03-23-2006, 03:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-23-2006, 03:30 PM by [wcip]Angel.)
Psycho Mantis. First character ever to break the 4th wall in videogames and make me get up out of my chair to avoid his telepathic and psycho-kinetic abilities. Pure brilliance on the developer's part, but what a character. Killed his own father as well.. Not decent!
For those of you who have not delighted in the experience of Hideo Kojima's 1998 Playstation hit "Metal Gear Solid", Wikipedia will explain what I'm talking about:
Gameplay
When Solid Snake faces Mantis, Mantis demonstrates his psychic powers by breaking the fourth wall. In the pre-battle cut-scene, he activates the controller's rumble feature, then reads the player's memory card. Then, at the beginning of the actual battle, Mantis yells "Blackout!" and causes the screen to go completely black except for the words Hideo (a reference to the director Hideo Kojima) in green all capital text in the top right corner of the screen, much like TV or VCR on-screen-displays. Many players mistook this to be a glitch in the game, while it was supposed to trick the player into thinking that he or someone else changed the TV or VCR input, as a slight attempt to throw the player off.
In the original PlayStation game, he reads off the titles of Konami's other games (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Suikoden among others), while in the remake Twin Snakes, he reads Nintendo's games (Super Smash Bros. Melee and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, among others). In the Japanese versions, if the player has save data from Snatcher and Policenauts, they will receive a special message from Hideo Kojima.
The easiest [Easiest? Don't you mean "only"? - My note] way to defeat Psycho Mantis is for the player to remove the memory card (re-insert STRAIGHT after battle), plug the controller into the Player Two port (which prevents The Parasite from predicting Snake's battle moves)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_Mant...cho_Mantis
![[Image: Psycho_Mantis.jpg]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6a/Psycho_Mantis.jpg)
For those of you who have not delighted in the experience of Hideo Kojima's 1998 Playstation hit "Metal Gear Solid", Wikipedia will explain what I'm talking about:
Gameplay
When Solid Snake faces Mantis, Mantis demonstrates his psychic powers by breaking the fourth wall. In the pre-battle cut-scene, he activates the controller's rumble feature, then reads the player's memory card. Then, at the beginning of the actual battle, Mantis yells "Blackout!" and causes the screen to go completely black except for the words Hideo (a reference to the director Hideo Kojima) in green all capital text in the top right corner of the screen, much like TV or VCR on-screen-displays. Many players mistook this to be a glitch in the game, while it was supposed to trick the player into thinking that he or someone else changed the TV or VCR input, as a slight attempt to throw the player off.
In the original PlayStation game, he reads off the titles of Konami's other games (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Suikoden among others), while in the remake Twin Snakes, he reads Nintendo's games (Super Smash Bros. Melee and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, among others). In the Japanese versions, if the player has save data from Snatcher and Policenauts, they will receive a special message from Hideo Kojima.
The easiest [Easiest? Don't you mean "only"? - My note] way to defeat Psycho Mantis is for the player to remove the memory card (re-insert STRAIGHT after battle), plug the controller into the Player Two port (which prevents The Parasite from predicting Snake's battle moves)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_Mant...cho_Mantis
