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Review: Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 (Switch 2) – A Great Compilation Of Stealth Sequels
Nintendo Life has reviewed Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 on Switch 2, a follow-up compilation featuring Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and the non-canon Game Boy Color title Ghost Babel. The collection continues the remastering work started with Vol. 1 in 2023, and the review finds it a worthy successor, with MGS4 and Peace Walker both considered essential for fans of the earlier games thanks to their story and gameplay respectively.
Each game arrives as its own dedicated app, with Ghost Babel oddly housed in a separate "Bonus Content" app alongside Master Books, a screenplay, and an extensive MGS4 database featuring hyperlinked character, location and timeline entries. The reviewer praises Konami for successfully removing MGS4's original PlayStation 3 hardware references, allowing it to run convincingly on Switch 2, and highlights Peace Walker as especially suited to handheld play, offering extensive content including missions, base management and online multiplayer. Ghost Babel, though non-canon, is noted as a well-regarded curiosity blending the style of the original MSX games with the first PS1 Metal Gear Solid.
In short
- MGS Master Collection Vol. 2 brings MGS4, Peace Walker and Ghost Babel to Switch 2
- Review calls MGS4 and Peace Walker essential follow-ups to Vol. 1
- Extensive bonus content includes lore books and an MGS4 database
Explained simply
Metal Gear is a long-running stealth game series created by Hideo Kojima and published by Konami. Players often control soldier and spy Solid Snake, sneaking past guards and uncovering stories about war, technology and political power.
The series has appeared on many consoles, and its games do not all follow the same storyline. Metal Gear Solid 4 continues the main story on PlayStation 3, Peace Walker follows a separate group of soldiers and adds base-building and co-operative play, while the Game Boy Color game Ghost Babel is a standalone, non-canon adventure.
Collections bring older games together for people who may not have played them on their original systems. This one matters to series fans because it makes several very different entries available on a newer Nintendo console, alongside reference material that explains the story and its characters.