> I finished playing Metal Gear Solid the other day. This is only the second time I've finished a Playstation game, and it's the only time I've finished *any* type of game and immediately thought, "Whoa. I want to play this through again. Right now." In the words of whoever mispelled this first, Metal Gear Solid is DA BETS GAME EVAR.
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> The ending, however, was insane. (Spoiler alert.) Let me get this straight, I just spent *weeks* manoeuvering through vast levels of security, I spend entire days getting repeatedly stomped flat by a giant robot, blown up, gunned down, tortured by maniacs, sliced in half by invisible cyborg ninjas, shot, drowned, frozen, dropped into molten steel, shot again, torn apart by wolves, blown up again, shot again, and basically wasted hours of my life screaming incoherently at a small pixelated dude on a TV screen in a futile attempt to make him start doing the right moves despite my uncoordinated frantic wrong-button-pushing. I saved the WORLD, and the girl, and the scientist, and everything, OK? So what do I get in return?
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> In return, the little pixelated dude gets a snowmobile so he doesn't have to walk all the way home from the mission across the Arctic wastes, and he gets to - I hope you're sitting down and well braced against overexcitement - look at a caribou and tell his little pixelated girlfriend what it is.
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> Brunnen-"Oh, Snake! You not only saved the world from nuclear terrorism, and saved my life and everything, and got stomped flat by a giant robot just for me, but you also are fully conversant with hooved ungulants! *swoon*"G

I've never played this game, but it seems like I should. I was thinking that your description of MGS could be condensed into a "Videogame-a-Minute" review pretty well.

(Snake gets stomped by a GIANT ROBOT)

(Snake gets SHOT to ITTY BITTY PIECES)

(Snake gets SlICED in HALF by invisible NINJAS)

Player:
Huh, ninjas. I was wondering when they'd pop up.

(Snake takes a DIP in MOLTEN STEEL)

Snake:
Make...the hurting...stop.

(Snake saves the world and gets the girl)

Girl:
What's that?

Snake:
It's a caribou.

THE END

Player:
What!? That's it!?

Snake:
What were you expecting? It's a caribou.

Does anybody else know of some games that can be hyper-condensed? I'd like to see the results.

10"Bottle-opener Chinchilla"Kan