Why Metal Gear Solid Rising is actually Hideo Kojima’s surprise

4.  Metal Gear Solid Rising is MGS5 and Solid Snake will be back as a playable character

Currently at Kojima Productions, the team is working on two MGS games. Rising and Snake Eater 3D. Now I have a question. Why on earth will Kojima start on an all new MGS game? Will it not back fire since people will buy a game made by Kojima rather than a game made by his young staff.

Rising will get murdered if Kojima announced a new Metal Gear Solid game. That won’t go to well as far as marketing of Rising is concerned. That’s what I think anyways.

Now why do I claim that Solid Snake will return as a playable character?

Well there a few reasons for that.

• Chronologically speaking Rising takes place after Sons of Liberty and before Guns of the Patriots. If you remember at the ending of Sons of Liberty, Snake states to Raiden that he going after Liquid and his Ray and is going to find Sunny, Olga’s child. But in MGS4 it is revealed that Raiden is the one that actually saves Sunny from the Patriots and not Snake. In order to explain that Snake has to be present in Rising in some form. Hideo Kojima has states before that Snake is his baby and he won’t let anyone else handle the character except him, which further solidifies my claim that Snake is back and Kojima IS actively involved with Rising.
• Snake still has a mission, he need to track the Patriots since he has attached a detector on Liquid’s ray, plus at the ending of MGS2 Otacon finds out the 12 members were all dead and one of them is actually a sponsor of their unit Philanthropy. This point is never touched upon in MGS4.
• Rising takes place during a time when Snake has already started to age. It only seems obvious that the team at Kojima Productions  will throw more light as to how all of a sudden he started ageing. In MGS4 it is not really clearly explained why he looks so old. The only reason they state is accelerated ageing, but no cause is given.
• Talk about contradictions. Rising’s Producer Shigenobu Matsuyama has earlier states not many characters from past MGS games will return in the game. Now at TGS 2010, he stated the opposite.

All these evidence point that Hideo Kojima is still the mastermind behind Rising. He is present in all conferences regarding Rising overlooking things. If he is not involved in the project, than why did he suggested the demo at TGS should include water melons?

With Hideo Kojima not announcing any games at TGS, Rising is MGS5 and he is teasing us just like what he did with MGS2, 10 years ago.

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