Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater brings back surreal nightmarish Guy Savage minigame easter egg

In a nostalgic nod to Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater’s easter eggs, Konami is bringing back one of the game’s most obscure and beloved secrets in Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater. We’re talking about the Guy Savage demo easter egg.

The Guy Savage Demo was available on the original Metal Gear Solid 3 PS2 version but was subsequently shelved from later ports and collections. Thankfully, this demo has been remade and overhauled by the talented developers over at PlatinumGames, who are known for their over-the-top, high-octane hack-and-slash titles like Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and Bayonetta.

From what we know so far, PlatinumGames has overhauled the Guy Savage demo into a Castlevania-inspired hack-and-slash minigame that will hook fans when Metal Gear Solid: Delta finally launches on August 28, 2025, for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X, and PC.

The original Guy Savage Demo debuted as a surreal nightmare sequence in the original 2004 PlayStation 2 version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. This easter egg is triggered once the protagonist Naked Snake undergoes a brutal torture scene at the hands of Colonel Volgin in Groznyj Grad.

If players saved and exited the game during Snake’s imprisonment, they’d return to their game to find an uncanny hack-and-slash minigame. In this dream-like sequence, a strange character with hook-like blades would face off against waves of enemies resembling the undead in a dark, gulag-esque arena. 

The minigame was written and directed by Konami veteran Shuyo Murata, who later contributed as an uncredited co-director on Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of Patriots. Hideo Kojima revealed that he originally planned to include a classic side-scrolling shooter like Gradius, but instead, opted to develop an original minigame, adding another layer of icing to the series’ meta-humor.

What made Guy Savage all the more interesting was that it was a proof-of-concept for a potential standalone title, which Konami was planning to do. Unfortunately, the project was ultimately canceled and was absent from the 2011 HD Collection and Subsistence editions.

Players can unlock “Guy Savage Delta” by completing the main campaign of Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater on any difficulty or by going for the classic approach of saving, exiting, and reloading the game after the torture sequence in Groznyj Grad.