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otp@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoI played MGS for the first time recently, and it felt like a PS2 game with older graphics. Would’ve blown my mind as a kid if I had it back then…with a guide, too. Otherwise, I never would’ve figured a bunch of that stuff out, haha
diemartin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I had the luck of having it when I was a kid. It did blow my mind.
Two of the parts that come to mind that need a guide are contacting Meryl for the first time, and the Psycho Mantis fight.
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Meryl was tedious because her codec frequency was printed “on the back of the CD case”, not an item in-game, but literally the case where the game came in. Due to rampant piracy in my country, it was hard to get it in a case with the back cover, so my solution was to try every frequency. Mantis has two ways to kill him. You either have to swap the controller to port 2, or shoot at a bust of him. Which one you can use depend on difficulty IIRC.
otp@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I think the commander dude gives you hints if you keep losing a particular fight though. He’ll get explicit about the trick for Psycho Mantis!
ICastFist@programming.dev 7 hours ago
You have to pester the colonel on the codec like 3 or 4 times until he gives the idea to plug the controller on slot 2. The first few times I got past Mantis thanks to infinite ammo and health, brought to me by Gameshark 🦈. If you keep shooting the FAMAS, a shot will occasionally hit Mantis. He dodges explosions, so Grenades, Nikita and Stinger don’t work.