• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    I don’t necessarily think he’s bad at writing dialogue and story, I think he’s mostly just bad at writing women. As I’ve gotten older, I went from taking Metal Gear Solid super seriously to treating it like nuclear/techno Evil Dead

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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, we’re just less experienced and have fewer expectations when we’re young. We were much more impressionable then.

      Guys in general are bad at portraying women, as I understand. That’s on top of being bad in general for Kojima, I think. There’s a funny interview with the MGS2 English translator Agness Kaku where she comments that the writing at times is high school fanfic level.