MG1/MG2 IS NOW PART CANON / PART NON-CANON + MORE FROM GUIDE

Hi, Kitatus here.

So I received the collector's edition guide to MGSV (Which was written "Written in conjunction with the Metal Gear Solid V development team" <It even says this on their site>)

So anyway, Flicking through. I got to the part about MG1 and MG2 and there's some really interesting stuff:

On page 344, It states: "NOTE: Naturally, for the two games developed at the very beginning of this intensely story-rich series, the events that occur during their specific time period only swim to recognizable focus for most players when viewed through the lens of prior or subsequent episodes. They remain canon, Of course, but large portions of their dialogue and developments are now taken with a generous <Generous is in bold-italics> pinch of salt."

So it seems that even though the main events of MG1 and MG2 are canon, A lot of the dialog might not be so.

So the second really interesting thing is this:

"Despite being unaware of their existence, Solid Snake unwittingly acts as a tool for Zero's Patriots, who have been seeking to neutralize big boss for years. Once Snake completes his missions in Outer Heaven and Zanzibar Land, The patriots secretly retrieve the body of Big Boss <And there's the usual stuff here. However, Part-way into the next paragraph> The Patriots, now a fully computerized A.I system designed to manage the world affairs and control the flow of information <You can guess the rest>

What's really interesting here is that it strongly hints that it's not Big Boss that sends Solid Snake to kill Venom Snake, But it's strongly hinted that it was an A.I pretending to be Big Boss; Just like the situation with MGS2.

I'll continue to scan the guide for anything else like this; Such as hints to cut content or anything. This is a really interesting guide and I really recommend checking it out; I wouldn't be so interested if there wasn't a Kojima quote on each page about each page (Showing that he was a lot more involved in the guide than I originally thought!)