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One of the things I love about the songs in Metal Gear Rising is how they are used as an opportunity to lay bare the hearts of the bosses you're fighting, clearing up morality exposition that can't be delivered any other way. Let me introduce you to a few more of them. A Stranger I Remain is Mistral's theme. Mistral sorta shows up from nowhere in the game and gets pretty much zero chance for a proper introduction. She's the first boss fight, primarily there to make sure players understand the mechanics. Fittingly, her song is grim portents of worse things to come and an acceptance of her fate as a special, but ultimately mysterious and unknown, warrior. I mostly love it for the line 'a stranger who has found an even stranger war.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-rj8HVW3PQ Red Sun is the Sundowner boss fight theme song, and it's a perfect summary of Sundowner's Big Men of History morality- he truly believes that the only way humanity progresses is through Hard Men making The Hard Decisions with Big Costs. His boss fight theme is a wailing-guitars rock meditation about crushing Eden beneath the treads of our machines and watching the vultures feast on the carcasses left behind, secure in the knowledge that it will all be worth it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jynTNYSKNuk Collective Consciousness is the boss fight theme song for Metal Gear Excelsus, and it is unique in that it is an entirely ironic boss fight song. It is a song to invade Poland to, a brutal war march arguing that humanity cannot be trusted to take care of itself and blind, senseless nationalism is the only way to survive. Let your country control your mind, let your country control your soul. The actual boss, Senator Armstrong, believes almost the exact opposite- he believes that government should be destroyed so that the strong (him) can crush the weak (everyone else). Either way, I always start doing embarrassing robot dance moves during the bridge on this one. You'll know when. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dPaVk4G1jg
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