Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

I think you mean "Excelsus".

Please, God, yes. I hope that Rising 2 shows us more Solidus.

VR Solidus, VR Grey Fox and VR Olga.
Not in that order.

VR Vamp?

That too.

It might be interesting to make variations on bosses' cyborg bodies available for Raiden after defeating them under certain conditions, sort of like this.

I'd also like to see VR REX and VR Peace Walker as well.

So much future potential for this series. Seriously.

No VR Raiden?

Huh. So, optional boss fights ala Gouki?

A Raiden boss fight would be fun, but it can be narratively justified within the main game without having to be relegated to VR. An idea that's been mentioned a few times is an AI reproduction of Raiden's 'Ripper' personality installed into a replica of one of his cyborg bodies, which would make for a fun plot device; though a battle against Raiden himself could easily be accomplished through chapters focusing on other characters. I'm still kind of disappointed Sam's DLC didn't end with you playing their prologue battle from his perspective.

(Also, Metal Gear characters in civilian clothes◊ is always hilarious for some reason. With a full dev cycle, MGR 2 should have a ridiculous amount of alternate costumes.)

edited 4th Jun '14 10:06:59 AM by Null

What should Raiden's new Authentic Civilian Disguise be?

Geisha outfit. No question.

The first battle on Very Hard is proving to be severely frustrating. If I stop moving for even a moment, I get stunlocked to death. I hit a cyborg? His buddy (or the Gekko) hits me, I flinch, I'm dead. He parries? I'm dead. I parry? I'm dead. I dodge? Oh, right, Prologue!Raiden doesn't know how.

Hit-and-run. Lots and lots of hit-and-run. Whee.

edited 11th Jul '14 5:10:35 PM by ABNDT

Are you doing it on a new save file? That is never a good idea when it comes to action games like Revengeance. If you're not, that's weird, because moves should carry over to the new game.

The good news that the first three cyborgs and the Gekko are the only required non-ranked fight in the prologue, so when you're done with them, just give the Fenrir and the other cyborgs a wave as you skip them entirely to fight RAY.

Nope. Already cleared the game on Easy, Normal, and Hard. At least now I'm done with the prologue and can go back to my crutches FOX blade and blue wig.

None of the moves carry over to the prologue.

The weapons don't either.

None of the upgrades or items are in the prologue.

That is what irks me the most about the prologue: Even the new-and-improved Raiden gets a lot of trouble from the later-game enemies (fully upgrading him doesn't exactly make them pushovers unless you're using obvious cheats like FOX Blade and/or the Infinite Energy/Ammo/Blade-Mode Wigs), and you want to force us to use the significantly inferior vanilla prologue!Raiden if we ever want to take them out in said prologue? Give us a break, Kojima! You could've made it only required for a Bragging Rights Reward achievement/ranking, or something!

edited 11th Jul '14 7:12:59 PM by MarqFJA

...I mean, only the Ray fight in the prologue counts for BP and S ranks, right? Or, S Ranks, which count for BP.

You could just run to that fence and cut through it. I think.

You only need to beat the first three guys and the gecko, you can skip all the guys after that until you get to the RAY.

Revengeance mode is actually easier than very hard cause you get hella parry time

Well, that's nice to hear.

But you still get rated on the number of enemies that you kill over the course of the mission in the final tally.

Is it just me, or does this game seem like the Koichi Ohata anime that never was? Especially with it's campy cyborg designs. Monsoon is 80's incarnate with that longass silver mullet of his.

So! Just got this game. The lack of a dedicated dodge or block button (well, DMC had neither, but both were options with the Styles and you could roll anyway) is throwing me off, but I think I'm getting better at it. Loving how bombastic it is. Is it just me, or does the Blade Wolf totally look like a Rat Thing?