There are a few other things in Snake Eater that we would benefit from shedding. Then there was Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, on the Nintendo 3DS, which, with its stereoscopic depth, felt snakier than ever-firing foliage at our eyeballs, as we crawled along at belly-height. We already had Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, an expanded edition that unhooked the camera from its crane, up in the jungle canopy, and let us pan it around at our leisure. However, it is also true that some parts of Snake Eater lend themselves to nipping and tucking. His heavy tread only highlighted the fact that he was anything but armoured, and that touch of the graceless and the automated gave us the faint hint of a man cramped down into his own shell.
But the fact is that I wouldn’t change a thing. Playing Silent Hill 2 recently, I was struck by its protagonist’s hobbled combat prowess gripping a length of pipe and lunging awkwardly to and fro, he resembled the swivelling turret of a tank. One of the problems facing Konami is the rude habit its best games have of defying time-of growing rustic, as opposed to rusty, with the passing years. Either way, if we are going back to Tselinoyarsk, what might we want from the return trip? Perhaps Konami had us fooled all along, crunching down on a potassium cyanide capsule, just as Hideo Kojima walked out, and playing half-dead. The leaky news was accompanied by a sloosh of other revelations: Silent Hill and Castlevania are both, apparently, being revived as well. Could it be? Has Konami really sanctioned a remake of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater ? Has someone at the company’s offices gazed from a high window, onto the grey and rained-off state of the modern espionage thriller, and decided that what we truly need is a return to romance and fantasy-a concentrated dose of Russian rainforest? More likely is that the decision springs from an inward-looking urge to reshingle the reputation of one gaming’s great houses.
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