Wolf wounding Meryl to set a trap for Snake was included among the top ten cutscenes in the Metal Gear series by Jeremy M. Loss of Joystick Division in 2010 and ranked as the seventh most shocking surprise in video games ("subverting the power fantasy") by George Reith of GamingBolt in 2012. In Trigger Happy, Steven Poole noted how the "brilliantly manipulative" Metal Gear Solid can make the player feel guilty, even as "it makes no sense to wish that you hadn't killed Sniper Wolf — that is, properly to regret your actions — because it is a task that the game demands be fulfilled before you can progress." In 2012, Ryan King of PLAY included the character of Sniper Wolf among the six "things you didn’t want to kill (but you did anyway)" and Ian Dransfield from the same magazine included her among the top "bad guys you wanted to win". In 2015, Aleksander Gilyadov from VentureBeat included Sniper Wolf's death among six most memorable Metal Gear moments opining it "still remains as one of the most poignant and beautiful scenes in the entire series. It also displays just how multilayered, benign, and well-written Kojima’s characters (both heroes and villains) really are." That same year, Javy Gwaltney from Paste had this scene top his list of the saddest moments in Metal Gear. On the other hand, 1UP.com's Scott Sharkey placed Otacon's reaction to the death of Sniper Wolf second on his 2009 list of the series' "most awkward" moments, calling it "the world's most embarrassingly stupid case of Stockholm syndrome." Shacknews' Steve Watts wrote about the game's GameCube remake Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes: "While critically acclaimed thanks to its improved graphics and smarter AI, the addition of an MGS2-inspired first-person mode was blamed for making the game too easy and ruining the Sniper Wolf boss battle entirely." See also List of characters in the Metal Gear series Women warriors in literature and culture References External links Sniper Wolf at Giant Bomb Sniper Wolf at the Internet Movie Database Characters designed by Yoji Shinkawa Fictional criminals in video games Female characters in video games Fictional American people in video games Fictional drug addicts Fictional female assassins Fictional female military personnel Fictional marksmen and snipers Fictional immigrants to the United States Fictional Iraqi people Fictional Kurdish people Fictional United States Army Special Forces personnel Konami antagonists Metal Gear characters