Creative mediums are powerful tools, especially video games. Most of us are already intimately familiar with that fact. I mean, you’re on a video game website, you probably wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t interested in video games. Yet other outlets cycle between praising and demonizing them. It’s obvious that this site and its community are always pro-games, but we support them for so many reasons we’d be here all day if we just put those reasons into a listicle. Instead, I’m highlighting one moment in video game storytelling that explains why games support our future.
Hideo Kojima capped off Metal Gear Solid 2 with a profound speech about how art matters to humanity. In some ways, this moment can be seen as a corny Aesop delivery. Yet it speaks a truth we often take for granted… and somehow, it’s even more relevant to us today than it was then. So today would be a good day to dissect this speech and how it illustrates the positive power of games and other media.
And quick heads up, as the title says, this whole thing is about major spoilers in Metal Gear Solid 2! The game’s almost two decades old, we know, but this is your common courtesy spoiler warning.
via destructoid https://www.destructoid.com/why-metal-gear-solid-2-s-ending-speech-still-matters-495992.phtml