I've always been meaning to try out the Metal Gear series. Everyone says they're legendary games and obviously Snake is super cool. I wanted to play them in order more or less so I started my journey with the NES games.
They're shit.
After playing the two NES games for roughly an hour (and not getting very far in either), I decided I'd had enough. Funny enough I saw that there was an AVGN video about them and he has my EXACT experience playing them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHyTzPtEAhk
A bunch of my criticisms word for word, including the horrible jungle intro, the annoying respawning enemies and terrible menu interface.
Apparently the MSX versions are way better, gonna try those now.