15 Metal Gear Solid Moments That Were Completely Weird

THE HOSPITAL SEQUENCE (METAL GEAR SOLID 5: THE PHANTOM PAIN)

Metal Gear Solid 5 was, unlike its predecessors, a vast and open experience with very little focus on direct storytelling. That said, that wasn’t how the game started off. The opening hour of the game is a strictly linear affair as Venom Snake makes his way through a hellish attack on the hospital he wakes up in, and man is it full of unbelievably outlandish sights. A massive whale floating in the sky, a devilish man on fire, a young Psycho Mantis, a flaming unicorn… yeah, that opening hour is packed.