E3 2014: Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Keeps Its Humorous Edge — cinemablend.com

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a series breaking from the norm and taking new paths, but after playing Ground Zeros and experiencing that darker (and more controversial) take on the MGS brand of storytelling, I was feeling a bit apprehensive about what The Phantom Pain would have to offer. The MGS series has always tackled mature subject matters and violence, but it’s usually done with an oddball sense of humor running through the middle to keep things from getting too “real.” Ground Zeroes, while easy on the eyes and controlling like a dream, was pretty much devoid of that trademark Hideo Kojima je ne sais quoi. The trailers for The Phantom Pain, too, have lacked anything resembling a sense of humor, instead boasting images of Big Boss smearing the ashes of a fallen comrade on his face, brutal knife fights, gravel-voiced monologues and an up close look at a man taking a bullet to the temple.

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