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Sex & Nudity
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- During VR missions, the player, when confronted with cutouts of enemy cyborgs holding hostages, can optionally cut in such a way that not only gets rid of the soldier, but also cuts the hostage cutouts' clothes off, leaving them in their underwear. Something similar happens in-game if the player attempts to cut down a hostage after freeing them.
- One of the methods of bypassing or otherwise luring the enemy is by throwing a device that conjures a 3D photo of a bikini clad lady that is strongly implied to be pornographic.
- A character disparagingly claimed that the President of the United States was the type to "strip naked and dance on his desk in the Oval Office" to boost his poll numbers in an optional Codec call.
- In the English version of the game, a character tells another character to find a remote device to upload data (called a DOOMP) in such a way that was misconstrued as telling him to use a toilet.
Violence & Gore
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- The original trailer (for a now cancelled game, Metal Gear Solid: Rising) depicted more brutal ways of killing cyborgs.
- One of the major gameplay features is "blade mode" which allows the player to freely slice and cut off an enemy's limbs.
- The "Zandatsu" is pretty violent.
- The most gory & violent Metal Gear game
- Trailers have shown dismemberment of cyborgs. A lot of blood.
- At one point, one of the bad guys cuts another individual on the neck with his sword as part of a torture session. In addition, the same bad guy later (and literally) stabs said man in the back shortly after releasing him from his bonds. He also at one point grabs the man by the throat.
- Scenes of the game as well as promotional materials strongly imply that the main character, during a duel with another cyborg, ends up having his left eye largely destroyed and his left arm dismembered.
- At one point, a robotic dog attempts to kill the main character reluctantly. One of his attacks is shooting knives at him, and another entails pouncing the main character and then ramming his chainsaw blade through his chest before tossing him aside, with the main character's reaction implying that it was extremely painful.
- At one point, the main character grabs a giant mech upon parrying its blade attack, throws it a great distance, and cuts apart its sword arm. He later cuts off its missile pod. This isn't very violent however, because it's a robot.
- One of the main bad guys ends up doused with liquid nitrogen.
- Viral marketing materials depict the main character's surgery, particularly the removal of his (now destroyed) eye. Another viral marketing material showed a flashback depicting what is strongly implied to be an interrogation of another soldier regarding leaked information, as well as the commander slitting the hapless soldier's throat while the main protagonist (then a child) watched.
- A trailer depicted the main character, having undergone a split personality, stroking his HF Blade. The sheath of the blade shows that it's completely splattered with blood that came from being impaled himself. It's also implied that his regression was the result of willingly being reexposed to pain.
Profanity
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- This has the most swearing out of all the Metal Gear Solid games so far, especially with the F-bombs, as more are said in this game than in the others.
- Several uses of "Damn," "Hell," and "Bastard," as well as at least two instances of "Shit" in a manner that implies a synonym with "joking around," and at least one use of the word "ass" or "asshole." Several instances of the F-bomb being dropped:
- Two being dropped by Mistral.
- Two being dropped by Raiden (one only in a Codec conversation).
- Three being dropped by Sundowner.
- Nine being dropped by Steven Armstrong (five of which were in a chain, and one of which was in the Jetstream DLC).
- One being dropped by a passenger of another car (as well as one implied instance of giving the middle finger).
- *Several being dropped by various cyborg soldiers when attacked, and even when panicking at one point in the game.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Senator Armstrong smokes a cigar after walking out of a large mech called Excelsus. He then walks back into it before getting into a boss fight.
- One of the viral marketing trailers has a flashback sequence where a physician forcibly injected the main protagonist (then a child) with a substance that was implied to have left him in a permanently different state.
- A Codec conversation revealed that the main bad guys were involved in the drug trade, among other things such as terrorism and human trafficking.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- Some of the viral marketing materials depict the main character undergoing emergency surgery shortly after he ended up defeated and left for dead, and the main character is undergoing flashbacks to his past as a child soldier. Some of the imagery, both the surgery itself and the flashbacks, are significantly disturbing.
- Some of the violence seen is extreme, and is definitely not meant to be viewable by kids.
- At one point in the game, the main character stumbles into a room containing various cranial canisters, with the implication being that they contained brains formerly belonging to street children abducted by the main villains. This scene is very disturbing to some viewers.
- Later in the game, the main character ends up having to fight several soldiers while also hearing their panicked thoughts about having to attack the hero and their having to commit atrocities, and it's strongly implied that the hero ends up emotionally unstable as a result. This'll be very disturbing and distressing to viewers. The main character shortly thereafter surrenders himself to a violent alternate personality called Jack the Ripper, also gaining a red aura late into the same trailer, which makes him seem very demonic with a maniacal personality to match. In the same scene, he also encounters a villain who references the Khmer Rouge's genocidal activities with the implication that he had become nihilisitic and misanthropic as a result of his experience under it. The statements will be deeply disturbing for various Cambodian players who witnessed the event in question.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Raiden puts a hole in Senator Armstrong's chest using his fist, he then pulls Armstrong's heart out and then crushes it in his fist, Armstrong is shown talking for a bit before dying.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Senator Armstrong has a veiny chest due to "Nanomachines". The veins can be seen as disgusting to some.
- Senator Armstrong understands that he is about to die at the end, he then says that Raiden will be his successor before going on a speech about how war will continue. Raiden listens and then kills Armstrong in his "Ripper" personality.
