It's called Metal Gear *Acid* because that's vlearly what the writers were on when they wrote this

Even by Metal Gear standards, the plot of Metal Gear Acid is completely batshit. It's like the writer looked at the number of twists in Kojima's stories and said to themselves "you haven't seen anything yet!"

@brickcontroller4553

3 ай бұрын

Lol!😆

@PlebNC

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's non-canon for a reason.

@user-hm1kn9ux3u

2 ай бұрын

Like the writer took acid

@CatmanNJack

2 ай бұрын

@@user-hm1kn9ux3u underrated comment

@AvengedHate26

23 күн бұрын

A lot of “hold my beer” energy here

I like that in the 2D art everyone look so handsome and the models are... Well, early psp 3D models lol

I remember playing this thinking it was canon as a kid and being baffled at the choice to make Snake out to have experimented on hundreds of children, fun game though.

Ah, Metal Gear: Chain of memories

@wreday720

Ай бұрын

Ikr

Dolls hijacking a plane?? “Reminds me of the good old days after Nine Dolleven!” - Sundowner, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

My only problem with AC!D 1 is that AC!D 2 makes it damn near unplayable.

@TinkerGrape

3 ай бұрын

I do not agree

@notcole

3 ай бұрын

I look forward to seeing it then 👀

@Gatherway

3 ай бұрын

My brother once told me the exact same thing. He had played Acid 2 first, and when he tried to go back and play 1, he was immediately repulsed by the lack of certain quality of life changes that he said made the gameplay experience of 2 much smoother and less frustrating. I never got around to playing 2, so I'm curious to see how far that statement goes in the next video.

@cutthr0atjake

3 ай бұрын

...I just wish Acid 2 looked like this game. I found it so gaudy I developed a headache.

@ThunderAndCalico

3 ай бұрын

Acid 1, visually, felt more MGS than Acid 2. But Acid 2 did 95% things better from mechical additions, balance, or just straight up new content/changes. It honestly blows Acid 1 away, and I say this as someone who refused to play Acid 2 for years for its cheesy art style alone... Until I finally gave it its worthwhile shot. And It absolutely earned a sorely needed apology from me after I realized what I was missing out on. @@notcole

I fuckin loved the acid games. Me and my homie used to play 2 all the time and go back and forth on versus.

@MrMysterious420

3 ай бұрын

PvP was the best on these games. I still have my save file from 2003 with my ninja setup deck for Snake that I used all the time against the one other friend that had these games

@mrfld

3 ай бұрын

Loved both games.

@dan_loeb

3 ай бұрын

acid 2 is just an all around improvement besides maybe visuals, it goes for a weird bright color cel shaded style that some might not like, but the deck building options and mission variety are massively improved.

This game made the PSP's launch day really memorable for me.

I felt like this game was made for the fans who got into MGS1 or prior because the way the special cards were presented with short cut scenes from the source game kinda adds nostalgia to the Nintendo MG series and add more lore to those who got into it during the PS era. I fell into the latter and even though it wasn’t canon it was a game that gave me more understanding of the Metal Gear Universe.

@DontPretendtoCare

3 ай бұрын

What cut scenes? It just shows the picture of the card.

@donkeykongisytpooping3002

3 ай бұрын

⁠@@DontPretendtoCareNot unless you use one of the special ones.

@DontPretendtoCare

3 ай бұрын

@@donkeykongisytpooping3002 Literally every card just shows a still frame of the image of the card when they are special and activated. Like the running man from MG2.

@donkeykongisytpooping3002

3 ай бұрын

@@DontPretendtoCare Then whoever’s playing is skipping the video.

@DontPretendtoCare

3 ай бұрын

@@donkeykongisytpooping3002 To skip something must first play.

I wonder if the design for Alice being 60% forehead was made before are after she was made to be a psychic

this game was addicting asf on the psp

That plot was it's own acid trip. Definitely want to play the game for myself now

It's funny. I dunno if it's MGA1 or 2, but I finished one Acid game but it was a Java version played on an old Nokia phone. Good times. It took me several years even when smartphones are a common thing to move from old mobile phones to Android.

@arifxddx144

2 ай бұрын

That was a metal gear mobile... It's kinda a spin off to acid series

@defoisalexy7403

Ай бұрын

@@arifxddx144 so there is a spin-off of a spin-off of metal gear on phone ?

@arifxddx144

Ай бұрын

@@defoisalexy7403 yes

Wolfenstein(the first fps) was also turned into a turn based rpg on cellphones, pre smartphones. It was a really good. I had it on my old Razr flip phone

I remember Xplay tearing this game to shreds at the time, because really a traditional mgs game would have been better at the psps launch. I wonder if this game would have been better received if mgs peace walker came out before this did.

@ermesomega

3 ай бұрын

"I remember Play..." That's a name I haven't heard for a quite a while.

@icantaim4sht836

Ай бұрын

I prefer this over all the psp MGS games, no joke.

The Acid games are legitimately two of my favourite Metal Gear games from the whole franchise, and pretty high on my favourite PSP games. I always thought they translated the gameplay loop of MGS incredibly well into a turn based deck builder. I'm really hoping they release these games as part of the master collection. Will be pretty disappointed if they don't.

AC!D is hella underrated. I still have my 3D cardboard goggles (the SOLID EYE TOBIDAC!D) that came with part 2 that you slap on your PSP to make it 3D, lol.

I had to physically stop myself from cackling at the "HRT unit" since it's almost 6 in the morning. 😂😂😂

Honestly I wish we could get another Metal Gear spinoff that's a Metal Gear/Final Fantasy VII hybrid. Meaning it's Metal Gear game with an explorable overworld, turn based combat, leveling/stat system,side missions, side activities, and tons of tactical Espionage JRPG Action! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I love the Ac!d series, and I hope they're part of a future master collection volume. I've replayed the series a bunch of times and I always have problems with the blackout mission in Ac!d 1. The hardest part of either game imo.

This was my very first game on the PSP. I remember grinding the first two missions, getting myself as accustomed to the VERY strange game as much as I possibly could, before I just plowed on through the surprisingly difficult campaign. (and spamming Running Man's card whenever I could, since that particular card was busted and I was VERY lucky to draw that one). The story was also bonkers. More bonkers than any Metal Gear game up to that point, and the prior two mainline entries featured a romanian "vampire", a bullet repelling witch, an entomancer that could make bee granades, and a literal ghost.

Despite being non-canon The Ac!d games are one of my favorite underrated spin-offs and alternate continuation to MGS because it won't collide with the main canon since the games is an alternate continuity were snake's fate is different and is a more a fresh experience than you are used to.

@TheGianLim

2 ай бұрын

Isn’t it a clone of solid snake?

DAMN 43 MINUTES?! NO WONDER THIS TOOK AN EXTRA DAY Also. Heh. Buddy, is that a Pixy/Rusty reference??!!!???????!!!!!!!!!!

MGA had some rough spots gameplay-wise, but man, MGA2 is awesome.

This was actually the first Metal Gear game I played ever. Kinda confusing, but I really liked it. Thanks for reviewing it, brought back nice memories.

I only played portable ops plus. All i wanted to do was play as raiden

I love your series. I just obtained Ghost Babel, and thought I would look up a review. Dude you gave me so much more. Keep up the awesome work. Subbed! Kind Regards from the Netherlands

Man the 2D art in this game is absolutely beautiful

Im a Metal Gear fan so i HAD to play these. I beat Ac!d 2 but never ac!d 1. There was a bug where the colored ski mask never showed up where it was supposed to. So i was stuck. Im not a huge tactics fan but these games were great. Ready for you to do Ac!d 2. Good work

Damn, this was the first psp game I bought for launch day. Hope you can do MGA2 soon.

I've heard of this game but didn't give it any attention. I didn't know it had this kind of a story to it. It's very interesting and I think I know why it's called Acid, given the way hallucinogens' are used to mess with Snakes mind. Kind of like how the drug Acid is like. Since this game takes place in a different continuity, I want to say this takes place after Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake. Mainly as from what i saw Roger visited Snake at his home, which looked to be in Alaska. And in Metal Gear Solid we can watch briefing tapes where Snake talks about being a dog musher in Alaska, plus a part where he cuts his hair. Yet from what I can see it's long. So in a way this is a Alternate continuity where the Shadow Moses incident never happened (AKA Metal Gear Solid)

MGA1 was one of my Xmas presents during Xmas 2005. I think it’s a great MG game. It’s actually nice to play it after you’ve completed the canon MGS games just to transport yourself into another MG universe. It’s nice to explore an alternate universe where Snake is still a hero. Love it. Same for MGA2

Rodger looks like an old Senator Armstrong, and Snake's 3d modle looks like if David Hyter cosplayed as Snake. I kinda like the designs.

I got this game as a kid, and o couldn't even take a step forward. I remember being so disappointed as I thought it would of had the same gameplay as mgs1

Great video, glad KZread recommended. I’d like to think these characters do exist in the main Metal Gear timeline but have no relation to Snake and doing their own thing.

Great video! maybe! i will watch it when i finish the game, in the weekend maybe xD

I remember wanting AC!D1 and Darkstalkers: The Chaos Tower when I got my PSP but both were sold out at the time.😢 Think I got Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth instead. I might get these to play on my PSTV now.

As a kid back then I was turned off by the card stuff and wrote off this sub series but now as an adult I'm looking at Acid 2 in particular and I wish the series had more of the same graphic style. The tactical gameplay was definitely a good idea considering the PSP's lack of 2nd stick. Peace Walker was a true Metal Gear game on PSP but honestly was trash to play on the handheld. Glad to see a review of this by you!

@chrisortiz8077

3 ай бұрын

Peace walker was amazing and you know it.

The game actually does let you save your progress you if look in the system options. That specific level you were stuck on was a lot easier for me because of the save feature. I’ve seen other reviews complain about not having a save system when there actually is. I guess the developers shouldn’t have hidden it away in the system options.

@Rubafix989

3 ай бұрын

Nice to know, however in his particular case with the deck swapping required I supposed it wouldn't have helped

@SnakebitSTI

3 ай бұрын

I'm not going to say I have never seen a game put the save option there. But I am going to say it's a weird choice.

@notcole

3 ай бұрын

Can it be used to manually set checkpoints? I tried to use it but it seems all it does is drop a “continue” point so you can close the game and go do something else

@donkeykongisytpooping3002

3 ай бұрын

@@notcole Yes that’s what it’s used for. It creates a checkpoint during a level before kicking you back to the title screen. Now at the title screen you select continue instead of load to go to the checkpoint. The checkpoint is never erased unless you overwrite it with another checkpoint save during a level. So if you die or quit out of a level you’ll still be able to load it. This is really handy if you want to try doing something risky in a level. Also during boss fights the game won’t let you save. Probably to make it harder to cheese the fights.

@Blarglesnarfe

3 ай бұрын

@@donkeykongisytpooping3002Does it disappear if you close the game?

One of my favorite PSP games back in the day. Still have it, and go back to it every now and then. Though I need to now get a new battery for my psp since it expanded out. Guessing for me now is the time to modify my psp

This game got me into the MGS series. And I have sought a tactical card game like it ever since. Maybe I should just replay it and 2

“That one time” completely ignoring metal gear acid 2 lol

@notcole

3 ай бұрын

hey man, good titles are important 😅

@TonySADX

3 ай бұрын

It could be a fun play on the title by Acid 2, “that OTHER time they turned Metal Gear into an RPG”

@cruzmatt22

3 ай бұрын

the next vid title can be "that two time"

How is the MGS4 playthrough going?

Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Does this mean Snake uses skin care cream?!

Made me download the game. Looking forward to playing

Metal Gear Acid is the Jorge Joestar novel of Metal Gear franchise

You are smart for noticing the doll not even I noticed that my first first play through

You gonna love Peace Walker 💗🙂

I remember wanting MGA3 back in the day, but these days I know that decks would be like loot boxes and I feel that would ruin the game for me

I liked the acid games. They're weird but in the right ways and being portable they were the sort of things that you could pick up and put down when you felt like it. A switch port would be a logical step to get more people to play them and whilst a some of people might think it holds up against more modern titles like xcom or midnight sons (I haven't played it to know how it plays) it's still interesting.

I thought this game and it’s sequel were dope af

absolutely slept on MG spinoffs

@Simmodamoscott

3 ай бұрын

also it's not one time, there is a metal gear acid sequel

the cool thing abt MGS Ac!d is that at the time when it released a lot of people didn't really know what this game was trying to be. a lot of players were taken aback by how unorthodox of a MGS entry it was. card game players might've not been interested in MGS at all. and MGS fans might not been into TGC games at all. *however* this perspective is mostly a westerns view. collectible trading card games are MASSIVE in Japan. if it's an intellectual property it likely has some sort of TCG attached to it. so from my understanding this game while not the biggest seller in the east either was received a lot beter where both fans recognized the fun handheld spin-off full of fanservice and regular player saw just a fun bite-sized MGS spin-off on the PSP. in retrospect it's commendable how the AC!D series has remained untouched by the wave of F2P monetized card games that have blown up in the years afterwards. it's almost weird that Konami of all companies didn't monetize the living daylight out of AC!D spin-offs on mobile phones. for what it's worth that at least has me happy that AC!D wasn't the biggest seller out there. we still have our fun unorthodox MGS card-game without it being soured with how Konami tends to handle properties in recent times. as always great video mate 🙏 there's a few entries coming up that I'm curious to what you'll think of them

I thought the game wouldn't be to my tastes. Then I realized I could shoot an enemy 80 times with an AKS-74u in this game.

The story seems really good 👍🏾

the layers of *AC!D* the plot is on

Why does this video have more views than the MGS2 review? lol Lots of Acid fans out there.

This is the second time seeing this review. I can't freaking tell what the heck is going on with the plot.

Absolutely loved this game as a kid. It was my first every introduction to the Metal Gear Franchise. I like how mysterious and vague the card descriptions are for some characters. Iroquois Pliskin Card Type: EQUIP COST: 7 "Cigarettes" Makes infrared sensors visible. *While equipped LIFE -1 for each COST incurred Effect expires after 3 turns -Identifies himself as a member of SEAL 10 team sent into the Big Shell to rescue the kidnapped President. Supports Raiden alongside Otacon. "Don't go pointing that thing everywhere, kid."

Acid 2 is my fav PSP game

very different but they were both awesome

I actually really enjoyed this game, was ahead of its time.

Hahaha. Why does Gary look like a Magician?

Very difficult to play I’m still trying but because I’m a serious metal gear head I got to play through

Ac!d is bad as a Metal Gear game, but conceptually excellent as a game.

dang, one man jagged alliance

impressive! very nice!... now let's see MGA!2

The ONLY reason I got this game was because it had Metal Gear in the title. At first I was not a fan, but stuck it out cuz MGS is my fav game framchise, so I wanted to give this a fair shake. I played n beat it, then played 2. I don't look back on them fondly AT ALL, but the more I watch this video the more memories I have come back, and the more I remember I really enjoyed my time with this goofy little game. I don't ever wanna go back, lol, but I realize the game was pretty alright. Edit: I remember Fortune being absolutely busted. Liquid Snake was amazing but not always easy to set up. The Vulcan was amazing, the S.A.A. was probably my fav gun tho. Shit. I kinda actually, really miss that game now.

I remember Shinta Nojiri because his last name Nojiri translate into 'wild butt' in Chinese. Also, there's a Chinese WWII comedy (yes, really) where the Japanese commander's last name was also Nojiri and it was played off as a joke. So I thought this last name was made up until I heard of this guy.

I enjoyed Ac!d. It had a decent story and gameplay was fun and not slow like other card games

I always loved the ACID games, and was disappointed that there weren't many more games like them that I could find. The one I do know and have played a good amount is Warhammer 40k: Space Wolf, but it's not as good as even ACID 1, which it is much closer to than ACID 2. Additionally, it's not a stealth game, so a lot of battles devolve into "play card with bigger damage numbers and hope for the best," with just spending so much time killing waves of enemies. At this point, I kinda hope that the MGS Master Collection Volume 2 has the ACID games on it along with MGS4 and Peace Walker. I mean, the first one had Snake's Revenge of all things, so ACID has at least a snowball's chance of showing up.

Good video

Acid is awesome. Acid 1&2 top 3 metal gear games.

Why, yes, I am an avid acid enjoyer. How could you tell?

Not first! I never dared to touch this game for some reason, eager to see this episode!

@SnakebitSTI

3 ай бұрын

All I know about MGS AC!D is it's a non-canon card game. It lost my interest at "card game". For all I ever knew, it was a really good game, but I have zero interest in "Metal Gear Solid, but it's a card game".

@Rubafix989

3 ай бұрын

@@SnakebitSTI It sure would be great to have publishers release original concepts as their own thing and not strapped to an existing license. Especially because once portable ops was out, AC!D felt like an even harder sell to me.

@SnakebitSTI

3 ай бұрын

@@Rubafix989 Yep. But publishers know slapping well known names on stuff helps it sell. And sometimes developers genuinely have wild and crazy ideas for where they want to take an existing concept.

Seems a bit like Invisible Inc but with none of the refined turn-based stealth systems and some needlessly overcomplicated control scheme.

Play Acid 2.Even the UI is made of acid

I loved this game

Metal gear acid was awesome

oh so this is yggdra union but mgs skinned and 3d

Just got dis game off eBay shits about to be wack

it's kinda confusing when you talk about things like "Codecs" in these videos XD like you seem to use the term Codec and Radio interchangably, which...is not how it is. When you say "take the Codec from someone" I end up thinking "...what? How'd he-...did he rip it out of the guy's ear?"

@notcole

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I definitely have a bad habit with that one 😅 I'm not 100% sure, but I'm fairly certain that they actually do say that he picked up a Codec in that scene...

@edward18517

3 ай бұрын

@@notcole lol that is very odd XD the Codec itself was invented by Mei Ling who isn't even a part of things in this timeline. I can only assume it must be like a different version of the Codec then since the normal Codec starts off in Solid 1 as an implant.

I didn't hate Ac!d...but as a fan it was weird af.

Acid is right :P

Atctl MGS game should have been awesome

This game would have worked better as it's own IP. It's just has nothing in common with Metal Gear.

and they were based for that

One annoying aspect in this game is the backtracking.

Aside from Tsubasa Masao's character designs, this game has literally no redeeming features. It's the only Metal Gear I actively hate. Makes Snake's Revenge look like a masterpiece.

Its a card/board game. Not an rpg.

Im early lol

69th like

how are these non canon? this is a snake clone from the Les Miserables. this is not the same snake

@adzi6164

3 ай бұрын

it's just non-canon. Snake we have here is the "same" as the one from Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2, but after that it's an alternate timeline.

Once you got to the card system, I was completely lose. Why cant they just make these like XCOM or Tactics Ogre. This game is what happens when you have that one developer whos too eccentric

how is it an RPG?

Dude the reason why you and many others couldn't understand the story is because all y'all played the game wrong... And I already know what some of you are thinking "How do you play Metal Gear Acid wrong?" Well, I'm gonna answer your question with a question which is the answer by asking you this: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 Have you tried being on "ACiD" while playing Metal Gear Acid? If the answer is NO then that proves you played the game wrong.😊

I tried so hard to like ac!d back in the day, but i just couldn't do it. These games are just bad, and im the guy who almost exclusively plays RPGs.

@MiBrCo4177

3 ай бұрын

Definitely a slow burn on these two games. Fun if you want a stealth tactical game with metal gear in its universe. To bad they aren't cannon though lol.