So I got around to finally playing Metal Gear Solid on the GBC.
I think it's an impressive title, especially for the time it released and the hardware it did. But I gotta admit, that the game felt unnecessarily cryptic about how to proceed from the box max level onwards. Had to pull out a walkthrough a few times just to figure out if I was on the right path and heading in the correct direction to accomplish the next goal.
But ultimately, I had a good time with it. I didn't play the VR stuff cause I'm not interested in that right now. Want to head straight into ACiD and AciD 2.
But that said, I bring this up here because I really hope that after the MGS3 remake, Konami looks at the non-canon titles as the next step for metal gear post Kojima. I think there's a lot of opportunity to find a way to combine the games to create a new trilogy with an alternate Snake, and using the non-canon games to set that up I think would really work. Granted, that means a lot of preparation would have to go into deciding how certain games could be combined together (like I personally think MGS Mobile could easily be added to the end of MGS gbc and the rescue angle would actually fit quite well. Granted, story details would need to be changed to make this effort happen.
But this is what I would prefer over the possibility of just remaking the Kojima titles.