Hideo Kojima’s last Metal Gear Solid trailer for E3 has everything you’d expect: great music, a barrage of sometimes supernatural-looking characters, robots, minutes of mostly comprehensible* dialog about war and peace…

But the new trailer released just this morning also has a few surprises. Why is the now Sutherland-infused Boss slowly becoming an off-center unicorn? Who is the scarred man in the Green Hornet mask? Wait, are those…zombies?

Watch six minutes of beautiful footage above, then head to the comments below and try to work out the famously tangled MGS storylines.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain releases September 1st.

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*Mostly.

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