I played it and the thing that drove me the most nuts is that Kojima didn't even make a token effort to make his little mini-USA look like the actual USA.

And yes, the story is hot garbage, but the performances portraying that hot garbage are actually pretty stellar, at least the performances where the voice actor and character model match, excluding Norman Reedus. Mads was excellent, Troy Baker chewed the scenery like nobodies business, and Tommie Earl Jenkins was fuckin' stellar. They really demonstrated how far acting talent and straight up performances can take a piece of media, even when the script is a goddamn trash fire. The worst performance by far was by Norman Reedus himself, but I can't blame him. Kojima just gave him fuck-all.

EDIT: I just remembered what actually pissed me off the most about that game. It came back to me like a flash of PTSD. Its all the fucking MENUS. That game had the worst UI I've seen in all of modern gaming. It would almost drive me to despair when I was forced to open up the menu mid-trek to drop something.

I played it and the thing that drove me the most nuts is that Kojima didn't even make a token effort to make his little mini-USA look like the actual USA.

And yes, the story is hot garbage, but the performances portraying that hot garbage are actually pretty stellar, at least the performances where the voice actor and character model match, excluding Norman Reedus. Mads was excellent, Troy Baker chewed the scenery like nobodies business, and Tommie Earl Jenkins was fuckin' stellar. They really demonstrated how far acting talent and straight up performances can take a piece of media, even when the script is a goddamn trash fire. The worst performance by far was by Norman Reedus himself, but I can't blame him. Kojima just gave him fuck-all.