The Glory of Jetstream Sam 

Our hearts broken the truth goes unspoken.

I feel I've forgotten it's just a game

*pats head like baymax* there, there

@@bluememe4652 we even forgotten our names

@@perrypougins379 I don't know the season, or what is the reason I'm standing here crying in shame

only had that arm after taking on the Metal gear and senator

Raiden didn't save the world to be called fucking robot man

@Straight Busta Gene the godhand user?

@@popothecat9760 He means Gene from MGS: Portable Ops. God Hand Gene is pretty awesome though. XD

Nah, he had to have cybernetics in order to jump high, use Zandatsu (blade mode,) the ability to royally piss off machines, cyborgs, and Haki-using Senators, and cut a freakin' Metal Gear in half by just drawing his sword.

“Let dance”

We are not the same

Armstrong: *No*

"My design... is flawed"

Good guy Sam: when Blade Wolf says that he lost to Sam because his design is flawed, Sam says that it's not that Blade Wolf is defective - it's just that Sam was really, really good.

That's because he has a hun sword with a magazine and trigger for faster quick draws.

He does that in the Main Game as well

it literally is a gun strapped onto his sheath so he could draw faster

@@bluecaptainIT it's easy to miss that, and I didn't even realize that, because he's wearing a metal mask

its inspired by the iconic revolver blow from spaghetti westerns of old, but we all knew that

And the best part it holds up well. TOO WELL. kojima is a genius.

What did you expect? It's a game by Kojima.

Colardo senator

@@onerandomdude4015 right shoot.

@@Moostar95 Wasn't one of the things that characterized this game the fact that it wasn't directed by Kojima?

Zamn

Zamn baby

Then in the final battle, Armstrong breaks Raiden's mask.

Zamn

​@@RandomL0s3r holy shit

Asura"s wrath might be possible, but the mgr sequel idea was shelved after Kojima's fallout with platinum

Alvi Syahri Kojima didn’t write MGRR but he gave it form and a tangible direction. At least I believe so

this game has graphics like freaken RE2: R and Death stranding

@@quitspoem8651 the main problem isn’t with platinum it’s with Konami holding the rights to the game Kojima expressed that he’d like to work for a sequel with platinum

@Alvi Syahri well Kojima dropped from Konami

That's gotta have some kind of symbolism deep in there but I have no idea what it is besides Sam's mask resembling that of an outlaw's, hiding his identity

I have no real clue what could this symbolize at all, but I could give a theory on what I personally think it symbolizes. Sam hides his mouth, because like the video stated, Sam is trying to mask his identity like those cowboys, but I don't believe that's what it's truly trying to say, because there's no point in hiding your identity behind a mask when everyone knows who you are. What I think this really symbolizes is that Sam hides behind a mask because he doesn't want to listen to whatever tells him he's going down the wrong path because he's already made his choice. There is nothing that can stop Sam from going against World Marshel due to him losing a part of himself. He doesn't want to argue with anyone about ideals, but he is watching and observing to possibly see how his actions speak louder than his words. Raiden, on the other hand, masks his face because he doesn't want to change his ideals at all, being stoneheaded into them, refusing to accept anything that someone tells him, unlike Sam. Sam is watching and observing, wanting to change his ideals because he sees a future where Raiden will uphold his legacy, whereas Raiden doesn't like to change it at all, because he's already convinced himself he's going down the right path. Think about it. When Armstrong destroyed the thing that covers Raiden's eyes, Raiden was observing and watching, even deciding to listen to Armstrong's speech about what he believes. When masked behind the thing covering his eyes, he believes Senator Armstrong is just another corrupt politician, which explains the theme "Collective Consciousness", because Raiden is telling himself this is what Armstrong is. When Armstrong gets rid of it, the final boss theme is almost like an apology between the two, understanding each other's ideals despite the fact that one of them has to die to continue on down the path of what they believe is right. However, that's only if you assume it applies for both of them. Most likely, it applies for Raiden, because Raiden is the one that this song is suppose to represent. Raiden, no longer masked, sees Armstrong's ideals, but regrettably has to kill him instead of believing in his own ideals, and Raiden changes his ideal of his sword only being a means of justice, because he gets Sam's blade. He no longer wishes to fight for justice but rather anger and vengeance. At the end of the game, you can notice Raiden possibly believing a bit in Armstrong's philosophy, saying people fight for causes they don't believe in. He even changes his appearence, now having a suit and tie just like Armstrong. Raiden used his mask to mask his ideals and wouldn't allow himself to be convinced to the ideals of others, unlike Sam. Sam knew what he was doing was wrong but couldn't stop himself from fighting because he lost himself already, but he knew Raiden was going down the right path in his opinion. That's what I believe at least.

@@ellieprion7488 Yeah like a bandana

@@Marxsychosis Or maybe he just wanted to protect his chin from all the damage Raiden took in that specific place ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@ellieprion7488 It's also basically just a futuristic version of a Samurai's Menpo, perhaps to contrast him even more with the Ninja-like Raiden.

Well I think its because its the only non cyborg attack. His cyborg arm is his only cyborg part, his suit is just that. A suit.

@@mightyradish9672 yeah

... Cyborg samurai (the common ennemy) have the exact same attack, without any warning

Some metal gear rays attacks don't have flashing too

maxentirunos I thought the cyborg version totally did have a warning flash

Always

You cant ignore the memes or they will destroy the world

Thr memes are the bonus

Strangely enough Jetstream Sam is something my friends always talked serious about

It's pretty bestest

Por que ele fez isso? Aliás, "Colgate, a marca número um dos dentistas. 9/10 dentistas aprovam."

@@Peheal provavelmente pq ele n queria q a mesma coisa q aconteceu com o Armstrong acontecece de novo.

Increasing his supply of oxygen probably comes with a LOT of bonuses. Moving at speeds capable of keeping up with someone like Raiden would make breathing difficult, and artificially regulating his oxygen intake would also keep him awake and maximize his stamina longer in combat, and since he's mostly organic, his body probably tires out quicker from moving around in a suit that makes his muscles move exponentially faster. Let's also not rule out how difficult it would be to breathe at all with an unguarded face on top of a train. *edit* I just realized he wasn't wearing his mask on the train but my point still stands

Learning from his mistakes.

6:00

Wow.

Haven't played MGRR in years but didn't Bladewolf tell Raiden that Sam was mostly human and that his arm was his only cyborg part after Raiden hills him?

@@JFLEstudios Yes I believe that is correct. It's amazing to see just how strong he was having only a cybernetic arm and an exosuit to combat people like Raiden and Monsoon who are more machine than human. Dude was wickedly capable

@@JFLEstudios yes and the only reason he have robotic arm is becouse he got it heavly damages but Armstrong during last fight in dlc

Yeah, it’s why we never get to chop him up, the blood geyser after Raiden’s stab was the dramatic reveal.

Cold wind of despair

Brazilian Minuano wind.

Dam 666 likes bruh

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Fear not. For the sole reason why he joined Desperado was to find someone strong enough, stronger than him, to kill Armstrong. And he did.

Thank god I'm not the only one who remembers

The last samurai to ever exist died in 1877. knights were still a thing until some time in the 1700s when guns became too strong for conventional armor to help, but armor in general was still used until some time in the 1800s, and swords were still a thing until the world wars. The wild west was from 1865 to 1895 (1865 was when the first real revolver was created, but gunslingers of the sort definitely could've existed before then, the first revolver was in 1835 and way before that single shots were a thing), the golden age of piracy was from the 1650s to the 1730s, but pirates still exist even today in places such as Somali, boats and all. So very early 1800s could have a samurai, a knight who refuses to accept plate armor isn't effective anymore or transitioning into the lighter variants that are more common for the time, a pirate is just some robber dude with boat experience, a flintlock and a sword, and a gun expert that is flying through rifle shots or flintlocks with as much speed as possible. It's not a perfect mesh, but it seems very much possible if you're wanting a pseudo-realistic DnD type thing. Just be prepared for the knight to die quickly if a rifle is pointed at him.

@@megasuperiordude much appreciated partner. But Knights are still a thing to this day. Just like sir Issac Newton, Steven Spielberg was knighted by the queen. So technically the director of E.T is a knight. But that's completely ceremonious and he wouldn't really do anything Knights in the 1700s do.

@@megasuperiordude *My faith is my shield !*

@@lordscrubugus9897 *My face is my shield*

YOU think people think that. Guess you wanna be smart really badly, huh?

@@littlemoth4956 nono he's got a point

litterally corporations these days use memes to try to sell whatever they're selling and it WORKS people buy their products it not because its better but because they were "funny and relatable" and if whatever politician were to use memes to try and get votes it would 100% work

The G.W. AI lecture in MGS2 is considered "the most profound moment in video gaming" because of its fortelling of social media manipulation. This game was released to a more high-octane generation of gamers that have trouble seeing past THE MEMEZ and UG-suplexing. But the astute Metal Gear player sees the core of this game's events as another harolding of societal manipulation. But in fairness, the original Deus Ex gave us our first glimpse of meme warfare.

4:35 Sam the mercenary from tf2

Rodrigues*

No Z bro

Com a referência direta de Minuano, dificilmente ele é de São Paulo, ele provavelmente nasceu entre os 3 estados do Sul pois o Minuano é características desses estados, e enquanto a descendência Japonesa/italiana Paraná e Rio Grande do Sul preenchem esse quesito

@@Adriano_Kohls Isso não tem nada a ver, Mistral é da Argélia porém o vento que ela representa somente sopra nos alpes franceses, Sundowner é do Alabama mas seu vento vem da Califórnia, Khamsin é Americano mas seu vento sopra no Oriente Médio, a localização dos ventos não representa necessariamente de onde o personagem vem.

@@JohnnyLouisXIX correto, o vento é mais pelas características deles do que necessariamente onde nasceram.

@@JohnnyLouisXIX mas dentre fatos esse é o único que nós temos, não há nada que aponte que ele vem de São Paulo, e algo que aponta que ele vem do sul.

@@roygreed São Paulo é o estado com o maior número de Japoneses

I hope we'll get that video in the good ol' days after 9/11

@@aphato2770 Eh, he'll need to get in touch with his inner child first.

@@walkermcmullin8665 I doubt he can criticize him in any way though, Sundowner's fuckin' invincible, after all.

@@aphato2770 He won't release it for now. Not while it's still useful.

Bro, Sundowner is my favorite of the Winds and despite his flawed boss fight (though still awesome if you dont pull a dummy and forget to cut his shields off), hes just so much fun and I wanna know his backstory better. God, why couldnt we have a Sundowner DLC?

also note that he learned he learned not to give them a sharp stick to impale him with you never know when your enemy will harden his diagonally cut arm and stab you

Sam lost function of his right arm. Raiden had his left arm completely sliced off

If you haven't seen it yet, someone has done an analysis of his Ideologies, and an overall analysis of his character in contrast to Raiden: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J0Txjd4PwNA.html

That gives an explanation for stuff like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Multiculturalism!

as a brazilian, I can confirm: it's true

Yep. Brazil has the largest italian and japanese population outside their original countries, mainly on the state of São Paulo, where nearly half of the population have italian ancestry, like Rodrigo Santoro (Westworld, 300, as Xerxes), and a great bunch of them of japanese ancestry like Lyoto Machida, MMA champion and karate fighter. The "Liberdade" in the city of São Paulo is also the largest japanese community outside Japan. So, it's not hard to meet people like Sam. As a matter of fact, three of my uncles and two of my cousins are actually japanese-italian-brazilians.

Então você é meio brasileiro como eu, legal. Eu sou um BR, mas meu pai é Russo. Minha mãe é descendente de italianos por parte da minha avó e de tribos índigenas pelo meu avô.

@@vergilthedeadbeat5474 Meio brasileiro? kkkk como que funciona isso?

Love to hear what your college instructor thought about your essay, did he listen to the song as well? Maybe play the game?

😂 Says the man who dream too much and meet the Jack Ripper in action

The action and combat as well as the soundtrack are absolute godly. This game will always be legandary to me

Facts are statements that are correct,so it is a statement.

@@sarpyagzsonsaat2293 yeah i'm not a very smart guy

@@sarpyagzsonsaat2293 pizza is just bread with sauces and cheese

and then raiden fucking marathon ran on foot

Raiden was always a shinobi, since MGS2. He's always been an agent rather than a fighter, until rising of course, but even in Rising he still uses the disguise in Mexico, owing to his stealthful nature. Even in stature the two are contrasted, Sam is wide and burly, while Raiden is slimmer and leaner.

@@theta_clips what’s more is that when playing as Raiden you get the option to do stealth kills, but playing as Sam in his DLC you don’t.

@@daddy_1453 Samurai could be shinobi, if they want. Hanzo Hattori was a shinobi and at the same time, a samurai.

In real life, ninja aren't supposed to engage in combat

@@theta_clips sam thicc

"Why won't you die?!" "Huehue br men KKKKK"

Ver brasileiros em mídia estrangeria é algo tão satisfatório

@@pedrohsilva7473 Opa, como vai compatriota?

@@OGrupxe é bom ver que tem muitos brasileiros por aqui. Fico feliz

Grande dia

I also like the contrast of them Sam is mostly human, with 1 cyborg limb Raiden is that much of a cyborg even his blood his artificial with barely any human parts left in him

Nanomemes, child

Hue hue my people have a spy in this game Brasil 🇧🇷

For me is the fact that it was not made by Kojima and it is weird when considering what the end of mgs4 is suppose to represent. I don’t hate it but as part of the metal gear series, it lives a weird taste in my mouth.

Yeah, and Armstrong is one of my favorite villains of series by far

I think the only 3 hates that I hear a lot are: 1 , the game being somewhat short , true , most campaign games are short , but at least some give you freedom to make a whole level or play someone's level , like in DOOM 2016 2 , the game not having a sequel despite being out for 7 years , and it also sequel baits at the end of the game , that's infuriating 3 , the fact that it's the only game that lets you freely cut enemies , although this is more of a hate on the industry rather then the game itself , come on gaming companies , 7 years and we still didn't get anything like it

@@edselcervantes6229 There's been weirder shit in this franchise. I do t see a problem besides the change in combat. I think it needed a change in gameplay, as there's only so much you can do with stealth compared to a game like this.

@@djordjepopovic7568 (Apologies if this gets a little long.) The second point you raised is no fault of the game itself, but of Konami as the publisher that owns the Metal Gear IP doing nothing with Revengeance despite its unexpected success. Third point I'll give you because despite the Fox Engine that Konami has ownership of showing some real promise in Revengeance and MGS5, nothing meaningful has been done with it. It's wasted potential. I can kind of get how some people would vent that particular frustration on the game, even if it is unreasonable, and ultimately it ties into the second point since Konami is involved. First point has more to do with the nature of the developer, Platinum Games, and their design philosophy with what they develop. A lot of the staff who worked on Revengeance were some of the same people who worked on the first three Devil May Cry games, and those games have a similar structure in their narrative, how missions/acts are staged, and the length of the game. A big part of the replayability of their games (including Bayonetta 1&2, Transformers: Devastation, and more recently Astral Chain) is that their main stories are compact and tight, meant to work with an entertaining narrative that has some complexity, but never leaning too far into a narrative experience. Standard playtime for these kinds of games is between four to ten hours, depending on if you're exploring/having difficulty/speedrunning/farming to upgrade skills/finding collectibles. Story and gameplay have to work together, because these are video *games*, not interactive movies. This allows players who enjoyed the gameplay to repeat the game on higher difficulties to test and refine their skills, which is given direct feedback through the scoring system. So those who get mad or dislike Revengeance for the first point you raised kind of miss the whole point of character action games, and that Revengeance is about enjoying the ride that is the story AND gameplay. As for me, I don't really hang around circles that openly dislike or hate Revengeance. I know one person online who really dislikes the game, but that's more due to specific characters causing her an intense emotional reaction from the philosophies they espouse, and it really angers and freaks her out that they'd say such things.

Idk about ever

Sam was xp vs Raiden's tech

I have to disagree with you there. When you call Doktor, he says straight up that technology wouldn't be the deciding factor in the duel. Obviously you can't take that at face value, but you gotta remember that just cause Sam's not fully augmented, doesn't make his tech a slouch compared to Raiden's. Sam was clearly able to catch and momentarily stop a downward cleave from Raiden with his bare hands, he's able to block multiple hits from a fully enhanced Raiden with one hand on his sword before losing his balance, his armor could tank hooks from Armstrong, and the exosuit provides enough strength behind his HF blade and attacks to cut a Metal Gear RAY clean in half. Raiden won fair and square, and only lost the first time because even Sam knew he wasn't at the top of his game.

@Aquarium Gravel You know thats a good point

sam’s literally wearing an exosuit ala solidus so he can keep up with cyborgs. otherwise yeah his perception is pretty fucking insane since he can react to raiden’s sub-relative sword swings

I challenged myself with doing a no-hit run on the hardest difficulty. I'm not entirely sure if I did it but I remember for sure that Sam and Armstrong I was able to do it successfully. Which was pretty satisfying. Incidentally I only used the Katana because I may have forgotten about the other weapons and I was most comfortable using it

Like a true samurai

i did that accidentally because i had no nanopaste

This is the Only Way to Actually Fight Sam, Any way else is just Disrespectful

i played the entire game without heals because i chose to. it was too easy with heals i only used 1 repair nanopaste on the first play during the monsoon fight

yeah I also think he's cool

Literally, the cool brazilian wind

Minuano is a indigenous tribe in the South of Brazil. But yes, the southern region of Brazil are mostly populated by germans and italians. Actually, german is a co-offical language in many cities in the south. The italians and japanese are more common in São Paulo (southeast region).

I am brazilian but I don't know nothing about minuano. But here in Parana I heard something about this. I need to learn more about my own country.

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for all we know he's a knight too.

Bro his look is so normal in Brazil, it is not a italian thing.

I understand why, that shit eating grin, can't help but love him

Same even though I've never played the game. I LOVE him😍

That's gonna be a big ass shoe

Verdade, cara. Espero que seja o primeiro de muitos. Queremos mais Samuels e menos Blankas.

@@vergilthedeadbeat5474 o blanka até que é legal como personagem,mas o samuel é legal como personagem BR,um dos poderes dele na dlc é zuar os inimigos,tem algo mais br que isso ?

@@vergilthedeadbeat5474 Concordo plenamente, o Sam é um personagem mt foda.

That would be dope

could you imagine playing mgrr 2 and raidens gone fucking batshit in like a cutscene or something theres the sound of approaching footsteps paired with the sound of win then, and only then, would sam's theme start playing

Or maybe play as a new character in the game that fights with raiden and during the fight, plays sam's theme with different lyrics

Actually I think a better idea on how that could work is Raiden going insane and he hears and sees Sam telling him to be better than this, better than him and it starts a boss fight from *Sam's* perspective with the same moveset as Raiden currently as you face against Jack the Ripper. This Sam is of course a delusion that Raiden sees in his madness but the fight will still be real. If I could write a song for the fight I'd make it a reprise of "The only thing I know is real", but with a few hints of other MGR themes and a different set of lyrics. I guess example lyrics of it would be... _My spirit was broken, My body was smoking, all I had left was only my name!_ _But now I see through my act of treason, was worth that whole reason that I left you my family's blade!_ _Your path has been broken, your end is uncertain, but it doesn't have to be this way you now feel!_ _You claim to know nothing but blood-shed, but I'll continue to shake my head._ _You were the one, left, who continued my fight when I once had ran from death._ _Because I know you have fought against your original fate. Oh, yeah!_ _You claim to know nothing but blood-shed, but I won't run again like I once let my past self done._ _Take back your identity, to know why we are the same._ _To find the truth in front of me, I must fight against the storming rage._ _Looking upwards to see the bright light! And finally remembering the reason I fight!_

@@merchantziro4285 Neat idea

Sam's theme is awesome

@@binho2010ish *red sun intensifies*

@@binho2010ish I love how Sam's theme is also less 'robotic-sounding' if you know what I mean? It's good old fashioned heavy metal, with some amazing lyrics. Plus, I also hear flutes in the background. The lyrics also being about loss of one's identity feel really personal and somewhat relatable. Bah, let's face it, the entire OST of this game is god-tier.

@@hagoromootsutski9058 I know exactly what you mean.

Yeah, alot of them

One could even see Sam proceeding with the fight against Raiden anyways despite not being certain of his own beliefs as a means of carrying out the philosophy of seppuku. He became the thing he set out destroy, and even if there was a chance that the ends would justify the means, he was still willingly playing accomplice to World Marshall's atrocities. By fighting Raiden and setting a timer on the Murasama's lock in case he lost, he genuinely left it up to fate and atoned for his crimes.

Hands down one of the best OSTs in gaming. Right up there with the greatest of soundtracks.

Eh mesmo dane-se

@@ramon1930 🤣

Pai russo, acho que sou único.

@@vergilthedeadbeat5474 único o que?

@@vergilthedeadbeat5474 Não é comum, mas tem. A maioria dos descendentes de eslavos no Brasil são poloneses e ucranianos, mas tem alguns poucos russos sim.

Cara se vc dar um pulo no rio vc vai ver um monte de gente nesse perfil. Especialmente surfistas. Eu n entendo o porquê de vcs quererem fzr nosso país um puxadinho da Itália, parece que vc n tem amor a pátria brother.

@@ramon1930 veio eu não falei que não amo o Brasil, tu tá extrapolando o que eu eu falei e tirando uma conclusão muito louca, só disse descendente de italiano porque que é a informação relevante no contexto de explicar porque o Sam é parecido com Italiano, mas se tu que que eu especifique sou também descendente de Africano, Tupi Guarani(o que fez meu pai querer me dar esse nome) e Polonês, ou seja aquela mistura maravilhosa que a maioria dos brasileiros são.

because Nanomachines Son is the perfect satire of everything wrong with Metal Gear's storytelling in the past (and even in the future with MGSV) and because it's genuinely just funny