No.24209
>>24208While Metal Gear is critical of the military industrial complex, it’s not directly anti-capitalist (it’s mostly a matter of interpretation). The only game that was the closest to a Marxist analysis was MGS4 with the war economy and how self-destructive the system is. I agree that Kojima is not a socialist, he’s a Hollywood otaku after all.
No.24215
>>24208they're making an equivalency about using violence as a means to an end,but they're not making a moral argument about it (which most of the time goes hand in hand in story) since you just crush his fucking heart and in the epilogue he decide to become more proactive about "justice" because he accepted the violence in him and use it for good.
Raiden is never stated to be a bad person or doing the wrong thing at any point in MGR from what I remember.
I feel like either I misunderstood it or you jumped the gun because you assumed it was the typical moralism."we will both agree that violence begets violence,but in the end it has to be this way" doesn't sound like a critic to me.
No.24216
>>24215okay this makes more sense