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petalfearrising · 2 years
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is the Best Video Game
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Now that I'm back on this hellsite (affectionately), I'm going to do something that I never did back in the day: actually post about stuff that I like. To start, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
I've played this game about 12 times. In fact, I make a point to play this game once a year as a New Year's tradition. This last year, I even streamed my attempt to speedrun it to an audience of at least two people (Including one ass hat who burst in to tell me Betty White died mid-run). I mention all of this not just to show how much of this game I have played, but how much this game has stayed in my consciousness, occupied my gray matter, and overrun the little jukebox in my head. I can't even make it through a day without hearing somebody screaming RULES OF NATURE because without it I simply will not have the raw fury needed to spite Death every day.
Now let me take you on a journey.
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In December 2014, I was neck-deep in my first Steam Winter Sale. I had only entered college the year before and just bought my first desktop. Now able to buy/play any video game I wanted without my parents looking over my shoulder (or purchase history), I decided that I'd finally get into the Metal Gear franchise. Lucky me, there's one on sale for $5.99, called Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. I buy it and a mass of other games (including Divinity: Original Sin, Transistor, Rogue Legacy... and a bunch still hiding in the backlogs). Don't know what happened, cause I straight up didn't play it until August 2015. I think I was modding Skyrim for the first time.
Anyway, I played it, jammed to the soundtrack, had some trouble with the Armstrong fight (the mouse controls for Blade Mode are still kinda rubbish on PC), and finished the game over the course of a week. MGR:R proceeded to yeet out of my memory banks, save for the occasional RULES OF NATURE or A Stranger I Remain.
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Cut to December 2016.
I did not have a good December 2016, watching America bumblefuck its way to electing a racist Cheeto president. I was looking for something to make sense of it all.
Then it hit me harder than Armstrong's nanomachine encrusted fist.
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I knew I had heard that damn dogwhistle somewhere before, and I found it again (actually, it might have been Tumblr that reminded me... I have the memory of a Kirby plush from Walmart.
Anyway, I decided to play MGR:R again, this time taking in the lyrics of the songs, the miscellaneous Codec messages, the stories of all the major villains, heck I even played through Jetstream Sam and Blade Wolf's DLC missions that I *completely missed* the first time around.
My first playthrough was like a solid date: a lot to love, but maybe came on a little strong and left me reeling so hard I had to ghost them just to put all the pieces together.
Date 2 made me want to sign the paperwork right there and then, cause I'd found The One.
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It has been nearly seven years since I first played MGR:R, and every time I find something new. I'll gladly share some of the things I've found if anyone is interested (and even if you aren't, I'm gonna tell ya anyway. B)
But to bamboozle your brains like this game did to me, I'm going to whallop you with the game's Big Ideas and let you sort it out while I finish getting this account set up.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is a direct refutation of the Forever Wars post-9/11, a character study about a man unsure if he cuts people in half for the sake of justice or for his own personal enjoyment, a metacommentary about the ways video games trivialize moral choices by providing "correct" answers while indulging in gory glory, and an accidentally prophetic take on the rise of the Alt-Right & how fascist demagogues charm and manipulate a ready-made audience.
Aight, gonna get food, back in a week or twelve, I dunno.
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slitherbop · 2 years
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LOVE OF KIRBY
#slitherdraws#kirby#bandana waddle dee#gooey#kracko#BEEN PLAYING SOME KIRBYS I HAVE and watching speedruns/playthroughs#HOLDING MYSELFBACK FROM RAMBLING. KIRBY MAKE ME EMOTIONAL#IM VERY NOSTALGIC#tumblr user nintenerd64 told me I can ramble so IM GONNA DO IT#SO I FOUND MY 3DS#I GOT SQUEAK SQUAAD WORKING IT HASNT WORKED IN YESARS#THAT S ONE OF THE HANDHELDS I USED TO PLAY A LOT#I WISHi coulda got canvas curse working but it’s all bitten up#Kirby is a slippery slope#cuz now I want to play all the games from the beginning#I played a bit of games like Kirby’s adventure and Kirby’s dreamland 3 and Kirby super star#on the SWITCH and their EMULATION ON THAT THING IS FUCKED UP?!???#it’s SO SLOW AND LAGGY BUT THAT MUST BE MY INTERNET BUT STILL SAD#anyway I found out Kirby’s adventure is what nightmare in dreamland is a remake of#that BLEW MY MIND… I PLAYED THAT SO MUCH AS A TINY KID WHEN I HAD A GAMEBOY ADVANC#ALSOALSO I’ve Kirby super star as Kirby super star ultra before BUT the one I hadn’t played before#is Kirby’s dreamland 3 and as someone who’s first kirby game was kirby 64 THAT GAME MADE ME SO EMO#THHE MUSIC…THE WHOLE FEEL OF IT PRETTY#I LUV THAT TO 100% IT U GOTTA HELP PEOPLE 🥺🥺#OK OK SO AFTER TRYING OUT THOS .. I found my game of KIRBYS DREAM COLLECTION#WHICH HAS THOSE GAMES AND MORE!!! it’s for the wii and my wii has trouble playing games so I hope it works#I’m especially excited that it has KIRBY64 that’s my favourite n most nostalgic#I have a bunch more games I would like to play again as well#I’ve been happy I been playing games again lately#BRUH I HIT TAG LIMIT LMAO OK IM DONE TALKING HAHA
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polygarnstars · 3 years
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facts about me that you could state to my face that would hurt more than that ask did
I own three copies of Okami HD, and have beaten exactly zero of them
I paid $40 for Balan Wonderworld, knowing full well that any enjoyment I drew from it as a game would be ironic, and I plan to spend another $10 on the novel so I can be mad about the fact that approximately two percent of the story actually made it into the game
I played Kingdom Hearts as a kid and was attracted to Zexion, and given I am currently attracted to another edgy squenix bastard with emo hair in the form of Therion Octopathtraveler, my taste has apparently not changed since I was ten
I played Sonic 06 and thought it wasn’t terrible
I learned and did a partial speedrun of PMD Red Rescue Team for the sake of getting on someone else’s Let’s Play of the remake
I tried streaming once, only to have to stop because my capture card ate my sound card
The last week and a half of my Spotify history is comprised almost entirely of the Persona 5 soundtrack and various covers of those songs
I’m a furry who can’t even decide on his own fursona’s species or design
I spend so much time reading Nuzlockes, challenge runs of Pokemon games, games for children, I was brought on as staff of the official forums
I do the aforementioned work as Nuzforums staff knowing full well that it is a volunteer position while I am unemployed in real life
I watched the Kirby anime as a kid instead of doing my schoolwork. Years later, I plan to rewatch it in its entirety instead of seeking employment
I voted for Bandana Waddle Dee in the Smash Ballot
On that topic, I’m a Kirby main! I played through the entirety of World of Light using only Kirby! Like, I love Kirby, but who the fuck mains him unironically like that? I don’t even do that strat of succing your opponents and spitting them out over the blast zone where they can’t recover or taking them down with you, like, cmon
I was in anime club in high school
Despite owning it, I’ve never played Among Us, but I still watch other people play it regularly
I didn’t realize the Guardians of Ga’hoole series was a WW2 allegory until I read the TV Tropes page in high school
I got into Kingdom Hearts for the Final Fantasy stuff, and yet to this day the only Final Fantasy game I’ve ever beaten was the DS rerelease of Final Fantasy III
I 100%ed Breath of the Wild less than three weeks after it released, and proceeded to help various streamers do the same, because I had literally nothing better to do with my time
As a teenager I uploaded two mashups, one of All Star and In The End, the other of All Star and Lonely Rolling Star, to YouTube because in the summer the only device I had to get online with was a Nintendo 3DS, I wanted to be able to listen to them year round, and my 3DS would not play Soundcloud uploads
I’m currently making a mashup of the Balan Wonderworld credits theme and Wonderwall
I think Pokemon peaked in Gen V and I trust Spike Chunsoft with the series more than I trust modern GameFreak
I have owned literally every Animal Crossing game except Amiibo Festival, but I do still own Amiibo from the sets released for it
I’m still waiting for Pikmin 4!
I’m still waiting for another real Chibi-Robo sequel!
I’ve still not beaten the prior games in the series despite owning them, but I’m still waiting for Bayonetta 3!
I dip dill pickle spears in chocolate pudding Snack Packs and I enjoy it
I know all the lyrics to the opening of Pichu Bros. in Party Panic, that anime special that was viewable exclusively on Pokemon Channel
I plan to romance Ann in my first playthrough of Persona 5 Royal purely for the sake of cucking the cat. I do not plan to do this because I dislike Morgana, but simply because I think it would be funny
I say KEKW, Pog, OMEGALUL, and Sadge in real life, with my actual human mouth
I have spent money on microtransactions for mobile games
I bought well over a dozen packs of the Unbroken Bonds Pokemon TCG expansion in an attempt to obtain a rainbow rare Reshiram & Charizard GX. I found zero of them
Until earlier today, when I cleaned out my drawers of old clothes I no longer wear, I owned two Big Bang Theory shirts. Instead of burning them like a reasonable person, I donated them to my local Goodwill for some other poor fool to find
At the age of 23, I still cannot swim
I’ve gotten used to every other bug in my house, including the bees in the walls and the stinkbugs who refuse to just stay outside, but whenever I see a silverfish I consider committing arson
I collect dice but do not play D&D or any other TTRPG, I just think they’re neat
I’m too physically weak to take apart a PS4 controller
I haven’t ridden a bike in a decade, and at this point if I tried I would probably fall over or ride uncontrollably into the street and be hit by a car
I still have art on my wall of a Pokemon character I made in sixth grade at the absolute latest
I buy sketchbooks despite not drawing traditionally literally ever
I cannot draw on a normal tablet, because I look at my hands instead of the screen, and so I had to buy a 2-in-1 laptop to do art
I bite my nails
I compulsively pluck the hairs from my legs
Despite compulsively plucking the hairs on my legs, I cannot be bothered to do the same for the ones that have grown into a unibrow
When I was a child a goose whacked me with its wing
I’ve been bitten by two dogs, one of which bit me twice
Despite domesticated animals hating me, I’m the world’s worst Disney Princess, having taught a grey catbird to recognize Zelda music and having watched the entirety of Avatar the Last Airbender with a baby mourning dove perched in the bush outside the window watching with me
I spell grey grey instead of gray despite being American
I’m American
I’m still on tumblr in 2021
do with this information as you will
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