It isn't, but okay. LOL! The game may poke fun at itself from time to time and some of the humor, as well as the philosophy, can be a bit meta. Still, that's the point.
By first game, are you actually referring to the first game (Metal Gear), or Metal Gear Solid?
Being a huge fan of the franchise and of Hideo Kojima, the very thought of semmie having anything to do with this franchise damn near stopped my heart. I haven't felt that since I once heard Uwe Boll was fighting for the director's chair.
I dunno dude, I get what it's trying to do with the whole poking fun at itself and the philosophy, but it comes off like it's trying to cater to American Humour and seriousness at once but given it's Japanese Undertones, it doesn't mix well with me. (I can't talk given our country likes sexual innuendos and toilet humour <_<)
Ah sorry, I mean the Solid Series, Metal Gear was more serious in story, and likely better for it.
The bosses are really imaginative that I do think it's a great game for bosses, but otherwise I can't get into them like I used to.
LOL. I can understand dude, but given that MGS seems to have Semmie ideas of plot twists and such (especially MGS 2's AI breaking "ending", just to troll fans), you would think that someone such as Semmie would have thought of those ideas first.