We are in 2022 and that means that 35 years have passed since the first Metal Gear saw the light on the MSX 2. Hideo Kojima began to create a colossal universe from which Konami It has always squeezed all its juice, with a multitude of deliveries and even with the forgettable Metal Gear Survive. However, we are in a time of celebration.
For this reason, the expectation has been maximum after the appearance of a website called metalgear35th.com. Konami’s privacy policies and an exclamation mark in the center suggested that the Japanese company was preparing something important for the franchise. However, the balloon has been punctured.
In the first place, because now if we enter the page we receive the following message:
April Fool’s
This website was created as an April Fools prank to parody Konami and the Castlevania 35th Anniversary auction, and is NOT affiliated with Konami, OpenSea or the Metal Gear series. Nothing on this website should be taken seriously, and there are no real NFTs for sale.
However, there are a couple of hidden easter eggs. Can you find them? Don’t try to look at the source code, or I’ll know!
Konami, please don’t sue me. Instead, please use the resources you would spend hiring lawyers to purchase the licenses for the historical footage needed to put MGS2 and MGS3 back on the digital stores.
Thanks.
As you can see, it’s all about a very elaborate joke for April 1, known as April Fool’s in the Anglo-Saxon world and which is the equivalent of Holy Innocents’ Day. A particular way this fan has had to claim a request such as returning Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater to digital format after its withdrawal months ago.
And if that was not enough, Techradar has contacted Konami and received the response that “this website is not from Konami. We are currently considering how to deal with this website,” a spokesperson clarifies. Therefore, the dream seems to have been completely broken…or is it?
An ace up his sleeve
It is clear that, despite the fact that everything has turned out to be a joke, Konami should not remain impassive before the 35th anniversary of one of its capital brands. Therefore, in statements to the media, the spokesman has indicated that “there’s nothing we can say right now“About some kind of commemorative event. In this way, it leaves the door open for us to see news in 2022.
The truth is that the last we know about Metal Gear Solid is that Konami has a remake of the third installment underway with Big Boss, according to VGC. If so, we would see the Virtuous Mission again with a visual change as powerful as the one these fans did.
