capital-G Gamers fascinate me so much because i cannot fathom the mind of an individual who insists so heavily that the existence of any sort of minority within a game is inherently political, yet also is completely incapable of recognizing when the game is actively making fun of them for bigotry.
the VERY FIRST BOSS is a physical manifestation of the military industrial complex and you cut him in half with a laser sword. and the theme of "everything these games glorify is actually campy and sucks ass" went right over gamers heads. all the way to the "might makes right" boss at the end
armstrong got memed into being extremely cool because gamers saw "the president should be able to destroy all opposition with secret police" and took from it "killing big guy juiced on make believe nanobots rocks"
MONSOON, the boss that goes on a 7 minute screed about memetic pseudointellectualism as the death of reality, whose super power is sucker punching you from behind forever, was perfectly depicted as a lame uninteresting libertarian. this fight confused gamers and they wrote it off as annoying and bad
i love how on the nose Monsoon is: the fight marries mechanics (this boss does a bunch of annoying shit) and narrative (this boss says a bunch of annoying shit) to force the player into fighting God's Strongest Gamer, and then the player's character says "dude shut the fuck up" and ventilates him
I'll always remember Monsoon for LEFT-HAND RULE! *Raiden gets ran over because I still couldn't master parries at that point*
Shame the Kojima fallout happened, a Rising 2 would've improved the gameplay MASSIVELY.
I do wonder how many that memes it played the game. Because killing Armstrong is so satisfying after a three phase fight. You also have robot dog learn to choose what he thinks is right and help and… I love this game
Everytime Rising is brought up, I immediately think of Armstrong first, then of Raiden, master of disguise.
Absolutely no one survived the piss-take of action games Rising was, and its glorious.
