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Raiden's sword is not included. I think the 3d model is from MGS 5 (actually i don't know well.) Some. The actor who traditionally voices Raiden has complained that Konami has not yet asked him to reprise the role for the impending Metal Gear.
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Where do I begin with this? Metal Gear Solid is one of those franchises that if you haven't heard of it then you've either been living under a rock for 20 years or you're so disconnected from playing stealth games that you don't know about it's most popular franchise. I thought this would be the best place to start because I've heard different things about the series, most of them glowing but also with a few different complaints such as the plots getting convoluted towards the end. I decided to instead go for the hack 'n' slash because I'm more accustomed to those games than stealth and by god! I'm buying the original MGS as soon as I see a copy if it's as good as this. The plot is that Raiden, a cyborg ninja (who's design makes him look like he's wearing stilettos. Weird!) fails to protect a head of state from other cyborgs when the region was actually going pretty well all things considered.
Raiden loses an arm and an eye in the mix so he's given a better body and stops the terrorist group from destabilizing regions to profit from the wars. If there is a single complaint with this game it's when Raiden suffers from PTSD for all the lives he's taken. There's nothing wrong with the scene but he goes from PTSD, flipping out and when he goes back to normal he's perfectly fine with cutting people into hundreds of pieces. I haven't left anything out this is seriously how it's played out.
I really think the game would have been stronger if this scene wasn't played at all. Okay, now to talk about the fun stuff. If this doesn't become the norm for hack 'n' slash games or attempts are made then I'm giving up on the genre.
It is so fun to either be precise with where to cut or just going insane with the mode. Either way, for that alone, this is worth getting. I also really REALLY love the first and final boss fights, right off the bat the first boss makes you feel like a complete badass, the final one (at least until things change) is so good as well, I seriously recommend it.
The story as well, while it's weak in a lot of places I enjoyed it and while I hate the PTSD scene I love it bringing up themes of war and such. You'd think with the goofier things that go on in the game that it bringing this stuff up would be whiplash in tone but it's played out perfectly. That is ridiculous! Especially considering this is the game where you can leap frog missiles in one section.
I'd say this is worth getting. Yes it's goofy, yes - it might not be as good as solid but with Blade mode alone I would seriously recommend this game if you want the feeling of having an unbreakable blade by your side. I'll also say that it might be a little too short for some people's liking - I managed to beat the game in 3 days but I think regardless this is worth renting at least!
Raiden is the main protagonist and of Metal Gear Solid 2 after the events of the. He is the main operative of the Big Shell Incident, where, under the command of Colonel Campbell and his girlfriend Rosemary and aided by the mysterious Iroquois Pliskin, he is put under constant pressure, betrayed by Snake/Pliskin, Mr. X/Olga, Rosemary, 'Campbell'/G.W. And pretty much everyone else, and is just generally put through hell for the majority of the game. Near the game's climax he discovers that, and has killed a massive amount of people in the past, causing him to deliberately repress his memories of it (though the effect was made worse by his Nanomachines). He then learns that his father figure, who personally molded him into said, is the game's, Solidus Snake, who he is then.
Despite all of this, Raiden was hated by many fans due to wanting to play as Solid Snake and feeling ripped off that Raiden was never mentioned in box art, trailers or promotional materials. As an apology to disgruntled fans, Kojima created a helpless look-a-like by the name of Ivan Raidenovitch Raikov in Metal Gear Solid 3, who he put through all sorts of humiliation.
However, the general reaction towards Raiden changed somewhat upon his return in Metal Gear Solid 4, where he reappears as the latest and aids Snake in his quest to assassinate Liquid and destroy the Patriots.Following MGS4, Raiden got his own spinoff game, where after nearly being killed on a VIP bodyguard mission by a looking to destabilize the region, Raiden re-upgrades his cyborg body and goes on a.Expect for MGS4 to be unmarked below.: He's usually associated with HF Blades. Think of an electric turkey cutter shaped like a sword which goes really fast. Raiden: I am lightning.
The rain transformed.: Spends both the prologue and epilogue of Rising in a black suit and sunglasses. Clearing the prologue on Very Hard Mode unlocks the suit as body type.: His standard cyborg disguise in Metal Gear Solid 4 is a long black trenchcoat.which he casts off while fighting Gekkos in South America.: Before he becomes a cyborg, he can still use pure skill to infiltrate Big Shell and deflect bullets with his sword.
He also holds the record for the most full-size Metal Gears destroyed in one battle note The actual number varies depending on the difficulty, but he destroys between three (Very Easy) and twenty-five (Extreme) Metal Gear RAY production models, fighting them three at a time. If Extreme is canonical, he also has the record for most full-size Metal Gears destroyed period (Solid Snake 'only' destroys 4, one of which was while he was in his own Metal Gear (RAY, while piloting REX), and one which wasn't active (D, from Metal Gear). Despite all this, Raiden also functions as a of what it would take to become so badass.
Raiden's past as a has left him very badass, but also traumatized and with tendencies that he has much trouble controlling. Even with his amazing combat ability, Raiden tried to ignore his past so he could live a normal life in Metal Gear Solid 2. However, he could not escape the battlefield nor fully repress his violent tendencies; even after settling down with Rose and his son, he denies going back to them to instead wage a one-man war on Private Military Companies.: Done during the final showdown of Rising. After listening to Armstrong's, Raiden seems to relent, realizing he's dealing with a true believer, not a mere criminal. Armstrong extends his hand as a gesture of goodwill.
But Raiden hasn't lost his moral compass just yet. Raiden: I was wrong. You're not greedy.: Done subtly throughout Metal Gear Rising. Raiden says multiple times that he fights, and he sees his sword as a tool to protect people weaker than himself. However, over the course of the game, he slowly starts going back on this, being forced to nearly kill a kid and unleash his psychotic Jack the Ripper persona to defeat his enemies. This comes to a head in the final battle where he has to use Sam's sword against, proclaiming ' and going to town on his opponent. Armstrong seems proud of him, using his dying words to congratulate him for shedding his ideals and being willing to kill.
After all is said and done, it's clear in end that he's starting to feel from his foes.: Don't kill, abuse or exploit children and laugh about it in Raiden's face. Press the reminder button of his own unhappy childhood in this manner one time too many, and will come out to play.: In Metal Gear Solid 4, Raiden repeatedly throws himself into situations where he should be dying. The events of/following Metal Gear Solid 2 have reduced him to little more than a shell of his human self. Vamp: You, too.
Immortal?Raiden: No. I just don't fear death.: On Outer Haven, he shows up just in time to save an incapacitated Snake from being killed by a group of Haven Troopers.: One of the guards comments he 'wishes that he had that' if he sees the naked Raiden restrained in the torture device in Metal Gear Solid 2.: Is a good looking guy with longish platinum locks, no facial hair, and fairly. During a Codec conversation discussing his, Rose makes the wrong guess that maybe he used to be a woman.: Seems to happen to him as a cyborg often enough. In Metal Gear Solid 4, Raiden is shown uncontrollably vomiting blood after being critically injured in his first fight with Vamp. Upon being stabbed by several FROGS inside Outer Haven he coughs up some blood as well.
In Metal Gear Rising, he gets his ass kicked by Senator Armstrong to the point where he's coughing up blood.:. As a, Raiden derived pleasure out of fighting and killing. As an adult, he tried to ignore this aspect of his personality, only to embrace it in Metal Gear Rising out of necessity. Raiden: I learned young that killing enemies felt good. Really good. Though much more subdued in comparison, ◊ suggests that he lets himself fully enjoy combat against non-living foes.: The Patriots transformed Raiden into a cyborg by removing his head and spine from his body from the lower jaw down and grafting it onto.: In Metal Gear Rising he shows disdain for cyborgs, mercilessly killing dozens of them without a thought, despite being more machine than man himself by that point. His interactions with help him.: And how!
GW and the other Patriot A.I.s routinely mock him and humanity as a collective once the jig is up, and the Selection for Societal Sanity ruse is revealed. They say they chose Jack because of his similarities to Snake's background. However the real reason they chose Jack was because of his denials and delusions of heroism, they tell him that his escapism made him the perfect tool to manipulate and he is worth next to nothing to the Patriots in their grand scheme. Raiden takes this revelation pretty badly and spends the rest of the mission unable to tell fact from fiction or find something to believe in. Snake has to occasionally talk to him to break him out of his stupor.: Compared to both Big Boss and Solid Snake, he gets treated far worse during isolated situations, such when doing something 'morally questionable' like looking at toilets in a woman's bathroom or cutting dudes' clothes off. He catches infinitely more shit from his support teams than either of his predecessors. In addition, any time he mentions (and starts gushing over) Solid Snake, folks are quick to point out what a total fanboy he is.
made fun of his name, christening him 'Mr. Lightning Bolt' instead. Raiden didn't mind that much, mostly because he respected N'Mani deeply, but any time somebody else makes fun of his name in the same way, he grumbles and complains.: Details about his parents' ethnicity are never disclosed, but series canon makes him a Liberian-American who was born in Liberia, fought in one of the Liberian Civil Wars as a, holds U.S. Citizenship, and has lived in the U.S. For most of his life.
Lampshaded when his appearance is commented upon in Metal Gear Rising. Mistral: Liberian, yet white as snow.: Goes from an apparent to an ex- trying to to a soldier fighting to a reluctant to just straight-up becoming an. He's a good guy all the way through, though.: Was already an infamous soldier in the Liberian Civil War known as 'Jack the Ripper' before the age of 10.: Boy does he ever in.: For his day job, Raiden wears expensive-looking suits in meetings with clients. He's always ready to spring into action, though; in the opening of Metal Gear Rising, he effortlessly rips his suit off to reveal an exoskeleton underneath.: In the final act of Metal Gear Solid 4, he wears his as such after losing his arms, holding it in place with one of Snake's flak jackets.: 'Jack the Ripper' has this trait, and it is shown prominently in Metal Gear Rising. Raiden: Pain.
This is why I fight. Also overlaps with in that game, as his voiced.: Raiden's cyborg bodies feature rubberized heels that allow him to grip swords and other weapons with his feet.: Raiden was taken in at a very young age by his 'Godfather' Solidus after his birth parents were killed.
It's later revealed that Solidus was the one who murdered Raiden's parents.: In Metal Gear Rising, he has a black sports car with holograms for watching the news and communication and it drives itself. Sadly, it gets destroyed when the police shoot an RPG at it.: After commandeering a parked motorcycle in Metal Gear Rising, he politely leaves a note apologising for this along with a contact number. Said note was some scrawling in the sidewalk he made with his HF Blade.: The final shot of Metal Gear Rising seems to imply this is the case.: Nobody takes him very seriously in Metal Gear Solid 2, not even civilians. Turns out he's been fighting and killing since he was a child.: While fighting Haven Troopers to buy Snake time to upload FOXALIVE. Otacon: You know, you're a pretty interesting guy. You're just like Snake said.Raiden: (piqued interest).What did he say?Otacon: That you're a weak, simple-minded, stubborn fool.
Ah, don't worry,.Raiden: 'Nothing bad'?! What could POSSIBLY BE WORSE THAN THAT?!.
This eventually leads into in regards to their combat styles. While both are trained in all sorts of weapons and can sneak or fight depending on the circumstances, Snake prefers guns and stealth while Raiden can charge into battle with just his HF Blade and come out no worse for wear.: His sword is 'a tool of justice, not used in anger'. Of course, this need not apply.: Raiden loses his shit when he discovers that Desperado and World Marshal are converting children into cyborg child soldiers and goes out of his way to save them from going through what he did. Summed up quite well in this line to Sundowner.
Raiden:.: He really thinks he's this in, at least at first. And given that he's the only one at the receiving end of the insane that is the game's plot, he's probably right.: Has taken out entire commando units, tank battalions, and metal gear detachments on his own.: Raiden's upgraded exoskeleton is sharp-edged and black, like his mood.: Having become a father, and given a chance to give an innocent boy the love and happy childhood that he never had, Raiden has sworn that no child will ever be made to endure what Solidus put him through. Hence, it is a suicidally stupid idea to abuse, harm, kill, and exploit children and gloat about it in Raiden's face. The black-hearted mercenary-doctor in Chapter 2 of Metal Gear Rising found this out the hard way.: Raiden's idea of blending in while in Mexico is wearing a mariachi uniform he bought from a souvenir stand over his still clearly visible cyborg body.: Gets a moment with Snake during the moment mentioned above.
Raiden: Don't leave me here. Alone.: Met his wife arguing over which building climbed up, gets the reference to in Snake's Metal Gear Solid 2 alias 'Pliskin', and has an obsession with the depiction of samurai in Japanese pop culture.: Twice. His before Metal Gear Solid 4 involved losing his lower jaw, which was replaced with an artificial jaw and gave him a rather unsettling. His new body at the end of the game gives him a more realistic jaw that restores his good looks, but at the cost of externalizing his combat capabilities into a suit of. When that body gets trashed at the beginning of Rising, Raiden gets a new body that is much more combat-ready - but gives him another fake jaw that pronounces his even further.: Raiden uses one of these at the beginning of Rising, to augment the more humanlike body he received at the very end of 4. It doesn't last long, however, as the body gets greatly damaged and he receives a more combat-oriented body with built-in armor.: His Jack the Ripper persona finds killing deeply amusing. Raiden: That nickname you love so much.
Wanna know how I got it? Why don't I give you a demonstration?.: Pulls this off in desperation against Armstrong, twice. The first round. The second round, he has a bit more luck: he manages to make Armstrong flinch and knock him back a foot or two, but that's about it.: While most of the time he is referred to by his codename Raiden, he is much better known as.: After re-upgrading his cyborg body in Rising, his eye glows red whenever he activates one of his body's deadlier functions.: Samuel observes that Raiden's fighting style is lacking something — namely, a thirst for violence. It isn't until Raiden embraces his inner sociopath that he stands a chance against the truly ruthless Desperado.
Subverted in that Raiden's life of perpetual abuse, violence, and mind-shattering post-traumatic stress is not shown as something that's 'cool,' but tragic.: In Rising. While Raiden embraces his, it's solely out of necessity; he's well aware of how broken and unstable he is, and is not happy about it.: Vamp. They have three fights across Sons of Liberty and Guns of the Patriots, each more brutal than the last.: Raiden gets a big barcode on his forehead once he becomes a cyborg.
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During the sequence in 2 where Raiden is stripped of his clothing and gear, he is seen to possess barcode tattoos all over his body.: His reasons for taking on World Marshal to stop them from harvesting kids' brains and turning them into cyborg soldiers. 'Being legal doesn't make it right!' Monsoon: What are you saying?Raiden: I'm saying.: At the end of Rising after killing Armstrong, the one person in the world who truly understood Raiden and his ideals.: One of his Zandatsu animations in.: While never much of a wimp, he was about Snake's equal in combat in Metal Gear Solid 2 due to his training as a child soldier and VR missions. Come 4, he's much more powerful, able to beat Vamp in physical combat where Snake needed guns. By the end of Metal Gear Rising, it's unlikely there is a single person who could match him in pure combat prowess, to the point he can take on machines of nuclear war on his own.: Of the whole series, since he has the third most playable appearances only after Solid Snake and Big Boss.: Invoked. In order to reduce security around Arsenal Gear, Solid Snake and Mr.
X/Olga Gurlukovich knock out Raiden and hand him over to Solidus, then proceed to sneak in and free him to help defeat the Sons of Liberty once and for all.: To Snake, especially in MGS4. In the briefing before the Shadow Moses mission, he states outright that he has nothing left to live for except for following Snake and his vision for freedom for themselves, and goes so far as to cut his own arm off to save him from being crushed by Outer Haven.: During the climax of Revengeance's Metal Gear Excelsus fight, where he's rather clumsy in his swordplay. Justified because he's wielding a giant sword the size of a skyscraper.: Pretty much anytime the is involved. He goes on a rampage and will destroy and murderously rage until he's had his fill.: Big time in Sons of Liberty, wherein he's deceived, manipulated and outright used by almost every other major character, both good and bad.: Both in Japanese and English, much more noticeable though in the latter.
Raiden's initial voice was youthful to highlight his inexperience, with Quinton Flynn giving him a high pitch to hammer down his age. By the time Raiden became a cyborg ninja, his voice became deeper and gained a growl.
Rising, and in the second digital graphic novel based on Sons of Liberty, saw Raiden adopt the growl but with a more neutral pitch to balance his performances in 2 and 4.: Whenever the Ripper persona is released.: In Metal Gear Solid 2.: Colonel's offhand remark about how the B.D.U. That Raiden has to disguise himself with seemed to be a better fit for Rosemary implied that the B.D.U. Was actually meant for a woman.: As of his last appearance, there is likely not a single person in the world who surpasses him in terms of sheer, destructive power. He has destroyed multiple, held his own against an elite commando unit with no arms and is the only person who has proved to be a to both.
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