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Warning: this post contains spoiler (advances) that reveal the most part the entire plot of the work of twenty years of Metal Gear . Do not press forward in reading if you have not completed all of the episodes, or threaten to spoil the surprises for which they are dense.

in the unforgettable moment when a saga ends, it is simply moved, to feel simultaneously full, empty, surprised and disappointed. This is a hybrid of indecipherable emotion, unable to overwhelm with each other, until the time the reflection, the unraveling of empathy, do not clear up one by one the pieces of the puzzle that the inner masterpiece us given. The real meaning of a work, it is understood only when it is clear the value that it has assumed in our lives everyday. The moment we understand how much of us belong to it.

We, in one way or another, with Metal Gear Solid, we grew up: it was inevitable that the emotions, fears and messages that he sent us - they belonged to the original, in Sons of Liberty or Snake Eater - influenced, if properly educated, our way of being, of seeing the world, to think. In some cases, even our way of relating with others. The comparison that I intend to implement in this post, is among the first chapter that taught me so much, Metal Gear Solid , and also along these 10 years from the release of one or the other, the last, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots , which - as paradoxical or absurd it may seem - has been able to make me smile to life, to realize once again that the great emotions in the little things are. And inside ourselves.

The original Metal Gear Solid was steeped in the philosophy of simple but charming Master Kojima. Even then, what is now the writer and director for excellence in video games made in Japan, sent strong messages, practical, optimistic: such as the fact that life in one way or another, is always able to offer a second chance. Solid Snake finds out that after six years as a hermit in Alaska, must face - and embrace - again with the other, with what will become the friend of all his life, Hal Emmerich, and with the love of Meryl Silverburgh. But even with his past, his sins, which sent him back to the crime of Big Boss, which had shaken him so much: Snake must once again see the eyes of his friend Gray Fox.

Gray Fox, it is at that binds one of the strongest messages and the entire twenty-year work: war is not a good reason to end a friendship . The simple words of the Serpent, so immediate and seemingly absurd, are a blow to the way of each of us. We, who we believe in friendship, and sometimes they remain disappointed, more satisfied, as children we are left with a message so strong and so beautiful: even the war, the opposing sides, can lead to a sunset true friendship. And it

, complex and incomprehensible, they tied the message conveyed by the love of Otacon against Wolf: no matter the line up, no matter the ideas. At any time, any place, two people can fall in love . Emmerich and that ignoring any ideological bias and the fact that Wolf was just a sniper State of the terrorists against whom he was struggling, just follow your feelings. He has the courage to believe in utopia. Because if it does not, nothing would make sense. Because the pure feelings are all that we have.

speak Of love even, all the plots, the eyes of Snake and Meryl: If the first, after being convinced of it lost forever, advances tormented by guilt, remorse, the fact that - is raw say - I should not push it that far, it's all my fault , the second fight, resist, closes his eyes and face the brutality and death for one reason only: I wanted to see you again . With the strength of the heart, with the inner that comes from deep within, when the physical is gone, it is no longer enough, both defeated their shadows, and they go, simply because they want to, because they do not even think about the alternative. Because if there may be a future for them, they want to try to discover it together. This is the first mention of the concept of willpower, to be consecrated - on behalf of both the characters - in Guns of the Patriots.
And while Raven and Wolf, on his deathbed, crossing the fine line between enemy and friend, while Liquid - as crazy - he died while believing strongly in something, is through Naomi Hunter, his final monologue, which weaves the more strong message of Metal Gear Solid, its basic philosophy, its fascinating and struggentissima poetry life is connected with the future. Lifetime. Loving each other, learning from each other, just so that we can change the world. At last I understood the true meaning of life . His words, so beautiful and direct for them, they are almost difficult to comment on. Metal Gear Solid wanted, in his epilogue, showing one of the possible reasons why life is worth living, so it is worth trying: the future. An unknown word that in its coming into being, depend entirely on ourselves. From the way we're going to follow to build it. The legacy Metal Gear Solid has left us in the heart, which is always worth trying to leave a legacy to the future. Above all, the best legacy: that of a child. Genes exist to pass on our dreams and our hopes for the future through our children . Here is the truth of Metal Gear Solid: implied that we can somehow live the future that we built for posterity. And not through ourselves but through those who generate as the protagonists of that future. The human smallness, made by the magnificent opportunity to go through someone else, perhaps a sense of the lives of others. That was Metal Gear Solid, this was his extreme sense. This is the philosophy that there have fallen in love.

The level of philosophical and conceptual saga has gone further in following the first masterpiece, in that complex and difficult Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty that shifting the target by Solid Snake to Raiden, only to give an even more supreme to the first light, through the analysis of society, life, and - once again, in his most important message - the future.
Despite the complexity of the intricate plot, the wonderful philosophy of Sons of Liberty can be simplified in a few core concepts, absolutely stunning and fascinating: Raiden, in its ambiguity, its not having a name, date of birth - they are typed by the user at the beginning of Chapter Plant - is none other than the same player. A normal person, which is found slingshots, almost physically, alongside his childhood hero. It is perhaps the most ambitious fusion of reality and video game ever imagined. We are no more Snake, but ourselves, propelled by his side. We, in our characterization, in our being as we are, next to the legend that has made us grow, that made us move, which has given us so much. And once again, first to people who never fail to distinguish either as friends or as enemies, we just begin to infinity and boundless future. Without a compass and guidance in the infinite possibilities of alternatives, paralyzed by anxiety kiergekaardiana. And again, Snake is to teach us to relate with the future in a society dominated by digital technology, from being filed, each being the same, what you feel, what you feel, that's always real, and belongs only to you. It's up to you to decide what to do . In the modern global, made up of numbers and concepts seen and taken as a whole, individuality survives in the hearts of people, in their ability, despite everything, to choose their small to exploit what they have lived and experienced as a result, making the casket of their being unique in their individuality. And with all this, our ego is accompanied by what we choose to believe: is how confident you are going to have something in that fight, to decide the future . It 's the pass to someone else to build this confidence the world of tomorrow, making sure that our being individuals endure. Just as happened in the past: freedom we have inherited from those who fought for it . But, without wasting words, without interpretations trivial and perhaps questionable, is the same as Solid Snake to summarize, in its final stages by Young, the truth behind Sons of Liberty, in the sentences that do not even have to comment: Life is not only to pass on our genes. We can leave to posterity a lot more than our DNA. Through words, music, literature, movies ... What we have seen, heard, felt. Anger, joy and pain: these are the things I want to pass on. This is why I live. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our confused and sad history by its light. We have all the magic of the digital age, to do so. The human species is likely to have an end, sooner or later, and new species will rule this planet. The Earth will not last forever, but we have upon us the responsibility to traces that we leave more of our lives. Building the future and keeping the past alive are the same thing .

Similar concepts, but further investigated, and almost playfully painted in a time far from our average, despite the order to teach us to live in modernity, are the underlying philosophy that is 'behind Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater . Indeed, in view of the "philosophy of legacy," just the idea for the prequel to all the previous episodes takes on a striking feature: the company will already know after the ending of Snake Eater, we already know what will become of its heroes and its villains. E 'with this particular key, Snake is shot in the manga that the philosophy of the future, ideals, friends and enemies. In the first Metal Gear Solid, Gray Fox and Solid Snake gave us proof that even the war, even the dissenting faction, can put an end to a friendship. The concept is taken up in Metal Gear Solid 3, and further expanded: The Boss as he says, there are no enemies in absolute terms, those we are fighting are only in a relative manner, they will change over time . Following on from the Cold War, absolutely irreconcilable to mere border and political ideals of the two slices in which the world was divided, the Master Kojima once again excludes the war by our criteria for evaluating the other as a friend is someone who goes beyond the differences between us and him. Friends and enemies we are talking about the war, they are in relation to the condition we are fighting, marrying the ideal: to have different ideals and fighting to defend until the end, does not mean being enemies in life. From this it is inferred that, as confined to the momentary state of war, there are no enemies in life, there are nothing but a sad and petty cataloging our mind.
In this condition of constant struggle and to what voluntary that is different, and that enemy is us, the most valuable ally of all is ourselves loyalty to the end, loyalty to yourself . In changing times bring new ideals, and redistributing the pawns on the chessboard of fake friends and foes the only key point, the still point from which to allocate groped always, is ourselves.
Still we are, finally, the voice that will continue in the future of those who were swallowed up in the past. The great deeds, great words, the simple emotions, often do not find justice in the memory of posterity, and leave a legacy of great price, but fragile, that a mere puff of wind could erase. E 'luggage leaving in each of the persons with whom they had to do in life, the treasures that our hearts are charged when, once these people have left us forever, maybe we can truly understand the teaching. To make sense of everything they have done. When the story can not give credit when it is too small to be passed on to all humanity, we have yet another way to survive the oblivion of time: the heart of the people who have loved us. As stated in the EVA Debriefing, about the death of The Boss, she wanted to live ... in your memory. Not as a soldier, but as a woman. History will never be aware of what she did. No one will ever know the truth. His history, his deeds will survive only inside your heart .
This is the key concept of Metal Gear Solid 3: In addition to love and to genes (Metal Gear Solid), in addition to culture, art and ideals (Metal Gear Solid 2), there is another way through which we can pass on to future fragments of ourselves: the hearts of those who have been close. Without real enemies or friends, loyal to our individual ideals to the point of being willing to die embracing them, we will always have a chance to survive in the memories of someone. And to leave them in this way, the best of ourselves.

After talked so long, and so open, the entire Solid saga is almost hard to go beyond the surface of the epilogue of the series, this chapter, as befits any good story, back to the concepts proposed since the prologue , eternity in an epic finale, worthy of being remembered. And 'this, in very few words, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots .
The hero of our childhood, that Solid Snake we got to fall in love, he returns older, discouraged and destroyed. Why can not escape the fate. Why do not you always wanted as Naomi, the chains of destiny - stronger than any individual human being - can be broken.
yet, Snake still has on its side the strength of the friendship of Otacon, the desire to leave to posterity a world that is worthy of being called such. Snake is still the same time, the man who, in New York, claimed to be living in the future to pass on the simplicity of his life. In a future controlled by automated systems, where money did lose sight of all morality, which science continues to become a volunteer / unconscious nourishment war economy, Snake must once again find the strength to find the field, not to address the his opponents, but himself and his destiny. His fatigue and its ghosts.
With Old Snake, in ten years, we have aged, too. That guy that Snake had found children, we adults rediscover, and we find the elderly. Time: This is one of the concepts that are made from Guns of the Patriots. The real-time, what we have spent with Snake, and the playful, the fictional and theatrical, which is to kill the snake once and for all. That will force him to put his weapons and surrender, because life does not always go as we wanted to go.
The greatest value of the message to Guns of the Patriots, his absolute gem, the jewel in the crown of his script, revolves around the concept of the infinite possibilities of human willpower. Beyond any stupidity, against any adverse event, even without an ounce of strength in body, if you really believe in something, if you really want with all of yourself, you can. Why not in your body, but in the heart, the force that will allow you to move forward. Expresses when Old Snake, powerless and increasingly weak, dragging over the microwave corridor toward the GW. Devastated and almost dying. This is demonstrated by Raiden, fighting against an army without arms. This is shown by Mei Ling, who, addressing all his fears, he finds himself with his ship, face to face with the Metal Gear RAY. And married to another message, Meryl and Akiba show that is completely riddled by the enemy, continue to resist until the last bullet. How long, no, no Fall is my strength of will, are unarmed, but I still believe, I still do potercela. It can be done.
the two future spouses, also binds other philosophical concepts behind Metal Gear Solid 4: in addition to the flow of events, the force of human will is stronger than even the science of patterns that the company requires as necessary to deal with dates situations. This is shown clearly in pain and resisting the enemy without relying on nanotechnology. And in the same scene, Akiba once again demonstrates the power of love: a man who could not face her fears, but we try, at no cost to get out on the ground, at the risk of being destroyed, just to be close to woman he loves. While at least tried to know us, not leaving it alone.
And while the company is driven by a continuing cycle of repetition, a kind of eternal return artificial dark and distressing nietzeschiano wanted by the Patriots, in a world where artificial intelligence, because of the progress of science, humans have dominated even , to escape are once again the values \u200b\u200bof the individual, the faith of the individual, the smallness of the human. How to make a mirror to our society, made up of digital, veiled charges, filter information, more and more interested in a comprehensive electronic control abominable. Even here, as Metal Gear Solid universe, we can survive, we can exploit them, just being up at the bottom of ourselves, away from our nichlisimo fake and anonymous. Our will power is strong enough to make us free from all this. And 'what it says in the final Drebin, noting that there is much difference between the United Nations and the Patriots . In a world where unions are not interviewed and on which, however, our opinion would not count of that, we can simply clip the corner of our living as men, believing in our values. Never living like automatons. The strength of will, we believe you want to do, the love we feel for someone and that someone will try to us, we will go into the smallness of our own universe that, however small, will still be pure and authentic. If all agissimo in this way, probably will leave a far better world for future generations.
are the same concepts that Big Boss Snake says to his son, in the last scene of the saga: despite everything, whatever fate has laid for us, we have been involved in anything, we always have the freedom to start from scratch. And when you generate from zero to one, from one to two, from two to ten and by ten percent, there will be new life. There will be a new world, a new era. There is no fate, before the force of human will. You can not rassegnarcisi, before the potential value that each of us hides within himself. Even in a society of control, even in a world of silence and domination, we are free to choose what to make of our lives, to make it authentic, not to adapt to the reality that - as Heidegger would say - we were sadly deietti as human- us. We always have the ability to simply be ourselves.
We can be free from this system, wanting. We can be free to be ourselves: Snake, a few months after his death, is free to live as David, and not as a snake. All the prisons in which we believe to be trapped can be killed - not by science, as he tried to Naomi, taking care of his cancer - but of our own: you just follow the path. you were given the freedom to see this new world. Your body and your soul belong to you .
Destiny is not a cage: it is an infinite number of paths to be traced, in a simple life. Where we cry for those who go away, you smile for a wedding, you forgive what was believed to be unforgivable, he loves those who are important to us. And here, in all this, back the philosophy of the legacy of the pass, which incorporates the concept of Snake Eater, a very short-lived David, genes and DNA incapacitated to leave the world, no alternative memory of itself, needs alongside those who have loved him, so that they may be witnesses, so tramandino to posterity the fact that Snake was a very difficult life , and at the same time that Snake is dead, because Dave was born. And Dave is a man finally free to live.
In fact, in a world bound by his order overturned in the new and the unexpected - the unique genius of Sunny, the latest arrival that upsets the perpetual - Dave leaves the future much more than images: a world that can leave start, a path branched to go according to his discretion. Traced only by his willpower. Dave leaves a world free to be how people create it. And that's what, as a last will, he also did Naomi. Dave
let the world know that the dawn is never extinguished, despite everything, that the sun is rising again . And Big Boss, metaphorically, he knew that there is nothing better .


Is not all this, these concepts and these emotions, these tears, these songs are with us for years, perhaps not even philosophy?
I know there is something that we want to pass, that goes beyond the DNA, as well as literature, art, music, people's memories. E 'teaching that Hideo Kojima, Snake, and through him were able to give. Here's something else that's really worth passing on. Here is a small slice of the legacy that will leave willingly to the future.

Building the future and keeping the past alive are the same thing.

Semper fi,
Stefania Sperandio