The most irritating part of Metal Gear Solid 3

Back when Snake Eater came out, I was a broke high school student. My only way of playing the game was borrowing it from my richer friends. I managed to do so and enjoyed it a LOT. I made it up until about 3 screens from the end of the game, when suddenly I had to give it back due to my friend's move out of state. It wasn't until last year that I got the Metal Gear Solid Essential pack as a gift. I had other things that I was playing, so it mostly just sat on my shelf until about two months ago when I decided to replay it and try and beat it.

The first problem for me this playthrough came with my desire to beat the game with no kills. When I played MGS4 last year, I was pretty much Rambo by the game's end. In order to go through with no kills, you had better be good at stealth(which I'm not). If you do manage to get an alert, pacifism is the best way to escape. Wasting tranq darts isn't for the wise and if you use them in firefights, you'll have to rely on CQC and stun grenades for your sneaking.

I managed to breeze through the game to pretty much exactly where I was before I had to give the game back. I took a month break in between The Fury and The Sorrow, but yesterday I was in it for the long haul. In this part, you have to escort Eva through the field while soldiers chase you down. Normally, you'd just leave traps to slow them down like TNT or claymores, but I didn't want to kill anyone. I was forced into a situation where I had to tranq Eva to prevent her from murdering the enemy while I fought thirty grunts by myself without the aid of explosions. I'll say this, Stun grenades never go exactly where you want them to in the middle of a firefight. It actually took me about ten attempts to get through these final areas of the game. I wasn't very happy.

In the end, it's okay. I beat The Boss using the knockout cigarettes, which I guess makes me all hardcore and whatnot. People talk about The Boss like she's the definitive boss fight of the game. I have to disagree about that though, she really isn't all that complex. Mosin Nagant when she's far away and when she runs up to Judo you to death, roll out of the way and use the Cig spray on her. That fight took about 4 tries just because my health was so low throughout.