Due to this, the game lost 4 boss characters. The story originally was more horror themed. It's not the only project who got late rewrite, MGA1 as an example got it's entire plot and most of the design changed 3 month before release. If the other spin offs are low budget and the main games high budget, MGR had a medium budget. It was bigger than the other MG spin offs, but it was still far less than the usual main MG games. MGR also indeed didn't have a very big budget. Sadly, the 'beta' version of Red Sun from the demo don't have any lyrics, perhaps they would have helped on your theory. Armstrong originally was less 'vulgar' and more cunning and sophisticated, but he got a design and personnality change. As an example Khamsin originally was a boss for the main game, but he was removed due to ressource issues and the staff only reused him for the Bladewolf DLC. I can't talk about Sundowner, but What I can clearly say is that MGR indeed got some rewrite. and now I really wish I could play this theoretical uncompromised Sundowner boss fight. Rather than make them a guaranteed last-phase crescendo, they're sorta crammed into a corner a reward for engaging with mechanics that aren't actually necessary. It's still a perfectly serviceable boss theme, but the lyrics speak to a character direction now on the cutting room floor. The song's already done, it's written, probably even recorded. But there's part of it they can't just repaint: Red Sun. So when Sundowner's moved to Desperado HQ, they realize they can't use the original plan, and instead make him an outright war profiteer to engage in the themes surrounding him more directly. I propose that they moved Sundowner there from a scrapped, more expensive chapter that actually did focus on that side of things perhaps an oil rig in a wartorn nation, or something. It's why they had the 'boss gauntlet' of two bosses, it's why Sundowner's fight has that weirdly brief shooter segment.

Sundowner's chapter is clearly the 'oh crap, we ran out of money' chapter of Revengeance, where Platinum pile up all the scraps of reusable and otherwise unused content they could swing to get together another chapter that's not too surprising or sad, most of Platinum's early games have that chapter. This song is so pro-environmental exploitation that a Captain Planet villain would be proud to have it, so perhaps it was meant for one!

I propose: at the time the song was written, Sundowner was intended as something like an oil magnate. Which is weird, because every single other boss theme in the soundtrack is extremely on the nose for the boss it's for. It's not a theme that doesn't work for the war profiteer that is Sundowner, but it's clearly more focused on the 'industrial' part of the 'military-industrial complex' to the exclusion of all else.

'Arid breeze blows across the mountains Giving flight to the birds of prey In the distance machines come To transform Eden - day by day' I won't copy 'em all, but this is the part that always stuck out to me: Most likely because its vocals are so sidelined that it's the only boss theme where you can miss them entirely.ДЄnd maybe that's intentional. First of all, unsung hero of the soundtrack right here it's hard to beat Revengeance's A-tier, but nobody talks about how Red Sun is a solid B-tier leader. I will not do this, but I will throw down the general outline! Like all good Metal Gear theories, this one has received about ten minutes' worth of thought, and yet could fill twenty minutes' worth of stock footage filled powerpoints.

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