Kotaku | 20.08.2026 21:10Metal Gear is a wonderful mess. Hideo Kojima’s sweeping spy-thriller series has sometimes been the sword tip of innovation for action games. Throughout the years, it’s been packed with new approaches to narrative and amazing innovations in what the hell a boss fight can be. It’s also sometimes full of stuff that simply doesn’t work. There’s big gameplay ideas that can actually break games or make them unwinnable, messy character writing with gross implications, and games that flat out aren’t finished. Also: Johnny Sasaki is here.I’ve played this series a lot and written about them a lot. When I worked here, I wrote a huge critical breakdown of what they were doing and even, to my dismay, had to review Metal Gear Survive. I have some thoughts! So here are the best and worst things about each game.
