At the recommendation of many of you all, I began playing this game.
I never played Peace Walker and I have no idea what is going on in the story (who the hell is cypher?). "Story"... There's a few cutscenes, but there's a ****ton of tapes. With gameplay this good, I'm not going to sit around and listen to complex kojima story fed to me as an audio book. Honestly, I don't really care about the story. To me it's an alternate universe Jack Bauer simulator. And it's still way fun.
And yes, I got to mission 12 and was very sad I could not Fulton the helicopters...