History YMMV / MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker

* MemeticMutation: In much the same way as the [[Franchise/StreetFighter Guile's theme music goes with everything meme]], videos exist of the [[AwesomeMusic/MetalGear Peace Walker theme]] [[MundaneMadeAwesome making everything epic]].
** Players justify Huey's torture because of his refusal to believe that Santa is real.[[note]]This is based on a taped converation between him and Big Boss on NORAD tracking Santa every year on their radar with a hotline.[[/note]]
** Big Boss is on the naughty list.[[note]]Players joke that the Boss plays Santa for Big Boss when he was very young and that he's on the naughty list because he had to kill her.[[/note]]

* MostAnnoyingSound: The AI weapons' singing.

* ContestedSequel: Many ''Franchise/MetalGear'' fans who do not own the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable and/or care for the system's controls consider ''Peace Walker'' an unworthy sequel, much like ''Portable Ops'' before it. Of course, the control issues were fixed for the ''HD Edition'' released for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 3}} and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}.[[note]]Also, it's available in the Playstation Store for the Playstation Vita, and the Vita allows you to map the camera to the right stick.[[/note]]

Additionally, the bosses were all armored vehicles or AI, rather than single humans with superpowers. It does provide the game with a more serious tone, but not everyone liked this detraction from the rest of the series.

* ContestedSequel: Many ''Franchise/MetalGear'' fans who do not own the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable and/or care for the system's controls consider ''Peace Walker'' an unworthy sequel, much like ''Portable Ops'' before it. Of course, the control issues were fixed for the ''HD Edition'' released for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 3}} and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}.

* {{Wangst}}: During the torture, Big Boss begs to be murdered not because of the pain but for killing the Boss even though he already knows the truth and abandoned America. In the Japanese version, Big Boss simply laughs as a result of the censorship and so his begs to be murdered come across as hilarious.

** [[OverlyLongFightingAnimation The "Rathalos World Tour".]] Just as in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'', it will get up and fly around the island pointlessly for an irritatingly long time before gliding in for a low sweep. This attack is hated simply for the fact that it ''wastes your time'' as it does absolutely nothing important while it's flying circles. ''Peace Walker'' makes it even worse than its ''Monster Hunter'' counterpart by making Rathalos use it far more often than in the latter.

* AwesomeMusic: [[AwesomeMusic/MetalGear See here.]]
* BadassDecay: The fact that [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter Rathalos]] is the "King of the Skies" is rendered a bit moot when it's fighting a modern-day BadassNormal that almost exclusively uses guns, unless it decides to use the [[OverlyLongFightingAnimation "Rathalos World Tour"]].
* BestLevelEver: Or more like, Best Minigame-slash-Cutscene Ever. [[spoiler:How awesome is it that you get to ''chase'' a running away Metal Gear ''on a horse'' while dodging missiles and trees thrown at you!? A freaking lot, that's how awesome!]]
* BestBossEver:

* ItsEasySoItSucks: Some complaints towards the game consider it too easy, since ammo is replenished between missions and enemies. Stealth is not as necessary when you always have more than enough ammo to kill everyone on a map. That said, even detractors don't think the game sucks, but it's merely one of its weaknesses.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: the Chairman.

* GoddamnBats:

* LesYay: Paz's 5th audio diary entry. [[spoiler:Strangelove blatantly hits on and molests Paz before the latter gets a chance to react. Paz doesn't mind. In fact, she's confused and finds it enjoyable. It reads like a yuri lemon.]]

* MemeticMutation: In much the same way as the [[StreetFighter Guile's theme music goes with everything meme]], videos exist of the [[AwesomeMusic/MetalGear Peace Walker theme]] [[MundaneMadeAwesome making everything epic]].

* ScrappyLevel: The torture chamber escape. In a throwback to Solid Snake's escape from prison in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', there's more than one way to escape, but the game doesn't flat out tell you what they are, [[spoiler:instead just expecting you to look around the room for unusual prompts]], which irritates some players, and once out, you're practically naked (and literally naked, too, at least from the waist up). Having to button mash very quickly for the first time since ''[=MGS2=]'', with no way to opt out, doesn't help matters. Luckily, unlike many other levels in the game, [[AntiFrustrationFeatures it doesn't count the torture cutscenes as cutscene interaction]], meaning that if you know what to do, you can actually escape the level with an S-Rank. You ''will'' still die a lot due to how punishing the torture session is, though. If you wonder exactly what makes this part so hard, the speed you are expected to press the button is so fast that even you somehow get past it, your finger will be strained for at least a week from pressing the button so fast. And even worst, the presses are programmed so fast that ''turbo controllers can't even keep up''.

* HilariousInHindsight: After Snake blows up the Chrysalis, he comments that Strangelove "played me like a piano". This is strikingly similar to a certain bit of MemeticMutation from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes''.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: the Chairman/

** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', Revolver Ocelot was fully complacent in the Patriots' S3 Plan and was implied to be involved in the threat towards Olga Gurlukovich's child's life if Olga didn't cooperate. In ''Peace Walker'', Ocelot himself was later revealed to have been under Sunny's position when The Boss and The Sorrow had their final battle at Dolinovodno.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: One of the early game powerful soldiers you recruit in the game is named Alligator. He quickly became ''the'' MSF member. [[spoiler:Meaning that he is most likely [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Venom]].]]

* ScrappyLevel: The torture chamber escape. In a throwback to Solid Snake's escape from prison in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', there's more than one way to escape, but the game doesn't flat out tell you what they are, [[spoiler:instead just expecting you to look around the room for unusual prompts]], which irritates some players, and once out, you're practically naked (and literally naked, too, at least from the waist up). Having to button mash very quickly for the first time since ''[=MGS2=}'', with no way to opt out, doesn't help matters. Luckily, unlike many other levels in the game, [[AntiFrustrationFeatures it doesn't count the torture cutscenes as cutscene interaction]], meaning that if you know what to do, you can actually escape the level with an S-Rank. You ''will'' still die a lot due to how punishing the torture session is, though. If you wonder exactly what makes this part so hard, the speed you are expected to press the button is so fast that even you somehow get past it, your finger will be strained for at least a week from pressing the button so fast. And even worst, the presses are programmed so fast that ''turbo controllers can't even keep up''.

** The Stealth Camo, the Infinity Bandana, and the Soliton Radar. If it's any condolence, usage of the Stealth Camo won't allow you to S-rank missions, the Soliton Radar isn't useful until Rank Five, and the Infinity Bandana is acquired after a ''very hard'' Custom AI fight. If that wasn't enough, they also require a very long time to develop, too.

* ScrappyLevel: The torture chamber escape. In a throwback to Solid Snake's escape from prison in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', there's more than one way to escape, but the game doesn't flat out tell you what they are, [[spoiler:instead just expecting you to look around the room for unusual prompts]], which irritates some players, and once out, you're practically naked (and literally naked, too, at least from the waist up). Having to button mash very quickly for the first time since ''Metal Gear Solid'', with no way to opt out, doesn't help matters. Luckily, unlike many other levels in the game, [[AntiFrustrationFeatures it doesn't count the torture cutscenes as cutscene interaction]], meaning that if you know what to do, you can actually escape the level with an S-Rank. You ''will'' still die a lot due to how punishing the torture session is, though. If you wonder exactly what makes this part so hard, the speed you are expected to press the button is so fast that even you somehow get past it, your finger will be strained for at least a week from pressing the button so fast. And even worst, the presses are programmed so fast that ''turbo controllers can't even keep up''.

** There are some that can't take Hot Coldman seriously due to his name.

* IKnewIt: [[spoiler: "So wait, at the "endgame" the question of the discrepancy between Cécile and Paz's stories concerning their capture by the CIA and the origin of the tape Vladimir Zadornov used to assure Big Boss's involvement still hasn't been answered? One of them isn't telling the truth... now which one is the ''least'' likely to be a traitor...?"]]
* LesYay: Paz's 5th audio diary entry. [[spoiler:Strangelove blatantly hits on her, then molests her before Paz gets a chance to react. Paz doesn't mind. In fact, she's confused and finds it enjoyable. It reads like a yuri lemon.]]

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''Peace Walker'' is the sequel to ''Portable Ops'' in the sense that not only is it an ''Metal Gear Solid'' game made for the PSP, but it follows the same premise of building a small army by capturing and indoctrinating enemy soldiers. However, ''Peace Walker'' builds on virtually every aspect of ''Portable Ops'' and pretty much blows its predecessor out of the water.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: One of the early game powerful soldiers you recruit in the game is named Alligator. He quickly became ''the'' MSF member.

* TheyJustDidntCare: At the end of Chapter 4, Snake removes The Boss' bandana and lets it fly into the sea. In [[ExtendedGameplay Chapter 5]], Snake ''still wears it'', even in story missions and the graphic novel cutscenes.

** Paz. Most find her {{Moe}} persona extremely saccharine and more annoying or creepy than cute. [[spoiler: Post-reveal, she becomes more of a BaseBreaker, as she is either RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap by her tapes and true role in the story adding a lot of nuance to her character, or comes off even worse due to her betrayal of MSF and attempting to frame them by launching a nuke at the U.S. There's also the fact that she throws the player on a wild goose chase every time she frees Zadornov]].