Board 8 > I'm playing Snake Eater HD on the 360 *Spoilers*

(+) Yeah! (+)

3 > 2 > 1 > 4

GZ >>> PW >>> V

But you can't mix those series together

edit: I had a lapse of judgment, there's no way V is better than PW
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So I beat DA FEARRRR aka the easiest

I'm glad carrying those 6 rotting dead frogs from the beginning of the game in my back pocket this whole time paid off

ALSO I CAUGHT THE TSUCHINOKO WOOO

I never heard of those until this game

I love how the support team implies that thing is way more important than finishing the mission and preventing WWIII

"Hurry and finish so you can bring that back here!"
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Dunsparce is based on the Tsuchinoko too iirc
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Of all things, I remember hearing "The Legendary Tsuchinoko!" in Super Milk Chan and I was like "That thing from Metal Gear?"
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I think my first exposure to tsuchinoko was in one of the Soma Cruz Castlevanias.
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me and my brother used to play these games SO MUCH

we loved them

MGS2 was especially my bro's favorite

he learned the attack patterns so well that he could beat the bosses unarmed (when applicable)

he was so good that when I did my extreme run, I just handed him the controller and with the sword equipped, he ANNIHILATED Solidus

Or we would take Both health and Stamina bars on bosses

really, these games were almost household to us

I'm bringing this up because I'm about to roll up on The End

I remembered I knew his patterns so well that I would just bum rush him and fight him Contra style. If you are ON him and just make him run the whole fight, he would die from Stamina in a few minutes

and I would know his patterns too, his hiding spots, and which ones he would go to depending on where he was or which way he was running

I don't remember ANY of this anymore

so I may have to straight up sniper battle him, which I haven't done since my very first playthrough since like 2004
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The End is such a great boss fight because of how many different ways you can approach it.
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took me awhile to find him but yea, once you find him once, its over

you just chase him and chase him

the funny thing is hes programmed to run to the next spot, hes not actually running from YOU

and once he gets there, he sets up and turns his back on you and forgets all about you

I just held him up this way. Now to chase him a bit longer and get that sweet tranq rifle
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the desert area was really hard, its a vertical map, so they can look down at you, but its really hard to look up at them
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