10 Perfect Video Games With One Glaring Flaw

1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - Unfinished Business

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Whatever it is that caused the schism between Konami and Hideo Kojima to grow so irreparably wide, we'll likely never know, but what's not up for debate is the detrimental effect its fallout had on the overall quality of Metal Gear Solid's fifth outing.

The first entry in Kojima's famed franchise to feature a fully-realised open world replete with open-ended gameplay, brilliantly-implemented micromanagement and progression systems in the form of Mother Base and an intriguing, if often incoherent, narrative, The Phantom Pain was the delivery on a tantalizing promise made with prequel Ground Zeroes, but its magnificence wasn't to last.

The sharp decline in quality arrives around the halfway point when the plot, having already concluded the Skull Face arc, reduces the game to a rinse and repeat jobbie where the player is forced to repeat several past missions in order to make the plot limp along to it's unsatisfying, obviously unfinished finale.

Konami never conceded to the suspicions that Phantom Pain shipped in an unfinished state, but the discovery of cut content in the form of unreleased episodes and a third chapter all but cement their accuracy.

A sad ending to potentially the last ever main line Metal Gear title.

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