

I wouldn't call them facts as much as TTS was fact. Just a different telling within certain guidelines



Yeah but what about the original Metal Gear Solid, we can't just throw every plot point it brought into existence out the window just because some novel says so. That would be like saying that we should regard Anime as more canon than its original Manga source, without the Manga there would be no Anime and likewise without Metal Gear Solid there would be no novel.



After reading the entire thread, they changed very little.





The biggest changes are with the FOXHOUND encounters due to the gameplay elements involved in their defeat. For example, Psycho Mantis attempts to trap Snake in a telepathic illusion, which is how Snake is unable to shoot him. Outside of Dr. Clark, and Snake blurting out "My father?" while on the sub, talking to Campbell, there are no drastic changes.





We learn how Miller died, how Snake was first taken in by the military prior to the Shadow Moses mission, and that Johnny Sasaki is a technician, tying into his role into MGS4.





And there's also some retconned in mentions of MGS3 and allusions to MGS4. Basically, all of the stuff that's going to be retconned in MGS4 is already in the book.



Yeah they may have changed very little but what was changed were significant plot points. Let us take the example of Big Boss not knowing ANYTHING about the Les Enfants Terribles (in truth this is pretty much the ONLY problem I have with this novel's plot). If that is to be regarded as fact then Liquid would not have grown up with an inferiority complex and thus would not have started the Shadow Moses incident, essentially making another Outer Heaven like his old man, in an attempt to surpass the genetic legacy set before him by Big Boss. Such key plot points being changed destroy significant portions of the plot that made the whole thing coherent.



As for Metal Gear Solid 3's plot points being retconned into the plot and some foreshadowing of the events that take place in Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4, such things are to be expected so I have no problem with that.





They can just say that the "Big Boss" Liquid knew wasn't the real one.