>>715420091
Once you realise the story was obviously originally structured around Higgs kidnapping the baby and raising her either to be an active threat or to plant her as a double-agent which was then hastily rewritten once Kojima was able to scan not-Snake it's hard to ignore. Neil is the weakest link in the story and a kind of pointless rehash of Cliff. His presence in the story boils down to
>actually sam's wife had an affair
>and sam isn't the father
>nvm he actually was
It's great gameplay-wise, though it could stand to be harder, but narratively it feels like TPP all over again. Cut corners everywhere.