Vastaus: Metal Gear Solid -sarjan juonikeskustelua (SPOILEREITA)
Kiinnostaisi semmoinen, että kuulemani mukaan Solid Snake voittaa (kahdesti?) Big Bossin, niin miksei hän ota kummallakaan kerralla Boss-arvonimeä itselleen? Naked Snakehan saa sen kunnian MGS3:ssa voitettuaan (ensimmäisen) Big Bossin.
Lueskelinkin tässä tuota Ghegsin ilmoittamaa Gamefaqsin juttua, niin seuraava tuli vastaan:
(Zanzibarissa, missä Grey Fox ja Big Boss loivat tavallaan Outer Heavenia uudelleen)
"Snake pushed on, eliminating again the threat of Metal Gear and facing Big Boss for the second time. Before they fought, Big Boss made the lofty claim that he was Snake's father; it did not weaken Snake's resolve to his mission, but the words haunted him nonetheless. He defeated and ultimately killed Big Boss, in a grim spectacle completely mirroring Naked Snake's reluctant triumph over The Boss thirty years earlier.
Naked Snake defeated The Boss, earning him unparalleled (=vertaistaan vailla oleva) prestige (=arvovalta, kunnia). He had killed the greatest soldier of the time, and more than that, his closest friend. Solid Snake had been forced to fight and kill his own closest friend, Gray Fox, and then kill Big Boss, the greatest warrior of his time... and possibly his own father. Solid Snake, much like Naked Snake thirty years earlier, returned home both a hero... and a broken man.
Snake left the military, and retreated to Alaska, where he lived alone for years to come, happily away from war and the conflicts of choosing duty and allegiance.
In his absence, the FOXHOUND unit found a new prodigy, and soon a new leader, in Liquid Snake. "
- Gamefaqs.com
Laardilaadilaa, kuitenkin hän palaa nimenomaan Solid Snakena Shadow Mosesin tehtävään. Muistan vielä, että PS1:llä MGS1:n manuaalissa löytyy (Naked Snake) Big Bossin kuva ja alla lukee tyyliin: "Very little is known about him".
Näiden hahmojen täydet taustahistoriat ovat kyllä hurjan mielenkiintoisia ja ennen kaikkia hyvin kirjoitettu, tuolla Gamefaqsissä. Tuli ihan himo päästä käsiksi GC:n Twin Snakesiin.
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Tätä viestiä kirjoittaessani periaatteessa löysinkin jo vastauksen itselleni, mutta jos muita kiinnostaa, niin tässä olisi jotain lisää:
"It is with these comparisons that we really see what 'Big Boss' means to the saga. Naked Snake is a genuine character, but 'Big Boss' has become a sort of 'dark side' to the entire Metal Gear legacy. The greatest soldiers we see in the saga all eventually succumb to the betrayals the nation and government thrusts upon them, and are disillusioned. Big Boss is the 'darth vader' (sama vertaus tulee väistämättä mieleen) of Metal Gear as we know it; Naked Snake abandoned his duty and loyalty and fell into disillusionment. Becoming 'Big Boss,' he broke away from his old loyalties and ethics and sought to change the world to suit his ideals.
Liquid Snake followed the same course. Betrayed by his origins as an engineered soldier and a world that now rejected his kind, he became Big Boss in his own right. The same follows suit for Solidus, who wanted to free the world from the Patriots. Both prided themselves as 'sons of Big Boss' and furthermore his inheritors, not realizing what the archetype of Big Boss truly stood for; those who succumb to that disillusionment, who wallow in that betrayal, keep abandoning their ethics and humanity and degenerate into monsters.
This is why Solid Snake is the 'only true hero.' Snake has faced more than his share of betrayals at the hands of his superiors, he has killed too many friends and allies, and he has faced the personal wrath of the Patriots, but he does not abandon his nobility. Snake does not resort to the atrocities that made Big Boss, Liquid, and Solidus terrorists. He continues to fight with a grounding in humanity and ethics. It is with this in mind that we can have faith he will not become the last inheritor of Big Boss's legacy."
Tuon kirjoituksen lopussa oli myös mielenkiintoinen linkki MGS-saitille:
http://philosopherslegacy.fu8.com/
