The Xbox 360 version was announced in Japan, but never released due to the console's poor sales in the market. The game was only made available for the PlayStation 3 in Japan. This probably would have rendered an English voiced version of the sword unfeasible. The sword was not included in international releases, presumably due to Kojima's decision to replace David Hayter with Kiefer Sutherland as the English voice of Snake, since Metal Gear Solid V was being developed at the time.

The Japanese release of the VR Missions DLC includes a weapon called the Hebidamashii (蛇魂, literally 'Snake Spirit'), a talking sword with Solid Snake's voice that cheers Raiden on in combat. Extra clarification is added to Sam's death scene as well due to this. In the English version, everyone's blood is red, though an explanation of sorts is provided via codec. This also has an effect on Jetstream Sam's death scene, where he notably bleeds red blood compared to everyone else's white blood, revealing him to be almost purely human.

(Source: Metal Rising) Regional/Platform DifferencesĬyborg-based characters bleed white blood in the Japanese release, which is consistent with the setting of Metal Gear Solid 4, where Raiden also used white blood.

There is also a line spoken in French, but this is much quieter in the final version. Rules of Nature, the ever-memetic anthem of Raiden's fight against the Metal Gear RAY, is no doubt the most dramatically changed The lyrics were entirely re-written for the release version! The song itself has subtle, but noticible, differences as well.įor Mistral's track, instead of lyrical rewrites, we have a cut segment with entirely different lyrics that leads into the track we know and love from the game After the cut segment, the song is almost identical to the version that made it to final, with another cut segment after the chorus.

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