Reception
Gray Fox was by far best received and now remains best remembered from his Cyborg Ninja appearance in MGS. As such, Gray Fox was ranked as the third top villain ("whether players are rescuing Gray Fox, battling against him, or watching gleefully as he rips entire rooms of soldiers to shreds, Gray Fox never fails to impress") and the fourth best boss to battle in the series by IGN in 2008. In 2008, IGN's Jesse Schedeen compared Gray Fox to Vergil from the Devil May Cry series as "two formidable warriors from the videogaming realm" who both "met their unfortunate ends in the games," adding that he is "the little ninja who left a big mark on the Metal Gear series." The demise of Gray Fox was featured in GameSpy's 2008 article about the series' eight top moments, included on the list of ten most depressing deaths in video games by Shubhankar Parijat of GamingBolt in 2011, and ranked at seventh place among the "awesome and awful" character deaths in video games by Phil Hornshaw of GameFront that same year, as well as the fourth top Metal Gear highlight by PSU.com's Mike Harradence in 2012.
He was also frequently featured in the lists of top ten fictional ninja characters in video gaming (and sometimes in all fiction), including by Virgin Media, 1UP.com in 2004 (ranked fifth), CrunchGear in 2008 (ranked ninth), Unreality in 2009 (ranked second), Nintendo Power, GameSpot (ranked fourth), and ScrewAttack (ranked second) in 2010, and Cheat Code Central in 2011 (ranked fifth). Ian Dransfield of PLAY also featured him in the 2011 list top ten ninjas for PlayStation consoles, adding that although Raiden "may have completely redeemed his character", he "can never outdo" Gray Fox, and in 2012 Complex ranked him as the third swiftest ninja in games. In 2012, Complex ranked him at number sixth on the list of characters they wanted to see in Super Smash Bros. Brawl 4, adding, "the Metal Gear Solid series has plenty of other characters to choose from, but we think the Cyborg Ninja would be the perfect selection." The return of Gray Fox as a playable character in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance was requested by several publications that same year, including EGM, Shacknews and ScrewAttack.
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