"When my parents were my age, their parents were dead and they were having fun white-water rafting down the Snake River and here I sit -- two houses down, " said Jones.

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So discovering a snake slithering around the bottom of our raft was not exactly my idea of a fun excursion.

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Unlike Solid Snake, choose the path more traveled, as parrying attacks and unleashing sweeping blade combos is ridiculously fun.

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