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It is so satisfying that you feel like you are really wielding the cyber-blade like a true ninja warrior of the future. However, when truly mastered, it becomes so intuitive that you will find yourself in the midst of a battle blocking multiple enemies attacking from multiple directions with an instinctive twitch of the thumbstick. Admittedly it does some time to learn, and can be frustrating early on. Get it right and the attack will be blocked, and usually the enemy will be left open for a counter attack. This is done by pressing the light attack button and flicking the right thumbstick in the direction of the incoming enemy attack. When you reach the mini-bosses and the main boss battles, there is no way to use stealth or sneak past them, and believe me, when you reach those battles, you’re going to need all of the upgrades you can get.

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These forced encounters give the player time and opportunity to practice all of the moves and combos possible to boost their bank balance and upgrade Raiden as much as possible. While stealth may have been at the core of other Metal Gear Solid games, MGR:R actually takes the stealth option away from the player at times and forces them to enter staged battles with no other choice than to fight. Thus, going for stealth kills or even pure non-combative stealth, will earn only a limited amount of points, will ultimately leave you short changed of the in-game currency. If you want to get paid, you’re going to have to fight. Thus, combat actually becomes the means of earning your keep within the game. These points can then be redeemed for special weapons upgrades, new skills, and later on, new armour or cyborg suits. These are awarded for style (the style ranking system remains), efficiency, damage taken and other areas, and are given after a staged combat area either during the campaign or in any of the 20 VR missions that can be attempted outside of the story. Catch your breath for a moment, from this point on the pace is unrelenting.Īfter all combat you are rewarded with Battle Points. Along with a number of cyborg enemies which act as tutorial cannon fodder (or more accurately blade fodder) this first tutorial mission also includes facing off against a mech the size of a small tower block. Thus, the player finds themself immediately thrown into the action in the first of the game’s many fast and furious encounters. Bodyguards are there for a reason and unsurprisingly, Raiden is immediately called upon to earn his pay and defend the president from an assassination attempt. He is now part of private group serving as the bodyguard to an African Nation’s president. We are re-introduced to Raiden hiding his new cyborg body in a smartly dressed suit and sitting in the back of a limousine. The game starts serenely enough, and begins approximately four years after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4.

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