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The Metal Gear series was never meant to be taken as serious as it is, which makes Metal Gear Solid Delta the perfect one to remake [Gamify My Life]

We can't wait for a whole new generation of gamers to discover just how silly the Metal Gear series has always been.

Gamify My Life Metal Gear Solid — Image credit: Konami/Popverse

Features by Trent Cannon, Senior Contributing writer

Published on Mon Aug 11 2025

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There are two things that can derail a beloved game franchise: prequels and remakes. So what happens when you have a remake of a prequel in one of the most obtuse and convoluted series of all time? You get Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, one of the games coming out this summer that we’re most curious about. Not just because it is one of the best entries in the series, but because we’re looking forward to seeing how new players react to just how goofy the Metal Gear game can be.

See, Metal Gear is kind of like Airplane or The Naked Gun; it works because everyone in it is playing it extremely straight despite how bonkers everything happening really is. Dude shows up with the ability to control hornets? A literal ghost? Layer upon layer of betrayal? All totally fair game that no one should bat an eye at this. The moment you start taking Metal Gear seriously is the moment you’re missing the point.

Metal Gear Solid The End — Image credit: Konami

Even with the serious tones in the series – the corruption of authority, the inhumanity of war, the disillusionment of soldiers who have been betrayed by the countries they’ve given their lives to – it never ceases to remind you that it is a video game. I would describe the tonal shifts in Metal Gear, and the Metal Gear Solid series in particular, as watching Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy with a plot from the old Adam West Batman show. Complete nonsense given a gravitas that it shouldn’t need but somehow works.

While I have some misgivings about fans jumping into the series with Metal Gear series here because you lose a lot of the payoff for The Boss’ supposed betrayal if you haven’t played the original game, I have to admit that this is a good introduction to the heart of Metal Gear Solid. As the first chronological game, it doesn’t require quite as much homework to get into. There are references and callbacks (callforwards?) to previous games, but you can play through it without needing to be deep into the lore. Like I said, you miss some of the emotional punch when you don’t know that this frames the rest of Metal Gear as history repeating itself or the way that nations rewrite history at the expense of their own soldiers, but it is still a fun game with a goofy premise that works on its own.

Metal Gear Solid Delta Walking In Water — Image credit: Konami

I can’t say for sure that I’m looking forward to playing Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater as much as I am looking forward to seeing the reaction of the world at large playing it for what could be the first time. It really depends on how much Konami decides to change the gameplay or story to make this feel like a fresh entry. After all, an HD remaster was released as recently as 2023, so the game may already be fresh enough in people’s minds that it won’t make the kind of splash that it should. This is an opportunity to really showcase what makes the Metal Gear series so iconic and enduring, and they shouldn’t miss it.

I hope that players will catch on to the unique chaos that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater represents. It is probably the tightest story in the series, with the most focus on what makes Metal Gear so peculiarly enduring. Players old and new, however, should not make the mistake of expecting it to be played straight. I don’t care how hard the final reveal of The Boss’ loyalties hits; no game where a villain’s power is Bees is to be taken seriously.

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