Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater – 11 Details You May have Missed in the Trailer

The trailer for Konami’s remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 is just over two minutes long, but if you look closely, it’s full of Easter eggs and nods to the original game. Some moments might be a blink of an eye, but don’t worry. We will help you find them all. These are 11 details you may have missed while watching the trailer.

shagohod incoming call

One of the coolest details is less than a minute into the trailer when a green parrot (more on that later) swoops over the forest canopy with a dead frog in its claws. But it’s the distant ones that are interesting. When lightning strikes the sky, you can see the shape of Shagohod being airlifted by several Mil Mi-24 Hind helicopters. This is a direct reference to what happened in-game when Volgin prepared Shagokhod to take over the Soviet Union. It’s too far away in the trailer to get a closer look, but Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake will definitely give you a much closer and personal look.

end friend

Boasting more airtime than Snake himself in the trailer, the green parrot must be the feathered friend of the ancient sniper The End. Anyone who played Snake Eater will remember how Parrot acted as a warden in The End, waking him up when Snake approached.

Some days I have to eat tree frogs. The parrot seemed to agree, clutching the tree frog and carrying it through the dark sky to land on a log floating in the middle of the lake. Immediately, a huge snake jumped out of the water and bit the parrot. The parrot narrowly escaped with only a few of his feathers remaining.

crocodile rock

At the moment the snake jumps on the parrot, the Indian gharial attacks. If you remember, you can catch and eat them in Metal Gear Solid 3. It’s hard to tell in the trailer, but you can see it in the screenshots released at the same time as the announcement. Look closely at the crocodiles and their pointed noses. This is also the basis for one of the funniest adornments he has in the game, the crocodile cap, which when worn in the water tricks enemies into making you a terrifying animal instead of simply the scariest human in the world. I can make you think.

fear is coming

Returning to Metal Gear Solid 3’s boss, we see the dead poison dart frog early in the trailer. This can be found in-game and is actually useful in the fight against boss Cobra Squad member The Fear. Poison Snake with a poisoned crossbow bolt.

During combat, Snake can drop poisonous (or rotten) food, such as poison dart frogs, which Fear eats when it lacks stamina. This poisons him, causing him to vomit shortly afterwards and severely depletes his health.

food chain

The entire trailer is one extended sequence of the food cycle. Small ants eat frogs, which are picked up by birds, larger snakes attack, and even larger crocodiles fight. All of which leads to the revealing of the naked snake, the top of the food chain.

Visualizing the food chain in nature is a recurring motif in the Metal Gear series, and Metal Gear Solid 4 saw a snake eating a guinea pig at the beginning of act two. Same with Metal Gear Solid 3. We made this trope a gameplay feature as Snake is forced to hunt and cook his own food in the wilds of Tselnoyarsk.

giant ant attack

However, dig a little deeper into the various animals on screen and you’ll find that each creature is reminiscent of something from the original Metal Gear Solid 3. For example, the first animal is a line of ants marching to feed.

For those of you who listened to all the codec dialogue in the original Metal Gear 3, you’ve heard the film-obsessed paramedic talk about the movie Them, featuring “ants so big they fill the entire screen.” you may remember. The whole movie theater was screaming. “

death from above

As the camera zooms through the mangrove forest and pans over Snake, the light shines through the trees, reminding us of one of the coolest regions in Metal Gear Solid 3: Ponizovje South. It is set along a winding river and Snake must cross the river. While dodging the GRU soldiers flying around on the flying platform. He can do this by diving under water or eventually finding rocks or boats to hide in. Crossing the river and its trees is a highlight of Metal Gear Solid 3’s level design and represents creator Hideo Kojima’s vision of wanting players to feel like they’re walking through a real forest.

fenced in

The river and trees south of Ponizovje are just one of many familiar locations from the trailer. Previously, green parrots flew through electric fences similar to those guarding the Bolshaya Past South district. While the teaser is purely cinematic, this remake does a good job of showing what real areas in the game look like.

The four screenshots that accompany the trailer give a closer look at each area of ​​the game, including the scene where the backpack is hanging from a tree. Most people remember the scene in the beginning of the original game when Snake has to retrieve his belongings. Halo jumps behind enemy lines.

tiger stripe

It’s dark and Snake is covered in mud, but you can almost tell that the uniform he’s wearing is the tiger stripe camo he’s wearing at the start of the game. Of course, one of the most interesting features of Metal Gear Solid 3 is the ability to unlock and switch between camos to suit the environment, or wear completely inappropriate outfits like a tuxedo, all of which are remakes. hope it will be reflected in

delta force

However, the title of the remake version is not “Metal Gear Solid 3”. Konami calls it Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater.

It’s unclear exactly why Konami gave the remake Delta subtitles. It’s his fourth letter in the Greek alphabet, but it doesn’t make much sense since it’s his third remake in the Metal Gear Solid series and his fifth in the entire Metal Gear series.

The title, which may refer to the US Delta Force, a counter-terrorism unit famous for its covert operations against the enemy, fits nicely with the game’s plot, but it also applies to all games in the series. Finally, Metal Gear character Roy Campbell, who is famously a former Delta Force member, will not appear in MGS 3.

Hopefully Konami will explain the reasoning behind the new subtitle, but even if it’s just there to sound cool, it’s also part of the spirit of Metal Gear, so it works.

Oh, another cool detail about the Delta logo. As the delta logo disperses, the leaves turn white and then red. This alludes to the final battle of the game.

snake eater

The teaser ends with a short excerpt of Metal Gear Solid 3’s famous theme “Snake Eater,” originally performed by Cynthia Harrell. The theme sounds like it’s been remastered, though you’ll have to listen in its entirety to judge. It could be a new version of the song recorded for the remake. This was teased earlier this year by Donna Burke when she posted a photo of herself holding a folder titled “Snake Eater.” It should be said that Burke is the singer behind numerous songs in his Metal Gear series, including “Heaven’s Divide” from Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and “Sins of the Father” from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. .

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Matt TM Kim is IGN’s Senior Features Editor.you can contact him @lawoftd.