![]() Raiden has his signature weapon-a beautifully-detailed, “high-frequency blade,” which is basically a high tech Japanese-style sword. Seven extra arms, several accessories, and two detachable melons for this cyborg ninja, please. The melon is in two halves, but they can be reattached and detached to your whim, so you can reenact that particularly goofy part of said trailer. Yes, Raiden comes with a melon, which he was last seen slicing in one of the game’s teaser trailers. Raiden comes with seven extra hands, each with a different pose, from the good 'ole karate chop to fingers curled like they want to grasp something, uh, big and round. What’s a ninja without a boatload of killer accessories?Īside from superb articulation, the Revoltech brand is known for one other thing: lots and lots of accessories. ![]() Why would Raiden want to kick his own behind? He also can’t touch his heels to his butt. Yet despite an incredible range of motion, there are limits to his flexibility. Two-handing his massive sword? Easy peasy! Spreading his legs wide open? Oh, you so naughty! But where’s the fun in not being able to pose Raiden like he’s in the middle of one of his infamous naked cartwheels?Įnough joints to reenact those precious naked cartwheel momentsīecause this is Revoltech Yamaguchi we’re talking about, expect over a dozen points of articulation on Raiden for all those magnificent and wacky poses. Together, the sculpt and the paint job produce an excellent likeness of Raiden’s in-game model every inch of him exudes “butt-kicking cybernetic ninja.” Visible joints cannot be perfectly hidden on a figure with this much articulation if you want an exact replica of the 3D model, you’re better off buying an immovable statue, not an action figure. The figure’s armor does have a similar luster to it, but I can’t help but wish it were a tad shinier.Īll in all, these are minor gripes. In the game, Raiden’s entire body armor is polished with a uniform, metallic sheen. The knee joint can’t be seen from the front thanks to the kneecaps, but they are definitely conspicuous from the back, and also when you bend the legs.Īs for the paint job, it’s clean and very well-done, though again, not a perfect translation from the screen. The balls of the elbows interfere with the flow of the muscle striation from biceps to the forearms. A majority of these joints are cleverly hidden, but the elbow and knee ball joints are quite visible. Where the sculpt does suffer are the joint areas. The hands and feet are particularly impressive you can see the knuckles and joints on Raiden’s fingers, and his weird, bird-like feet are just as creepy as they are in the game. The tiniest of these elements don’t look like shapeless blobs of factory defect hell as they usually do on other figures of the same scale, but are instead finely sculpted with exacting precision. Raiden’s biomechanical body is also brimming with details, including the various studs on his chest and stomach the muscle striations in his limbs, torso, and buttocks his rock-hard robot six-pack and the various metallic plates and other cybernetics just about everywhere else. Raiden’s exposed lower teeth are also quite visible, making us wonder how he pronounces words like “mommy” and “behoove.” His coiffure is beautifully done, styled into flowing locks that work nicely with both static and dynamic poses. If you look real closely, you can even see minute details such as those weird bolt things in his skull. I can safely say the face sculpt is an extremely faithful, if not absolutely perfect, rendition of the game’s 3D model. I had to reinstall “Metal Gear Rising” just to see how well the Raiden figure compares to its video game counterpart. Raiden from “Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance” follows after their version of Snake from “Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.” Thankfully, Kaiyodo has showered both with the same amount of love Raiden looks very much like he does in his game, which is amazing considering his six-inch scale. No naked cartwheels or incessant whining here Raiden was back with a vengeance-or should I say, “revengeance.” Even his luscious platinum-blond locks didn’t survive the transition with polished silver hair and a battle-hardened mug only Kojima could love, Raiden was a full-fledged, sword-wielding, spine-ripping killer cyborg.Īnd that brings us to Kaiyodo’s latest entry in their Revoltech Yamaguchi line of super-articulated action figures. And then, early this year, Raiden even starred in his very own game. Michael LogartaBut series and character creator, Hideo Kojima, wasn’t done with Raiden just yet, awarding him not only a pivotal role in 2008’s Metal Gear Solid 4, but also a sleek and sexy new look as a badass ninja cyborg.
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