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As far as we’re concerned Platinum Games are one of the most talented developers working today. We do however fully acknowledge that the complex mechanics and arcade-influenced action of games like Bayonetta and Vanquish are not to all tastes, which is one of the primary reasons why this is their only substantial commercial hit – and that only just. We had hoped that Metal Gear Rising would be different, but inevitably it turned out to be their most controversial game so far.
The primary problem was with hardcore Metal Gear fans, some of whom refused to accept that this is a spin-off and so by design bears little resemblance to the original’s stealth-focused gameplay. Instead, this is a straight action game and although some may think that sacrilegious the obvious intention is to open up the Metal Gear franchise to those that would normally dismiss it out of hand.
The complaints about Platinum daring to deviate from the normal template seem especially unfair considering that many of the key features of the parent franchise are still here. There’s the bizarre characters, superb boss battles, and nonsensical and overlong cut scenes – all of which also happen to be staples of Platinum’s other work.
Revengeance (no, it’s not a word) takes place after the events of Metal Gear Solid 4 and stars Raiden the cyborg ninja, not Solid Snake. As the game opens Raiden is working as a bodyguard-for-hire in Africa and after an initial run-in with a less principled mercenary group dedicates himself to stopping their warmongering activities across the world. There’s much more to the story than that, and as usual it makes very little sense, but unlike the Solid games Revengeance doesn’t take itself anywhere near as seriously.
Instead Platinum indulge their fetish for ever more bizarre and impractical enemies, while concentrating on one of the game’s primary goals: to at last make Raiden a genuine badass. And despite him still being a bit of a whiner, and sporting the worst hairdo in gaming, they succeed. Not through storytelling but through gameplay.
Although he can pick up and use a variety of different weapons – including rocket launchers and anti-aircraft missiles – Raiden’s primary form of defence is his high-tech sword. His normal attacks are simple to pull off, and although there are specific combos it comes across very much like Bayonetta lite
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