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Note to self about Snake's Revenge:

Claymore mines ≠ Landmines.

THE GUIDE ONLY SAYS "MINES".

Around 1500 each US dollar.
On one hand, it sucks because everything is relatively expensive.
On the other, art commissions are particularly viable.

I don't have the comic book attempt at hand, but it's probably on my PC at home. I'll look for it later.
The comic would be an abridged retelling of the first Metal Gear for the MSX, and it would feature an artstyle closer to Max Comix than these comic pages.

Here are some of the comic pages.
Don't expect me to translate them, that would require more brain power than I currently have.

The first is a Simpsons reference, the second one is Gray Fox's hypocrisy of using a weapon, and the last one is self-explanatory.

Also I couldn't come up with a good name.
I originally went with Fecal Gear/Fecal Gear Solid, but I didn't want to make the obvious and make the mechas giant turds.
With time, I started to dislike the title more and more.
But I REALLY want to make cheap and quick one-shots (one for each game).

Drawing of Solid Snake from Metal Gear.

Fun fact: I always wanted to make a Metal Gear parody comic.
I tried several times.

I started making random, self contained pages.
Then I tried to make it an actual comic book but I couldn't get far.

It's hard to try to do something that Gigi Digi/Hiimdaisy or Ohthatsraspberry haven't done yet.

Photo of my booth in the artists' alley in a convention. There are prints, stickers and copies of Max Comix, among other merch.

"Well, I worked a lot on several commissions during the week. I'll take the weekends off"

What I really do on weekends:

take this.

Update: Yes. There's input lag in docked mode. Handheld is more responsive.
Got Platinum with little issue (mostly my rusty muscle memory of this particular version of the game).

Pretty on brand, if you ask me.

Oooooh yeah, I remember about that. Hasn't it been taken down yet?

Nintendo clearly hasn't checked their own store.
It already IS a giant slop fest.

I need to upload more drawings.
And draw more often.

Not everything has to be the latest fully rendered illustration commission that took me a whole week to make, lol.

Tried both on TV, so that's why it was weird to see CB4 being so responsive compared to NST.
I'll try handheld later, it was kind of the reason why I bought them again despite having them on PS4 already.

But I am noticing some input lag, which made me struggle a bit with the first two levels.
I thought it was a joycon issue but then I tried CB4 and got the NSPR on the first two levels on my first try, controls were really snappy and responsive.
Weird.

I bought the Crash Bandicoot collection on Switch because it was at a discount price.
And dang... Removing that fuzzy fur effect really improves Crash's model in that game.

Exactly, LMAO

I think you never actually see the Metal Gear in the whole game.

Also the computer is not even a boss fight. There are 4 guards in the room. You kill them and that's it. You're alone, no one bothers you. You have all the time in the world to plant the bombs.
No security system.

(Those games are pretty much impossible to play without savestates)

Oh, I thought that the NES Metal Gear games were just roms thrown there with no QOL options whatsoever but nope, they do have savestates.
My bad, I played MG NES on my R36 when I could've played it in the Collection, lol.

I'll play Snake's Revenge there then.

Cover.

Computer where the Metal Gear should be. You don't even fight it with a bombing sequence, just place 16 bombs and it'll be destroyed. No defense systems whatsoever.

Ending.

22) Metal Gear (NES, 1987)

Different and inferior, but not BAD bad.

🟢 You can shoot weapons while inside a cardboard box, and the inventory is less chaotic to look at. There's no ‼️ alerts.
🔴 Confusing jungle sections for the sake of it. You don't even fight the Metal Gear at the end. Messy menu.

Cover.

All Chaos Emeralds.

Ending.

21) Sonic Blast (GG, 1996)
[All Emeralds]

If I had to describe this game in one word, it'd be: UGLY.

🟢 It's pretty short.
🔴 Seriously, I hate the art direction. Everything looks really, really ugly, and it came out AFTER Sonic Chaos! Also there are water levels which are also labyrinths, so EW²

In the MSX version, you can stack on rations and ammo by leaving and re-entering a room.
In the NES version you don't even need to leave the room, just by opening and closing the transceiver, they respawn.

The NES game is pretty hard in many areas, but easier in others (it also has less enemies)

Now none of that matters.
You can just keep the box equipped, move around with it, stop when enemies or cameras look in your direction, shoot enemies when they don't, and move on.

That's... Actually pretty cool, ngl.

The inventory system in MG NES sucks.
It doesn't have different enemy layouts depending on which side of the screen you come in from, so there's no safe areas and you'll trigger an alert very often due to entering a screen and being on enemy sight from frame one.
Taking off a box to shoot is risky.

Wait.

You can SHOOT

WEAPONS

WHILE INSIDE A CARDBOARD BOX
IN METAL GEAR NES????

I think I was too harsh on this game. That's actually pretty cool. And also suddenly the whole game is considerably less BS hard.

The best Star Wars droid is the Gonk droid.
No, I won't elaborate.
No, I won't change my mind.
I just smile whenever one's on screen.

One of my cozy games is Silent Hill Origins, lol.

The fact that you can punch your way through the game with no issue takes away most of the anxiety/stress-inducing aspects of the game. And it's really fun.

Cover.

Screenshot of the titular mech exploding.

Ending.

20) Metal Gear (MSX2, 1987)

I bought the MGS Master Collection and wanted to start from the beginning.

🟢 It's clear that such a legendary franchise had a more than Solid™ foundation.
🔴 The card system absolutely sucks. Playing with a map indicating the security level of each door is MANDATORY.

Cover.

Ending.

Credits screen.

19) The Simpsons Arcade Game (Arcade, 1991)

It's a really solid Beat'Em Up, but it's considerably less fun to play it alone.

🟢 Awesome animations, really charming game overall.
🔴 Certainly not a single player game.

I saw a Reddit post asking for the same and some replies were Soul Reaver and Castlevania SOTN???

No, I'm talking more like Akuji The Heartless, Incredible Crisis, Racing Lagoon...

I want HIDDEN gems.