20 Things You Didn't Know About Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
11. A Playable Eli Sequence Was Cut
Eli is a child soldier in the game who is not-so-surprisingly revealed to be a young Liquid Snake, and though it's well-known that an epic confrontation with Eli was cut from the game's third chapter, a playable Eli sequence also got the chop at some point.
Data-mining uncovered text which pointed to Eli being playable for at least a small portion of the game, whether directly controlled or as a support character, but for whatever reason this sadly never came to pass.
Considering how the game could've done so much more with Eli, this is probably yet another casualty of the game's frantic development.