![]() Told from the second-person perspective of a young man with family from Kabul, the piece explores how we dive into the narrative of protagonists to escape trauma. Recently in the December 2019 issue of the New Yorker, Jamil Jan Kochai published the short story Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. ![]() By sheer cultural osmosis and the impact of Death Stranding last year, I finally decided to finally give the franchise a proper shot.Ĭritics have previously called Kojima “the Jonathan Franzen of video games” for his aspirational narrative gestures - which led me to realize Metal Gear Solid itself is no stranger to the world of fiction. For years I thought the series was impenetrable, a shadowy and undecipherable opus hidden behind the mythic auteur of Hideo Kojima. I’ve never played a Metal Gear Solid game.
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