Rather than wasting a morsel of their healing power, you'll wait until you're at the moment of death and then take a replenishing bite but it turns out you may have overestimated your ability to carefully unwrap and consume foodstuffs while being shot in the face. But after months of miraculous recoveries, your supply is running low and you figure you'd better conserve them. How it would work for you: You've accepted that these strange military rations are laced with some kind of healing agent, and that eating them instantly mends your wounds. Ah! There he is, panting and bleeding! This last volley will end his unnatural existence! But as the high-caliber bullets slam into Snake's body, the surprisingly calm soldier bites down on something and his wounds begin to close. There isn't much further for Solid Snake to crawl.

How it works in the game: Vulcan Raven stalks through the warehouse, scanning left and right for his quarry. Metal Gear Solid's rations are hard to eat when you're being shot Then you wink out of existence, because that pizza would have fed the rodent-like creature that was the ancestor of all mammals. Suddenly, a familiar scent wafts into your nostrils - pizza! There it is, an unguarded box of the sacred pie! You're so hungry you don't even care that it's topped with anchovies - you just devour the whole thing. How it would work for you: You're lost and confused, and your pants are still damp from soiling yourself at the sight of a pterodactyl carrying a robot ninja. A few quick chomps and the turtles are back in fighting shape. Luckily, Leonardo saved him a slice of 'za from this box he found by the cliffside in 250,000,000 B.C. Not to mention those gnarly raptors that keep trampling around and ruining his day. He could wreck a platoon of purple Foot Clan ninjas in his sleep, but the orange ones are just the absolute worst. How it works in the game: Donatello's not looking so tubular. Horizon Zero Dawn's herbs will make you go on a wondrous hallucinogenic trip Eating it gives you atrocious stomach pains and in no time you're expelling bodily fluids from both ends. Blood weeps from one side as it heats up, but the other half remains raw. Chucking it next to the fire so the dirt gets stuck to its moist sides, you wait for it to cook. Warm, sticky blood flows over your hands. Getting out your knife you got from a hardware shop, you stab at its belly like you've seen hunters do on the Discovery channel.

Unsurprisingly, it doesn't transform into a steak instantly. There's shards of bone and blood all over the forest floor. You close your eyes and shoot it in the skull, and it suddenly stops moving. It didn't go down with just one bullet from your grandad's old hunting rifle that you found in the shed, so now it's just wheezing at your feet. How it would work for you: You shot a boar.

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