Mr. Fortitude posted:

The thing is, I'm honestly not sure if this reading is intended by the developers. The ending we did get seemed to imply that "You're Big Boss too because you the player followed the series to the end and added to the legend of a mythical hero, good job you're awesome have a gold star!" and that really irks me on a number of levels. I honestly still think the intended interpretation by the developers is that Big Boss didn't do anything wrong and he's still a hero because of that.