{"id":20633,"date":"2022-07-20T22:41:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metal-gear-solid-featuring-animals\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T22:41:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:41:48","slug":"metal-gear-solid-featuring-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metal-gear-solid-featuring-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal Gear Solid Featuring Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"sc-1eow4w5-1 eLNveM align--bleed js_lazy-image js_marquee-assetfigure\" data-id=\"db79c213636e7b9f66b3f9d69c8bc3ea\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/db79c213636e7b9f66b3f9d69c8bc3ea\" data-format=\"gif\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"A lizard dressed as a spy sneaks into a military facility. \" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"false\"><span data-id=\"db79c213636e7b9f66b3f9d69c8bc3ea\" data-recommend-id=\"image:\/\/db79c213636e7b9f66b3f9d69c8bc3ea\" data-format=\"gif\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" data-lightbox=\"true\" data-alt=\"A lizard dressed as a spy sneaks into a military facility. \" data-recommended=\"false\" data-hide=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\"><span><em>Metal Gear Solid <\/em>is a beloved PS1 stealth game classic<\/span> starring the seriously cool, bandana-wearing super spy, Solid Snake.  But Snake is actually a man.  (Well a clone of another man, but let&#8217;s not get into that now.) In the newly released indie game <em>Covert Critter<\/em>the developers offer a different take on<em> MGS<\/em>, where its main character is an actual animal\u2014a gecko to be precise.  And it&#8217;s surprisingly good considering the whole thing was made in under two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Released yesterday, <em>Covert Critter<\/em> doesn&#8217;t try to hide its inspiration, which is <span>1998&#8217;s original <em>Metal Gear Solid<\/em> for PlayStation<\/span>.  Everything about the game\u2014from its visuals to its camera angles, codec-style chats, controls, and cutscenes\u2014is directly inspired by Hideo Kojima&#8217;s classic stealth &#8217;em up.  thigh <em>Covert Critter<\/em>&#8216;s two developers took care to not just recreate the feel and look of the original game, but to put their own spin on it.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twitter-embed\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=twitter-1549418786687660033&amp;autosize=1\" autoresize=\"true\" id=\"twitter-1549418786687660033\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"500\" height=\"159\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">One of the biggest differences is very obvious from the moment you see its opening cutscene: You play as Koss, an anthropomorphic gecko spy, complete with cool gear and a smoking cigarette.  Koss is tasked with infiltrating a facility that his people once controlled, but which is now held by a group of \u201cred hawk\u201d terrorists.  They&#8217;re trying to take control of the facility&#8217;s nukes and it&#8217;s up to Koss to sneak his way through the eight levels that make up the place to reach the nukes and save the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Lucky you: Because Koss is a lizard he can actually blend in with walls, allowing you to quickly hide if spotted by an enemy guard.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=youtube-video-aUrb_NwHvig&amp;start=0\" data-chomp-id=\"aUrb_NwHvig\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/aUrb_NwHvig\" id=\"youtube-aUrb_NwHvig\" data-recommended=\"false\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span data-chomp-id=\"aUrb_NwHvig\" data-recommend-id=\"youtube:\/\/aUrb_NwHvig\" id=\"youtube-aUrb_NwHvig\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"js_recommend\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"sc-1ptbguh-0 hxeMec caption\">sodaraptor \/ NormalHumanSixx<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">The other big change to the classic <em>MGS<\/em> formula is that in <em>Covert Critter,<\/em> Koss can&#8217;t attack enemies.  This is a true stealth mission.  While you can lay down banana peels to temporarily stun baddies who walk in the wrong place, you can&#8217;t just pull out a silenced pistol and eliminate all your problems.  This forces you to be more careful during enemy encounters and it also means that just one guard can be quite a challenge to get by.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bxm4mm-17 bubJdb\">\n<div class=\"sc-1atgi65-0 sc-1atgi65-1 bdNdA-D js_commerce-inset-permalink\" data-inset-url=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/product\/FU10CH61010EE?id=GI-007237946\" data-inset-category=\"CommerceInsetMobile\">\n<p>G\/O Media may get a commission<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">Most players will be able to play through all of <em>Covert Critter<\/em> in less than an hour, though more skilled stealth players can probably finish it in under 30 minutes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 bOfvBY\">According to the game&#8217;s website, the entire thing was built in just 12 days by two people\u2014<span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 eRdxJX js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/sodaraptor_dev\/status\/1549418786687660033&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sodaraptor_dev\/status\/1549418786687660033\" target=\"_blank\">sodaraptor<\/a><\/span>  and <span><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"sc-1out364-0 hMndXN sc-145m8ut-0 eRdxJX js_link\" data-ga=\"[[&quot;Embedded Url&quot;,&quot;External link&quot;,&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/NormalHumanGame&quot;,{&quot;metric25&quot;:1}]]\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NormalHumanGame\" target=\"_blank\">NormalHumanSixx<\/a><\/span>\u2014as part of a game jam.  you can <span>download the finished product on itch.io<\/span> for free. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metal Gear Solid is a beloved PS1 stealth game classic starring the seriously cool, bandana-wearing super spy, Solid Snake. But Snake is actually a man. (Well a clone of another man, but let&#8217;s not get into that now.) In the newly released indie game Covert Critterthe developers offer a different take on MGS, where its &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metal-gear-solid-featuring-animals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metal Gear Solid Featuring Animals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[286],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13369,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/konami-reinstating-delisted-metal-gear-games-for-series-35th-anniversary\/","url_meta":{"origin":20633,"position":0},"title":"Konami Reinstating Delisted Metal Gear Games For Series&#8217; 35th Anniversary","date":"July 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Konami is preparing to reinstate the Metal Gear games it temporarily removed from sale as the series celebrates its 35th anniversary.As reported by VGC, Konami's Japanese Twitter account posted to commemorate the anniversary and announced that fans, seemingly soon, will once again be able to play the temporarily suspended entries.\"The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13426,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/metal-gear-solid-2-and-3-going-back-on-sale-for-series-anniversary\/","url_meta":{"origin":20633,"position":1},"title":"Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 going back on sale for series&#8217; anniversary","date":"July 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Metal Gear 35 years ago on Tuesday \u2014 I launched the original back-cover advertisement on Marvel Comics of the day \u2014 and with that anniversary in mind, Konami says it is \u201cpreparing to resume sales of titles that have been temporarily suspended.\u201d The publisher is referring to Metal Gear Solid\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13231,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/delisted-metal-gear-games-set-to-return\/","url_meta":{"origin":20633,"position":2},"title":"Delisted Metal Gear games set to return","date":"July 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It looks like some previously-delisted Metal Gear games are set to return on sale. 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