finally, finally, not only cares about but understands Metal Gear Solid.Īnd you can tell he cares, a lot, and put a lot of thought into the characters and their motivations and their thoughts and feelings - honestly, at some points, more thought than even Kojima actually seemed to have. There are a lot of digressions as the book has to do a lot of backstory and character explaining to make the plot make sense, and even then, the plot doesn't really make sense.Īs an adaptation, though, it's fantastic. Probably as a result of the translation, the prose can be a bit flat.
And you can tell he cares, a lot, and put a l Standing on its own, this book is pretty all right. Project Itoh is an author who finally, finally, not only cares about but understands Metal Gear Solid. As an adaptation, though, it's fantastic. There are a lot of digressions as the book has to do a lot of backstory and character explaining to make the plot make sense, and even then, the plot doesn't really make sense. Standing on its own, this book is pretty all right.
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