Metal Gear Solid Delta isn’t removing Subsistence’s saucy Peep Theatre, confirms age rating

Konami’s upcoming Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater will be retaining some of the saucier elements of the PlayStation 2 original. Seemingly based on the game’s Subsistence update, an official age rating confirms that more sexual elements of the original will be returning in the new remake.

With Konami aiming to keep the game as faithful to the original as possible, despite a new modern control scheme that makes the game easier, it makes sense for some of the game’s risque elements come back. However, with modern sensibilities, it is surprising to see them return.

Metal Gear Solid Delta retains risque features

As confirmed in the game’s new ESRB age rating prior to the game’s August release, Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is not only retaining some of the sexual elements of the game’s cutscenes, but also its bonus features.

In the Subsistence version of Snake Eater, players could unlock the Peep Demo Theatre. This feature not only showed every cutscene of the game involving Eva in her underwear, but also allowed them to zoom in and ogle the character’s body.

“The game contains some suggestive/sexual content,” the ESRB rating reveals. “A man groping a woman’s breasts; close-up cameras angles of deep cleavage; a character briefly groping a man’s crotch; a Peep Demo Theatre allowing players to view cutscenes of a female character’s body from a first-person perspective.”

Konami’s dedication to recreating the original game has not gone unnoticed. As well as the return of the Peep Demo Theatre, the company is also bringing back the licensed Ape Escape content for PC and PS5, although this is replaced with a new Bomberman section on Xbox. Additionally, the game is even retaining the original’s gated area loading instead of making more seamless levels.

For more Metal Gear coverage, read about the reason why Snake walks funny in the original, or read about how Hideo Kojima wanted to leave Konami before the first game released.