145. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (2010) | Year of Metal Gear | S6E12
While Lauryn is deep behind enemy lines (i.e. quite sick), Nicholas is busy organizing things back home in Mother Base, while trying not to bore all the new recruits with lectures on Maoism vs. Marxism-Leninism. In this rare solocast, he'll dive into Metal Gear's Cold War revisionism, discuss the effects that a more technologically constrained platform in the PSP has on gameplay mechanics, and wrap things up with a more philosophical interrogation of what "Outer Heaven" means as an ideology, even if Big Boss claims it isn't one.
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27 Aug 2026
144. Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (2025) | Year of Metal Gear | S6E11
In comparing Death Stranding with its sequel, we come to a dichotomy of two gameplay experiences: a lonely one that matches what the games say about their protagonist and one in solidarity with other players that seems to confuse what the story has to say about what is happening in Kojima's world. We look at two conflicting narratives, then: the story of gameplay, where the game shines, and the story of the game's dialogue and cutscenes, where it... well... doesn't.
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31 Jul 2026
143. Death Stranding | Year of Metal Gear | S6E10
Now that our boy Kojima has been taken out of Konami and Metal Gear, we have to wonder whether you can take the Metal Gear out of the boy. In this episode, we consider what it means to start a newly independent studio that can't help but rehash all the good and the bad of the games that made you who you are. Is Kojima trapped in a kind Metal Gear samsara? Listen and find out!
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Engagement
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