Platinum Games, the developer of acclaimed motion titles together with Bayonetta and Nier: Automata, contributed to the event of Konami’s Metal Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater, Konami has confirmed. Particularly, Platinum created a brand new model of Snake’s Nightmare, an Easter egg that longtime followers of MGS3 will little doubt relish the return of.
Snake’s Nightmare is a third-person motion sequence that’s accessed by saving the sport when Snake is captured and thrown in jail. When the save file is reloaded, as an alternative of going again to the jail, gamers get up in a hellish otherworld the place a mysterious man wielding hook-swords takes on demons in a graveyard.
The minigame, additionally identified to followers as Man Savage, was initially written and directed by Shuyo Murata, who contributed to numerous different Metal Gear Strong tasks as a part of the unique Kojima Productions crew. Though Metal Gear Strong 3 has been re-released in numerous varieties since its debut on the PlayStation 2, Snake’s Nightmare/Man Savage has been omitted within the majority of them.
For Delta, an entire and devoted remake of the unique MGS3, Konami went the additional mile and introduced in Platinum to rebuild the hidden mode. As acknowledged in our assessment, it is a superb return for the easter egg. Platinum are masters of the motion sport style and beforehand collaborated with Konami on Metal Gear Rising: Reveagance, a spin-off centered on Raiden. Their experience could be very a lot on present in Snake’s Nightmare, which feels sharp and satisfying to play.
In GameSpot’s Metal Gear Strong Delta: Snake Eater assessment, we gave the sport a 9/10, saying it’s “a protected however profitable modernization of a beloved basic” and a “beautiful sport that brings MGS3 to life in gorgeous new element.”
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