It starts strong, ends strong and armstrong

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How the bosses work in MGR:R:

Metal Gear Ray: Learn the basics
Wolf: Learn how to parry
Mistral: Learn blade mode
Monsoon: Get good at parrying
Sundowner: Get good at blade mode
Jetstream Sam: Have fun with what you've learned
Metal Gear Excelsus: Get good at basic skills
Armstrong:  Put everything to the test

"5 minutes in and your playing the game you payed money for." I love this line. Perfectly sums up why I hate tutorials in other games as well.

Metal Gear Excelsus isn't actually a metal gear. In one of the codecs, you learn that the company manufacturing them just called it a "metal gear: for marketing purposes, which is why it looks so odd.

turkey frames per second

I can't see myself sticking to either classic or modern games. There's a lot of games I want to talk about new and old and I like mixing things up like that.

It's a pity we'll never see a sequel to MGR unless someone liberates the Metal Gear license from Konami...

The Metal Gear Ray Boss Fight gives me chills every time the music kicks up with the vocals

not sure if anyone else got the whole sam v raiden thing, but think about the name and how they fight. they fight like samurai. SAM and RAIden fight like SAMuRAI.

I can't be the only one that saw that..

@1:30 You're not expected to, but you totally can parry almost all of Ray's attacks, and it's as awesome as you'd expect.

Probably been mentioned before but Mistral had the extra Gecko arms as armor because her torso was natural, not cybernetic, you learn this by calling someone up during the fight.

You can actually line up the cut and then press square to cut without needing to flick R3.

As for the new Jack persona.

In Metal Gear Solid 2, it is hinted at that Raiden is far more cruel than he seems. After his past is exposed he admits to Snake that he enjoyed killing people.

As for his over the top personality.

Between the events of 2 and 4 and beyond Raiden has been training with his sword, the way he has done this is by watching Samurai films. This has also helped him to cope with the reality he faces. 'Raiden' has taken on the persona of a noble Samurai, his sword is a tool of justice that he uses to protect the weak. 'Jack' has logically taken on the persona of a Samurai movie villain. This results in the over the top dialogue from the both of them.

In my opinion, Revengeance's portrayal of Raiden is a return to form for his character rather than a torpedoing (that would be MGS4).

"Nanomachines, son!"

I'm a big ass MGS fan, and unlike many who say it ruins the franchise, I fucking LOVED Revengeance. Not once have I had more fun playing an MG game. For me it was more like a breath of fresh air.

A bitter Irishman yells at menu screens.
10/10

Starting the Game:
"Huh... this game looks interesting. I think I'll like it."
First Instances of Combat:
"Pretty smooth combat so far, I can get into this..."
Introduction of Boss:
"I GOTTA FIGHT THAT!?"
Getting Into the Boss:
"Fuck yeah! This is awesome!"
QTE Sequence:
"OHMYFUCKINGGODYESTHISISTHEBESTTHINGEVERMYBRAINISMEALTING
FROMTHEAWESOMENESSRULESOFNATUREYESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to the first in a series of one video on the Metal Gear Rising series

"Jumby" is Trinidadian slang for a monster or ghost