{"id":80521,"date":"2015-08-25T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80521"},"modified":"2015-08-25T18:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T16:07:05","slug":"mgs-v-the-phantom-pains-beautiful-homage-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/80521-mgs-v-the-phantom-pains-beautiful-homage-to-the-past","title":{"rendered":"MGS V: The Phantom Pain\u2019s beautiful homage to the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launch trailers, particularly for action games, are all much of a muchness \u2013 thrilling or otherwise frenetic scenes strung together for the sake of selling the perceived experience of the game.<\/p>\n<p>At times, the plot is lightly woven into the trailer, and everything is mixed together with any number of fade ins and outs, <em>Inception <\/em>fog horns and an exhilarating piece of music.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, they do what they\u2019re intended, convert hype into sales. <em>Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain\u2019s<\/em> launch trailer is a little bit different.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Hideo Kojima itself, the trailer is both a homage to the <em>Metal Gear Franchise<\/em> in its entirety while still establishing the roots for <em>MGS V<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It tells the tale of <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> as it has unfolded this far, and then it cuts to Snake, the protagonist of <em>MGS V<\/em> \u2013 or is he?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/alxN1i1GagM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The launch trailer closes out by asking the same question so many of the franchise\u2019s fans have had going into the game.<\/p>\n<p>How does Snake, protagonist of <em>MGS V<\/em> and supposed hero, become the war tyrant we eventually know him to be?<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll have to play the game to find out, even if it\u2019s only because this will be Hideo Kojima\u2019s <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> swansong.<\/p>\n<p><em>Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain<\/em> releases for all platforms on September 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>It&#8217;s all about The Phantom Pain<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/80479-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-review-rounup.html\">Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Review Roundup<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/80347-troll-king-kojimas-swansong-what-to-expect.html\">Troll King Kojima\u2019s Swansong: What to Expect<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/77624-get-excited-for-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain-heres-why.html\">Get excited for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: here\u2019s why<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And directed by Hideo Kojima himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":80523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[575,15547,1269,367,9988,13628,1969,15397,129,1239,15399,1853,183,79,10065],"class_list":["post-80521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-hideo-kojima","tag-homage","tag-konami","tag-launch-trailer","tag-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain","tag-mgs-v","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-playstation-3","tag-playstation-4","tag-ps3","tag-playstation4","tag-video","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}