Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater covers events that happen before the original game takes place. In it, a secret U.S. operative codenamed Naked Snake is tasked with rescuing a Soviet defector, eliminating a weapon of mass destruction, and assassinating his former mentor The Boss. Because this is a Hideo Kojima game, there’s way more to the story than that, but those are the broad strokes.
Hearing a song like “Snake Eater,” with its dramatic, brassy cresendoes, you’d expect it to come at the climax of the final battle or as the ending credits roll—but Kojima likes to subvert expectations. When you first hear this song, there’s nothing going on. It’s just Naked Snake climbing a ridiculously tall ladder, and it’s one of the most absurd but wonderfully done moments in video games.
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