Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance [PS3/Xbox 360] review

[fuse]

I've not even touched any repair paste or the like yet, but I'm also probably not at any particularly tough parts of the game. I'm having great fun though - especially since I finally decided to upgrade and had 130,000 odd points to blow.

In other news, my mate hosted one of those parties via ShopTo/ComeRound got second place - meaning signed copies (by Kojima) for us all! Awesome.

[Fader209]

I've not even touched any repair paste or the like yet, but I'm also probably not at any particularly tough parts of the game. I'm having great fun though - especially since I finally decided to upgrade and had 130,000 odd points to blow.

In other news, my mate hosted one of those parties via ShopTo/ComeRound got second place - meaning signed copies (by Kojima) for us all! Awesome.

You sure you haven't used the repair paste by accident? I noticed you can auto heal if your health gets low.
Up to the final boss now - Wasn't expecting this haha.

[fuse]

Yeah, I think it's like the MGS games in that you still need to have it selected for it to get used - I've not once looked and seen it below max capacity

[Mr M0by]

Played it through to completion (only on Normal) but it just didn't click with me. After really enjoying Vanquish (not played any other Platinum titles) and all the MGS games I was genuinely expecting to like this but the camera spoiled things for me considerably and as a result I just didnt enjoy the combat that much. In fact by about the 4th stage it got to the point of feeling pretty glum every time a 'battle' started and I just wanted to coast to the end.... Quite surprisingly (sort of thankfully) the 5th and 6th stages were exceptionally short and allowed just that. It had it's moments but I preferred DMC. Marginally.

[dataDave]

That was a bit easier than R-01. Only having to do it the once helped.

[dataDave]

No Damage impossible here because you get ****ed before the Monsoon fight when Raiden is all emo.



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However, I finally beat Monsoon with no damage.

****ing, here's the strat for anyone who needs it.


1) Beginning (2nd hardest part of the fight)

The first part is tough. You need to avoid all his attacks and ****. What you need to do is make sure you have Sundowner's twin blades already in slot before you hit the checkpoint. Whilst the fight is loading hold down 'Y/Tri', the fight will start and you will immediately go into charging the attack as soon as possible. As SOON as it flashes red (between 1-3 frames) release it and it will whack him as he runs in, as well as giving you a window to back-evade (just spam X+A, no direction required) or parry if you're feeling brave. This is also the best time to lock-on. After this you need parry/evade his ****, which include his kick combo, sai combo, launcher kick (evade this and spam your own - fwd,fwd,X), or his bastard RP grenades. If you get stunned by the grenade it's goodbye no damage run (pause > restart), so you have to evade it the moment it hits the floor, and then parry all his **** during that phase.

Tap him down to 66% with weak attacks, occasionally he will get stunned which buys you enough time to charge a 'Y/tri' attack. We want those because they dish out 16% damage. If you get him to 66% then good job, that's the second hardest part done.


2) Throwing stuff phase (easiest parts)

Slice the **** he throws at you and then collect the drops, make sure you have EM grenades in the sub weapon slot. After two phases of throwing stuff he will drop down near where you were standing whilst slicing. Tap RB to quick-roll a grenade at him. This will stun him and enable you to get close to initiate blade mode. MAKE SURE you get close enough for it to bring up the big Japanese letter, if you go into blade mode without that prompt you've ****ed it and you'll have to come out of blade mode and use another grenade if you're lucky enough not to eat an attack.

As soon as you slice him in blade mode you will knock his head off, like what happens to C3-P0 in Empire. Track where it goes and ninja run up to it. Slide into it with Y/tri and then hit the same button again to do the down-attack. Don't release Y... When you come out of the 2nd attack animation you will seamlessly go into the twin blade charge move. Lock-on to the head whilst it charges. Wait for his body to reassemble before releasing Y... This will hit him HARD and take the fight immediately into the next throw phase... and then the next grenade phase... Repeat.


3) Lorenzo's Oil and Purple Sai/Dhalsim **** (hardest part of the fight)

After two grenades and twin blade charges he will be at 40%. This is when he likes to use the Katamari Damacy/Lorenzo's Oil attack. Just parry this ****ing nonsense, easiest part of the game so far.

The next part is not easy. He will glow purple, act pissed off, and the music will kick in. He will throw the first sai at you, which is quite telegraphed although the timing is very delayed. You will learn the timing when to perfect parry, you NEED to perfect parry the sais... Once you do, they are knocked onto the floor. The 2nd sai has been the bane of my ****ing life for two nights/4 hours. I've only ever perfect parried it twice, the second time being my successful run. The timing is slightly off compared to the first sai, and I lose all spatial/depth awareness when it's coming in. It's quite hard to see.

Once they are both out of the game you need to avoid his legs and NINJA RUN TO THE HARD LEFT, to flank them and run down the left side in the direction of Mansoon's torso. You could try to stand and parry them like a pro, but I wouldn't recommend that. You will see his legs try to kick you from the corner of the screen, run within grenade range of his torso and then let one go with quick-throw (tap RB). Then it's another blade mode into head knock-off into ninja run>Y,Y into charged twin blade moment. Congrats. You've practically won the achievement unless you're a ****ing retard.

I seriously recommend practicing this phase even if you fail the previous phases. Restart ONLY after you fail the purple Dhalsim phase.


4) Easiest part of the entire game

Another throw phase. Concentrate not to **** up from now on. Slice all the ****, take your time, and then follow up with a grenade, head knock, blah blah... He's on 10%. Katamari Returns. That should fail. Then he goes for the needle. Ninja Run > Blade Mode slice > Y+B finish.

[englishbob]

I think I on the final boss in the game (stage 7?) and I am wondering what happens when you complete the game, can you start again with your acculmulated abilities?

I have little incentive to fight the last boss, its so ****ing tiresome and I don't have any health pickups etc left. I guess I should count my chickens, at least there wasn't a helicopter boss battle (those are sooo wank).

[dataDave]

I think I on the final boss in the game (stage 7?) and I am wondering what happens when you complete the game, can you start again with your acculmulated abilities?

Yeah, and more...


The last boss is one of the easiest. Just evade all his attacks apart from the chi blast.

[dataDave]

Didn't get 'no damage' here because of the lobby carnage section.



Sundowner is probably the second easiest boss so far.

Phase 1: Parry his initial attack and mash the QTE, then blade mode the vulnerable blue connectors. You can only destroy two at a time. After that, fire a homing missile at the helicopter to get rid of that. Turn to face SD and he will have his shields up - blade mode whilst close up and then slash out the line of markers to initiate another connector sever moment. He will be down to just two blocks of shield left... What I did on my successful attempt was to simply make some distance and let him charge at me again, parry it, then take the final two pieces.

Phase 2: This part is tricky. For the S-rank we need more points than the boss fight can possibly allow. Before we get to that make sure that the twin blades were equiped from the previous checkpoint. If not, it's no big deal... Just parry his attacks, and dodge the big scissor attack, and take him down to about 25-30% - DON'T KILL HIM!! NO MATTER HOW EASY THIS PART IS, IT'S A TRAP!! Remember how we need more score? What we need to do is take him down to 25-30% and then kite him around a bit until he jumps over to one of the flood lights. As he does this two cyborg samurais enter the battle (signalled by two red circle markers closest SD), devastate them with a twin blade attack and go for the Zandatsus pronto. You want to do this before SD comes back into play swiping the floodlight around like he's a heavy out of Powerstone or some **** (you can parry them but you shouldn't have to). Well, he's only on a small bit of health so take him to 10% and initiate the final phase.

Phase 3: The slider part. I found out that RB fires bullets, so use this to clear the debris going up inside the building. Make sure to be quick with the pause>restart if you lose any health. Blade mode the roof, and spam Y+B after that. I forgot to press the Y+B QTE and had to ****ing do the whole fight again. Don't do that.

[dataDave]

I just have the VR missions left now.



The stage clear photos from today were destroyed when my Mrs. yanked out the card without switching the phone off first. GG. This will have to do instead:

[teddymeow]

Started playing the JPN PS3 version this evening to try and stay up and beat the jetlag.

Why I thought it would have an English Language soundtrack, I don't know.

Maybe because the title / options screen is pretty much all in English and the game had a pretty much simultaneous launch in all territories.

Damn you Konami!! I mean; it's playable but I have no clue what's going on.

[dataDave]

Neither do I, and I've got English language.

I wouldn't worry about it. You can easily piece it together with the cut scenes.

[BIG EDD]

Neither do I, and I've got English language.

I wouldn't worry about it. You can easily piece it together with the cut scenes.

Same here

[rmoxon]

I envy people who played it in Japanese, becuase in English it makes no sense what so ever and at least if I didn't know what was going on I could make my own story up.

I miss the corny and unintentionally hilarious ramblings about non relevant subjects from the MGS games too.

[dataDave]

I miss the corny and unintentionally hilarious ramblings about non relevant subjects from the MGS games too.

They were all over this, only not forced.