Can you beat Metal Gear Rising with ONLY the Wooden Sword? (2023 Edition)

[@Curve56_]

I've gotten quite a few comments about the loud sound at 33:22, I thought the onscreen warning would be enough but I wasn't thinking about people who were just listening to the video. I've gone ahead and removed the part of the video with it in youtube's built in editor, but it may take a while for the change to take effect. Sorry everyone.

[@catgaming9369]

Thank you. I was listening to this video while playing cookie clicker and that sound made me jump out of my chair.

[@hoodie-shark-gaming8438]

you a real one

[@ThatGuy-xo7ce]

What sound?

[@beans7507]

what loud sound

[@Curve56_]

Thanks for letting me know it worked

[@SD_Nik0]

34:36 huge missed opportunity to say “My source is that I made it the fuck up.”

[@reagansido5823]

With how many time you can't cut inanimate objects with the wooden sword, it's weird that there are a few times were it just... works.

[@cartertitan-rv3xe]

sometimes it's just sharper okay

[@randomguy9867]

I love ur profile picture❤

[@Boredom3026]

Sometimes Raiden doesn't feel the wood sword is sharp enough so he pulls out the belt sander from time to time

[@RedKnightOfficial]

In r-04, in the lobby area, the launchers that are hiding behind the glass will be smashed instead of slashed when using the wooden sword so that's a nice detail.

[@FrankJaeger803]

"All of this just works. It just works!" -Todd Howard

[@Gangstablook]

"So we need to use the pole arm again to cut through here. Now time to fight Mistral." *Any new player's brain just broke*

[@dariuswatley4777]

Yeah 😂

[@Kanakravaatti]

well you gotta pretty much beat the game once to get the wooden sword

[@Kira-pv4xq]

@@Kanakravaattiwhat? No. You just find the box guys

[@Kanakravaatti]

@@Kira-pv4xq which requires you to get to chapter 7...

[@diegomedina9637]

​@@Kira-pv4xqOne of them which is literally besides the last boss of the game.

[@kingkaizoku85]

The oldest trick in the book. A collection of metal gear rising speedrun tech and glitches, disguised as a challenge run. Nice!

[@_hurglet]

0:38 quite literally better character development than like 80% of modern television

[@monkeyheist]

I like the funko pop version of Brittany from Pikmin 3 that you have as your profile picture.

[@sireggster5313]

at 18:49 the reason there are less missiles when jumping is because the game wants to put the missiles right in front of you to have you avoid them, but when you're in the air the game cant find any pathing for your character from the side of the building so it waits till you're on the "ground" again

[@iheartnishikiyamaakira]

29:02 7 yakuza games, 1 judgment game, MGR, plants vs. zombies, and bloons td 6. all the games you really need in life.

[@pedrol5004]

nice to see a fellow RGG fan

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

okay but why does he have two shortcuts of yakuza kiwami?

[@electroshock1021]

@@DanielFerreira-ez8qd efficency

[@cade-music]

what about the hit game Team Fortress 2 or the hit game Titanfall 2

[@ValuableBlueberry]

​@@cade-music TF2 and TF2?

[@gavinalley9279]

I used to say that my weapon is a tool of justice. Not a weapon, but a way to bring back those old fashioned values upon which we used to rely... *But this. Is a wooden sword.*

[@Ticketman99]

Snake: Finally learned something, huh?

[@chamow2787]

​@@Ticketman99the uh ensures ut's snake talking

[@MangakaConnor]

Needed to wear blue suit without ripper mode

[@eu_estive_aqui]

Nah, the suit is fucking sick

[@hopeandfates]

@@eu_estive_aquiyeah it fits for the challenge too

[@tosyl_chloride]

26:29 For this combo, usually I'd just insert a dodge between the second and third slashes, since Sam's sheathing animation provides ample time to get out of the blocking animation, and move to his side or back. This would do away with the waiting time that normally comes with blocking the third/fourth slashes as well, so you can get a little bit more damage in during the time span. 27:55 (PTSD from installing Enhanced Sam mods) Does parrying even have any meaning anymore........ Also, who could forget Ripper mode and its glorious ability to send Raiden flying with the Pole-arm or the aerial kick attack.

[@lunaticamirhosin]

Fun fact: if you do the draw attack before a codec, it will keep the animation as long as you hold the button

[@pandamenek]

How to do draw attack?

[@Shy_002]

@@pandamenekhold m1

[@googlemusskalale9730]

@@pandamenekhold light attack

[@RamielEdits]

Yes. I actually did a sword run on Revengance, quite possibly one of the most annoying but fun challenges ever, each attempt for Jetstream Sam was worth 30 minutes

[@camerondethlefs]

When I tried doing Armstrong on revengeance for the first time, I beat the second phase after buying the white suit because apparently the health things help you reach the normally unobtainable damage to raiden threshold of like 400% I think

[@BloopTube]

I feel I kinda ruined the game for myself by using that suit on the first playthrough

[@kindasomeviews]

This game is such a masterpiece. Players are finding new skips and strats to get around everything to this day. I can't wait to suffer and do the wooden sword run myself (imma miss getting electrolytes and using the scissor blades ngl)

[@DKdrop]

"Mistral is the only boss who is defense-oriented." Sundowner Phase 1: "Am I just a joke to you?"

[@magicfish8213]

Yes

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Since you didn't mention it here, I just wanted to add another fun Sundowner fact: If you just spam triangle between those two codec sequences, there's a good chance you'll be able to send his body comically flying off the building. It's especially funny to do it using his own weapon.

[@gr3gbrand0]

MGR fun fact: during the Monsoon fight if you deal too much damage right after he throws things at you, you'll skip the part where he launches his arm at you (the cutscene that says "I have won this") making him instead attacking with the vehicles. Second MGR fun fact: during Armstrong's first phase you can actually trigger the other phase just by staying alive for something like 2 30 minutes

[@ilyaair.]

some russian dude had beaten every boss thats possible to beat on s rank with a wooden sword using said wooden sword

[@herothroughtime8334]

i loved the sam fight with wooden sword, i don't remember how long it took me to beat but, being that it's a test of your swordsmanship in both gameplay and story, it felt so good not just to best him, but to style on him. i even uploaded it

[@york3538]

Really high effort video! I appreciate the editing, commentary, jokes, and even the inclusion of the fun facts and stuff. Really well done! Subbed😄

[@whiteboard7thstreet]

I still remember when MGR first got revealed and people were upset that it was so different, now the community has a soft spot for it

[@dyboszek8057]

Glad to see more metal gear rising videos recently, cuz i love this game so much, and it brought me to the metal gear solid series, rn completing mgsv phantom pain (which i want to 100%), you were one of the people i watched first to do a challange in metal gear rising cuz i couldn't find a better one and rewatched it 3 times :D

[@dyboszek8057]

on my 4th one now

[@moselzag5451]

34:50 This happened to my brother when we were playing, and Raiden got stuck on 0% health during the QTE? And afterwards, once we entered the final phase, he immediately died before letting us restart in phase 3. It was weird

[@WoobertAIO]

The amount of sass in this video is refreshing. Quality audiovisual production, sir.

[@insertgoodusernamehere5030]

i liked the part where Curve said "It's time for my revengeance" and revenged all over the place

[@Wh1spyIsGamer]

11:52 bro rayman sings sexbomb frfr 🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@jamesofthekaijukompendium]

5:45 I'm pretty sure this isn't an oversight and is actually a feature of the game.

[@YuhBoiBaker]

At 34:56 the Scott the Woz outro was so unexpected that it caused me to spit out my drink

[@wildwalkthroughs3013]

your average anime opening followed by your anime opening showing off all the characters and their events through the story. this is better than the "I murdered my entire family" followed by a beautiful blue sky and birds migrating to the north

[@addnamelater7762]

When Armstrong catches the sword to break, if it's the wooden sword he should just say "fuck it, lets do this!" and let go of it. Congrats, now you have to do the hardest phase of the hardest boss with the fucking stick.

[@sunflow57]

This man out here beating up people with a stick lol

[@thescorpion2758]

After playing the game for like 400 hours it shocked me to see how many fun facts I actually found on my own but the rest of the community was already aware of for very long.

[@elijahplays3133]

I like how he’s talking about mistakes and then HIS WORLD starts playing 😅

[@mr.dripwalker8226]

When does it play? I'm not seeing it

[@Breakaway-ic5gj]

​@@mr.dripwalker8226 0:38 It's Solaris phase 2, the orchestral version of His World

[@Churito144]

Man i wish this video got as much views as the last one did cause you really deserve it

[@forfriendsitsbrip]

15:40 Alternate fun Metal Gear Rising fact You can actually ninja run away from the Monsoons vehicles

[@Inquisitive_cloud]

11:20 I want to add another Fun Metal Gear Rising Fact in the tripod section: In Very hard and Revengence, entering the vent at the end gives you a No-damage bonus. But in lower difficulties, doing the same won't. Instead, you have to trigger the alert, and avoid taking hits before entering the vent to get the no-damage tag, which makes this sections a bit harder in lower difficulties. You can trigger the alert by pressing Y in front of one of the guard.

[@deanstuart8667]

Is my game broken? Why do people have different stuff? And yes, I have Very Hard and Revengence difficulty, and I'm on disk.

[@Simply_Doggo]

23:19 I'm pretty sure this is because Sundowner is just frozen in the air. If you look at 23:04, his body falls the moment the final swing connects. However with the wooden sword his body just stays there. There's no footage of this in the video but if you can test it yourself to see the comparison. I cant find his body afterwards though so I'm assuming it just disappears like a normal enemy. Either that or I'm blind.

[@brickpuncher1429]

Funniest part of it is that its damage goes down when you upgrade it, but its instakill (yes, this is a feature of it, though it prob doesn't work on bosses) chance goes up.

[@brutusbloodmoon1087]

11:02 eyes just quickly stare at you after throwing a grenade at the door? Hilarious

[@Robocrab-td8dr]

I like looking through the soundtracks in the description for the vids I watch, and I just see one titled: "The P*nis(Eek!). (In all seriousness tho, good vid, you are very skilled)

[@stupiddragonenthusiast7054]

I was thinking of doing this challenge myself, but on a semi-new game, basically just going through the game with minimal upgrades, getting wooden sword and then downgrading its damage with no other upgrades on hard, not sure if I'll be able to actually make a video out of it though. Loved this video though. 16:05 this part also reminded me of something that I somehow completely forgot about during the Monsoon fight, this is going to help me so much getting the Stormbringer achievement, I was always trying to just evade it but got hit by some stray explosion hitboxes that remained for a deceivingly long time. I remember blocking it in my very first playthrough (Keyboard + mouse, because I didn't have a controller at the time), but somehow forgot about it.

[@LeetleToady7]

14:50 You. You have robbed me of seeing the funny line.

[@tactical_slime4608]

28:02 Ah yes the kill you whenever he feels like it move. Like sometimes you straight up die when he sheaths his sword(the frame the rocks spawn in the ground) with no reaction time lol

[@Kookieskonkarne]

23:32 I love How there’s just casually some bad Piggies Music in between all of the other stuff

[@mightymechatron8769]

Why isn't this popular?? This is amazing!! Editing on point, adding in some well-timed Sonic Frontiers Find your Flame, and dialogue is funny as hell 10/10. Edit- The Fun Metal Gear Rising Facts are the best things we need to see!

[@houseofcards3293]

I feel your pain on the Sam fight. I haven't done the entire game with the wooden sword, but I did beat Sam on Revengeance difficulty, hitless, using the wooden sword, with no consumables or secondaries, and I did the usual second phase instead of perfect parrying the charge. It was painful, but finishing it was SO worth it! Took about fifteen minutes on my winning attempt. EDIT: Forgot to say, I also didn't use ripper mode

[@NotLegallyAGeologist]

12:01 was just watching rayman singing sexbomb

[@oryxified1430]

Using Solaris Phase 2 like it's the late 2000s. I like you already

[@dominiccayton8831]

Hearing so many Like a Dragon tracks and seeing so many games on your desktop makes me wonder why you haven't done more content on the series

[@Curve56_]

Soon*

[@kevintheprincedragon8661]

Found few days ago, now one of my favorite videos

[@HunterForHire422]

The music you used throughout it practically my Playlist and I love it.

[@breadloaf1064]

I can definitely see the Max0r inspired style, and I don't mean that in a bad way because your own style overshadows that in a fantastic way. You hit the nail on the fucking head here.

[@autismrizzard]

It's safe to say this video is an insane quality upload, good stuff man

[@autismrizzard]

Fun Metal Gear Rising Fact: If you ninja run up Excelcsius on the correct angle you can accidentally jump into the fire pit of the arena. Dont worry if you run straight you'll be fine

[@TheOmegaRiddler]

I fucking called it. Sonic Frontiers's Super Sonic Boss music has a Metal Gear Rising vibe.

[@ewkera]

33:24 it specifically said loud, i still got scared

[@ISuckAtVideoGames4Ever]

OUTSTANDING EDITING! Congrats Raiden Very Well Done!!

[@fdfdffdfddfsd]

28:36 i have a fun fact of my own. if you keep holding to charge the sword sheath attack and do the finisher on sam, your sword will be invisible for the cutscene and blade mode parts of the finisher

[@Vaaads]

for some reason i really enjoy watching challenge videos of games i know absolutely nothing about and having that be my first experience. in a way, it kind of shows the full extents of the mechanics of a game and how far someone can humanely push something

[@realBowl]

Very many fun facts . Good video, needs more views

[@acedemonic142]

We instantly got hit with one of the Nazo Unleashed themes. 10/10

[@Zamndatsu]

33:35 I've used this a lot on very hard but I think it has to do with not taking damage for curtain amount of time. As I get it quite often and it happens mostly after not taking damage for a while. It may also depend on damage to Armstrong himself as usually I punch him a lot at this part, but that is just my experience

[@Vladysluv]

I couldnt get enough of Monsoon saying "Now that's a pretty meme, exquisite"

[@AwesomeSonicFan05]

This brings “bring a tool to a sword fight” to a whole new level

[@thequadragamerz]

29:57 “They cannot make the judgment call!”

[@An_Iron_Golem]

Fun facts about the games enemy's that I believe are true: Ray's missiles can be cut for health, Bladewolf isn't that hard when you pop ripper then constantly hit, You can stun lock Mistral and constantly hit her in blade mode, Raptors EMPs are dodgeable, Massiffs are the slowest hitting enemies, giving you lots of time to Parry, Grad's arent actually that crazy if you keep your cool, Hammerheads can be defeated by constantly jumping up to them, Normal/basic enemies are cuttable in blade mode, Medium enemies can be stunned by hitting their hand in blade mode, Hammer enemies can't be stunned, Tripods are also capable of being stun locked, Sliders are really weak, Fenrirs are more likely to move than Sam is to dodge in phase 1, the reason being its a dink. Monsoon's air attack can be blocked and used to stun him without an EMP, Shield enemies are easy to defeat with ripper mode, Gekkos are easily stunnable with ripper mode, Sundowner is capable of being beaten in just over a minute (if you're good enough), Sam is also beatable in just over a minute and a half, Excelsus can't kill you at 0.1% health despite you not being able to safely block it, and Armstrong isn't the hardest boss if you have a fully upgraded Murasama and infinite fuel cells for ripper

[@deviljuanjox129]

Loved the way you edited the video and love even more all the sonic songs used!

[@samdriever7668]

It was at about fact #6 and I knew I had to sub. This is a great video.

[@JingRoku]

There's a wooden sword?

[@ultimatewolfgaming4171]

Find all men in boxes

[@minecat_]

Awesome video, the production quality is amazing and all the random facts are fun to learn about

[@cardboardgaming101]

2:56 props to you for using Sonic Frontiers music

[@hg7h103-g]

29:02 Let's us just praise this man for having a regular windows XP background

[@TheSillyMichael]

6:00 I thought there's gonna be something like: you can kill Gekko by throwing a ferris wheel on it

[@Frostile]

Holy shit, thank you for acknowledging the poor quality and props to you for remaking this better!

[@TailorBlaze]

5:46 jesus f christ that Raiden walking is menacing af

[@_fudgepop01]

That intro speech went so hard wtf lmao

[@RussellAdlerCIA]

An amazing video! That right there is why you are the best Boss! The one and only!

[@neroitR]

Great video. I enjoyed it. Ps: ty for including music you used in video you are a legend 😭

[@Calvin-ln6hr]

Dude your music taste is amazing, I liked the video very much

[@Calvin-ln6hr]

Shoot- I'm on alt

[@fastesthedgehog]

There :) subbed btw

[@thesecondsin1]

12:36 I would watch the rest, but now I have to the hospital for this heart attack...

[@dashadark2295]

23:30 oh god, we lost Sundowner. Put missing posters around, we need this invincible hateable lovable warmonger back :'(

[@nyx6607]

Genuinely i learned so many things I've heard about the game from this video

[@aisir3725]

FINALLY someone acknowledged existence of point blank rock throw This shit ruined so many my s rand no parry runs

[@testname4464]

I love how the metal gears in this game are supposed to be made of the latest and greatest armor plating, yet are done in by a twink with a fancy stick

[@mrducky-ve8iz]

I did fun fact 35 on my first time seeing it so I thought that parrying that attack was normal, I didn't know that it was a glitch until now.

[@TheSchoolyD]

Iunno if anyone told you this, but the reason why the 4th Sam combo is not parryable is cause he does explosive unsheathe attack at the end. Any of explosive iai attacks cause you heavy knockback, similar to Armstrong attacks, and are not parryable. Overall very insightful video into the game mechanics, thank you.

[@averagemariorpgfan4131]

I just learned this, but you can completely skip Phase 2 by just getting him down to 40% or so, he'll start doing his phase 3 Moves there.

[@RandomRambles4384]

Sundowner has a fucking second phase?!? I just spam the evade attack whenever he puts up his shields.

[@tylercoon1791]

14:34 doing the based thing and ignoring Monsoon to watch the soldier pet the kitty

[@im_cart8656]

13:09 thats what doom looks like when u clip out of bounds.. wonder what makes the screen do that.. surprised games 30+ years apart can have identical visual bugs like that from the same thing

[@Curve56_]

If I had to take a guess it’s either: 1. There is nothing on the screen to render in the background so it just uses whatever is on screen as the background 2. For whatever reason OOB areas don’t have the same flag to delete the previous frame which causes them to stay there Or some combination of the two. I’m no game dev so there’s definitely better qualified people than me to explain it

[@the_cartoony_bunn]

16:44 if the wooden sword isn’t supposed to cut might I saw that JESUS CHRIST HOW MUCH FORCE DID HE APPLY WITH THAT SWING

[@HandsomeWaver]

I religiously come back to this video just to yet again witness one of the hardest edits; 2:55 - 3:28. Seriously, man, could you possibly take that segment and upload it separately? It’s so clean and well orchestrated.

[@Curve56_]

Maybe if enough people ask for it

[@HandsomeWaver]

@@Curve56_ hopefully they do and thank you.

[@regiboi7709]

16:47. You're welcome.

[@biggyblunts5788]

Never seen your stuff before, never played a metal gear game, probably never will. Still watched and was entertained the whole time. Great video my dude the production value is on point

[@elsternix]

4:43 I think someone found a quality 4 item nearby.

[@LampHatScott]

10:37 I actually did this once and never again. You have to be really fucking patient to do it.

[@KyzaelEomei]

In the Sundowner fight, I never knew you could shoot with the drone when climbing. I always just tried dodging till I got to the top.

[@efekanuyguner6513]

You can shoot? Bruhh

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

Fool

[@eat00002]

You are both idiots

[@juliane.mfarias9285]

Same. Also i didnt knew you could block Moonson's wheel of death

[@fortytwo4-2]

@@juliane.mfarias9285 yeah I thought you just had to wait it out till very recently. made my no-damage run a lot easier lol

[@im_cart8656]

this is a good video format.. keep it up

[@CoralCopperHead]

0:38 they also say if you do that, you failed to stick to your guns and fight for what you believed in