VR missions helped me wrap my head around a few mechanics, but they were hidden and existed more for the purpose of offering additional challenges than playing sensei to my increasingly annoyed pupil.
I know Metal Gear is a famously meta series, but somehow I doubt this is what Kojima and his collaborators at Platinum had in mind.
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I ended up having to alt-tab out, pop open a web browser, and hunt down a Care And Maintenance Of Your Badass Cyborg Ninja manual on YouTube.
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One of the first bosses is basically impossible if you haven't mastered blocking/parrying, which is actually super easy to learn Revengeance just explains it horribly and doesn't give you a safety-wheels-on trial run. It is inexcusable how little a game with such rewarding mechanical complexity attempts to clue you into any of it.
Painfully forced exposition abounds, precious few playable moments are book-ended by lengthy cut-scenes (some of which look like they'd be really fun to, you know, play), and - most damningly - the game teaches you damn-near nothing. Large, bloody chunks of the combo-based actioner are outrageously enjoyable, but the first 40 minutes or so are a slog. Despite being a pretty great game overall, I sometimes got the impression that Revengeance didn't really give a damn about me. Rather, Revengeance's problem is that it's so very loud and meandering and insistent on itself that it sometimes forgets to check and see if the player's still having a good time. Don't get me wrong: I'm of the mind that Metal Gear wouldn't be Metal Gear without its many fearless cannon balls into lunacy's deepest waters when I advocate for restraint here, that's not even what I'm trying to discuss. For all the game's bluster, he is a calmly sauntering embodiment of well-timed humor and restraint. If only Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance were more like its robo-chainsaw-wolf companion, who I've nicknamed Raidog (or Logic Dog, for longer/more descriptive).
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But does the extra helping of over-the-top insanity gel with Metal Gear's, er, also insane (but in a different way) universe? And how does the long-awaited PC port hold up? Here's wot I think. It dispenses with stealth almost entirely, favoring combo and counter-heavy action over tippy-toeing and mullet-rocking.
Then again, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance isn't your average Metal Gear game. One of the characters, Monsoon, even has a whole villainous speech about the concept of memes in the game, declaring them as "the DNA of the soul.Metal Geaaaaaarrrrrrrr?!?!?!?! On PC? This particular collision of worlds - masters of espionage infiltrating the home of spyware, cyborg ninjas running amok in cyberspace - isn't unheard of, but it's far from the norm. The game's political setting and over-the-top characters have inspired many memes, including ones involving its main antagonist, the conservative right-wing Senator Armstrong. People would caption it with an utterly ridiculous statement, and in the gif, Jetstream Sam would stroke his chin, contemplating actually considering it. 📈 concurrent players up 1000% 🏆 peak in achievement activity across all platforms The cause? Various meme templates featuring characters from the game went viral. Steamcharts has shown that there has been growth in the game's player base in the past two months.Īlthough it is almost 10 years old, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is seeing numbers it hasn’t seen since launch. Additionally, across all platforms the game was released on, achievement unlocking activity has been spiking and is at its highest since 2018, indicating that more people are indeed playing through the game.
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