Why Does Metal Gear Rising Keep Getting More Popular?

Summary by Krater

An in-depth analysis of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, examining its mechanics, combat flow, difficulty settings, meme culture origins, and development history.

From the video

Answers: Why is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance such a masterpiece of action game design?

• action game combat design
• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance review
• character action games
• Zan-Datsu mechanic
• meme culture in video games
• PlatinumGames development history

What it concludes

• Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance offers one of the best killer-to-filler ratios in character action games.
• The game's combat system is built around aggressive offense rather than defensive blocking or shielding.
• The collaboration between Kojima Productions and PlatinumGames resulted in an unexpectedly cohesive and politically resonant action masterpiece.