You may not have put any thought in it when you pulled the trigger or ran a blade across a soldier’s throat, but now you are confronted with each and every kill. At the same time this ‘boss fight’ puts you face to face with the people you’ve killed during the game. Caught between the worlds of the living and dead, Snake needs to ‘die’ as well as revive himself to escape this place. It isn’t even a fight, it’s more like a situation you have to escape from. Kojima is known for his out-of-the-box boss battles, and the fight against The Sorrow certainly qualifies. There’s a serene atmosphere, birds can be heard singing from deep within the forest, rays of sunlight pierce through the canopy, butterflies flutter by. He coughs up the water he swallowed, the water that almost meant his death. Running out of breath, he claws his way to the surface, and swims to the shore, where he collapses, exhausted. Snake wakes up and finds himself floating in the river, in the world of the living this time. If Snake uses his Revival Pill at this point, he will come back to life, in the real world. But here’s the thing – this gives you an opportunity to escape. You may be able to dodge some of his attacks but there is no way to effectively counter-attack. The soldiers cling to Snake, the man who took their lives.Įvery now and then the Sorrow launches a spiraling projectile at you. Their voices are full of fear and agony – sensations caused by you. Their appearances betray how you’ve ended their lives, and up to a 100 bodies can come back to haunt you during this scene. But they’re not random ghosts – each and every one of them represents a soldier you’ve killed during your mission. Soldiers stumble past you, throats slit and bloody. The ghosts of soldiers, the ghosts of defeated Cobra unit members, even perished animals. Besides, his gauge is already depleted – he has already died, after all.Īs you move through the river, other ghosts start to appear. Attacking the Sorrow is useless, he is a ghost and bullets go straight through him. “Light and dark are brewing within you.” he says, prophesying later events in the saga. As you plow forward, you can see the Sorrow moving along with you in the fog, a few meters in front of you, or circling you. The Sorrow disappears, and control is returned to the player. “Now you will know the sorrow of those whose lives you’ve ended.” he says with a grim voice. “The dead are not silent.” A tear of blood rolls from his eye. But make no mistake…” He firmly points his finger at Snake. “The living may not hear them.” the Sorrow continues. This whole time Snake keeps his gun pointed at the levitating man. He removes his hood, and reveals his pale, but commanding face. “And you are one of them.” he proclaims, pointing at Snake. His voice is soft and subdued, but decisive at the same time. Suddenly, it starts to rain, and the fire quickly dies out.Ī gloomy figure rises above the surface, his back turned to Snake. Snake begins to move forward, wading against the stream. The mangrove is burning, forming a tunnel of flames across the water. However, he ends up having to jump into a river several hundred meters below.Īfter throwing himself into the depths, Snake finds himself standing in the waist-deep water of a mangrove river. Using one of various methods, he is able to escape, and manages to get away through the sewers. At a certain point in Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake is captured by Volgin and locked inside one of the cells inside the fortress of Grozny Grad.
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