Next Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain Trailer Will Be Tough To Watch

Hideo Kojima is hard at work at Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, now mixing a new trailer for the game. Apparently this won’t be a fun one to watch.

Kojima explains the trailer won’t have any of the flashy stuff we love to see in game trailers. No explosions, gunfights, car chases, zombies, aliens or any of that. Just men descending into madness. If you can remember the roughness of the 2013 GDC trailer (showing Snake being operated on), this new trailer will apparently even be tougher.

Kojima has aspirations to handle controversial themes for The Phantom Pain, but I’m sure many of you who played Ground Zeroes wonders if he is capable of telling his story with the tone and sensitivity appropriate to these respective themes. Thus far, we know the game will involve international politics, child soldiers, rape. Again, it’s important to reiterate these are not light topics for a game to get into.

Kojima’s choice to show himself mixing it did make me wonder. What if this next trailer was pure audio? What would we expect to hear from this next trailer? Feel free to sound off on the comments below.