The Brilliant Soundtrack of Metal Gear Rising | PostMesmeric

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was an over-the-top spectacle of an action game, and no better example of its craziness was its soundtrack. As much of a meme as it's become, Metal Gear Rising has an OST like no other. Time to analyze Metal Gear Rising's strong and confident implementation of a soundtrack, and merging gameplay and music into something awesome.
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[@CountSpartula]

"So bad its good" would imply that the music was bad in the first place. Its great!

[@imarock.7662]

I've never understood how people could call games or music like this campy, corny, or obnoxious.

[@P0rk_Sinigang]

Of course the soundtrack is edgy. It's a game about swords!

[@thefallen9805]

The Metal Gear Rising soundtrack is actually what brought me into the game itself.

[@breadskate433]

"so bad it's good" I've never heard anyone say this about the soundtrack

[@the_echoYT]

Something that gets passed over a lot is how clever the lyrics really are

[@BLASTart]

SunDowner's theme starts playing

[@Azazel5021]

"It has to be this way" is still in my playlist. Such an amazing song.

[@GLAPostalService1]

I still have all the boss themes on my phone lol.

[@PhantomShadow224]

Every time I listen to the soundtrack I find another song that I really like.

[@TopSunbro]

THE LYRICS STOP WITHOUT THE SWORD??!!

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

It's amazing how this game took the "at least a new 3D Sonic game means a new killer butt rock soundtrack" audience and threw them a playable bone. I mean, when I saw this game I thought "I am the only Raiden fan and they made me a game I'm not even capable of playing" but listening to the soundtrack got me so pumped I bought it anyway and now I can even play Bayonetta. I bet if you took a survey asking how many people bought this game on a whim after bootlegging the soundtrack you could single handedly prove that "music piracy" provides a net benefit to the collective artistic endeavor.

[@raidenthenctzenwithinsomni4961]

Also, the villains' songs tell their respective character's story, who are rather underdeveloped in the game proper.

[@Dmobley9901]

Be honest, you can not hear "RULES OF NATURE" without getting the sudden urge to cut metal gear ray in half all over again, and you just read that as if the actual song was playing in your head-

[@Shaderox]

I never really paid attention to that "It has to be this way" loses the lyrics when you lose the sword, but i did notice that the metal gear you fight before that to "collective consciousness", it plays the lyrics while your in blade mode, but as soon as you leave blade mode the lyrics stop again.

[@ChawedMirthPrattEnterprise]

one thing that is said about the soundtrack is that it reflects how the bosses are feeling, and yeah thats true, however there is some creativity when it comes to the lyrics

[@g_stealth1]

the only problem with metal gear rising is that is way too short

[@desertdust6969]

If you pay Close attention, then the Vocals also stop when you disarm Sam in Raiden vs Sam fight!

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

What else can be said? This game just rocks, audio-wise and gameplay-wise. Watching this makes me want to replay this game again.

[@yankeegmen90]

MGR's soundtrack was awesome. Watching this made me want to play the game again.