The New Metal Gear Solid Game Is Goofy Beyond Words
I don’t even know where to begin. Maybe that the title of this PSP game is “Peace Walker,” which is even goofier than “Snake Eater.” Maybe that at the the bgeinning, Solid Snake is shot down by — a helicopter? Something? — and he’s rescued by another Solid Snake, who heals his many bullet and missile wounds with CPR (just the chest half, and not the mouth-to-mouth half, thank god). Or how the two Snakes team up to infilitrate some base, on one Snake always has to be touching the other Snake. Or how when one Snake gets in the trademark cardboard box, it appears to be a box of pornography (Boner Jamz ’97!). Or maybe when they both get in the porn box and crawl around. Or when two more Snakes show up to help them take out a tank. Or maybe the end, which is the goofiest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. I don’t know. I just don’t know.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.