Can you beat Metal Gear Rising with ONLY the Wooden Sword? (2023 Edition)

I've gotten quite a few comments about the loud sound at 33:22, I thought the onscreen warning would be enough but I wasn't thinking about people who were just listening to the video. I've gone ahead and removed the part of the video with it in youtube's built in editor, but it may take a while for the change to take effect. Sorry everyone.

With how many time you can't cut inanimate objects with the wooden sword, it's weird that there are a few times were it just... works.

34:36 huge missed opportunity to say “My source is that I made it the fuck up.”

"So we need to use the pole arm again to cut through here. Now time to fight Mistral." Any new player's brain just broke

0:38 quite literally better character development than like 80% of modern television

The oldest trick in the book. A collection of metal gear rising speedrun tech and glitches, disguised as a challenge run. Nice!

at 18:49 the reason there are less missiles when jumping is because the game wants to put the missiles right in front of you to have you avoid them, but when you're in the air the game cant find any pathing for your character from the side of the building so it waits till you're on the "ground" again

29:02 7 yakuza games, 1 judgment game, MGR, plants vs. zombies, and bloons td 6. all the games you really need in life.

Needed to wear blue suit without ripper mode

I used to say that my weapon is a tool of justice. Not a weapon, but a way to bring back those old fashioned values upon which we used to rely... But this. Is a wooden sword.

When I tried doing Armstrong on revengeance for the first time, I beat the second phase after buying the white suit because apparently the health things help you reach the normally unobtainable damage to raiden threshold of like 400% I think

In the Sundowner fight, I never knew you could shoot with the drone when climbing. I always just tried dodging till I got to the top.

Fun fact: if you do the draw attack before a codec, it will keep the animation as long as you hold the button

26:29 For this combo, usually I'd just insert a dodge between the second and third slashes, since Sam's sheathing animation provides ample time to get out of the blocking animation, and move to his side or back. This would do away with the waiting time that normally comes with blocking the third/fourth slashes as well, so you can get a little bit more damage in during the time span. 27:55 (PTSD from installing Enhanced Sam mods) Does parrying even have any meaning anymore........ Also, who could forget Ripper mode and its glorious ability to send Raiden flying with the Pole-arm or the aerial kick attack.

Yes. I actually did a sword run on Revengance, quite possibly one of the most annoying but fun challenges ever, each attempt for Jetstream Sam was worth 30 minutes

"Mistral is the only boss who is defense-oriented." Sundowner Phase 1: "Am I just a joke to you?"

This game is such a masterpiece. Players are finding new skips and strats to get around everything to this day. I can't wait to suffer and do the wooden sword run myself (imma miss getting electrolytes and using the scissor blades ngl)

casually dropped the hardest find your flame edit for raiden

i loved the sam fight with wooden sword, i don't remember how long it took me to beat but, being that it's a test of your swordsmanship in both gameplay and story, it felt so good not just to best him, but to style on him. i even uploaded it

the craziest challenge run I've attempted was a no-kill run using only the fox blade on revengeance difficulty... so many amputations...