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Ken, Bettany, you should react to Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links all summon animations, you might learn new things. Also, I suggest Duel Links and Dragon Ball Legends, my two favorite mobile games. They're both fun and addictive, and DBL has a story mode that has me hooked in
So when it says “It Has To Be This Way” it means that Senator Armstrong is too far gone to be saved. He chose his path of violence and war in pursuit of power and control. And if left unchecked, he would have brought Anarchy where only the strong thrived and the weak perished. Armstrong was too far gone at this point if he believed this is what America (a nation of FREEDOM FOR ALL) needed to be where they subjugated the weak and feeble. Senator Armstrong had a nice dream of true freedom, but they way he went about it was unforgivable. So for America to survive and avoid this terrible fate, Raiden needed to stop him. So in the end, “It Has To Be This Way”, meaning that there was no peaceful outcome to this situation.
21:20 Armstrong's theme blew up the internet with memes. This song was going everywhere almost 3 years ago. Especially with his iconic line: "NANOMACHINES, SON!"
Actual lines from him include "Violence is just a part of who we are, why fight it?", "Kids are cruel. All people are by nature, they just lose touch with it as they get older. War crime this, code of conduct that, start thinking they know right from wrong. Kids, you can mold into doing all kinds of atrocities, and there's nothing like an atrocity to keep a war going.", and refers to a coming spike in military contractor work as like "the good ol' days after 9/11." The guy really loves war.
@@emPtysp4ce for someone who love war and violence Sundowner using pretty cowardly methods of dealing with his opponents, hiding behind his bodyguards and running away. And he is Hulk size Cyborg for crying out loud
Which is insane since his speech about creating a new and "Truely Free" America is one of the greatest speeches in fiction, despite being completely wrong in my opinion
@@Lazerlight1212I believe he does bring up some good points at least. Even if the overarching rationale behind it is very much wrong. (Though I'd have to listen to his speech again though to be sure)
@jacthing1 Yeah, I won't deny that he does have some valid points for sure. Still doesn't make his plan justifiable or anything though. Not saying you think that or anything, just stating the obvious
i don't think that's what it refers to. I read the sun may appear more red than usual when things like dust or smoke are in the air, so i assume he is saying the sun is red due to the destruction he caused/ it has been caused, or something like that
No, I think its just a reference to the Japanese flag because his design is based off of a Samurai. Hell, you had to fight through a Japanese garden to get to him.
I love the fact that the lyrics kind of give you a feeling of what the character is all about, even if you have no idea what the game is about or who these characters are within the game’s plot.
I wish you had a little more context on some of these bosses as you would be able to appreciate the lyrics more because they all talk about the bosses in some way that gives them more depth
Makes sense. Though it also shows how well song conveys the personalities depending on what we pick up from each song 🤗 even if we aren’t the best lyricist analysts 😇
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames by example the song about the country controlling you is a critic from the Last boss to how the world works, and his last song is about how the last boss true reasons make Him more like the protagonist that it apears, His true reason for fighting is because he donest wants people to fight for greed and money in wars that they dont understand but for their ideals
Metal gear ray and jetstream sam are my favortie songs, their boss fighta climaxing with the songs are great if you never seen a metal gear ray you never forget, jetstream is the cool powerful samurai driven by honor and profit. Moonsoon is the worst and best boss he is the most difficult i think but super fun, Sundowner is the most fun battle and antagonist with the best laugh also ruthless as he grew up as a tragedy boy victim of war and violence that made him like that
@@Junakiba966 Not sure on Sam's ideals at the start (killing the cartels and shit back in Brazil) but in the main game he is just forced to fight for Armstrong, without any real motivation to do so. That might be why he fools around in his fight (fights without the sword for a long bit for example). But probably not money, since he does say "Im not talking about money, Jack. Im talking ideals." before his fight. All just what i get tho.
I find it really telling how Armstrong’s point is that might makes right, so by Raiden and by extension, the audience, wanting to kill him and prove their ideals correct through violence it’s pretty much proving Armstrong’s entirely right about humanity
This is fucking stupid since you're essentially expressing that fighting against the Nazis proved them right and that fighting against Russia proves Russia right. Welcome to Brain Rot City, population you. How on earth do you function in society?
Here are some of the common interpretations of the songs in context with their paired bosses: 1) Metal Gear RAY- Former bosses of previous games, but as Raiden's first tutorial bossfight, the former "predator" is now the prey to a new kind of warfare - smaller, human-ish cyborgs now triumphs over giant robots that used to fuel the previous games. 2) Bladewolf: A robo-dog that has a sentient AI installed, but ironically shackled to follow orders or suffer punishment by its current master. The song evokes its will to be free and "be its own master now". 3) Mistral: Ex-French Foreign Legion who grew up in the Algerian Civil War and knows nothing but war throughout her violent life. A stranger during peacetime, until she found a purpose in serving a new master by going back into war (of sorts). 4) Khamsin: A Iraq War veteran who doesn't see the irony of forcing "freedom" onto people, nor does he want to take responsibility for it as a soldier blindly following orders. 5) Monsoon: Someone who grew up in the killing fields of Cambodia under Pol Pot and is nihilistic to a fatal degree. It's the "MEMES, THE DNA OF THE SOUL" guy. 6) Sundowner: A sadistic and entirely unapologetic war criminal who embraces war and thrives off the economy it creates. Yearns for the GOOD OLD DAYS AFTER 9/11! (actual dialogue, not joking) 7) Jetstream Sam: Brazilian samurai who used to fight for his justice until he eventually lost his way and forgotten why he even started fighting in the first place. 8) Metal Gear EXCELSUS: A giant spider robot with blades and lasers. First part of the Armstrong fight is pretty on the nose with using politics, war and money to control the masses using memes and mass media. 9) Senator Armstrong: The second part is the realization that both the main character and the final boss are pretty much on the same wavelength, but like the human condition, it is inevitable that they must fight to see which one triumphs - for better or worse.
Thank you dude I was hoping someone mentioned the last song was more of a song for the main character and The senator and how similar they are yet chosen different paths I was hoping someone would mention it and you did ❤😊
I love that Red Sun gives the imagery of violence in nature and how the narrator adores it as his paradise, giving clues that Sundowner is only here for war
The Cool thing about the lyrics of ‘It Has to be This Way’ is you can interpret the it as either Riden (the main character of Metal Gear Rising) or Armstrong talking.
Yeah the song fits both but I am of the opinion that the song is mostly Raiden's since like with the Sam fight once Raiden loses the sword and has get it back the vocals immediately stop until the sword is picked back up. Also Armstrong mentions Raiden carved his own path in life which the lyrics also say "I carved my own path, you followed your wrath"
sundowner is a terrifying person. you reacted sharply to the shift to talking about "love and peace". to sundowner, that wasn't a shift at all. he genuinely loves the carnage and has found peace with himself. he's also collected like a billion kid's brains, but that's another story.
A really interesting thing to note is that the composer, Jamie Christopherson was not at all familiar with metal at the time, and when he got the job, he basically locked himself in a room and binged metal bands for something like a week. Another fun fact is that he also did the music for Toon Town MMO.
And this is the moment where we all take a moment to appreciate the work of the composer, Jamie Christopherson. I think he did a great job with this game's soundtrack. Out of all of these themes, my favourite is "The Only thing I know for real" sung by Tyson Yen. The thing I love about this game's soundtrack is, some of the chorus' vocals kick in near the end of the fight during a cinematic moment, makes the player feel powerful.
For context the meaning of some of the songs. "The Hot Wind Blowing". Khamsin blindly follows the orders of his bosses and self righteously believes he is bringing freedom people, unable to see that he's doing the opposite. For "The Only Thing I Know For Real". Sam was once a heroic person who fought for justice, until he did it so long that all those reasons slipped away and all he had left is the fight for it's own sake. "Red Sun Over Paradise" Sundowner is just plain an evil monster who sees nothing wrong with everything that is brutal and terrible about humanity and he desires to revel in that stuff, while looking down on the more positive qualities of humanity. "Collective Consciousness" and "It Has To Be This Way". Armstrong's initial personality presented personality and goals is really all an act and his real goals and beliefs are somewhat noble but also insane. He talks about using things like the "War on Terror" to justify authoritarianism and war for profit, but in reality he doesn't want an authoritarian state and he hates the idea of war for profit. What he really wants is to turn America into what he sees as true freedom, which essentially boils down to chaos and anarchy where the strong survives, his whole authoritarian act is just something he puts on to get into a position of power, to bring about what he really wants. "Collective Consciousness" represents the act he puts on while "It Has To Be This Way" represents his real feelings and how he and Raiden have more in common than they would care to admit.
So the line "Violence breeds Violence, but in the end it has to be this way" is Armstrong/The game saying although Fighting breeds more fighting, right now you two need to fight or it's going to get alot worse for innocents and the line "The world has turned, so many have burned, but no one is to blame" is them saying look so many people have died inthe last 24 hours and no government is taking responsibility for their deaths.
These songs are heavily story based. They all basically are singing about their ideologies, and it lets you know why they're on the villain's side. I love this kind of story telling through music.
Fun fact; All the main bosses barring Sen. Armstrong and Bladewolf are named after violent weather events and the mercenary group they belong to is called The Winds of Destruction. Mistal - a cold and violent wind that blows in from southern France. (Mistral is French) Khamsin - a violent dust storm that blows in from the Sahara desert and parts of the middle east(Khamsin was a US marine fighting in the middle east) Monsoon - a violent rainstorm that occurs in southeast Asia. (Monsoon is Cambodian) Jetstream - a violent wind that blows west to east (Sam is Brazilian and styles himself after a Samurai.) Sundowner - a series of violent winds that often appear at sundown in the US. Also the name of a psychological effect akin to schizophrenia and another name for someone with alcohol issues. (Sundowner is American and incredibly violent)
sam is a japanese brazilian, theres a sizable population of japanese immigrants in brazil from after ww1 sundowner is southern california wind that comes down from the mountains and sets fires, as the song depicts, it has nothing to do with alcohol or schizophrenia, he is the pinnacle of hobbes book, leviathan, or kant, either of them are fine, because they both argue that humans are naturally amoral, not immoral, and through the state, hobbes, or religion, kant, they become moral beings
Jetstream Sam was a nickname he earned his Wind of Destruction name is Minuano (Minuano is a cold southwesterly wind that blows in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul) so he gets two cool wind based names.
@lucas.n.carvalho.artist Sonic has actually had hard hitting boss songs alot, Black Knight being a big one with songs Fight The Knight, With Me, etc. then Secret Rings with Blue On The Run, It has come to this, etc..
At some point, you should definitely react to Metal Gear cutscenes, they're games where the story is a major aspect so doing that would be a great way to get the story, even as more casual gamers.
Someone I watch made an interesting point where "Collective Unconsciousness" is actually supposed to be what the player and protag assume is the true motive of Armstrong, but it's shown in his second theme "It Has To Be This Way" (and in his dialogue) that he actually hates that collective consciousness mentality, and is basically saying that he's following his own path and choice to change it, like how Raiden is following his.
A lot of the songs in the metal gear series are usually written in a way that plays into the narrative of the game and what is currently happening. When a song is cleverly written to reflect the story and just SLAPS in general you know you’ve got something special!
Theres actually a channel called fattbrett that did a pretty good deconstruction of Armstrong as a villain. Its also believed that It Has to be This Way is actually more of a song for Raiden rather than Armstrong. Theres a lot going into the reasons that would take a bit to discuss but basically Armstrong's motives go into doong some pretty bad shit and putting on a front to change the system but his ideals and methods are very extreme and would involve mass anarchy. Raiden by this point embraces that hes willing to fight for change as well but has to be willing to get his hands dirty and on this light acknowledges the similarities in their goals while still opposing armstrong for following his wrath of an anarchal approach to changing the system whereas hes chosen to fight smallscale to cut out the corruption even if it labels him a terrorist and a rogue cyborg.
Whats cool is most of the characterization is from the music. The most blataint is Sam as it basically talks about how he lost his purpose and is now only a weapon, and his fight with jack has given him clarity.
Sundowners "Love and peace" line just comes from the fact that he loves destruction and he is a Terrorist Actual line in the game "Things havent been the same since the Good ol days after 9/11!"😮
I wish you saw the scenes in game where the songs kick into vocals. Nothing really can compete with raiden blocking a building sized sword with RULES OF NATURE being shouted in the background
The way the fights build energy in this game is incredible. For most of the fights the vocals do not even kick in until you are hitting the second half or last third of the fight. So the tension builds and when the player is finally in the zone the vocals kick in as they close out the fight. There are a few exceptions, such as Sam's fight in which the Vocal track is played from the get go and only switches to the instrumental version when you disarm him. But once he grabs his sword again it switches back to the vocal track. They did an incredible job with the soundtrack and implementation of the soundtrack in the game.
Ohh man, You guys gonna love to dive into Metal Gear universe, even without playing the game, just watching the cutscene alone would be fun to react to. It's really an amazing work from Kojima and his team of writers.
The music, gameplay and even down to the characters are just so good. I play this game way to much that I can even see the boss battle while listening to the music.
When I tell you my eyes widened when I saw you posted this. You finally did it! It was worth the wait 🙏. Now it’s time for you guys watch the actual boss battles. 😂
Every single song gives me goosebumps, not only for the volcals, I recall exactly the moment each line starts in the battles from the game, so many badass moments, I wish there was a second game, or completely forgot this, just so I couls experience for the first timw again, Raiden has been my second favorite character from Metal Gear, only after Big Boss.
You guys should definitely react to more Metal Gear Rising or even playing it as this game has so many great moments and giving more context to the songs. You also get to see the actual personalities of the villains which adds even more context to the songs. It is easily one of my favorite games of all time and I highly recommend you play or watch more of this game.
If you’re not planning to play the game yourself, there’s probably a good compilation out there that has all the bosses you can watch if you’re interested. Not as stylish as Devil May Cry, but just as badass
Theirs like 9 bosses in this game ? And because it’s so short we don’t get much information to who they are and what they want. So the songs are like exposition.
Actually you have to pause the game via menu screen. Then press audio logs (codexes) to get further information on the bosses. Fun fact there’s 6 hours of additional dialogue in mgrr
It’s been a while since I played so I don’t remember the story completely but I think Collective Unconscious was Armstrong mocking that kind of ideology and his actual ideology is more strong survive weak die. That’s why the song doesn’t even try to pretty up what the ideology is and just plainly states it. It’s also why in his actual song he says Raiden is similar to him as he see Raiden as one of the strong. He’s still a douche though you got that observation completely right
I'm my Own Master Now is badass, but gives me the feels too, in the Bladewolf DLC, you see the puppy AI questioning his programming, bring freedom to a country, but he could never b free, he tries to scape but they were just playing with him, so he was a prisioner, being forced to serve the terrorists purposes, untill Raiden destroyed his shell, but saved his memory, buolding a new body and allowing him to make his own choices, making him his own master now.
Listening to that music along with the brutal combat scenes in the game is much more epic. They know how to place the voices of the song at the exact moment of the fight. The fights begin only with the instrumental of the music and at the best moment the voices begin to sound
Love reacting to some Metal Gear. Max0r's Metal Gear Solid 3 video: 50,000 people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town. Metal Gear Rising might as well be the Netflix adaptation of the Metal Gear franchise.
Metal gear Ray is the tutorial boss, intended to show you how strong Raiden is, the guy you play as. It's a giant robot with sword arms and a laser, and it's memed a ton for the scene where Raiden basically picks it up and chucks it 60 feet into the air and then chops it like Gordon Ramsey. Bladewolf is a robot dog with a chainsaw tail. After its boss fight, it joins Raiden as an ally. It also has its own story mode in a paid DLC. Mistral is a mercenary with cybernetic enhancements whose weapon of choice is a bunch of magnetically attached metal arms turned into a spear. I don't know anything about Khamsin other than he's a boss you fight in Bladewolf's DLC. Monsoon is a really annoying boss who uses his cybernetic enhancements to dodge your attacks by shifting his body parts around with electromagnetism. He uses smoke to teleport and the same weapons that Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles uses. He's also the guy from the game who canonically says "Memes, the DNA of the soul" Sundowner is a giant d*ckhead who uses 2 swords that turn into a comically large pair of scissors. He uses the brains of children to power some of the most annoying enemies in the game, and he has a generally f_cked up worldview, stating things like "Like after the good ol' days after 911!" He compensates for his d_ckheadery for being the most frail boss in the game that you can entirely ignore the main mechanic of: shields that blow up in your face if you cut them wrong. Jetstream Sam is the absolute GOAT, and you fight him on 2 seperate occasions. On the first time, he cuts off Raiden's arm, and the second time Raiden wins and kills him. His only cybernetic enhancement is in one of his arms, meaning he was outperforming Raiden as pretty much a normal guy. In his boss, it's the most fair fight in the entire game, having no mechanics at all, just a sword duel at sunset. You disarm him at one point in the fight, and yes, it makes the fight harder. In the end, Sam and Raiden have a massive amount of respect for each other, and Sam tells Bladewolf (They're together for a large portion of the game offscreen) to give Raiden his sword, which he gets in the final boss. Sam also has his own paid DLC too. Metal gear Excelsus is another giant robot, but this one is being piloted by Senator Armstrong. It's basically a giant spider with sword legs. You finish the fight by cutting one of the legs off and using it to SWORD FIGHT THE ROBOT WITH ITS LEG Senator Armstrong is the meme poster child of Metal Gear with quotes such as "Nanomachines, son!" and "I'm making the mother of all omelettes here, Jack! Can't fret over every egg!" (Jack is Raiden's real name). His most popular meme is of Raiden rapidly punching him, but the punches aren't doing anything. Armstrong, as suggested by one of his quotes, uses nanomachines across his body, powering up his attacks and making him near invulnerable. His main goal is to end wars, but he was going around some of the wrong methods. He says when you beat him by ripping his heart out that "War will probably go on for a few more years at the least..." leading you to question if at the end you're the bad guy.
Fun fact: The composer for Metal Gear Rising, Jamie Christopherson, had no experience with composing rock/metal soundtracks when he worked on MGR. It was his very first time working with that genre of music. The very first video game he did music work for was a Disney MMO from 2003 called Toontown Online.
You should do a journey about the game reacting to all cutscenes, i would love to see ur reaction to it but i love your videos keep it up guys u will always get my support! ❤❤
I would recommend that check out the Metal Gear Solid Revengence Cutscenes. That will really set the tone for why some of the bosses songs sound the way that they do or at the very least check out the end game cutscenes with Senator Armstrong. It's such an underrated game
26:16 what you're talking about here Bethany actually applies to a lot of genres like for example rap if you don't listen to it often enough then your ears aren't tuned to hearing what is said
27:35 Here's the full list of all Metal Gear games chronologically: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (apparently it's not canon, correct me if I'm wrong) Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Ground Zeroes is some kind of a prologue to this game) Metal Gear Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (these two games are for MSX console, they're all pixels and no voiced dialogues, so I think that you should just get a simple summary of these) Metal Gear Solid (there's also the latest version called "The Twin Snakes", which is on a different engine, but I think most of us will agree that it's worse than original) Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Metal Gear Rising Revengeance I gotta warn you: Metar Gear franchise is VERY complicated, if you're new to these, so brace yourselves!
Hearing this OST during gameplay is something else. It's the closest you'll get to experiencing synesthesia of your body (controler), eyes and ears. Also "It Has To Be This Way" is Raiden's theme as he has realized his purpose that Sam was asking him of since the start of the game. It's more like a second part to "The Only Thing I know". Collective Consciousness is Senator's theme. Just listen to Sam's song and the last one after the other and you'll hear it.
14:20 on the topic of Red Sun’s lyrics, I have a bit of insight. Sundowner believes that humans are naturally violent, and modern society is oppressing human instinct through its condemnation of violent acts. The “out of place” lines actually have relevance to that theme. “Only love is with us now, something warm and pure” speaks of how humanity’s natural emotions and desires are being destroyed through more oppressive societies. The line “find the peace within ourselves, no need for a cure” speaks of how we must come to terms with our natural instincts, and how we do not need to “cure” humanity of our natural instincts. Thats just my interpretation of the lyrics when looked at through the lens of Sundowner’s character.
Metal Gear Rising not only is my favorite game, but it's one of my favorite soundtracks (besides sonic the hedgehog, street fighter and tekken) Never realized you were gonna react to it though.
The reason love is mentioned in Sundowner's theme is because he genuinely gets a sense of inner peace and fulfillment out of his love and embracing of violence. What he considers "warm and pure" and akin to love is...bloodshed.
Jetstream Sam is the best boss fight of the game, hands down. You get yhe boss weapon after beating them, and yii eventually get Sam's sword, Muramasa. And it's canonically only used to fight Armstrong, because Raiden's sword couldnt hurt him. Raiden even has a speech when he gets it. "I said my sword was a tool of justice, not used in anger. Not used for vengeance. But now... Now, I'm not so sure. And besides... *This isn't my sword!"* Easily one of, if not, the best lines in the whole game. It might be worth checking out the boss speeches to get an idea of who they are. They're genuinely entertaining, and some of them have grains of sense sprinkled in with the insanity. Armstrong actually has some good ideas, what he wants is partly understandable, up to a certain point. It's one of those "if you'd have stopped that speech a few sentences sooner, I'd actually have been on your side" situations. Sadly, while he's not greedy, he's *bat💩 insane!*
“If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, surely you are prepared to DIE for them.” -Mistral “War is a cruel parent, but an effective teacher.” -Monsoon “Kids are cruel, Jack. And I am very in touch with my inner child!”- Sundowner “We’ve both heard enough speeches about Higher Purposes for our lives. History will decide who is right.”- Jetstream Sam “The weak will be purged, and the strong will thrive. Free to live as they see fit. They’ll make America great again!!!!” -Senator Armstrong
Metal Gear! And Renvengeance once again! You’ve guys already seen the Max0r video of this game, but reacting to the actual OST allows for quite a bit of analysis on the bosses in game! Metal Gear as a franchise is above all one about war and why we fight. The vast majority of the main bosses all are named after a different type of meteorological event or weather. However, every boss theme reflects an opinion on war and the nature of battle. It was so cool to see you guys pick on some of the themes based on the lyrics alone - despite only having watched Max0r’s insane editing and meming! 2:10 *Rules of Nature,* the main theme song of our protagonist Raiden. It’s probably the most straightforward of all the themes. Raiden as you’ve already seen has been a victim of war since he was 10. He’s been killing men for as long as he can remember, a lone predator forced to fend for himself in the Liberian Civil War that birthed him. He lives by two distinct codes: that of the samurai and those of nature. The former meant to keep his sanity in check, the fact that he’s an “honorable samurai” trying to keep the peace by killing madman who abuse the needs of those who can’t fight. Attempting to train others to fend for themselves so his sword stays unheeded. The other end? That of nature: the strong triumph over the weak. Nature doesn’t care if you’ve suffered, just that you are strong enough to make it out alive. In war, sometimes that’s all that matters: that _you_ make it home. 4:34 *I’m My Own Master Now* is a self explanatory title. Bladewolf is an artificial intelligence put into the body of a mechanical robo pupper. He as a character is only as efficient and logical as his ai dictates, which is surprisingly human. He’s about as smart as a person, if not smarter. However, much like a dog he’s kept on a short leaf. His only purpose is to be a weapon, and he learns how to overcome that throughout the game. What does it mean to be “thinking”, and what does it mean to have a will of your own? 6:50 *A Stranger I Remain,* Mistral’s them. She is the first real member of the main antagonistic group in game, The _Winds of Destruction._ A Mistral is a strong, cold wind that blows through the southern France into the Mediterranean, mainly in winter. As per her namesake, this is why you get so many sailor and shipyard metaphors throughout her theme. Mistral is very similar to Raiden in terms of backstory, being born into war and fighting throughout it during her childhood. Another child soldier, a freak in the eyes of the public and a stranger to everyone else. Mistral eventually grows board of the fighting, until she meets a certain someone. They then give her a reason to fight, a reason to kill - letting her fight without remorse and giving her true meaning in a valley of corpses. She remains a strange to all others, but now has something pushing her to kill.
9:00 *The Hot Wind Blowing* is my personal favorite song on the soundtrack - so forgive my bias during this part. This is the theme song of Khamsin, the second member of the Winds. A Khamsin is a very hot and persistent to the point of oppressive wind that blows through Egypt. It’s not enough to kill you with enough exposure. Khamsin is a soldier first, and a human second. He represents all the blind faces of the men and women that die for us on the field of battle. The best real world metaphor I could use for his theme is the treatment of the veterans from Vietnam. They weren’t honored, or welcomed home by the public. They were scorned as monsters and killers. That is what Khamsin’s them represents. The lack of humanity soldiers of war are treated with, the disdain for people who are simply following orders. _“Just like a buffalo following the herd”_ _“We try and justify”_ _“All the things that occurred_ Khamsin tells the story of soldiers that just have to suck it up and fight. Sure, you get a shiny medal at the end of it - but at what cost? You aren’t going to feel like a hero killing children or farmers. The people that find out treat you like a monster, while everyone else doesn’t have a clue what the experience was actually like. Their praise doesn’t mean anything in the face of the blood on your hands. So smile and wave, fight for justice - freedom. Bend your will to the conflict, give it up. After all, you’re just an expendable soldier in the face of war. You won’t be remembered in a few years time. Such an amazing song, and so melancholic. Ken mentioned a very good catch at the fact that the title isn’t theme song at 11:50. *That was entirely deliberate.* Faceless soldiers don’t get remembered. The defection comment at around 11:08 is ironic considering Khamsin dies for his countries freedom in game. He was a faceless soldier, until the bitter end. 11:15 *The Stains of Time* is very similar to the last song. It’s the theme of Monsoon, the third member of the _Winds of Destruction._ Monsoons are pretty well known, and act as a season of heavy rainfall in the summer of Asian countries. Monsoon himself is Cambodian, and is an extreme misanthrope and nihilist. He hates humans. He fully believes that free will and humanity _are a lie,_ and that humanity is being run on the machine known as war. It’s war that drives people’s emotions. They don’t actually care about the conflicts themselves, otherwise they’d be the ones killing. They just drove on with whatever their little pocket of the collective consciousness says. He is a firm believer that the lessons war teaches people are the only thing that gets passed down, thus it’s the only thing that really matters. In his boss fight, he encourages you to rip him to pieces. He doesn’t care if he dies, his life (and all humans by that extent) never really meant anything to begin with. 13:22 *Red Sun* is the theme of Sundowner, the second to last member of the Winds. A Sundowner is an offshore wind in California. However, the theme song itself references his behavior more than the weather condition. Sundowner is to put it plainly, a psychopath. He participated in war for no other reason than to kill, because killing if fun for him. Bethany caught it early on with her reaction to his grin at 13:20. That grin his enjoyment of your blood raining down from the sky, a “Red Sun over paradise” if you want to call it. Sundowner outright tells you he wants to go back to “The good olds days after 9/11”. *This is an actual line in the game.* He wants that outage and devastation, because the bloodshed and murder it allows is his lullaby. This is his peace, and he’ll never forget that red sun. He’s crazy, short and simple.
15:30 Next up we’ve got *The Only Thing I Know For Real* and our boy Jetstream Sam! He’s probably the most popular member of the Winds of Destruction, which is fitting considering he’s the last member. He’s without doubt the most famous member Internet wise, as the Metal Gear community (and Internet in general) love this man. And I am just as much a sucker for him. *HE’S JUST SO COOL.* A jetstream is simply a series of cold wind exhausts throughout the world. Sam’s is a Brazilian samurai who loves a good fight. His reason for war is a purely selfish one - to have one hell of a good fight. He’s so good at fighting that his quick draw can sever your hand before you can even pull the trigger on your gun, and he’ll smile the entire time he’s cutting your arm off. _Memories broken, the truth goes unspoken_ _I've even forgotten my name_ _I don't know the season or what is the reason_ _I'm standing here holding my blade_ Sam doesn’t even remember his own name in the field of battle, because it doesn’t matter. All that matters to him is the next opponent, the final battle. He’s a lot like Goku, in that he only cares about finding someone stronger than him. His identity, his life before battle is a stranger to him, and the only thing he knows for real: is that there will be bloodshed. That’s enough for him. He doesn’t care about the ideologies at play, the people suffering - because he’s been fighting so long it all blurs together. So why not trust the one thing you know is a sure fire? Bloodshed and strong opponents. 17:55 *Collective Consciousness* - the second to last boss theme in the game. I kinda lied earlier, this theme isn’t the theme of the boss. This is a theme song of the people during war. The final boss actually *hates* this mentality. The guy in the photo is criticizing this mentality, he doesn’t agree with it! Never judge a book by its cover alone, no? The theme song is extremely explicit in its meaning. Sacrifice your free will for your country. Just consume, let be collective thoughts of the masses control your soul. This is unfortunately a forced mindset. In the face of war and tragedy in the modern world, most as noncombatants only act on the information we know. We unintentionally support the very causes we want to end. After all, every time you head out to the grocery store you’re supporting a major corporation that doesn’t give a rats ass about you. Every video game you buy and play, every tweet you post and retweet, every like you give towards a major conflict is just supporting someone else’s bottom line. We live in a world where every actual we take as middle-men supports those with the real power, and we can’t really do anything about it. What are we gonna do? Stop working? Stop feeding our kids? There’s no way out, and we’re trapped in the endless cycle of supporting people that wouldn’t bat an eye at our suffering. It’s a sad truth of our reality, and the game masterfully tells us that with guitars and giant robots. It’s a criticism on the modern world and war as a machine of profit. But as I said earlier, this isn’t the final boss theme. Our main antagonist Senator Armstrong *hates* the way the world works. He sees these lyrics and wants to commit, which brings us to: 20:40 *It Has To Be This Way* The final boss theme of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. This song isn’t Armstrong’s theme as well, rather it’s Raiden’s. That’s right, Raiden gets two theme songs! Some quick backstory, Armstrong wants to tear down the current world that profits from war. He wants it tear down the capitalist regime where the weak suffer and the rich stay in power. Good, right? Well here’s the catch: he wants to do that by starting the war of all wars: killing off millions to restart the world in a way that allows men to fight for their own dreams. The weak and selfish will die off, and the strong will survive in order to rebirth a world where people no longer have to suffer. He will push morals virtue forward through *global genocide.* Yeah, that’s the bad news… This theme song is a reflection of Raiden’s response to this plan, with its lyrics going as such: _Standing here, I realize you were just like me trying to make history_ _But who's to judge the right from wrong?_ _When our guard is down, I think we'll both agree_ _That violence breeds violence_ _But in the end it has to be this way_ Raiden realized that Armstrong in a way, is right. The way the world currently runs is super messed up. Those without power suffer day to day just to get to that good life. Kids go hungry. Men and women die for causes they don’t believe in. Young boys are drafted into war as they hit 18 just because the country needs more bodies to throw to the wall. All the while the powerful, the truly powerful sit in their bunkers and live happily ever after. War just makes them richer, and kills the rest of the people off. Raiden agrees with this mindset, but not Armstorng’s method of fixing it. You can’t save the world by destroying it. We can’t just kill off everyone and regulate those who still live. Violence breeds violence after all. In the end, the worlds needs to stay as it is - because there’s no real way of fixing it at the moment. Raiden understands that he and Armstrong agree with the screwed up nature of modern society. However, he’s not gonna let Armstrong kill millions just to fix the issue. Armstrong is just another victim of the way the world and what it does to people. _ I've carved my own path _You followed your wrath_ _But maybe we're both the same_ _The world has turned, and so many have burned_ _But nobody is to blame_ _Yet, staring across this barren, wasted land_ _I feel new life will be born beneath the blood-stained sand_ _Beneath the blood-stained sand_ He’s not blaming Armstrong for the way the world is, but he’s gonna fight for what he believes is right. Armstrong throughout the story has been making child soldiers to fight his war, exactly like Raiden. So, he needs to go. It’s not a perfect solution, there never is one. However, it’s the best one he can do as a super human cyborg ninja that hates seeing kids suffer at the hands of corrupt megalomaniacs.
If you guys do decide to do gameplay for this one, the boss fights have a unique aspect where these themes build up to their lyrical portions about halfway through. As long as you do well you'll be able to hear all of it by the time you finish the fight. I really don't know why there aren't more videos with fights in the background, but I have to assume it's a Copyright problem.
I love the MG Rising Boss Themes. Never heard the Hot Boiling One since that one is a DLC Boss. Never played the DLCs but what a good song. Red Sun, Collective Conciousness and It Has To Be This Way are my favourites. You should try watching a playthrough of MGRising or just the Boss Intros and Fights to get an idea of the characters.
Oh please do a Metal Gear journey and watch all of the cutscenes of the games, that would be incredible, the metal gear series is simply one of the best stories in all of video games
Collective Consciousness is my favorite, as well as It Has To Be This Way, I appreciate you reacted to these. By the way, i recommend Reacting to the Final Boss and Ending of this Game, if you’re up for it. Also, i highly recommend doing Top 50 Final Boss Themes Part 1-5 by Klagmar at some point, it’s a interesting list.
Honesty, it's pretty interesting how "Collective Consciousness" is a theme song dedicated to Raiden's initial perception of Senator Armstrong, while "It has to be this way" is a theme song about who Senator Armstrong ACTUALLY is.
Metal Gear Ray's theme "Rules of Nature" is a big meme in gamer circles as well as one of the most listened to themes of any video game soundtrack. There is one meme online that has an anime girl crying that goes "Please stop listening to stupid sh*t! You're not making any sense" before Ray's theme starts playing and the gigachad face starts bopping to it dressed as Raiden.
I don't care about lyrics and just care about the sound. But I love collective consciousness for the lyrics. That's how our country thinks in real life. Just bread, circus, materialism, and obey the tv.
I'd recommend checking out the beta versions of the songs. Some have different lyrics, like A Stranger I Remain while Stains Of Time has no lyrics, but they're all more rock without all the synths over the top. Rules of Nature was a different song entirely called Locked and Loaded. Check em out. I'd even say some are as good, if not better, than the final versions we got.
These songs go SO HARD!! I remember playing Rising Revengeance for the first time and the first time I heard the lyrics kick in for that very first boss fight, I got CHILLS! The song feels even more epic when you're seeing the boss fight, so I'd recommend watching an "all bosses" run (if you don't want to play the game yourself). Seriously, the fights in this game are something else and the boss themes, while they stand on their own, sound even cooler when you see someone slashing a boss with a katana 😂
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Ken, Bettany, you should react to Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links all summon animations, you might learn new things. Also, I suggest Duel Links and Dragon Ball Legends, my two favorite mobile games. They're both fun and addictive, and DBL has a story mode that has me hooked in
Please react to game called "Don't Starve" or "Don't Starve Together".
Y’all should do a reaction to the vocal track from the game Sonic Frontiers, it’s really good and inspiring
Hello, I like your channel I'm from Brazil, I like Metal Gear Rising R .
So when it says “It Has To Be This Way” it means that Senator Armstrong is too far gone to be saved. He chose his path of violence and war in pursuit of power and control. And if left unchecked, he would have brought Anarchy where only the strong thrived and the weak perished. Armstrong was too far gone at this point if he believed this is what America (a nation of FREEDOM FOR ALL) needed to be where they subjugated the weak and feeble. Senator Armstrong had a nice dream of true freedom, but they way he went about it was unforgivable. So for America to survive and avoid this terrible fate, Raiden needed to stop him. So in the end, “It Has To Be This Way”, meaning that there was no peaceful outcome to this situation.
21:20 Armstrong's theme blew up the internet with memes. This song was going everywhere almost 3 years ago. Especially with his iconic line: "NANOMACHINES, SON!"
"DON'T FUCK WITH THIS SENATOR!"
That's a nice argument Senator, why don't you back it up with a source?
My source is that I made the fuck up!!
@@myoumyou90they made twitter into a plot point
You're making the mother of all omelets here, Jack. Can't fret over every egg!
The "only love is with us now" is about Sundowner's love of violence and bloodshed, his idea of paradise is a bloody battlefield
😯
His ideology bases on the thought that violence and conflict is part of nature, and we shouldn't try to stop it, but rather embrace it.
Actual lines from him include "Violence is just a part of who we are, why fight it?", "Kids are cruel. All people are by nature, they just lose touch with it as they get older. War crime this, code of conduct that, start thinking they know right from wrong. Kids, you can mold into doing all kinds of atrocities, and there's nothing like an atrocity to keep a war going.", and refers to a coming spike in military contractor work as like "the good ol' days after 9/11."
The guy really loves war.
@@emPtysp4ce "the good ol' days after 9/11." Lol that's such a funny line with or without realizing he's saying it seriously
@@emPtysp4ce for someone who love war and violence Sundowner using pretty cowardly methods of dealing with his opponents, hiding behind his bodyguards and running away. And he is Hulk size Cyborg for crying out loud
Actual dialogue from the game:
Raiden: How the hell did you get elected?
Armstrong: Well... I don't write my own speeches.
Which is insane since his speech about creating a new and "Truely Free" America is one of the greatest speeches in fiction, despite being completely wrong in my opinion
The power of being charismatic my guy @@Lazerlight1212
@@Lazerlight1212I believe he does bring up some good points at least. Even if the overarching rationale behind it is very much wrong. (Though I'd have to listen to his speech again though to be sure)
@jacthing1 Yeah, I won't deny that he does have some valid points for sure. Still doesn't make his plan justifiable or anything though. Not saying you think that or anything, just stating the obvious
Kinda funny that some people genuinely think Armstrong had a good plan, his speech and charisma is so good that it works on real life people lol.
"Red sun over paradise" in Sundowners theme refers to the nuclear bombs dropped on Japan because this man just LOVES war
"what can I say. Kids are cruel Jack, and I love minors *nervous laughter*"
-Sundowner probably
Sounds like he and the Major would get along like a house on fire. (I'm tempted to put something else instead of a house but I'll refrain)
i don't think that's what it refers to. I read the sun may appear more red than usual when things like dust or smoke are in the air, so i assume he is saying the sun is red due to the destruction he caused/ it has been caused, or something like that
No, I think its just a reference to the Japanese flag because his design is based off of a Samurai. Hell, you had to fight through a Japanese garden to get to him.
@@wesleyward5901 That and his sadistic actions are kinda like Japan back then
I love the fact that the lyrics kind of give you a feeling of what the character is all about, even if you have no idea what the game is about or who these characters are within the game’s plot.
That is a well crafted song and very cool they put so much thought into soundtrack 😀
Award winning ost if I'm not mistaken
@@BurntBattleBagel what beat it?
@@majimasimp wdym? It won the award
@@BurntBattleBagel oh right mb I misread your comment
I wish you had a little more context on some of these bosses as you would be able to appreciate the lyrics more because they all talk about the bosses in some way that gives them more depth
Makes sense. Though it also shows how well song conveys the personalities depending on what we pick up from each song 🤗 even if we aren’t the best lyricist analysts 😇
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames by example the song about the country controlling you is a critic from the Last boss to how the world works, and his last song is about how the last boss true reasons make Him more like the protagonist that it apears, His true reason for fighting is because he donest wants people to fight for greed and money in wars that they dont understand but for their ideals
@@jesusrodolforeinagagenesta1871still probably one of the best speeches in gaming
Metal gear ray and jetstream sam are my favortie songs, their boss fighta climaxing with the songs are great if you never seen a metal gear ray you never forget, jetstream is the cool powerful samurai driven by honor and profit. Moonsoon is the worst and best boss he is the most difficult i think but super fun, Sundowner is the most fun battle and antagonist with the best laugh also ruthless as he grew up as a tragedy boy victim of war and violence that made him like that
@@Junakiba966 Not sure on Sam's ideals at the start (killing the cartels and shit back in Brazil) but in the main game he is just forced to fight for Armstrong, without any real motivation to do so. That might be why he fools around in his fight (fights without the sword for a long bit for example). But probably not money, since he does say "Im not talking about money, Jack. Im talking ideals." before his fight. All just what i get tho.
I find it really telling how Armstrong’s point is that might makes right, so by Raiden and by extension, the audience, wanting to kill him and prove their ideals correct through violence it’s pretty much proving Armstrong’s entirely right about humanity
Good point 😯😅
"Justice will prevail? Of course it will! Whover wins... WILL DEFINE JUSTICE!"
-An Evil Flamingo
@@Eques_Umbra Nice reference, also thx for Marineford Arc flashbacks...
"Forget it. We've both heard enough speeches about higher causes by now. History will decide who's right."
This is fucking stupid since you're essentially expressing that fighting against the Nazis proved them right and that fighting against Russia proves Russia right.
Welcome to Brain Rot City, population you. How on earth do you function in society?
Here are some of the common interpretations of the songs in context with their paired bosses:
1) Metal Gear RAY- Former bosses of previous games, but as Raiden's first tutorial bossfight, the former "predator" is now the prey to a new kind of warfare - smaller, human-ish cyborgs now triumphs over giant robots that used to fuel the previous games.
2) Bladewolf: A robo-dog that has a sentient AI installed, but ironically shackled to follow orders or suffer punishment by its current master. The song evokes its will to be free and "be its own master now".
3) Mistral: Ex-French Foreign Legion who grew up in the Algerian Civil War and knows nothing but war throughout her violent life. A stranger during peacetime, until she found a purpose in serving a new master by going back into war (of sorts).
4) Khamsin: A Iraq War veteran who doesn't see the irony of forcing "freedom" onto people, nor does he want to take responsibility for it as a soldier blindly following orders.
5) Monsoon: Someone who grew up in the killing fields of Cambodia under Pol Pot and is nihilistic to a fatal degree. It's the "MEMES, THE DNA OF THE SOUL" guy.
6) Sundowner: A sadistic and entirely unapologetic war criminal who embraces war and thrives off the economy it creates. Yearns for the GOOD OLD DAYS AFTER 9/11! (actual dialogue, not joking)
7) Jetstream Sam: Brazilian samurai who used to fight for his justice until he eventually lost his way and forgotten why he even started fighting in the first place.
8) Metal Gear EXCELSUS: A giant spider robot with blades and lasers. First part of the Armstrong fight is pretty on the nose with using politics, war and money to control the masses using memes and mass media.
9) Senator Armstrong: The second part is the realization that both the main character and the final boss are pretty much on the same wavelength, but like the human condition, it is inevitable that they must fight to see which one triumphs - for better or worse.
The fact that *RULES OF NATURE* kicks exactly when a certain QTE starts is the cherry on top of the Metal Gear Ray boss battle
Thank you dude I was hoping someone mentioned the last song was more of a song for the main character and The senator and how similar they are yet chosen different paths I was hoping someone would mention it and you did ❤😊
@@ShiftinggersStop that blade! 😎
POL POT!? Sheesh, no wonder Monsoon is messed up.
Thanks for sharing these! Super helpful 😀
8:32 Close, mercenary. And she has references to "The Stranger", in which main character are settler
😎👍😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames also, fellow Hot Wind Blowing enjoyer, not that many of us exists, even in community, because that's a DLC song
I love that Red Sun gives the imagery of violence in nature and how the narrator adores it as his paradise, giving clues that Sundowner is only here for war
The Cool thing about the lyrics of ‘It Has to be This Way’ is you can interpret the it as either Riden (the main character of Metal Gear Rising) or Armstrong talking.
Yeah the song fits both but I am of the opinion that the song is mostly Raiden's since like with the Sam fight once Raiden loses the sword and has get it back the vocals immediately stop until the sword is picked back up. Also Armstrong mentions Raiden carved his own path in life which the lyrics also say "I carved my own path, you followed your wrath"
sundowner is a terrifying person. you reacted sharply to the shift to talking about "love and peace".
to sundowner, that wasn't a shift at all. he genuinely loves the carnage and has found peace with himself.
he's also collected like a billion kid's brains, but that's another story.
"Kids are cruel, Jack! And I am VERY in touch with my Inner Child!"
Its for his gacha games so its okay
@@DaemonKeido “Kids are cruel, Jack! And I love minors!”
Sundowner also has a funny sense of humor. He found it extremely hilarious that blade wolf, an AI, cared about people more than people did.
A really interesting thing to note is that the composer, Jamie Christopherson was not at all familiar with metal at the time, and when he got the job, he basically locked himself in a room and binged metal bands for something like a week.
Another fun fact is that he also did the music for Toon Town MMO.
@@SyxxPunk Wow, that's some whiplash for sure. 😅
MEMES, THE DNA OF SOUL
And this is the moment where we all take a moment to appreciate the work of the composer, Jamie Christopherson. I think he did a great job with this game's soundtrack.
Out of all of these themes, my favourite is "The Only thing I know for real" sung by Tyson Yen.
The thing I love about this game's soundtrack is, some of the chorus' vocals kick in near the end of the fight during a cinematic moment, makes the player feel powerful.
Thanks for sharing your favorite 😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames You're welcome! I enjoyed your reactions to these themes.
All of the themes have some sort of deeper meaning to them.
As Max0r put it, isn't it the same guy that composed for Toontown Online?
@@lordtoomasyes, and never made metal before
@@lordtoomas Yep it's true.
"Don't fuck with this senator!"
For context the meaning of some of the songs.
"The Hot Wind Blowing". Khamsin blindly follows the orders of his bosses and self righteously believes he is bringing freedom people, unable to see that he's doing the opposite.
For "The Only Thing I Know For Real". Sam was once a heroic person who fought for justice, until he did it so long that all those reasons slipped away and all he had left is the fight for it's own sake.
"Red Sun Over Paradise" Sundowner is just plain an evil monster who sees nothing wrong with everything that is brutal and terrible about humanity and he desires to revel in that stuff, while looking down on the more positive qualities of humanity.
"Collective Consciousness" and "It Has To Be This Way". Armstrong's initial personality presented personality and goals is really all an act and his real goals and beliefs are somewhat noble but also insane. He talks about using things like the "War on Terror" to justify authoritarianism and war for profit, but in reality he doesn't want an authoritarian state and he hates the idea of war for profit. What he really wants is to turn America into what he sees as true freedom, which essentially boils down to chaos and anarchy where the strong survives, his whole authoritarian act is just something he puts on to get into a position of power, to bring about what he really wants. "Collective Consciousness" represents the act he puts on while "It Has To Be This Way" represents his real feelings and how he and Raiden have more in common than they would care to admit.
Although the game gives you hints, I always believed that "It has to be like this" from Raiden's point of view. A kind of response to Armstrong
@@prototipolq-84i46 I think it's meant to represent both their points of view.
@@prototipolq-84i46 it's 100% Raiden's theme
@@roguenines230 I think the same
Is possible @@TeamTowers1
So the line "Violence breeds Violence, but in the end it has to be this way" is Armstrong/The game saying although Fighting breeds more fighting, right now you two need to fight or it's going to get alot worse for innocents and the line "The world has turned, so many have burned, but no one is to blame" is them saying look so many people have died inthe last 24 hours and no government is taking responsibility for their deaths.
I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS BUT IM SO HAPPY!!!
😜 Glad to hear it 😀
Me too bro!
I DIDN'T KNOW I WANTED THIS REACTION BUT I AM SO EXCITED
😁 yay! 🥳😎🤘
I'M F$CKING INVINCIBLE!
-Sundowner.
These songs are heavily story based. They all basically are singing about their ideologies, and it lets you know why they're on the villain's side. I love this kind of story telling through music.
Making the mother of all
omelettes here Jack. Can't fret
over every egg😠👉
Senator Armstrong-2013
That’s a cold blooded line playing off a well known saying. Dig it 😎🤘😯🤩
"Nice argument, Senator. Why don't you back it up with a source?"
@@MrDarkSidius my source is that i made it the f@#k up
"Not when your purging the weak."
I'm sorry Senator, but this is MY Metal Gear Rising Revengeance...
*Proceed to deal 1HP hit*
Fun fact; All the main bosses barring Sen. Armstrong and Bladewolf are named after violent weather events and the mercenary group they belong to is called The Winds of Destruction.
Mistal - a cold and violent wind that blows in from southern France. (Mistral is French)
Khamsin - a violent dust storm that blows in from the Sahara desert and parts of the middle east(Khamsin was a US marine fighting in the middle east)
Monsoon - a violent rainstorm that occurs in southeast Asia. (Monsoon is Cambodian)
Jetstream - a violent wind that blows west to east (Sam is Brazilian and styles himself after a Samurai.)
Sundowner - a series of violent winds that often appear at sundown in the US. Also the name of a psychological effect akin to schizophrenia and another name for someone with alcohol issues. (Sundowner is American and incredibly violent)
sam is a japanese brazilian, theres a sizable population of japanese immigrants in brazil from after ww1
sundowner is southern california wind that comes down from the mountains and sets fires, as the song depicts, it has nothing to do with alcohol or schizophrenia, he is the pinnacle of hobbes book, leviathan, or kant, either of them are fine, because they both argue that humans are naturally amoral, not immoral, and through the state, hobbes, or religion, kant, they become moral beings
Jetstream Sam was a nickname he earned his Wind of Destruction name is Minuano (Minuano is a cold southwesterly wind that blows in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul) so he gets two cool wind based names.
Hell yeah. This is my favourite game OST after DMC 5. My favourites are always the cool rocking stuff.
Great taste 😎🤘
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I mean. Devil Trigger and Bury the Light are a godsend.
These two, plus Sonic Frontiers, are the trinity of "Soundtracks, especially boss themes, that go so hard for no reason" and we love them for it!
@lucas.n.carvalho.artist Sonic has actually had hard hitting boss songs alot, Black Knight being a big one with songs Fight The Knight, With Me, etc. then Secret Rings with Blue On The Run, It has come to this, etc..
Violeeeeeeence breeds violeeeeeeeeeence
At some point, you should definitely react to Metal Gear cutscenes, they're games where the story is a major aspect so doing that would be a great way to get the story, even as more casual gamers.
I love mgr the goofy and writing was damn good Kojima do be doing well on game
@@ameerrusdi2540 Over the top goofy stuff
Someone I watch made an interesting point where "Collective Unconsciousness" is actually supposed to be what the player and protag assume is the true motive of Armstrong, but it's shown in his second theme "It Has To Be This Way" (and in his dialogue) that he actually hates that collective consciousness mentality, and is basically saying that he's following his own path and choice to change it, like how Raiden is following his.
Correct, Armstrong's whole ideology is extreme self-reliance.
13:29 "Go go gadget concealed carry."
*B O N G*
A lot of the songs in the metal gear series are usually written in a way that plays into the narrative of the game and what is currently happening. When a song is cleverly written to reflect the story and just SLAPS in general you know you’ve got something special!
22:45 Well... he doesn't write his own speeches.
Gets character analysis wrong entire video...
18:25 "So he's a prick!" nailed it! LMAO
Everyone gets lucky sometimes 😜🤗
Me, hearing Ken and Bethany are casual gamers: What's up, my casual gamers! 😄
Theres actually a channel called fattbrett that did a pretty good deconstruction of Armstrong as a villain.
Its also believed that It Has to be This Way is actually more of a song for Raiden rather than Armstrong. Theres a lot going into the reasons that would take a bit to discuss but basically Armstrong's motives go into doong some pretty bad shit and putting on a front to change the system but his ideals and methods are very extreme and would involve mass anarchy.
Raiden by this point embraces that hes willing to fight for change as well but has to be willing to get his hands dirty and on this light acknowledges the similarities in their goals while still opposing armstrong for following his wrath of an anarchal approach to changing the system whereas hes chosen to fight smallscale to cut out the corruption even if it labels him a terrorist and a rogue cyborg.
Gonna say it now: You two will LOVE the boss themes. MGRR is the definition of “why do I hear boss music, and it’s not *my* boss music?”
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Ironic since each of this songs also refers to riden. Except collective consciousness I guess
Whats cool is most of the characterization is from the music.
The most blataint is Sam as it basically talks about how he lost his purpose and is now only a weapon, and his fight with jack has given him clarity.
Armstrong: 'Well, I don't write my own theme music'.
Sundowners "Love and peace" line just comes from the fact that he loves destruction and he is a Terrorist
Actual line in the game
"Things havent been the same since the Good ol days after 9/11!"😮
You guys really should react to Senator Armstrong's cutscenes, his speeches are a thing to behold!
May end up doing a Metal Gear journey at some point 🙂
Of course, they are! Why? Because I have a dream.
aww man, playing these fights and having the music lock into sequence matching the action. it adds so much to not only the game but the songs too.
you havent heard the senator speak, he's very passionate
I wish you saw the scenes in game where the songs kick into vocals. Nothing really can compete with raiden blocking a building sized sword with RULES OF NATURE being shouted in the background
The way the fights build energy in this game is incredible. For most of the fights the vocals do not even kick in until you are hitting the second half or last third of the fight. So the tension builds and when the player is finally in the zone the vocals kick in as they close out the fight. There are a few exceptions, such as Sam's fight in which the Vocal track is played from the get go and only switches to the instrumental version when you disarm him. But once he grabs his sword again it switches back to the vocal track. They did an incredible job with the soundtrack and implementation of the soundtrack in the game.
We're making the mother of all omletes with this one
Ohh man, You guys gonna love to dive into Metal Gear universe, even without playing the game, just watching the cutscene alone would be fun to react to. It's really an amazing work from Kojima and his team of writers.
The music, gameplay and even down to the characters are just so good. I play this game way to much that I can even see the boss battle while listening to the music.
When I tell you my eyes widened when I saw you posted this. You finally did it! It was worth the wait 🙏. Now it’s time for you guys watch the actual boss battles. 😂
Every single song gives me goosebumps, not only for the volcals, I recall exactly the moment each line starts in the battles from the game, so many badass moments, I wish there was a second game, or completely forgot this, just so I couls experience for the first timw again, Raiden has been my second favorite character from Metal Gear, only after Big Boss.
You guys should definitely react to more Metal Gear Rising or even playing it as this game has so many great moments and giving more context to the songs. You also get to see the actual personalities of the villains which adds even more context to the songs. It is easily one of my favorite games of all time and I highly recommend you play or watch more of this game.
If you’re not planning to play the game yourself, there’s probably a good compilation out there that has all the bosses you can watch if you’re interested. Not as stylish as Devil May Cry, but just as badass
Theirs like 9 bosses in this game ? And because it’s so short we don’t get much information to who they are and what they want. So the songs are like exposition.
Actually you have to pause the game via menu screen. Then press audio logs (codexes) to get further information on the bosses. Fun fact there’s 6 hours of additional dialogue in mgrr
I honestly have no idea how the composer of this music managed to make these one considering what his past one were like.
Lots of drugs, kids! Lots of them :)
@@WaristheonlyanswerCorrection: Nanomachines, son.
It’s been a while since I played so I don’t remember the story completely but I think Collective Unconscious was Armstrong mocking that kind of ideology and his actual ideology is more strong survive weak die. That’s why the song doesn’t even try to pretty up what the ideology is and just plainly states it. It’s also why in his actual song he says Raiden is similar to him as he see Raiden as one of the strong.
He’s still a douche though you got that observation completely right
I'm my Own Master Now is badass, but gives me the feels too, in the Bladewolf DLC, you see the puppy AI questioning his programming, bring freedom to a country, but he could never b free, he tries to scape but they were just playing with him, so he was a prisioner, being forced to serve the terrorists purposes, untill Raiden destroyed his shell, but saved his memory, buolding a new body and allowing him to make his own choices, making him his own master now.
Theres a video on youtube where the dude manages to sync each song with the boss battles in the game, its really cool to see
Listening to that music along with the brutal combat scenes in the game is much more epic. They know how to place the voices of the song at the exact moment of the fight.
The fights begin only with the instrumental of the music and at the best moment the voices begin to sound
14:28 one of the things this boss said: "Like in good old days of 9 11"
The only thing that pops in my head when Rules of Nature builds up is "Trolley-Chan lives? TROLLEY-CHAN LIVES?"
"No rule of 3? That's against the rules of nature!" You two are so funny together lol. Love this channel ❤
Love reacting to some Metal Gear.
Max0r's Metal Gear Solid 3 video: 50,000 people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.
Metal Gear Rising might as well be the Netflix adaptation of the Metal Gear franchise.
Metal gear Ray is the tutorial boss, intended to show you how strong Raiden is, the guy you play as. It's a giant robot with sword arms and a laser, and it's memed a ton for the scene where Raiden basically picks it up and chucks it 60 feet into the air and then chops it like Gordon Ramsey.
Bladewolf is a robot dog with a chainsaw tail. After its boss fight, it joins Raiden as an ally. It also has its own story mode in a paid DLC.
Mistral is a mercenary with cybernetic enhancements whose weapon of choice is a bunch of magnetically attached metal arms turned into a spear.
I don't know anything about Khamsin other than he's a boss you fight in Bladewolf's DLC.
Monsoon is a really annoying boss who uses his cybernetic enhancements to dodge your attacks by shifting his body parts around with electromagnetism. He uses smoke to teleport and the same weapons that Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles uses. He's also the guy from the game who canonically says "Memes, the DNA of the soul"
Sundowner is a giant d*ckhead who uses 2 swords that turn into a comically large pair of scissors. He uses the brains of children to power some of the most annoying enemies in the game, and he has a generally f_cked up worldview, stating things like "Like after the good ol' days after 911!" He compensates for his d_ckheadery for being the most frail boss in the game that you can entirely ignore the main mechanic of: shields that blow up in your face if you cut them wrong.
Jetstream Sam is the absolute GOAT, and you fight him on 2 seperate occasions. On the first time, he cuts off Raiden's arm, and the second time Raiden wins and kills him. His only cybernetic enhancement is in one of his arms, meaning he was outperforming Raiden as pretty much a normal guy. In his boss, it's the most fair fight in the entire game, having no mechanics at all, just a sword duel at sunset. You disarm him at one point in the fight, and yes, it makes the fight harder. In the end, Sam and Raiden have a massive amount of respect for each other, and Sam tells Bladewolf (They're together for a large portion of the game offscreen) to give Raiden his sword, which he gets in the final boss. Sam also has his own paid DLC too.
Metal gear Excelsus is another giant robot, but this one is being piloted by Senator Armstrong. It's basically a giant spider with sword legs. You finish the fight by cutting one of the legs off and using it to SWORD FIGHT THE ROBOT WITH ITS LEG
Senator Armstrong is the meme poster child of Metal Gear with quotes such as "Nanomachines, son!" and "I'm making the mother of all omelettes here, Jack! Can't fret over every egg!" (Jack is Raiden's real name). His most popular meme is of Raiden rapidly punching him, but the punches aren't doing anything. Armstrong, as suggested by one of his quotes, uses nanomachines across his body, powering up his attacks and making him near invulnerable. His main goal is to end wars, but he was going around some of the wrong methods. He says when you beat him by ripping his heart out that "War will probably go on for a few more years at the least..." leading you to question if at the end you're the bad guy.
11:55 actually, the first sentence is the name of the song (referring to "the hot wind blowing")
Fun fact: The composer for Metal Gear Rising, Jamie Christopherson, had no experience with composing rock/metal soundtracks when he worked on MGR. It was his very first time working with that genre of music.
The very first video game he did music work for was a Disney MMO from 2003 called Toontown Online.
You should do a journey about the game reacting to all cutscenes, i would love to see ur reaction to it but i love your videos keep it up guys u will always get my support! ❤❤
I would recommend that check out the Metal Gear Solid Revengence Cutscenes. That will really set the tone for why some of the bosses songs sound the way that they do or at the very least check out the end game cutscenes with Senator Armstrong. It's such an underrated game
Def one of my top 10 games the soundtrack the gameplay just everything is awesome
26:16 what you're talking about here Bethany actually applies to a lot of genres like for example rap if you don't listen to it often enough then your ears aren't tuned to hearing what is said
Reminder that this game came out in 2013, and the main villain is a man running for president, who at one point says "Make America great again!"
This reminded me to play the game again, it's an underrated masterpiece.
Max0r’s summery on this game not only super fun, but I also think the one of the videos that really risen his popularity.
Fun Fact: Khamsin's theme is used in the Death Battle for Hulk vs Doomsday.
27:35 Here's the full list of all Metal Gear games chronologically:
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops (apparently it's not canon, correct me if I'm wrong)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Ground Zeroes is some kind of a prologue to this game)
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (these two games are for MSX console, they're all pixels and no voiced dialogues, so I think that you should just get a simple summary of these)
Metal Gear Solid (there's also the latest version called "The Twin Snakes", which is on a different engine, but I think most of us will agree that it's worse than original)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Metal Gear Rising Revengeance
I gotta warn you: Metar Gear franchise is VERY complicated, if you're new to these, so brace yourselves!
Hearing this OST during gameplay is something else. It's the closest you'll get to experiencing synesthesia of your body (controler), eyes and ears.
Also "It Has To Be This Way" is Raiden's theme as he has realized his purpose that Sam was asking him of since the start of the game. It's more like a second part to "The Only Thing I know".
Collective Consciousness is Senator's theme.
Just listen to Sam's song and the last one after the other and you'll hear it.
Hands down, my favorite song is "The Hot Wind Blowing", glad to hear you love it too!
So most of theb bosses here are part of a group known as The Winds Of Destruction. You can tell which ones by the names
14:20 on the topic of Red Sun’s lyrics, I have a bit of insight.
Sundowner believes that humans are naturally violent, and modern society is oppressing human instinct through its condemnation of violent acts. The “out of place” lines actually have relevance to that theme. “Only love is with us now, something warm and pure” speaks of how humanity’s natural emotions and desires are being destroyed through more oppressive societies. The line “find the peace within ourselves, no need for a cure” speaks of how we must come to terms with our natural instincts, and how we do not need to “cure” humanity of our natural instincts. Thats just my interpretation of the lyrics when looked at through the lens of Sundowner’s character.
Very intriguing. Thanks for providing that insight 🙂
18:25 It tracks
25:37 to be fair its where metal gear WAS. The end of 4 broke that and rising is in a setting recovering from that world state.
Metal Gear Rising not only is my favorite game, but it's one of my favorite soundtracks (besides sonic the hedgehog, street fighter and tekken) Never realized you were gonna react to it though.
11:24 - this character doesn't even have eyes. It's the mask with a device that allows him to see
The reason love is mentioned in Sundowner's theme is because he genuinely gets a sense of inner peace and fulfillment out of his love and embracing of violence. What he considers "warm and pure" and akin to love is...bloodshed.
“It had to be this way” is actually from Raiden’s perspective, even if it plays during the Armstrong boss fight.
RULES OF NATURE-
Jetstream Sam is the best boss fight of the game, hands down. You get yhe boss weapon after beating them, and yii eventually get Sam's sword, Muramasa. And it's canonically only used to fight Armstrong, because Raiden's sword couldnt hurt him. Raiden even has a speech when he gets it.
"I said my sword was a tool of justice, not used in anger. Not used for vengeance. But now... Now, I'm not so sure. And besides... *This isn't my sword!"* Easily one of, if not, the best lines in the whole game.
It might be worth checking out the boss speeches to get an idea of who they are. They're genuinely entertaining, and some of them have grains of sense sprinkled in with the insanity. Armstrong actually has some good ideas, what he wants is partly understandable, up to a certain point. It's one of those "if you'd have stopped that speech a few sentences sooner, I'd actually have been on your side" situations. Sadly, while he's not greedy, he's *bat💩 insane!*
Thanks for recommendation on boss speeches 🙂
“If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, surely you are prepared to DIE for them.” -Mistral
“War is a cruel parent, but an effective teacher.” -Monsoon
“Kids are cruel, Jack. And I am very in touch with my inner child!”- Sundowner
“We’ve both heard enough speeches about Higher Purposes for our lives. History will decide who is right.”- Jetstream Sam
“The weak will be purged, and the strong will thrive. Free to live as they see fit. They’ll make America great again!!!!” -Senator Armstrong
"LIKE I SAID, KIDS ARE CRUEL AND I LOVE MINORS!"
Metal Gear! And Renvengeance once again! You’ve guys already seen the Max0r video of this game, but reacting to the actual OST allows for quite a bit of analysis on the bosses in game!
Metal Gear as a franchise is above all one about war and why we fight. The vast majority of the main bosses all are named after a different type of meteorological event or weather. However, every boss theme reflects an opinion on war and the nature of battle. It was so cool to see you guys pick on some of the themes based on the lyrics alone - despite only having watched Max0r’s insane editing and meming!
2:10
*Rules of Nature,* the main theme song of our protagonist Raiden. It’s probably the most straightforward of all the themes. Raiden as you’ve already seen has been a victim of war since he was 10. He’s been killing men for as long as he can remember, a lone predator forced to fend for himself in the Liberian Civil War that birthed him. He lives by two distinct codes: that of the samurai and those of nature. The former meant to keep his sanity in check, the fact that he’s an “honorable samurai” trying to keep the peace by killing madman who abuse the needs of those who can’t fight. Attempting to train others to fend for themselves so his sword stays unheeded. The other end? That of nature: the strong triumph over the weak. Nature doesn’t care if you’ve suffered, just that you are strong enough to make it out alive. In war, sometimes that’s all that matters: that _you_ make it home.
4:34
*I’m My Own Master Now* is a self explanatory title. Bladewolf is an artificial intelligence put into the body of a mechanical robo pupper. He as a character is only as efficient and logical as his ai dictates, which is surprisingly human. He’s about as smart as a person, if not smarter. However, much like a dog he’s kept on a short leaf. His only purpose is to be a weapon, and he learns how to overcome that throughout the game. What does it mean to be “thinking”, and what does it mean to have a will of your own?
6:50
*A Stranger I Remain,* Mistral’s them. She is the first real member of the main antagonistic group in game, The _Winds of Destruction._ A Mistral is a strong, cold wind that blows through the southern France into the Mediterranean, mainly in winter. As per her namesake, this is why you get so many sailor and shipyard metaphors throughout her theme.
Mistral is very similar to Raiden in terms of backstory, being born into war and fighting throughout it during her childhood. Another child soldier, a freak in the eyes of the public and a stranger to everyone else. Mistral eventually grows board of the fighting, until she meets a certain someone. They then give her a reason to fight, a reason to kill - letting her fight without remorse and giving her true meaning in a valley of corpses. She remains a strange to all others, but now has something pushing her to kill.
9:00
*The Hot Wind Blowing* is my personal favorite song on the soundtrack - so forgive my bias during this part. This is the theme song of Khamsin, the second member of the Winds. A Khamsin is a very hot and persistent to the point of oppressive wind that blows through Egypt. It’s not enough to kill you with enough exposure.
Khamsin is a soldier first, and a human second. He represents all the blind faces of the men and women that die for us on the field of battle. The best real world metaphor I could use for his theme is the treatment of the veterans from Vietnam. They weren’t honored, or welcomed home by the public. They were scorned as monsters and killers. That is what Khamsin’s them represents. The lack of humanity soldiers of war are treated with, the disdain for people who are simply following orders.
_“Just like a buffalo following the herd”_
_“We try and justify”_
_“All the things that occurred_
Khamsin tells the story of soldiers that just have to suck it up and fight. Sure, you get a shiny medal at the end of it - but at what cost? You aren’t going to feel like a hero killing children or farmers. The people that find out treat you like a monster, while everyone else doesn’t have a clue what the experience was actually like. Their praise doesn’t mean anything in the face of the blood on your hands.
So smile and wave, fight for justice - freedom. Bend your will to the conflict, give it up. After all, you’re just an expendable soldier in the face of war. You won’t be remembered in a few years time. Such an amazing song, and so melancholic. Ken mentioned a very good catch at the fact that the title isn’t theme song at 11:50. *That was entirely deliberate.* Faceless soldiers don’t get remembered. The defection comment at around 11:08 is ironic considering Khamsin dies for his countries freedom in game. He was a faceless soldier, until the bitter end.
11:15
*The Stains of Time* is very similar to the last song. It’s the theme of Monsoon, the third member of the _Winds of Destruction._ Monsoons are pretty well known, and act as a season of heavy rainfall in the summer of Asian countries. Monsoon himself is Cambodian, and is an extreme misanthrope and nihilist. He hates humans. He fully believes that free will and humanity _are a lie,_ and that humanity is being run on the machine known as war. It’s war that drives people’s emotions. They don’t actually care about the conflicts themselves, otherwise they’d be the ones killing. They just drove on with whatever their little pocket of the collective consciousness says. He is a firm believer that the lessons war teaches people are the only thing that gets passed down, thus it’s the only thing that really matters.
In his boss fight, he encourages you to rip him to pieces. He doesn’t care if he dies, his life (and all humans by that extent) never really meant anything to begin with.
13:22
*Red Sun* is the theme of Sundowner, the second to last member of the Winds. A Sundowner is an offshore wind in California. However, the theme song itself references his behavior more than the weather condition.
Sundowner is to put it plainly, a psychopath. He participated in war for no other reason than to kill, because killing if fun for him. Bethany caught it early on with her reaction to his grin at 13:20. That grin his enjoyment of your blood raining down from the sky, a “Red Sun over paradise” if you want to call it.
Sundowner outright tells you he wants to go back to “The good olds days after 9/11”. *This is an actual line in the game.* He wants that outage and devastation, because the bloodshed and murder it allows is his lullaby. This is his peace, and he’ll never forget that red sun. He’s crazy, short and simple.
15:30
Next up we’ve got *The Only Thing I Know For Real* and our boy Jetstream Sam! He’s probably the most popular member of the Winds of Destruction, which is fitting considering he’s the last member. He’s without doubt the most famous member Internet wise, as the Metal Gear community (and Internet in general) love this man. And I am just as much a sucker for him. *HE’S JUST SO COOL.*
A jetstream is simply a series of cold wind exhausts throughout the world. Sam’s is a Brazilian samurai who loves a good fight. His reason for war is a purely selfish one - to have one hell of a good fight. He’s so good at fighting that his quick draw can sever your hand before you can even pull the trigger on your gun, and he’ll smile the entire time he’s cutting your arm off.
_Memories broken, the truth goes unspoken_
_I've even forgotten my name_
_I don't know the season or what is the reason_
_I'm standing here holding my blade_
Sam doesn’t even remember his own name in the field of battle, because it doesn’t matter. All that matters to him is the next opponent, the final battle. He’s a lot like Goku, in that he only cares about finding someone stronger than him. His identity, his life before battle is a stranger to him, and the only thing he knows for real: is that there will be bloodshed. That’s enough for him. He doesn’t care about the ideologies at play, the people suffering - because he’s been fighting so long it all blurs together. So why not trust the one thing you know is a sure fire? Bloodshed and strong opponents.
17:55
*Collective Consciousness* - the second to last boss theme in the game. I kinda lied earlier, this theme isn’t the theme of the boss. This is a theme song of the people during war. The final boss actually *hates* this mentality. The guy in the photo is criticizing this mentality, he doesn’t agree with it! Never judge a book by its cover alone, no?
The theme song is extremely explicit in its meaning. Sacrifice your free will for your country. Just consume, let be collective thoughts of the masses control your soul. This is unfortunately a forced mindset.
In the face of war and tragedy in the modern world, most as noncombatants only act on the information we know. We unintentionally support the very causes we want to end. After all, every time you head out to the grocery store you’re supporting a major corporation that doesn’t give a rats ass about you. Every video game you buy and play, every tweet you post and retweet, every like you give towards a major conflict is just supporting someone else’s bottom line.
We live in a world where every actual we take as middle-men supports those with the real power, and we can’t really do anything about it. What are we gonna do? Stop working? Stop feeding our kids? There’s no way out, and we’re trapped in the endless cycle of supporting people that wouldn’t bat an eye at our suffering. It’s a sad truth of our reality, and the game masterfully tells us that with guitars and giant robots. It’s a criticism on the modern world and war as a machine of profit.
But as I said earlier, this isn’t the final boss theme. Our main antagonist Senator Armstrong *hates* the way the world works. He sees these lyrics and wants to commit, which brings us to:
20:40
*It Has To Be This Way* The final boss theme of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. This song isn’t Armstrong’s
theme as well, rather it’s Raiden’s. That’s right, Raiden gets two theme songs!
Some quick backstory, Armstrong wants to tear down the current world that profits from war. He wants it tear down the capitalist regime where the weak suffer and the rich stay in power. Good, right? Well here’s the catch: he wants to do that by starting the war of all wars: killing off millions to restart the world in a way that allows men to fight for their own dreams. The weak and selfish will die off, and the strong will survive in order to rebirth a world where people no longer have to suffer. He will push morals virtue forward through *global genocide.* Yeah, that’s the bad news…
This theme song is a reflection of Raiden’s response to this plan, with its lyrics going as such:
_Standing here, I realize you were just like me trying to make history_
_But who's to judge the right from wrong?_
_When our guard is down, I think we'll both agree_
_That violence breeds violence_
_But in the end it has to be this way_
Raiden realized that Armstrong in a way, is right. The way the world currently runs is super messed up. Those without power suffer day to day just to get to that good life. Kids go hungry.
Men and women die for causes they don’t believe in. Young boys are drafted into war as they hit 18 just because the country needs more bodies to throw to the wall. All the while the powerful, the truly powerful sit in their bunkers and live happily ever after. War just makes them richer, and kills the rest of the people off.
Raiden agrees with this mindset, but not Armstorng’s method of fixing it. You can’t save the world by destroying it. We can’t just kill off everyone and regulate those who still live. Violence breeds violence after all. In the end, the worlds needs to stay as it is - because there’s no real way of fixing it at the moment.
Raiden understands that he and Armstrong agree with the screwed up nature of modern society. However, he’s not gonna let Armstrong kill millions just to fix the issue. Armstrong is just another victim of the way the world and what it does to people.
_ I've carved my own path
_You followed your wrath_
_But maybe we're both the same_
_The world has turned, and so many have burned_
_But nobody is to blame_
_Yet, staring across this barren, wasted land_
_I feel new life will be born beneath the blood-stained sand_
_Beneath the blood-stained sand_
He’s not blaming Armstrong for the way the world is, but he’s gonna fight for what he believes is right. Armstrong throughout the story has been making child soldiers to fight his war,
exactly like Raiden. So, he needs to go. It’s not a perfect solution, there never is one. However, it’s the best one he can do as a super human cyborg ninja that hates seeing kids suffer at the hands of corrupt megalomaniacs.
If you guys do decide to do gameplay for this one, the boss fights have a unique aspect where these themes build up to their lyrical portions about halfway through. As long as you do well you'll be able to hear all of it by the time you finish the fight. I really don't know why there aren't more videos with fights in the background, but I have to assume it's a Copyright problem.
I love the MG Rising Boss Themes. Never heard the Hot Boiling One since that one is a DLC Boss. Never played the DLCs but what a good song.
Red Sun, Collective Conciousness and It Has To Be This Way are my favourites.
You should try watching a playthrough of MGRising or just the Boss Intros and Fights to get an idea of the characters.
Oh please do a Metal Gear journey and watch all of the cutscenes of the games, that would be incredible, the metal gear series is simply one of the best stories in all of video games
Collective Consciousness is my favorite, as well as It Has To Be This Way, I appreciate you reacted to these.
By the way, i recommend Reacting to the Final Boss and Ending of this Game, if you’re up for it.
Also, i highly recommend doing Top 50 Final Boss Themes Part 1-5 by Klagmar at some point, it’s a interesting list.
Honesty, it's pretty interesting how "Collective Consciousness" is a theme song dedicated to Raiden's initial perception of Senator Armstrong, while "It has to be this way" is a theme song about who Senator Armstrong ACTUALLY is.
Metal Gear Ray's theme "Rules of Nature" is a big meme in gamer circles as well as one of the most listened to themes of any video game soundtrack. There is one meme online that has an anime girl crying that goes "Please stop listening to stupid sh*t! You're not making any sense" before Ray's theme starts playing and the gigachad face starts bopping to it dressed as Raiden.
I don't care about lyrics and just care about the sound.
But I love collective consciousness for the lyrics. That's how our country thinks in real life. Just bread, circus, materialism, and obey the tv.
I'd recommend checking out the beta versions of the songs. Some have different lyrics, like A Stranger I Remain while Stains Of Time has no lyrics, but they're all more rock without all the synths over the top. Rules of Nature was a different song entirely called Locked and Loaded. Check em out. I'd even say some are as good, if not better, than the final versions we got.
I'm pretty sure the songs were cut down for this video, because you can find the full versions elsewhere on youtube
Great reaction, guys! Please make one more for boss fights in this masterpiece game
These songs go SO HARD!! I remember playing Rising Revengeance for the first time and the first time I heard the lyrics kick in for that very first boss fight, I got CHILLS! The song feels even more epic when you're seeing the boss fight, so I'd recommend watching an "all bosses" run (if you don't want to play the game yourself). Seriously, the fights in this game are something else and the boss themes, while they stand on their own, sound even cooler when you see someone slashing a boss with a katana 😂
you should def look at some of the boss fights and even cutscenes ...their the definition of hype and over the top badass