| In Where I Try and Play a 10 Year Old Game
Tried Metal Gear Rising Revegance for the first time. I picked it up a while ago because I was really digging Death Stranding and wanted to play more Kojima stuff, but I suck at Metal Gear Solid games. So this was the compromise.
Overall I rate it...a Platinum game.
I don't mean that affectionately or derogatorily. Its just absolutely Platinum's style with a coat of Kojima story wonk. Platinum has games that they pour everything into. Then they have games that pay the bills. This one feels more the former. I know they got called to pinch hit after Kojima's B team failed at making what they wanted, but I've played Platinum games that paid the bills and this is better than those from what little I've played.
My favorite Platinum game is Bayonetta. Which should make sense, as it was my Game of the Year [That I Played In 2023]. I tried playing it back in the day and got my butt handed to me, so this time around I played on Easy. I wanted to experience the story and titillation. Not banging my head against the wall from sucking at parrying. And I suck and parrying. Dodging isn't that much better for me. In pretty much all games tbh. You'll never hear me bothering with a From Software game.
What got me where I stopped playing and start writing this is that I tried to play on Normal before remembering the above. Compounding my sucking at parrying is that MGR:R parry system is much more nuanced than Bayonetta's. So I'm even less likely to get it right.
On top of that, Raiden isn't really my type.
My main knock is that it doesn't seem to have a way to adjust difficultly midstory. Not that I'm far at all. I died to the second encounter to the first Metal Gear. I can totally restart and get back to where I was pretty quickly.
So we'll see.
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