I listened to English podcast:
http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/radio/the_report/t...

here is a summary

gameplay is 100% Platinum Games, Story and cutscenes done by Kojima Productions. They go and check out with other, making sure characters and world are presented correctly in the game as it should be in Metal Gear universe.

they talk a lot about game's development, you should listen if you're interested.

They want to go all out with action, crazy scenes that you haven't seen in the series from Kojipro before.

The old MGS Rising story was set between 2 and 4, but when they decided to go to platinum they decided that it was limiting and changed it to set after MGS4. PG's game design demanded the story to be changed, gameplay comes first etc. They think it was a good decision.

About Zan-Datsu:
It was a a concept revealed in E3 2010, it's now taken away, they think it slows you down, you still cut thing as you see but it's different than the concept shown in E3 2010. "Gameplay comes first" again.


Who's the director?

When talking about director at PG, Kamiya is the first name to come up but he's not directing, they are unable to reveal it yet but they have great talent there for action games, it's a great team there etc.


This time the whole work flow is toward English, they will be releasing English trailers first, game is directed more to western audiences, they try to develop with that in mind. Even if game design can not be released in Japan that's fine, western gamers come first. Talking about shooters etc and how it's the biggest market. They are aiming for a global market.

This doesn't mean they are copying western games, they are making what they want, it's still a Japanese made game, but they had that in mind. They are making games, games that are fun, but thinking who will find it fun.

Discover the new METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE trailer unveiled during American cable channel Spike’s 2011 Video Game Awards (VGAs)! Held at the end of every year, the VGAs are a celebration of world-class games. As the name suggests, the show recognizes the most outstanding gaming titles of the year, but it also serves as a venue for showing world premiere trailers of select anticipated titles. One of the highlights of this year's show was when Hideo Kojima took the stage to reveal this new trailer.

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Why would it be hard with a controller? Just press a button to "ready" the sword then swing it with one of the sticks. I don't see why it would be a problem at all. It would require a somewhat less frantic pace than what we usually se from Platinum but i would rather see them trying to make that work and make it fun than just making yet another DMC type game. I love that style of gameplay too, but it'd be cool to see something a bit slower paced where you'd have to use different tactics with the sword to beat enemies and so forth. Pretty much a deep action game cetered on the sword mechanic. That sounds like a really interesting concept to me, too bad it was scrapped though. At least that's what it looks based on the trailer.

Why would it be hard with a controller? Just press a button to "ready" the sword then swing it with one of the sticks. I don't see why it would be a problem at all. It would require a somewhat less frantic pace than what we usually se from Platinum but i would rather see them trying to make that work and make it fun than just making yet another DMC type game. I love that style of gameplay too, but it'd be cool to see something a bit slower paced where you'd have to use different tactics with the sword to beat enemies and so forth. Pretty much a deep action game cetered on the sword mechanic. That sounds like a really interesting concept to me, too bad it was scrapped though. At least that's what it looks based on the trailer.

Looks like a chore to me. Its basically just doing simple slash and dice with the body it boring. For an action style they are going for it looks darned annoying to keep pulling it off in combat and breaks the pace and it looks plain simple stupid. Its like if NG2 had has a similair concept for each decapitation for the enemies each few seconds, that would piss me off.
I would understand it working for PS Move when you do the simple slash moves with the arm but with controller I hate it.

@KORN
They said its after MGS4.

Why, just lock on to an enemy like in DMC, and when you do the right stick controls your sword. Swipe it up for and upwards slash, right for a swipe to the right and so forth. You could even do combos by swiping different directions in sequence. Enemies could block certain directions and stuff. I don't see how it would be a bad thing at all, it'd just make for something thats not just mashing in strings in the regular way.

Oh, that sucks. Guess we'll never know what happened between 2 and 4.

Game looks very early, AI is brain dead, hit detection looks very poor and the trailer didn't show any other gameplay elements like platforming or stealth

This games E3 2012 showing should be great

If it's just an all out action game, count me out. That'd be disappointing too... I'm kinda hoping that this will have some sort of ties with MGS other than just characters and world.

Hopefully it won't just be a predictable hack 'n' slash outing.

Hey everyone, I said 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 times that I have nothing to do with Metal Gear Rising.