I’ve purchased few collector’s editions in my time. I never know where I’m gonna put the damn things, I often end up selling the stuff later on, and, well, sometimes you hear and see horror stories that dissuade you from shelling out two or three times the cost of a game to just get some ugly plastic junk. Sadly, it seems that the excellent Metal Gear Solid Delta has that very problem, with its special edition containing a diorama that sounds neat in practice, but is actually pretty ugly and disappointing according to fans.
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Advertised as a pretty neat-looking diorama of a memorable scene from early in Snake Eater when Snake has to recover his backpack from a hanging tree branch, fans on r/metalgearsolid are sharing their disappointment with the actual product. The foliage not only doesn’t match what was advertised, but in some cases it looks like it was just tossed in there, with some stuff laying on its side. Oh, and the model of Snake? Yeesh. I’ll also add that Snake is supposed to call Major Zero on the radio after he gets the backpack, so like omg this scene just totally disrespects the lore.
If you managed to get your hands on the Japanese or European versions of Delta’s collector’s edition, however, you likely have a much prettier piece of shelf decoration. In Japan it retails for 38,500 yen or around 260 bucks, a bit more than it did here, but the bust of Snake it comes with isn’t just satisfyingly detailed, with the pale viper wrapped around him as matches the advertisements; it also features a lovely reference to one of the game’s ending scenes in the white and red flowers blooming around its base.
So if you’re an MGS sicko like myself, and you do have shelf space to spare, definitely figure out how you can get your hands on the overseas version of this collector’s edition.
