>>5943278I totally agree that given what we know about what the game was intended to be, with those 2 or 3 locations cut, is totally disappointing. It's pretty apparent through the game that Konami just stopped waiting and funneling money for Kojima and just forced it out. I didn't mean to imply that the game is perfect; it's far from it. But that doesn't mean it isn't a great video game in its own right, in a vacuum.
I'm pretty sure they didn't put Mission 51 in the game because it was actually pretty stupid, and not because they didn't have time. There were way too many logical inconsistencies and it generally was really awkward. But I would have loved to have seen all the shit from the red band trailers in the game. And Venom never actually went nuclear.
But all that said, the game itself is great.