Was it really that bad

No, it's a thousand times worse than that

Naked Raiden
Big Shell being Arsenal Gear
Everything is a simulation
Fission Mailed
Snake having infinite ammo

I enjoyed it because of how over the top it was. First person controlled like such ass though, and I wish they had just kept the original score instead of the one we ended up getting. I do think it is the overall better MGS1 experience, but I'd still recommend playing both.

Resident Evil 4 was an original game in a series of goofy games.

Twin Snakes has a generally serious tone and added superfluous acrobatics where in the original it was a lot more grounded.

Kojima is a hack this serious was never supposed to be taken serious.

Every one of those save for the mech is the trait of a character that clearly embodies them. Snake/Raiden are the everyman-type that are supposed to contrast against the batshit craziness around them. Snake can't act surprised at the presence of supernatural bullshit if he himself can suddenly participate in such like in Twin Snakes. Him being so relatively grounded makes this all work.

The only people who don't like it are Sonyfags since Twin Snakes is the only Metal Gear not put on a Sony system.
Unless you count the NES version of metal gear and snake's revenge.

You realize MGS1 did in fact have a cyborg ninja, a mystic shaman who swings an a-10s cannon around, and a psychic who can literally fly.

The series has *always* been a bit bonkers. It's the overall tone of the series that changed.

>a series of goofy games.
just because many of them had shit translations and voice acting in the West doesn't mean they were goofy, you idiot. way to bungle any point you were trying to make.

Didn't they fuck it up by putting in first-person aiming and other MGS2 mechanics but not redesigning other stuff around it?