A confession: I've never played the original PS2 version of Metal Gear Solid 3. Though I had (and loved) MGS1 on PlayStation, I became an Xbox—and then PC—boy thereafter, which meant I only got access to the third game when it got a Bluepoint HD edition in 2011. That same Bluepoint HD edition would become the basis for the version in Konami's Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Volume 1 in 2023.
Which means I've been playing MGS3 wrong, it turns out.
