Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - How to Heal

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With the unexpected online popularity of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, players may be tempted to experience the fast-paced gameplay and crazy storyline for themselves. However, the tutorials provided in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance are not always clear, resulting in crucial moments being interrupted by a player's inability to heal midway through an intense battle.

Despite Rising's debatable canon status in the Metal Gear universe, a recent spike in popularity arisen from memes being shared has led to renewed interest in the game. Therefore, it is important for newer gamers to know precisely how to use their health pickups on demand in order to make good progress when tackling the eponymous mecha.

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Newcomers to the Metal Gear series' oft-disturbing moments may be unaware of how the franchise deals with specific context-sensitive moments like automatic healing.

Unlike regenerative health, the player can choose two ways to heal depending on their play style: opening the weapons/equip menu and manually selecting any health item that increases Raiden's HP level.

The second way is to equip a health item in the active window, which will automatically be used up whenever Raiden's health hits zero. However, it is wise for players to frequently check the number of finite health pickups they have, so they don't get a nasty surprise when trying to replenish health with no pickups in the inventory.

Health items come in different varieties across the game, either as standard pickups or obtained from successfully dispatching enemies.

These items include Repair Nanopaste, which ties into some particularly infamous Metal Gear Solid themes, and the Electrolyte Pack. When