![]() That’s incredibly bizarre and unrealistic, but the long and short of it is Raiden decides he is willing to embrace his inner darkness in order to prevent what happened to him happening to more children. What triggers his regression back into his Jack the Ripper persona, is a corporation… uh, transferring the brains of children to create new super child soldiers. Raiden is, as an adult, suffering from his upbringing as a child soldier. Because to Raiden, to the hero, his cause is just. ![]() The hero is arguably a bad person, they realize it, and accept it. Well in this case, the answer is the hero doesn’t get redemption. How does someone who gleefully engages with mass murder get to be the hero? How does a sociopath who ostensibly racks up dozens, if not hundreds, of cold-blooded kills possibly earn a chance at redemption, or simply stake claim to the moral high ground without being challenged at all? Why isn’t Nathan Drake in freakin’ jail for chrissakes? ‘Here I Am, Surrounded by Death, Arguing Philosophy with Terrorists’ As Raiden gives into his Jack the Ripper persona, we’re also seeing the creative team taking a moment to ponder what it means to be a video game protagonist. What this sequence, and its aftermath does, is engage head-on with one of the most screwed up aspects of video games. #Metal gear rising revengeance raiden full#This scene, which is one of the goofiest moments in this game that is full of ridiculousness, is also one of the most poignant. If you’re familiar with Revengeance and reading this, you probably know where I’m headed.
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