![]() Saved from Development Hell: The game was cancelled before Platinum got involved.Role Reprise: Once again, we have Quinton Flynn providing the voice of Raiden.Refitted for Sequel: Blade Wolf combines elements of Crying Wolf from Metal Gear Solid 4 and an unused Robot Dog Assist Character from Platinum's previous game, Vanquish, as seen here.The 2005 manga Ga-Rei already had protagonists fighting ghosts and demons with these. Older Than They Think: Sam was not the first one to use a bullet trigger on his katana sheath.The Steam version comes packaged with most of these as standard. Pre-Order Bonus: Different bonus skins for Raiden are available for pre-ordering the game, including a Metal Gear Solid Cyborg Ninja skin, a Metal Gear Solid 4 Raiden skin, a red "Inferno Armor" that gives you more grenades, a white "Medical Armor" that gives you more healing items, and a green "Commando Armor" that give you more rockets.The PC version isn't available on Steam in all Southeast Asia regions for no given reason other than it being a PS3 exclusive in Asia, since the PS3 version is being sold at all Sony Centers and game shops in aforementioned regions.The Solid Snake Sword DLC is this for Western fans thanks to David Hayter being replaced for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by Kiefer Sutherland it'd be too expensive to bring him in for a joke role.Because of Konami's regional maps, this expands to the whole of East Asia and Southeast Asia. On consoles, Metal Gear Rising is a PlayStation 3 exclusive in Japan because the Japanese Xbox 360 version was cancelled.However, the emphasis on stealth hunting still remains with the alert system, AR vision mode, and ability to hide and do stealth take downs (akin to the Batman: Arkham series). The game instead shifted to a focus on hack and slash gameplay when the development of it was switched from Kojima Productions to PlatinumGames. Mid-Development Genre Shift: Originally, the game was announced under the title of Metal Gear Solid: Rising as a stealth-action game with a focus on stealth hunting.Senator Armstrong: My source is that I made it the FUCK up! Meme Role Reprise: After Max0r's "An Incorrect Summary of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance" gave birth to a memetic exchange between Senator Armstrong and Raiden, Quinton Flynn (Raiden) and Alastair Duncan (Armstrong) dubbed the infamous "Nice argument, Senator" exchange.Fake American: Alastair Duncan, who is Scottish, voices the very American Senator Armstrong.The reason for its exclusion in the English version wouldn't become obvious until months later, when Konami announced they would be replacing David Hayter with Kiefer Sutherland as the voice of Snake in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain reusing Hayter's voice clips would make the transition even more jarring, while Sutherland is too expensive for such a small joke role. Dummied Out: The Hebidamashi, a wooden sword that speaks with Solid Snake's voice, was only included in the Japanese version of the VR Missions expansion pack.God of War: Ascension followed not more than a couple of weeks later. Dueling Games: The game came out one month after fellow Hack and Slash games Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge and DmC: Devil May Cry. ![]() This is alluded to in several Codec calls revealing that he met Raiden at Area 51, the place Raiden was turned into a cyborg, and he helped Raiden and the Paradise Lost Army rescue Sunny from the Patriots. Development Gag: The character of Boris was featured in the original version of Metal Gear Solid: Rising that was set prior to the events of Metal Gear Solid 4.The Danza: Philip-Anthony Rodriguez provides the English voice for Samuel Rodrigues.The song in question actually plays a bit later, during the final fight between the two amid the burning wreckage of EXCELSUS while Raiden wields Murasama, while the rapid-punching sequence happens in a glorified cutscene right before Armstrong reveals his nanomachines (son). Beam Me Up, Scotty!: The "Standing Here I Realize" meme shows the scene where Raiden is repeatedly punching Armstrong while "It Has to Be this Way" plays over it.Approval of God: Metal Gear Sunrising, a Freddie Wong parody about Raiden trying to lead a normal life in a parody of the first scene of American Psycho was not only approved by Konami and Hideo Kojima, but Quinton Flynn himself reprised his role as the voice of Raiden. ![]()
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