Born from a Techdemo, soon abandoned by its original Team until it was eventually picked up by a lesser branch of Platinum Games, it is a miracle this even exists the way it does. Metal Gear Rising : Revengeance is the pure spectacle distillation of everything Metal Gear. As a character action itself I can best describe it as flat and shallow. Its mechanics are neither deep, nor do they require much skill beyond mashing X and Y, with the occassional parry. Often combat stears itself into a clunky pit of frustration as the game trys to keep up with its own pace and thumbels what can generously be described as the "handling" of secondary weapons. And those are problems the developers seem to be aware of, as they often resort to showering the player with health items in order to patch any frustration out of the game.
That in turn leads to even more sensless button mashing and the player basicly beeing unable to game over at all. Those problems all casaded into me brezzing through most of the game only for the inevitable late game fight with Jetstream Sam to be a wall made of pur concret. I was basicly expected to learn all the games most vital mechanics during one very late boss fight or else get scrapped of the pavement. Ok now I got all the serious criticism out of the way: Yeah this game fucking rules.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance had one Mission: pur fucking spectacle and it damm nails that. Its one the most badass action games I have ever played. From the opening of you slicing a Metal Gear Ray clean in half to delivering the final blow to Senator Armstrong, its one intense dopamine hit after another. Who needs good enviromental design when you can slice cyborgs in to 500 Meat cubs while Rules of nature assaults your ear drums. It maybe violent and edgy but its the good kind: 100% sincere and commited. I also would do it a disservice not mentioning how well it functions as a Midquel between MGS2 and MGS4. All the themes of a future ruled by digital missinformation are here. A future where the same missinformation leads to a global proxy war, turning innocent people into fooder for the war effort and the dehumanising effects for those on the frontline. I know its basicly not cannon and the clifhanger will never be resolved but damm if Raidens journey isnt a blast I want to recommend to every Metal Gear fan out there.
That in turn leads to even more sensless button mashing and the player basicly beeing unable to game over at all. Those problems all casaded into me brezzing through most of the game only for the inevitable late game fight with Jetstream Sam to be a wall made of pur concret. I was basicly expected to learn all the games most vital mechanics during one very late boss fight or else get scrapped of the pavement. Ok now I got all the serious criticism out of the way: Yeah this game fucking rules.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance had one Mission: pur fucking spectacle and it damm nails that. Its one the most badass action games I have ever played. From the opening of you slicing a Metal Gear Ray clean in half to delivering the final blow to Senator Armstrong, its one intense dopamine hit after another. Who needs good enviromental design when you can slice cyborgs in to 500 Meat cubs while Rules of nature assaults your ear drums. It maybe violent and edgy but its the good kind: 100% sincere and commited. I also would do it a disservice not mentioning how well it functions as a Midquel between MGS2 and MGS4. All the themes of a future ruled by digital missinformation are here. A future where the same missinformation leads to a global proxy war, turning innocent people into fooder for the war effort and the dehumanising effects for those on the frontline. I know its basicly not cannon and the clifhanger will never be resolved but damm if Raidens journey isnt a blast I want to recommend to every Metal Gear fan out there.