If you were expecting a cavalcade of familiar faces inMetal Gear Solid: Rising, then prepare to be disappointed. Raiden will not be tussling with an all-star cast of classicMetal Gearvillains, as Kojima Productions aims to forge a new saga.
“To answer you question about returning characters, we’re probably not going to show too many characters inRisingbecause, since it’s a new part of a series, we don’t really want to refer to and dwell upon theMetal Gearsaga so much,” says creative producer Shigenobu Matsuyama in aninterview with GamesTM.
“We want newcomers to the game to come in and play freely without needing to know and understand the background of the wholeMetal Gear Soliduniverse. We don’t want to have it all tied up with the story from MGS2 or MGS4 and make it too complicated.”
AMetal Gear Solidgame that won’t be too complicated? Wonders will never cease.
