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Fifteen years ago on March 4, in our territory, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater appeared on the market. The third part of one of the best sagas in the history of video games, one capable of marking a generation of players forever. We are not a few who consider this installment the best work of Hideo Kojima and his team, because although it is likely that the first installment of the franchise was the most important for many and the one that made the foundations of the medium vary, this is the that works best alone and the one that is rounder.

For the first time in the saga we were jumping into the past and instead of Solid Snake, Liquid, Raiden and the rest of the characters, we were facing two of the most important missions of Naked Snake, which in the future would be renamed Big Boss. The most important character in the history of Metal Gear Solid, which revolves around all the events and most of the main characters. ¿Who really was this character? ¿How did you get that badge? ¿What did? All those answers are provided in Snake Eater, which we can later season with the different releases released for laptops and the events of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Everything changed. We were no longer in the present, the war did not take advantage of technological advances or nanomachines. In the Cold War the only thing that mattered was the soldiers' own ability to survive. Thrown into the jungle, we not only had to get weapons and equipment, but we had to use camouflages and feed ourselves. How? Hunting wild animals. Operation Snake Eater (snake eater) came up with a double message: on the one hand, there was an allusion to Snake's own need to hunt animals and eat them to survive, including all kinds of snakes, but also one of the main objectives of the mission: end the so-called Cobra Unit led by The Boss.

What a character. For many The Boss is still one of the best characters ever created in a video game. It is impressive how a game that turns fifteen today knows how to provide so many current messages in our current society through such a powerful character. On it and on the message it transmits arise all the inconveniences and problems of the future. On his idea of an ideal world arise future confrontations between Zero and Big Boss, trying to emulate and understand his legacy. Everything she preaches creates an irreplaceable root in the minds of these soldiers.

Naked Snake was trained by The Boss, she was his mentor, but not only that. He was much more than a mother or a couple, it was his whole life for ten years. They lived and died together, as they themselves convey in their conversations. The problem comes when Snake's mission is clear under certain circumstances: he must kill The Boss for treason. It is his mission, he is a soldier. You must obey orders, as it is your only mission. It does not matter their past or the love they feel between them.

This is where the enormous number of emotional moments that Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is treasured are born from. ¿Will Snake be true to the ideals of his engagement and patriotism, or will he be true to The Boss? With some of the best moments I've ever experienced in a video game and with an ending that still leaves a lump in my throat. As indicated by the song itself that plays in the end credits:

Metal Gear Solid is a very special saga. To enjoy it to the fullest it requires playing each and every one of its games, which currently can be difficult in the absence of reissues. However, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater works perfectly as an independent entity. Its function and history is decisive in the saga, but it has its own beginning and end, opening and closing its own circle. For me, the best installment in a very special franchise and the best work by one of the most important authors in history.

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