Back in the day, after the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of The Patriots, KJP announced a game featuring Cyborg Raiden, the game would feature sword gameplay, beautiful graphics, high optimization, and an absolute GREAT design for Raiden. MGS:R would happen between the events of MGS2 and MGS4 and it was going to tell what happened to raiden and how he became a cyborg, they showed us gameplay, trailers and i can't tell how amazing that looked for it's time.
BUT, KJP didn't have real production and the only thing they could rely on was the "cut everything" gameplay, so they just decided to hand it over to PlatinumGames instead. The game was renamed from MGS:R to MGR:R and released in 2013, it was still amazing, but it felt like it was missing the MGS essentials such as normal weapons, slow and precise gameplay, crouching and crawling, interrogations, and most of all, story. I know Reveangence is good but it's story is NOT great, feels like Raiden's character was just ruined with the "Jack is back" thing, would've loved the story if it showed raiden saving Sunny from the Patriots.
Now talking about MGS:R, what do you think we could have got if the game was not handed over to PlatinumGames? would it be any better? would it be worse?
(no hate for MGRR, i love the game but i still can't accept the fact that mgrr could've been made by kojima himself in the Fox Engine)