10 Ways Hideo Kojima Should Have Made Metal Gear Solid 5: Phantom Pain

9. Do Quiet's Motivations & Her Romance Properly

It's only when you look into some of the game's deleted audio that you find evidence of Boss and Quiet's relationship having more than a hint of romance or genuine sexual attraction - outside of Quiet dangling her boobs in his face, that is.

In the game, the two meet and have this strangely stilted, 'mutual respect' thing going on, but outside of triggering the terribly executed scene where Quiet strips off in the rain (ending with the two of them assuming a very intimate pose), it doesn't feed into anything outside of her sacrificing herself for you at the very end.

Even the idea that the two of them are supposed to be an item only comes through one line of dialogue ("She's in love with the legend"), or the way Boss looks to care about her after she almost dies during the Mother Base infection. It's so close to connoting the age-old phrase from MGS 1 about whether "Love can bloom, even on a battlefield", but stays too wide of the mark.

When all's said and done, we know Quiet's dialogue is hampered by the vocal chord parasites restricting her English language use, but she opens up to Code Talker later in the game. Why not have more tapes/cutscenes where we hear her motivations being broken down in conversations with him, where genuinely struggles to decide whether what she's doing is right?

It would certainly have been more palatable than Code Talker rambling on about the minutia of his research for hours on end.