As any and all Kojima fans know, a Metal Gear Solid game is bound to have all kinds of goodies in store for those who take the time to look for them.

And for a prologue, Ground Zeroes has more than I could have hoped for.

You can easily find most of these on your own but there may be a couple that you have not come across.
I figure if at least one of you finds something of any value it will have been worth it.


The guide will also include the correct answers for the quizes at the end of the Déjà Vu missions normal and hard mode.


Enjoy!



p.s. I did not plan on posting any screenshots or videos and I will not be doing so. Besides, that can take the fun out of it all anyways! :P

The Intel Operative Rescue Side Op features a VIP target that you must rescue. That target is none other than Hideo Kojima himself!

You even get a little hint of his cameo before you see him in the game. The opening cinematic begins with Snake examining a pair of glasses. A pair of J.F. Rey Eyewear glasses, Kojima's signature specs.

After completing the op you can find Kojima inside the helicopter menu where he will occasionally spin through the missions if you don't press anything for a few seconds.

Not much of a surprise here for all the veteran MGS players out there.

By holding R2 (with a ps3 controller) you can cause the camera to zoom in during cutscenes and moving the Right Analog Stick while doing so will move the camera itself.

There are 9 XOF Patches littered around the main Ground Zeroes mission. Collect them all in one playthrough to unlock the Déjà Vu and Jamais Vu Extra Ops. Must haves to get the most the game has to offer!

Are you Snake enough to find them all?

The Déjà Vu mission is an Extra Op that is practically a giant easter egg in it's own. You can unlock it by finding all 9 XOF Patches.

After completing the Déjà Vu Op by recreating all of the scenes you better be prepared to answer some questions you probably forgot 10 years ago! Because it's quiz time! see below for answers

If you answer all questions correctly you will unlock the skin of Solid Snake from MGS1.
Hard Mode will give you a new quiz at the end that is worth passing as you will unlock the skin of Frank Jaegar, the Cyborg Ninja, Grey Fox! Also, the enemy soldiers of Camp Omega will become the genome soldiers of Shadow Moses Island and snow will fall upon your Cuban battlefield!

NORMAL

QUESTION 1: MGS1 featured Solid Snake infiltrating which island?
ANSWER: Shadow Moses

QUESTION 2: The remote-controlled missile is known by which nickname?
ANSWER: Nikita

QUESTION 3: Who did you need to call on the Codec in order to save your progress?ANSWER: Mei Ling

QUESTION 4: The Next-Generation Special Forces who took part in the uprising with FOXHOUND were given what treatment?
ANSWER: Gene therapy

QUESTION 5: On which floor of the Nuclear Warhead Storage Building was Otacon's lab located?
ANSWER: 2nd Floor Basement

QUESTION 6: What was the Cyborg Ninja's True Identity?
ANSWER: Frank Jaeger

QUESTION 7: Before being called back into action for the mission, Snake lived in Alaska as a...?
ANSWER: Musher

QUESTION 8: What was the maximum load of the elevator in Communications Tower B?
ANSWER: 650 lbs (300 kilograms)

QUESTION 9: What type of storage media did the ArmsTech president give Snake?
ANSWER: Optical Disk

QUESTION 10: What is the title of the ending theme?
ANSWER: The Best is Yet to Come




HARD

QUESTION 1: What did Snake call Otacon's love for a certain female character?
ANSWER: Stockholm Syndrome

QUESTION 2: When Otacon visited Snake at his cell after he was captured, he gave him what level of security card?
ANSWER: Level 6

QUESTION 3: Which boss character was NOT a member of FOXHOUND?
ANSWER: The Cyborg Ninja

QUESTION 4: What was the name of the studio (later renamed Kojima Productions) that developed MGS1?
ANSWER: KCE (Konami Computer Entertainment) Japan

QUESTION 5: Who did Otacon fall in love with in MGS1?
ANSWER: Sniper Wolf

QUESTION 6: How did they censor Johnny Sasaki's privates in the U.S. release of MGS1?
ANSWER: Pixelization

QUESTION 7: Snake attempted to give Meryl a handgun of what caliber?
ANSWER: .45

QUESTION 8: After escaping the base, Snake and Meryl encounter a family of which type of animal?
ANSWER: Caribou

QUESTION 9: In total, how many prototypes of the stealth camouflage did Otacon build?
ANSWER: 5

QUESTION 10: What did the "P.A.L." in "P.A.L. Key" stand for?
ANSWER: Permissive Action Link

Déjà vu? What's that? Did I just hear somebody that seems to be suffering from chronic diarrhea? Johnny, is that you?!

In the Deja Vu mission, in one of the porta potties near the cells where you reunite with Chico in the Ground Zeroes mission, you will be reunited once again with an old friend. Or at least said friends father/uncle/distant relative.

Metal Gear Solid games have always been known to have great music. And luckily for us there are a few tracks for us to find and enjoy in our in game iDroids!

To get the "Here's to You" song on your iDroid, find the cassette in the Ground Zeroes mission that's located in the cell adjacent to Chico's.

During the Dèjà Vu mission, there is a cassette tape located on top of a rock outside of the cave by the RV where you took Chico. (use your NVG if you have to) That tape has two tracks from past Metal Gear series games on it. "The Resurgence (ALERT!)" music from Metal Gear Solid and the "Theme of Tara" from the original Metal Gear for the MSX2.

During the Jamais Vu mission, there is a cassette tape found in the same spot as the Dèjà Vu op stated above that features "Ambush" from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance and "Pleasure of Tension" from Snatcher.

Collecting all the cassette tapes in Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes will also grant you with another song. "Beyond the Bounds" from Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner on it.

Scattered across the Dèjà Vu mission map are many Metal Gear game logos that can be erased with the AM MRS-4 rifle... Just like David Hayter!

Erase them all and you will receive a codec call from an old nemesis known as Psycho Mantis.

You can find the rifle inside the Admin Building Armory but finding all the logos, well, that is entirely up to you Snake!

When playing the Dèjà Vu op as classic Snake and returning to the cells that held Chico and Paz you will find the DARPA Chief and the Armstech President from MGS1. Locate both of them and let the FOXDIE virus play its course and watch as the virus tries to infect the Fox Engine itself!

What MGS easter egg guide wouldn't include this?!

During the Intel Operative Rescue Side Op there are Moai statues spread throughout the base. One also appears in the Dèjà Vu mission. These statues are common Konami Easter eggs and have appeared since classic games like Gradius and the original Castlevania graced our rabbit-ear'd analog television screens.

Here's a reference that isn’t directly related to a Metal Gear Solid game in any way, but to Kiefer Sutherland and his portrayal of Jack Bauer from the Fox television series 24.

The first objective in Ground Zeroes gives Snake the task of locating and rescuing his captured comrade Chico. After finding him the game will enter a cutscene in which Snake tries to quiet the traumatized and frightened captive. Due to all the noise he makes out of fear and panic, Snake is left with no choice but to force him into unconsciousness with his bare hands.
As Chico slips away to wonderland, Snake whispers, “Don’t fight it”. Which is a common phrase spoken by Jack Bauer in similar situations on 24.

Another, duh-I-already-know-that-dude egg for your easter basket.

As is tradition for Metal Gear Solid games, you get an extra scene for sticking around after the ending credits. Part of a conversation between Paz and Skull Face that will leave you hanging on the edge of that cliff directly behind the insertion point of Ground Zeroes until The Phantom Pain releases.

This one is probably my favorite, next to the old school skins of course, so I saved it for last.

Rescue Chico first, take him to the RV point and set him down, being sure to trigger the cutscene which wakes him up and gets him talking. But do not put him on the chopper!
Then, rescue Paz and bring her to Chico. A cutscene will follow. After that, pick one of them up and set them down next to the other. Chico will lie down next to Paz and begin to apologize to her. Paz will start to hum various tunes from the game.

(I have heard of this happening if you were to take Chico to where Paz is being held but I have yet to do it myself that way)

These are only the easter eggs that I have found in my time in Ground Zeroes. Whether I have found them on my own or I have been guided to find them, these are what I have collected for this guide thus far.

Being an official Kojima Metal Gear Solid game there are high chances that there may be many more.
If you know of any others that are worth mentioning please, by all means, let me know about them!

This is my first guide and I hope you had as much fun reading it as I did creating it!


Kojima is god.
Metal Gear is life.