Hideo Kojima isn’t a creator who’s afraid of putting his characters through the wringer, and that doesn’t appear likely to change in next month’s Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.
The director tweeted that GS5’s protagonist would be covered in blood as the player works his or her way through the game, and it won’t be easy to get clean.
”Snake will be blood stained as he gets injured. Won’t reset even he completes missions/sideOPS… It’s totally different expression from blood as sign in old school game,” Kojima wrote. ”As player continues to play in the battlefield you’ll be soaked in blood/if got worse you’ll be treated w/ IV fluids.”
While canonically Snake abandons his iconic bandana for the duration of this game, the developer has added it in as an optional item you can take into the field. Where it will, inevitably, also get covered in blood.
”Blue bandana will be soaked in bloody red,” continued Kojima. ”Story wise, he won’t be wearing as Snake broke up w/ the bandana given by THE BOSS in PW. But I let player has freedom of selecting bandana when going on the battlefield.”
Metal Gear Solid 5 is out this September 1 on PC and consoles.
