One of the new features on Substance was the inclusion of 5 Snake Tales(if I remember correctly) so that we could play as Solid Snake in both environments from the Tanker and Plant Chapters. I found them a little hard but they're all right to play. But to be honest I found them a little cheap. A better idea would've been if we could've played through the Big Shell part as Snake and experience his journey and fight Fortune and Olga.

That's what I thought they would be when I first heard about them, but I was disappointed to find they were non-canon stories (stories that dont fit into the real MGS story, like Ac!d and Ghost Babel)

I still enjoyed playing them though, even though most of them were as hard as hell.

that was also what i expected :(

Maybe hearing Snake and Otacon slander over Raiden :D

And disarming the bombs on the other shell and protecting emma from the other side and taking her to otacon and all this! :(

i LOVEd the snake tales, probably even more than actual game! Especialy over higher level of difficulty and the fact that there were alot of different endings. :)

Snake tales were really cool. Although a little hard for me (heh) I think it was a nice idea and it got to show off Kojima's writing skills. Plus we got to play as Snake on the tanker =D

The snake tales were good.

Though E is a complete bitch though if you choose a hard difficulty. All those metal gears, and then fighting Solidus with only hands!!!

I liked the last one. It's always nice to see a game make fun of itself. I just wish they had actual cutscenes instead of pages of text...

I loved the Snake Tails. Especially, Confidential Legacy because of the MGS1 costume and External Gazer just because that was one of the coolest non canon stories in MGS ever! well out of the snake tales... :mellow:

im stuck on the last one, with something... I forget which now, but i also misplaced the disc so now ill never know

Have never played them, do not know why. Maybe because they were not "real". Yet, I wonder how long does it take to finish one chapter. Approximately, can anyone tell me something? Thanks in advance!

it depends on each one, and if your gonna take your time, or run thru getting spotted every few turns :D

basically, they can be done around 30 mins, thats taking your time kinda, and having some fun, but you can take an hour or so on a few if you are struggling on the mission.

Thank you very much SYN, I have to try them someday.

I like Snake Tales a lot all part it gave me a challange with Snake and also I wish it would have been real and showed like you and Olga meeting up and fighting Fortune and fighting Ocelot

snake tails are :raiden:

np daddolik, i loved those side missions. The hardest one for me was the external gazer, Im stuck on it if I recall because you need to do a vr mission on it, and its the one i can never beat unless by per luck. Its where your on the pillar and throwing or shooting grednades down on those moving squares. I hate that one.

I hate that grenade VR mission also. It really sucks.

Anyway, I have finished one of the Snake Tales, the first one "A Wrongdoing". It didnt thrill me too much though. But it is challenging as you guys said before and I do not like playing without radar, but I know this is a more realistic approach in the game :roll: . Well I was very near to finishing the second snake tale but when you take Emma over the FE bridge the game crashed... :sad: In PC, it can have problems as I see. Hope to try if for the second time :thumb:

I want some cheatcode to bypass that vr level.

but yea I remember the emma one, it gets a bit harder in the next segiment for her. wont give it away tho.

Yes the radar is a bit annoying but it gives another challenge

LOVED the challenge of fighting Solidus as Snake :lol:

I never bothered finishing the Snake Tales, anyone wanna give me the jist of the endings?

You get to fight Solidus as Snake? Cool.

lol they're worth it, in the solidus one (the last one) you also have to take a photo of a massive genome soldier godzilla swimming in the water.

The only thing I didn't like about it was that there was no soliton radar, only an AP sensor. It kinda ticked me off that every few feet, I'd have to jump to FPS to see where the goons were.

All VR, Alternate missions and snake tales r all Set on Normal Difficulty with no radar. The only Snake tale i liked was the one where snake had to find the giant gru saoldier. i liked the storyline.

I think Snake Tale pretty good but also annoying. Im on the first mission(wrongdoing?) and Im having trouble with the Fatman. I dont have a map so after Ive disposed of the bombs I cant find him in time :( Can you have a map in Snake Tales?