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jones-friend · 2 years ago

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I just finished playing Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, a 2013 title where the antagonist republican senator claims he’s going to make America great again moments before you rip his stillbeating heart from his chest!

For context: I’ve never played metal gear. My buddy has nothing but good things to say for it and I’ve seen lots of good stuff. I’ve also played Bayonetta 1 all the way through.

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance is a game started by Konami/Kojima, handed off to platinum games. In it you play as Raiden, a cyber ninja, facing off against soldiers and big bads alike.

Lots of modern games feel the need to juice the runtime to 30hrs. TLOU2, Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War 2018, often they do this by adding optional open world segments or sidequests that pad the runtime.

MGRR was described as all killer no filler and they aren’t lying. Around 6-8hrs long this was a quality experience through and through. I shouted out loud in my own apartment at multiple points because of how fantastic they felt to play. I lost my goddam mind when you’re fighting a metal gear ray to the instrumental Rules of Nature and when you catch the mecha blade the sfx dip so the soundtrack can belt the lyrics RULES OF NATURE as you anime throw the mecha and shred it. Oh my god. Perfection.

The game’s high points are its boss fights. Lovingly crafted, each boss has something exciting going on whether it be Mistral’s enemy horde or Sundowner’s explosive armor you need to slice through. The mechanics feel fantastically overpowered in the best way, running up missile barrages to slice their armor into a thousand pieces is a blast.

I cannot say enough good things about the game’s soundtrack and use of music. Typically you fight to instrumental themes, with the lyrics bass boosting the track during emotional high points. Its huge when you hit the last phase of a boss fight and the lyrics cut in as your own health gets down to the wire. Absolutely amazing.

I also appreciate that the game has a “skill tree” or upgrade purchase menu where not everything was able to be bought in my run. Maybe you can with VR missions, but I liked that I had to choose my strengths when too many games eventually give you everything anyways.

The game’s story is Platinum Games making a Kojima game, its silly in all the right spots and serious at the right times. I was thoroughly entertained by how whole hog they go over the top with it.

I have a short list of things that frustrated me: the hammer and ape enemies were a lil too nutty damage and stunwise and two at once could easily stunlock you. The traversal sections between bosses have good moments but overall don’t work quite as well. It is from the quick time event era so there’s a number of those, while I never found them to be too invasive they aren’t always great.

None of these things were enough to put a damper on the experience for me. This is in my top 5 games easy, the Samuel boss fight is up there next to Lady Maria for me. I’m entirely enamored with this one and I highly recommend it if you enjoy the likes of Hotline Miami and Uncharted games.

Recently I played the FFVII remake. If they cut the filler and make it closer to this that game would be loads better.

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myflooricecreamguy · 2 years ago

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