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"Rules of Nature" is the main theme for Metal Gear RAY and Grad in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The lyrics describe a metaphor for survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom, but applied to today's society. Raiden is portrayed as the weak prey (smaller physical size), and Metal Gear RAY as the strong predator or hunter (through sheer size, military equipment and power), showing that force alone does not guarantee victory and that victory can be won through ingenuity. The confrontation with the GRAD is similar: GRAD is an armored Unmanned Gear, equipped with machine guns and shields, but Raiden can break through its defenses with his High Frequency blade.

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  • "Rules of Nature" is the main theme for Metal Gear RAY and Grad in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The lyrics describe a metaphor for survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom, but applied to today's society. Raiden is portrayed as the weak prey (smaller physical size), and Metal Gear RAY as the strong predator or hunter (through sheer size, military equipment and power), showing that force alone does not guarantee victory and that victory can be won through ingenuity. The confrontation with the GRAD is similar: GRAD is an armored Unmanned Gear, equipped with machine guns and shields, but Raiden can break through its defenses with his High Frequency blade.
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  • "Rules of Nature" is the main theme for Metal Gear RAY and Grad in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The lyrics describe a metaphor for survival of the fittest in the animal kingdom, but applied to today's society. Raiden is portrayed as the weak prey (smaller physical size), and Metal Gear RAY as the strong predator or hunter (through sheer size, military equipment and power), showing that force alone does not guarantee victory and that victory can be won through ingenuity. The confrontation with the GRAD is similar: GRAD is an armored Unmanned Gear, equipped with machine guns and shields, but Raiden can break through its defenses with his High Frequency blade. Another interpretation of the lyrics paints the song as a lament for/by the Unmanned Gears, describing them as "a starving beast" and "a predator on the verge of death". This mirrors the change in warfare depicted in the game - with the advent of cyborg technology, unmanned weapons like RAY and GRAD are becoming obsolete, despite being the core of warfare strategies a few years ago. In this interpretation, the song could also foreshadow Raiden's defeat at the hands of Samuel Rodriguez at the end of the prologue - like RAY, Raiden's own cybernetics are outdated by the standards of the game's timeline. Like all the songs of the album Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Vocal Tracks, the prototype version of "Rules of Nature" included in the demo version of the game had different lyrics: the beta originally says «Locked & Loaded» in the chorus. Unlike "A Stranger I Remain", where the only change was the order of the lyrics, in "Locked & Loaded" the lyrics and duration time change completely, remade from scratch for the final version of the song as it appears in-game. Also, "Locked & Loaded" has the drums come in stronger during the ending of the song than in "Rules of Nature (Platinum Mix)" because the track is not remixed and conserves the original instrumentation without sound effects.
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