Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Is Playable at TGS; KONAMI Provides Progress Update, Explains Why They Stayed So Faithful

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be playable at the Tokyo Game Show 2024, KONAMI confirmed. The publisher didn't really share any other details on what would be in the demo, but it won't be long until they'll have to, especially since TGS 2024 is around the corner (it will be held as usual in Tokyo's Makuhari Messe between September 26 and 29).

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Yesterday, KONAMI also published a new episode of the Metal Gear Production Hotline, a video podcast with plenty of updates on the franchise straight from the developers. In the episode, KONAMI addressed the early feedback of the select press that got to play Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater at an exclusive event. According to the publisher, over 88% of the impressions were positive. The main criticism was that the game was perhaps too faithful to the original. On that subject, Production Producer Noriaki Okamura explained:

I would just mention a few things about this being "too faithful," and the thought process behind that. When people ask, "couldn't they have improved on this?" "Wouldn't it have been better as a more modern stealth game, with much more freedom to it?" I do understand where they're coming from, and in the early stages of development, that was actually our most hotly debated issue. But at the end of the day, well...

We saw the discussion of how "it feels outdated to go to an area, and nothing you do there affects other areas," but that's just how the game was designed. The rhythm and the shifting pace of gameplay flows from that choice. If we had done anything to change that overarching design, it would have changed Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater entirely. And given what we were setting out to do, we questioned whether that really fit with the vision for this project. So we decided that we'd rather come down on the side of "too faithful," and that we'd rather maintain the