Metal Gear Rising is Absolutely Hype - Anniversary Special

Happy Anniversary Rising, and Happy 1 Year to these reviews! Thank you all for being here with me for it all. This video was going to be all the cool things in Rising, but then that would have just been all my footage playing at 1x speed. Accept this brief video instead.

The albino ninja saying “you’ve gotta be fucking kidding me!!” When he saw the US senator power up like a Dragon Ball character completely changed my life.

the album was so good they even added a free game to it

The Monsoon scene is so funny because he tries to pull a "We're not so different, you and I!" and Raiden goes "Yeah, you're right come to think of it" and Monsoon goes "...wait, what? Wait that's not how this goes you're supposed to go- oh I'm in danger, aren't I?"

For what you said about Rosemary, Raiden actually mentions her in a codec with BW during the city mission. Wolf tells Jack to stay focused on the objective, which brings Jack to sarcastically joke about “picking up a souvenir for Rose”. BW calls him out on it, prompting Jack to respond about teaching the AI about sarcasm. Which then leads to BW respond with (probably one of my favorite lines in the game) “I see your attempts at humor, I simply do not find them entertaining.”

I'd like to add, that during the pain inhibitor scene before fighting Monsoon, if you're on controller and have rumble on, you can feel Raiden's heartbeat through the controller rumble

The game absolutely knows what it's doing with its tone. When Armstrong does his sumo stomp and Raiden says "oh you've gotta be kidding me", he is just as baffled as us, the players. All this game he's been through a lot of unexpected stuff, but given his past adventures, this is the only moment where he genuinely goes "...WHAT?" Then the good senator does his thing.

This game switches between serious awesomeness and Xavier Renegade Angel constantly and its very amazing

I like how just about every single character in the game has laser eyes, the bright red lens flare that says "watch out, I'm powerful"

Minor detail, but I'm pretty sure Armstrong's mech is actually based on a worker ant, it has the front jaws of one. It fits with the theme of his song! This video essay was excellent, thought.

"It's... it's a box. How's that gonna help?" don't you fucking doubt that god damn box, it's the best hiding spot ever

To this day I don't think anything can top MGR: Revengeance for me when it comes to pure adrenaline, hype and overall feel in action games. I still go back once in a while, boot up a new save file and complete everything the game has to offer - and have a absolute blast doing it every, single, time.

I also love during the monsoon bit that raiden admits to moonson that he is a strong person who prays on the weak, but the weak in his mind is are people like desperado and world marshal. And he fucking loves killing those kinds of assholes.

1:14:12 I literally busted out laughing at the "Like the good ol' days after 9/11" bit.

I love this game so much simply for the music, it's so goddamn good. The game is also really fun and the characters are extremely memorable even though they get like 20 minutes of screen time before you slice em up 💀

If I am remembering correctly the “sir yes, yes sir” at #45:36 Is a reference to how dogs in the U.S military are usually a rank higher than their handlers

Also it's a small detail but its one of my favorites. 1:10:43 has a different voice line that plays when you beat him without emp grenades. While Monsoon plays dirty, you can play dirty with him via EMP grenades. During the final beat down he basically accepts his loss with the line you showed. Though, if you choose to stick to your sword, he still plays dirty. Making his demise not only all the more satisfying for you, but all the more terrifying for Monsoon, who begs you to stop as you're dishing out the flurry of finishing strikes up on the side of that skyscraper. One of my favorite bossfights in any single player game.

One moment I do like, its ever so small and maybe not even matter to those who've never played MGS2. Its right after hearing Bladewolfs codec call after you beat him, Raiden stateing 'What would an AI know about freedom?'. Some might laugh this off as a one-liner. But Raidens early life was pretty much lead by an AI who boasted about freedom....The Patriots. That little remark he made was his scoffing at the idea as he had to deal with that in MGS2 and finally seeing their end in MGS4.

the fact that this 2 hour deep-dive into a masterpiece of action interactive media has so few views is a crime. Found this channel today due to the doom wad video, but this is the video that earned my thumbs up/sub.

47:15 You just gotta love how You can see Raiden's absolute "Oh shit" face during the cutscene, it's the little details.