Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater greatly improves upon the original’s strangest easter egg

“Guy Savage” sounds like a name Kojima could come up with for a character in Death Stranding, but it’s actually a spectacular secret minigame players could access in the original MGS3. Now you can find its much-improved version in Delta as well.

The original Guy Savage was already a mind-blowing Easter Egg, the kind that only Kojima would dare invent. It featured gameplay that was Devil May Cry-inspired but also unique, and featured absolutely no relation to the game it was in. It was its very own cool thing, and Kojima’s crew made it knowing they’d be putting it in a place so many players would never even find it.

Now, with Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater, players get a much-improved version of Guy Savage that features a new look and many more moves and enemies to slaughter.

Like Delta, it was made without Kojima’s involvement, but there’s a beautiful plot twist worthy of Kojima himself. See, Nu-Guy is made by Platinum Games, the studio responsible for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The result is a bloodbath likely to please MGS and Bloodborne fans alike.

Much like in the original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, players can access Guy Savage, aka Snake’s Nightmare, by saving the game while in prison in Groznyj Grad, then simply by loading that save file. Players will immediately know they did it right if Paramedic starts talking about Count Dracula and Renfield, Dracula’s servant. Upon reloading the game, they’ll no longer be in Groznyj Grad, but in what I must assume is Transylvania to slay hordes of vampires and ghouls in what feels like a cool mix of Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance and Bloodborne.

Alternatively, players who finish Delta will unlock the option to replay an even better version of Guy Savage from the main menu, one featuring no time limit and extra features that won’t be spoiled here.

But what’s Guy Savage, exactly?

Many fans originally theorized that the first iteration of Guy Savage was actually a prototype for a new IP Konami had in the works. Still, whether or not that was intended to be the case, Guy Savage ended up as nothing more than the most unexpectedly cool minigame ever.

The new Guy Savage seems to take a lot of inspiration from the Castlevania series for its looks and gameplay hooks, so many are, once again, theorizing this might be a taste of things to come. Here’s hoping the new Guy Savage actually turns into Platinum’s new big hit, but even if it doesn’t, it’ll still go down in history as the best remake of a minigame ever.