The majority of the article summarizes what we already know and feel -- that there's a phantom pain left behind after Episode 46, a "blank" as Kojima describes it in the novelization afterword. Whatever happened to revealing "the biggest mystery in the Metal Gear Saga," as was described in the game's marketing? It suggests that the actual message left behind after Episode 46, "the 'blank' or 'emptiness' that V leaves," seems to contradict this sort of marketing completely. "It feels a little wrong that Chapter 2, that MGSV itself, would end with Episode 46."
"Kojima is still hiding something."
Why does the author feel that way? What about that quote from Makime Manabu, the novelist that Kojima is known to be friends with (that the online component to MGSV involves something like a massive social or psychological experiment)?
And also this quote from the TGS 2015 presentation about FOBs. The MC, Mori Iccho, says the following in
this video at 45:03:
Mori: There's only one thing I'm allowed to say -- you should definitely play FOBs. I can't say why. But if you really want to know the truth, you should play FOBs.
The article also brings up this never before seen quote from Kojima himself. The author states that it was from an interview that Famitsu had conducted with Kojima previously, but was cut for being too spoilerific:
Kojima: In MGSV, we hand the story (the legend) over to the player. That's how the player becomes the Big Boss in the MSX2 Metal Gear. You play the game as you will, raise up your Mother Base. That's the way I want the player to create his own story, thinking of things like "war" and "peace" as Big Boss. Up until now, the Metal Gear Saga was told by creating video games, but I want each player to think and come up with their own story (legend) on their own.
The author says that he didn't know what Kojima was talking about at the time, but he gets it now after having played MGSV -- that Kojima was telling us that we would carry the story on ourselves through FOBs.
Famitsu ends the article saying that because of this "theory,"
they're temporarily bringing back their MGSV stream (previously done as a countdown to the MGSV launch) for a special presentation on 10/30 on nuke development and FOB strategies.
