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

3. Make The Battle Gear Playable

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This one just reeks of Phantom Pain being kicked out the door unfinished, as midway through the story you'll get a cutscene where Huey remarks that he can build a custom Metal Gear, just for you. The scene finishes with him saying to keep checking back across your runtime, the assumption being that it'll be available eventually.

Nope.

Instead, this was another thing that was cut, as tutorial voice files from Ocelot dictate him describing to Boss what the mech would've done.

It's not that we needed another buddy alongside the four we got, but having a cutscene that includes dialogue saying "This thing will be ready soon!", only for it be resigned to a prop in your base and a menu prompt for your optional soldier missions is just confusing.

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