Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain - Every Screenshot You Need To See

3. Child Soldiers Feature Heavily

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One of the key themes of MGS in general is the idea of sins and past mistakes being transferred across to the next generation, and with Phantom Pain taking on much more serious, mature themes, it appears Kojima is addressing the idea of child soldiers directly - something that's very rarely done in video games.

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