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      <title>| In Where I Try and Play a 10 Year Old Game</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[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.&#xA;&#xA; img src=&#34;https://media.tech.lgbt/media_attachments/files/111/809/187/308/188/225/original/2175b81e599f2014.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Screenshot of MGRR.  Raiden is slicing through a giant sword, sparks everywhere.  He looks grim&#34; &#xA;&#xA;Overall I rate it...a Platinum game.&#xA;&#xA;I don&#39;t mean that affectionately or derogatorily.  Its just absolutely Platinum&#39;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&#39;s B team failed at making what they wanted, but I&#39;ve played Platinum games that paid the bills and this is better than those from what little I&#39;ve played.&#xA;&#xA;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&#39;t that much better for me.  In pretty much all games tbh.  You&#39;ll never hear me bothering with a From Software game.&#xA;&#xA;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&#39;s.  So I&#39;m even less likely to get it right.&#xA;&#xA;On top of that, Raiden isn&#39;t really my type.&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xA;&#xA;My main knock is that it doesn&#39;t seem to have a way to adjust difficultly midstory.  Not that I&#39;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.&#xA;&#xA;So we&#39;ll see.&#xA;&#xA;#MetalGearRisingRevengence #MetalGearSolid #Kojima #Bayonetta #TourmaGaming #VideoGames&#xA;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;Mostly posting over at: a href=&#34;https://tech.lgbt/@Tourma&#34;Tourma@Tech.LGBT/a.  &#xD;&#xA;Find the rest of where I&#39;m at on my website: a href=&#34;https://tourma.great-site.net&#34;Tourma.Great-Site.Net/a.]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tried <em>Metal Gear Rising Revegance</em> for the first time.  I picked it up a while ago because I was really digging <em>Death Stranding</em> and wanted to play more Kojima stuff, but I <strong>suck</strong> at <em>Metal Gear Solid</em> games.  So this was the compromise.</p>

<p> <img src="https://media.tech.lgbt/media_attachments/files/111/809/187/308/188/225/original/2175b81e599f2014.jpg" alt="Screenshot of MGRR.  Raiden is slicing through a giant sword, sparks everywhere.  He looks grim"></p>

<p>Overall I rate it...a Platinum game.</p>

<p>I don&#39;t mean that affectionately or derogatorily.  Its just absolutely Platinum&#39;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&#39;s B team failed at making what they wanted, but I&#39;ve played Platinum games that paid the bills and this is better than those from what little I&#39;ve played.</p>

<p>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&#39;t that much better for me.  In pretty much all games tbh.  You&#39;ll never hear me bothering with a From Software game.</p>

<p>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&#39;s.  So I&#39;m even less likely to get it right.</p>

<p>On top of that, Raiden isn&#39;t really my type.</p>

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<p>My main knock is that it doesn&#39;t seem to have a way to adjust difficultly midstory.  Not that I&#39;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.</p>

<p>So we&#39;ll see.</p>

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