Hideo Kojima
Codec Logs: Who Do I Call to Import Some Sand?
I’ll get to the the intro credits in a minute, but you touched on something that I suddenly can’t stop thinking about: the scene with Gustava in the sewer. You’re right, it isn’t necessarily…
Codec Logs: Don’t Picture the GAME OVER Screen, Even If You Make a Mistake
To: Blake Foley From: Sean Gandert Subject: RE: The Phantom Sequel Theoretically, I would always have games make an attempt at telling their stories through gameplay—after all, that’s why we’re here, right? Playing through…
Codec Logs: A Very Sad Olympian
The inventory in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before in a video game, and I think you are on to something when you compare it to an adventure…
Codec Logs: When You’re Boiling an Egg, You’ve Got to Time It Just Right
To: Blake Foley From: Sean Gandert Subject: RE: The Phantom Sequel Dear Blake, So if Metal Gear 2 isn’t just more of the same, then the question I have to ask is, “What is…
Codec Logs: The Phantom Sequel
To: Sean Gandert From: Blake Foley Subject: The Phantom Sequel Dear Sean, As we head into Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, I thought it would be worthwhile to take a brief look back at…
Codec Logs: Positive Punk
From: Blake Foley To: Sean Gandert Subject: RE: Stop the Operation. Switch off Your MSX at Once. Man, Bioshock’s twist… I really hate that it is THE twist in video games, and I equally…
Codec Logs: Stop the Operation. Switch off Your MSX at Once.
Codec Logs is a retrospective Metal Gear letter series by Blake Foley and Sean Gandert. An index of the letters can be found here. From: Sean Gandert To: Blake Foley Subject: Stop the Operation.…
Codec Logs: World-Building with Steve
From: Blake Foley To: Sean Gandert Subject: RE: Entering the Cardboard Box Sean, Even though I’m a long time fan of the series, I actually never went back to Metal Gear on the MSX2.…
Codec Logs: Entering the Cardboard Box
This is going to put me in a tiny minority of players, but before we began this project Metal Gear was the most recent entry of the series that I’d played. After I graduated…
Codec Logs: “Metal Gear?!?”
It is 2015 and I am neck deep in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain; a game that is likely the end of an era. Konami might release a Metal Gear Solid 6,…
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