Mortym, you owe yourself a playthrough of some of the older Metal Slug games. Metal Slug 3 in particular. A real blast to play and the pixel art is just absolutely gorgeous.
I love the Neo-Geo pixel art style. EDIT: I picked this up after watching your review. To anyone else considering buying it...the bugs are real. It's technically "playable" right now but that's about it. There is a lot of potential here and quite a few original ideas and mechanics but many many many bugs that make trying to enjoy the game a frustrating experience.
Just finished my first full run (about 4 hours total played) and have not encountered any bugs so far. Playing on PS4, maybe I got lucky. Regardless, I have been thoroughly enjoying this game’s spin on the TRPG genre, love the insane chains of abilities you can concoct to wipe whole screens of enemies, and I’m looking forward to using the unlocked characters and loadouts. Thanks again Mort, fantastic review as always, one of the inly reviewers I trust these days. I was super excited for this game, Metal Slug being one of my favourite quarter-munchers from back in the day; I was fortunate enough that my dad and uncle co-owned a business for a while in my hometown that had an SNK (Neo-Geo?) arcade cabinet. Good memories of Metal Slug (I think it was 2) at their place and Raiden Fighters 2 at my LGS/Collectable store. The collectable store also had the OG Adams Family pinball machine! You never know how lucky you were until you look back.
Right, in the interest of transparency I think every reviewer should have to link what trophies/ achievements they unlocked to prove how much of the game they played. To this day I’m convinced the reviewer who gave a bad review to El Shadai: Ascension of the Metatron for IGN back when the review on IGN really mattered only played it through on easy difficulty based on the text of the review.
Metal Slug X is probably my favorite in the series. I've probably spent more than 100 dollars in quarters playing it so many times back in Jr. High. I felt so old when you described your experience with Metal Slug.
Only got three hours in, but so far I'm having a lot of fun. On the other hand, good lord there are so many concepts to wrap your head around, it's overwhelming at first
I kinda love that so many old-school, arcadey Japanese games are getting introduced to the PC crowd via Steam. PC gaming guys have been missing out on some of the all-time best games and it's awesome seeing a new audience discover this stuff.
It makes me feel old that you didn't know what this game was. When I was still in high school I would go to a pc arcade to play Battlefield, counter strike, DDR, Marvel vs Capcom 2. This was one of my favorite side stroller games of all time.
i was hoping it would be more TRPG than it is. I like it decent enough, but its not really what i was hoping for. that said the depth of tactical gameplay is more than ive experienced in any TRPG. its way more indepth than just stand behind person to crit and try to end turn with back to wall. You can and will play this sloppily at first until you eventually turn into rain man and start doing crazy combos and scoring the secondary objective much more often
He has regularly put in 80 hour weeks on his Steam account, which doesn't even factor in editing time. I can't fault him for having an insanely good work ethic.
As a latino i played Metal Slugs games a ton, im really enjoying this, despite the bugs, i love strategy games, and this is a good one, plus is pretty cool to see old Metal Slug bosses from an isometric perspective
lmao it is 730 in the morning and i woke up drunk so, i am so, so absolutely here for new upload from someone who takes their job seriously this, mandaloregaming, and GrimBeard yall my heroes, esp you Mort, love that you have come so far and you did it with this "100%" status bc you do not fk around
To hear there's someone out there unfamiliar with Metal Slug as a series makes me realize how ancient I really am lmao. Loved them and played the heck out of them on arcade, PSX and eventually the Wii's Anthology. Wish they'd bring that to Steam tbh
When i heard that i was confused as hell. I feel like metal slug is a critically significant series in the history of arcades / an example of how incredible pixel art can be. Not gonna lie when I heard dude say that I immediately questioned whether or not i should trust him 😂
I have been interested in checking this out! My backlog is so long, though, that I fear I’ll never get around to it. 😂 I did have one suggestion, though: It would be a great addition to your videos if you’d say, “It took me xx hours to achieve my 100% play through.” Either that, or you could include it in the description? I’m sure there are completely valid reasons for not doing this, but it’s just something I’ve noticed & I wanted to mention it. As always, thank you for all that you do; another solid review to add to your catalogue!
Thanks for an excellent review. Just took it off my Steam Wishlist. Although the bugs will get patched, the constant jiggling of the characters and vehicles alone would drive me crazy. But I certainly get the appeal to Metal Slug fans, it's a leap forward from side scrolling. Well, to each his own - waiting for Mars Tactics.
Sorry folks... I got the key 3 days ago so I couldn't completely master 100% badass this game this until now. I wish TH-cam allowed me to give a humble award.
Man, I've been loving this game. Crunchy and precise puzzling, but also fun and flashy. Wears Into the Breach inspirations on its sleeve, but cleverly adapted
It is surprising to me how you don't seem to have played Into the Breach nor Metal Slug games, I guess this is a first for me (where I am extremely used to both). It's nice that you reviewed it in the perspective of something fresh. I'm gonna take the TH-cam jazz opportunity to recommend taking a look at Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue, I think you'd like it and it could use some eye son it, especially if you've played Front Mission games. May you wander in wisdom Mort.
You really should play the original Slug Games. The collection of Metal Slug, Metal Slug x and Metal Slug 3 is on sale for like 3 bucks right now. These games play like contra but are arcade games so much harder, but also you can just quarter feed so you can beat them in like a few hours if you want to just plow through them.
Srpg meeting my favourite run and fun arcade game is something I never thought I'd see happen glad to see it's a good game Man those pixel animations are so gorgeous, just like in the arcade games. That and the great music always made metal slug stand out
I watched a different review, and the reviewer commented that he didn't like the more melee focused characters because melee attacks didn't do much more damage to make melee attacks feel worth performing. Did you have those same thoughts as well?
Not really, melee usually does better damage especially for sync attacks because it deals more damage with the primary weapon which is what syncs use, and also lets you one shot a lot of enemies early on. It takes more work to get them into position which can be frustrating which combined with less multi target is probably what they were referring to. Mostly a preference thing I'd say
Thanks for the review mort! We are in the process of moving houses right now so I can't play it currently but with any luck by the time we're fully settled it will have been patched further
You may actually like metal slug awakening. It is a free-to-play base game with a stamina limit, however there is so much to do in the game that you can quite literally Play 3 to 5 hours a day if you want to without even having to worry about the stamina being an issue. Even when you run out, there's other side things you can do. It's literally packed full of different things to do.
Honestly really surprising Metal Slug fits the TBS style so well, but they really did it justice. Also love the NEO GEO pixel style, just as beautiful as ever.
From the review I get the impression it was pretty grindy? Did you get that feeling when playing? Beyond your character/progression choices, what actually changes from run to run? It sounded like there's a pool of totally static missions, and once you're done, you're done, no more to see? Any mention of plans to expand contentwise by the devs?
I wouldn't say it's grindy. There isn't really anything to "grind" for outside of unlocking more characters and traits to show up in runs, and even those are like 4 or 5 per gun, 3 or 4 traits per character and the characters themselves only require you to win with most of the roster / with a certain percentage of map completion. No comment on any additional content post-release.
It’s more combinations of content. I played 3 runs yesterday after work and stayed up super late. It’s ALOT like through the breach but with more intricate subsystems Also I love the “you gotta move every turn to not die” really gives it a different feel then other tactics games
I absolutely love the core of this game, but the bugs are immediately noticeable and a real bummer. I was just expecting half of my units' abilities to not work at all by the end of my first run. Gonna be putting it down for a while and hoping some patches come soon
I think this is the first indie retro roguelike TRPG I've ever played and it's a solid 9/10 title, if you like Metal Slug, indie games, retro style games, roguelikes and TRPGs then your going to love this game, understandably it won't appeal to a lot of people because its so many things
Opinion: I think they should balance some character that are underperforming. While other could probably solo map by himself. For exemple; those that can keep dodge bonus + bonus action. The most annoying problem on console, don't know for PC. Sometime, the game take forever to finish a turn. It load load, load, load, load. Especially on boss a turn can take 2 minutes to complet per action. It doesn't happen often, usually I have to restart the game or complet the map. A funny bug is with the save prisonner. If you move to the prisonner location and save him. You can unmove back to original location and the prisonner will still be save. lol
Thanks for the video. This is not a supermassive game, so it's odd that their are so many bugs. I'm excited to see what it's like when it's finally patched. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.
All the bugs and the long delay make me think the devs bit off more than they could chew, and SNK decided to just put their foot down with a release date.
I'm playing on Switch and so far I'm not experiencing anything other than performance issues. Too many animations/ hud info is really dragging down the frame rate in certain areas. Theres also a little bit of Audio delay when performing actions ( not sure if that's present on steam) To be honest I'm on my 4th run I've lost once and that was due to figuring out the mechanics and the next two runs were beaten on Easy and then Medium. Currently running through Hard now. I do agree for a Roguelite the structure of the game is a bit lacking. should have been at least 2 more areas. I definitely feel like the game could be a little more challenging for a Roguelite but I do think that all depends on the player. As for the busted counter system that may be on steam as I haven't experienced what you mentioned here. Also are you sure you're supposed to get credit for environmental kills... If it says get Frags with a particular character you have to target them directly to get the counter. Remember people, Frags are Kills in this game.
Wow. Metal Slug was huge when I was a kid. And to be honest, when I heard there would be a tactical game from the Metal Slug franchise, I thought it was going to be some knockoff trash game exploiting people's nostalgia. But this looks fantastic. Definitely going to try it myself. Thanks for the review
Darn, I loved Metal Slug back in the day, and was really hoping this would be more "XCOM" than "Into The Breach". Still interested, but no longer a must-buy for me.
As someone who grew up with NeoGeo arcade games, all i wanted to know is if the gameplay was good enough. The rest of the negatives will be overshadowed by the nostalgia googles. 😂
omg, so thats how you get true ending..by finished the game on the highest difficulty...fvck...the 2nd difficulty already makes me scratch my head if my team were not suited for certain stage/mission
There are only 2 kind of people playing this game: -The young gamer thinking "what a fun game with good loocking art" -The not so young gamer that instinctively search for change every time one of his characters dies
I'll probably wait till it's less buggy althou I think I might have preferred if it remained a side scrolling shooter like the arcade games I played way back when. Thanks for the review.
3 days x 16 work hours per day = 48 hours, and allows for 6 hours of sleep with 2 hours of eating, showering, etc each day. I couldn't do it, but some can!
I got the key a few days before release not on the 5th, this one was kind of monotonous to get all the dialogues and epilogues but was otherwise pretty unremarkable
@@MortismalGaming That makes more sense, I got the impression that the review copy was sent to you on release day. Can you elaborate on these dialogues and epilogues?
Yeah a lot of bugs. The first boss i didn't get how to hit him because the game didn't show me that it was possible. So i kept killing enemies around him. That made the game go into crazy nlong loading times. I also ran into the bosses not being in the right spot. killcount not working on the tank. if your character has a lot of buffs it just gets difficult to remember how they all work together with the other characters diffferent buffs. i kept having to go look at what a character could do. But to do that you have to individually click on the abbilities to read a much to small text to read on a big screen... I did have a good time but will wait now to play until thay fix some stuff
The game got pretty BS hard on higher difficulties. I do enjoy the game but tbh many of the loadouts are very combo specific with very little deviations. I feels that this game is even stricter than Into the Breach and it really dampen my enjoyment of this game. Imo it need a bit of adjustment, especially those chase the convoy bs on higher difficulties. The content like u already said is pretty lacking, none of the mod is a straight up buff for easier latter runs.
Thanks for another great review! Can’t hang with any more super buggy games. Don’t care if it’s cheap or the tram is small. Release a product in a professional state. Steam has WAY too many games in terrible condition. The acceptable bar of quality is too low, too often.
Feeling old with no one seeming to know about the greatness of the Metal slug series
The French team did a great job with this one - glad SNK gave them the green light. Bugs aside it’s a cracking RTRPG
Amen. Loved your review as well!
RTRPG?
@@razmatazz9310Rogue Tactical Role Playing Game. Guess he’s done stretching for the year.
@@larelare1 I thought he was going to say "Real time RPG" and I was ready to pounce.
Ahh the metal slug animation is a thing of beauty....when games try to go for the retro style i wish more games went for that
Sea of Stars is similar.
Not in this case. The flashing is a bit much for me.
That's honestly one of the main reasons I'm interested in this game. The original gameplay was ok but this is way more my type of fun
I love 2D sprites. Looking forward to the Dragon Quest Remasters.
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Mortym, you owe yourself a playthrough of some of the older Metal Slug games. Metal Slug 3 in particular. A real blast to play and the pixel art is just absolutely gorgeous.
Yea, it's something he can play with his kid.
Literally the only Metal Slug game since 7 to have good art direction.
As a fan of both MS and strategy games, this is a wet dream.
Definitely
Great to see a new Metal Slug game that actually looks like some effort went into it
Wait for a few patches to drop. The game has more bugs and glitches, and some of them are gamebreaking.
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I love the Neo-Geo pixel art style.
EDIT: I picked this up after watching your review. To anyone else considering buying it...the bugs are real. It's technically "playable" right now but that's about it. There is a lot of potential here and quite a few original ideas and mechanics but many many many bugs that make trying to enjoy the game a frustrating experience.
I hate it.
@@reinach77Why? Just curious.
@@robertgodlewski8553 each to his own. I prefer HD detailed art.
Some people, sadly have limited appreciation for different artstyles.
@@rendelldraw so you think everyone should appreciate every art style?
I wish this game was longer, more maps, more kinds of missions and enemies
Dlc is supposedly coming
Just finished my first full run (about 4 hours total played) and have not encountered any bugs so far. Playing on PS4, maybe I got lucky. Regardless, I have been thoroughly enjoying this game’s spin on the TRPG genre, love the insane chains of abilities you can concoct to wipe whole screens of enemies, and I’m looking forward to using the unlocked characters and loadouts. Thanks again Mort, fantastic review as always, one of the inly reviewers I trust these days.
I was super excited for this game, Metal Slug being one of my favourite quarter-munchers from back in the day; I was fortunate enough that my dad and uncle co-owned a business for a while in my hometown that had an SNK (Neo-Geo?) arcade cabinet. Good memories of Metal Slug (I think it was 2) at their place and Raiden Fighters 2 at my LGS/Collectable store.
The collectable store also had the OG Adams Family pinball machine!
You never know how lucky you were until you look back.
It's awesome that your reviews have a Steam Deck section! Love it!
Right, in the interest of transparency I think every reviewer should have to link what trophies/ achievements they unlocked to prove how much of the game they played. To this day I’m convinced the reviewer who gave a bad review to El Shadai: Ascension of the Metatron for IGN back when the review on IGN really mattered only played it through on easy difficulty based on the text of the review.
Metal Slug X is probably my favorite in the series. I've probably spent more than 100 dollars in quarters playing it so many times back in Jr. High.
I felt so old when you described your experience with Metal Slug.
Only got three hours in, but so far I'm having a lot of fun. On the other hand, good lord there are so many concepts to wrap your head around, it's overwhelming at first
Was interested when I heard this was coming out and appreciate the informative review as with all of your content!
Haha the mummy mechanic is also a throw back. Didn't know mort was such a whipper snapper. Metal slug is legendary
I kinda love that so many old-school, arcadey Japanese games are getting introduced to the PC crowd via Steam. PC gaming guys have been missing out on some of the all-time best games and it's awesome seeing a new audience discover this stuff.
Great review, as always. Thank you.
Would love to see your view on Into the Breach and Fire Emblem.
Wait wait?! There’s a Metal Slug Tactics game?! I need this in my library now!
Thanks for the review, will give it a bit to get the bugs ironed out and will probably pick it up early next year.
It makes me feel old that you didn't know what this game was. When I was still in high school I would go to a pc arcade to play Battlefield, counter strike, DDR, Marvel vs Capcom 2. This was one of my favorite side stroller games of all time.
i was hoping it would be more TRPG than it is. I like it decent enough, but its not really what i was hoping for. that said the depth of tactical gameplay is more than ive experienced in any TRPG. its way more indepth than just stand behind person to crit and try to end turn with back to wall. You can and will play this sloppily at first until you eventually turn into rain man and start doing crazy combos and scoring the secondary objective much more often
Game Pass is a great way to play! This game is pretty fun.
Even with the pre release key this review released unexpectedly fast.
He did say it was more game than he initially thought.
He is insane on reviews speed
Expectedly*
He has regularly put in 80 hour weeks on his Steam account, which doesn't even factor in editing time. I can't fault him for having an insanely good work ethic.
As a latino i played Metal Slugs games a ton, im really enjoying this, despite the bugs, i love strategy games, and this is a good one, plus is pretty cool to see old Metal Slug bosses from an isometric perspective
lmao it is 730 in the morning and i woke up drunk so, i am so, so absolutely here for new upload from someone who takes their job seriously
this, mandaloregaming, and GrimBeard yall my heroes, esp you Mort, love that you have come so far and you did it with this "100%" status bc you do not fk around
To hear there's someone out there unfamiliar with Metal Slug as a series makes me realize how ancient I really am lmao. Loved them and played the heck out of them on arcade, PSX and eventually the Wii's Anthology.
Wish they'd bring that to Steam tbh
When i heard that i was confused as hell. I feel like metal slug is a critically significant series in the history of arcades / an example of how incredible pixel art can be. Not gonna lie when I heard dude say that I immediately questioned whether or not i should trust him 😂
Pretty excited for this for no reason really
The art and animation give this old man the nostalgic feels of my youth
Definitely my Christmas gift!🎅 🎄
I have been interested in checking this out! My backlog is so long, though, that I fear I’ll never get around to it. 😂 I did have one suggestion, though: It would be a great addition to your videos if you’d say, “It took me xx hours to achieve my 100% play through.” Either that, or you could include it in the description? I’m sure there are completely valid reasons for not doing this, but it’s just something I’ve noticed & I wanted to mention it. As always, thank you for all that you do; another solid review to add to your catalogue!
Thanks for an excellent review. Just took it off my Steam Wishlist. Although the bugs will get patched, the constant jiggling of the characters and vehicles alone would drive me crazy. But I certainly get the appeal to Metal Slug fans, it's a leap forward from side scrolling. Well, to each his own - waiting for Mars Tactics.
It's so fun! I do hope they add more content
Big thanks for the review Mort. Really looking forward to playing this, but I'll wait for some bug fixes.
No need to ask Mort delivers. Been waiting for you to review this.
Sorry folks... I got the key 3 days ago so I couldn't completely master 100% badass this game this until now.
I wish TH-cam allowed me to give a humble award.
Man, I've been loving this game. Crunchy and precise puzzling, but also fun and flashy. Wears Into the Breach inspirations on its sleeve, but cleverly adapted
This the PERFECT handheld kinda game!
Thanks for the review. I’ll wait a bit
Thanks for the review. Will wait till the bugs get fixed. But it does look interesting. Hope they add more content to it later too.
Love your work.... 🎉
It is surprising to me how you don't seem to have played Into the Breach nor Metal Slug games, I guess this is a first for me (where I am extremely used to both). It's nice that you reviewed it in the perspective of something fresh. I'm gonna take the TH-cam jazz opportunity to recommend taking a look at Kriegsfront Tactics - Prologue, I think you'd like it and it could use some eye son it, especially if you've played Front Mission games. May you wander in wisdom Mort.
You really should play the original Slug Games. The collection of Metal Slug, Metal Slug x and Metal Slug 3 is on sale for like 3 bucks right now. These games play like contra but are arcade games so much harder, but also you can just quarter feed so you can beat them in like a few hours if you want to just plow through them.
Thanks for the review!
Great review!
Srpg meeting my favourite run and fun arcade game is something I never thought I'd see happen glad to see it's a good game
Man those pixel animations are so gorgeous, just like in the arcade games. That and the great music always made metal slug stand out
I watched a different review, and the reviewer commented that he didn't like the more melee focused characters because melee attacks didn't do much more damage to make melee attacks feel worth performing. Did you have those same thoughts as well?
Not really, melee usually does better damage especially for sync attacks because it deals more damage with the primary weapon which is what syncs use, and also lets you one shot a lot of enemies early on. It takes more work to get them into position which can be frustrating which combined with less multi target is probably what they were referring to. Mostly a preference thing I'd say
Thanks for the review mort! We are in the process of moving houses right now so I can't play it currently but with any luck by the time we're fully settled it will have been patched further
Good luck with the move!
Thanks for the video
Metal Slug is a great old skool shooter. Thanks for the review!
You may actually like metal slug awakening. It is a free-to-play base game with a stamina limit, however there is so much to do in the game that you can quite literally Play 3 to 5 hours a day if you want to without even having to worry about the stamina being an issue. Even when you run out, there's other side things you can do. It's literally packed full of different things to do.
Thanks for the great review.
Criminally underrated channel
I used to play the heck out of Metal Slug 3. I have really fond memories of that game.
It’s great,
Best in the series
Waiting for a spring sale it is then (and yes, I really want to play this at some point)! 😉
Shit is 20 bucks
@4everhumbl36 So what?
Honestly really surprising Metal Slug fits the TBS style so well, but they really did it justice. Also love the NEO GEO pixel style, just as beautiful as ever.
From the review I get the impression it was pretty grindy? Did you get that feeling when playing? Beyond your character/progression choices, what actually changes from run to run? It sounded like there's a pool of totally static missions, and once you're done, you're done, no more to see? Any mention of plans to expand contentwise by the devs?
I wouldn't say it's grindy. There isn't really anything to "grind" for outside of unlocking more characters and traits to show up in runs, and even those are like 4 or 5 per gun, 3 or 4 traits per character and the characters themselves only require you to win with most of the roster / with a certain percentage of map completion. No comment on any additional content post-release.
It’s more combinations of content. I played 3 runs yesterday after work and stayed up super late.
It’s ALOT like through the breach but with more intricate subsystems
Also I love the “you gotta move every turn to not die” really gives it a different feel then other tactics games
I absolutely love the core of this game, but the bugs are immediately noticeable and a real bummer. I was just expecting half of my units' abilities to not work at all by the end of my first run. Gonna be putting it down for a while and hoping some patches come soon
i'm just happy with getting a new metal slug game
I think this is the first indie retro roguelike TRPG I've ever played and it's a solid 9/10 title, if you like Metal Slug, indie games, retro style games, roguelikes and TRPGs then your going to love this game, understandably it won't appeal to a lot of people because its so many things
Thats a classic game resurrection I didn't expect.
I remember playing this for hours at the Laundromat when my mom took me when I was little
Opinion: I think they should balance some character that are underperforming. While other could probably solo map by himself. For exemple; those that can keep dodge bonus + bonus action.
The most annoying problem on console, don't know for PC.
Sometime, the game take forever to finish a turn. It load load, load, load, load. Especially on boss a turn can take 2 minutes to complet per action. It doesn't happen often, usually I have to restart the game or complet the map.
A funny bug is with the save prisonner.
If you move to the prisonner location and save him. You can unmove back to original location and the prisonner will still be save. lol
It reminds me of Pathway... which was pretty fun.
Thanks for the video. This is not a supermassive game, so it's odd that their are so many bugs. I'm excited to see what it's like when it's finally patched. Onward to 400k. All glory to the algorithm.
Hey Mortem will you cover Wayfinder?
Possibly, still looking it over
Playing on XBOX Series X.
LOVING IT!
To anyone interested but unsure about the purchase, it's on gamepass too
What's the intro music from? Sounds so familiar
It was made for the channel, but its intended to sound like Pillars of Eternity
Does Ralf still hold a grenade in his fist, while punching? Don't know his mechanics, but would still use him. 💥
Did you play Persona 5 tactics earlier this year or last year?
do you have any intention of reviewing Wayfinder now that its 1.0?
Probably not a review, little too busy atm, but I'd like to take a look at it
All the bugs and the long delay make me think the devs bit off more than they could chew, and SNK decided to just put their foot down with a release date.
Wonder if it was meant to be a roguelike to begin with or felt the easiest to deal with what they have.
One of the best OG series. Think this game gonna be amazing after the bugs are ironed out
I'm playing on Switch and so far I'm not experiencing anything other than performance issues.
Too many animations/ hud info is really dragging down the frame rate in certain areas. Theres also a little bit of Audio delay when performing actions ( not sure if that's present on steam)
To be honest I'm on my 4th run I've lost once and that was due to figuring out the mechanics and the next two runs were beaten on Easy and then Medium. Currently running through Hard now. I do agree for a Roguelite the structure of the game is a bit lacking. should have been at least 2 more areas.
I definitely feel like the game could be a little more challenging for a Roguelite but I do think that all depends on the player.
As for the busted counter system that may be on steam as I haven't experienced what you mentioned here. Also are you sure you're supposed to get credit for environmental kills... If it says get Frags with a particular character you have to target them directly to get the counter.
Remember people, Frags are Kills in this game.
Wow. Metal Slug was huge when I was a kid. And to be honest, when I heard there would be a tactical game from the Metal Slug franchise, I thought it was going to be some knockoff trash game exploiting people's nostalgia. But this looks fantastic. Definitely going to try it myself. Thanks for the review
Not usually a fan of roguelikes but I may make an exception for this one
The origional games are fantastic, top of class.
I'm stupid or I really didnt experienced any bug in my first run
already?? Wow, Morty
This game looks fun!
Darn, I loved Metal Slug back in the day, and was really hoping this would be more "XCOM" than "Into The Breach". Still interested, but no longer a must-buy for me.
As someone who grew up with NeoGeo arcade games, all i wanted to know is if the gameplay was good enough. The rest of the negatives will be overshadowed by the nostalgia googles. 😂
got the game day one im liking it a lot
omg, so thats how you get true ending..by finished the game on the highest difficulty...fvck...the 2nd difficulty already makes me scratch my head if my team were not suited for certain stage/mission
There are only 2 kind of people playing this game:
-The young gamer thinking "what a fun game with good loocking art"
-The not so young gamer that instinctively search for change every time one of his characters dies
Im stuck with war machine achievement 😭
I'll probably wait till it's less buggy althou I think I might have preferred if it remained a side scrolling shooter like the arcade games I played way back when. Thanks for the review.
Got the review key November 5th, bro is QUICK
Edit: You got >50 hours out of it?! WHEN DO YOU SLEEP?!
I don't think he does 🤣. Bro's a machine
3 days x 16 work hours per day = 48 hours, and allows for 6 hours of sleep with 2 hours of eating, showering, etc each day. I couldn't do it, but some can!
I got the key a few days before release not on the 5th, this one was kind of monotonous to get all the dialogues and epilogues but was otherwise pretty unremarkable
@@MortismalGaming That makes more sense, I got the impression that the review copy was sent to you on release day. Can you elaborate on these dialogues and epilogues?
Yeah a lot of bugs.
The first boss i didn't get how to hit him because the game didn't show me that it was possible. So i kept killing enemies around him. That made the game go into crazy nlong loading times. I also ran into the bosses not being in the right spot. killcount not working on the tank.
if your character has a lot of buffs it just gets difficult to remember how they all work together with the other characters diffferent buffs. i kept having to go look at what a character could do. But to do that you have to individually click on the abbilities to read a much to small text to read on a big screen...
I did have a good time but will wait now to play until thay fix some stuff
The game got pretty BS hard on higher difficulties. I do enjoy the game but tbh many of the loadouts are very combo specific with very little deviations.
I feels that this game is even stricter than Into the Breach and it really dampen my enjoyment of this game.
Imo it need a bit of adjustment, especially those chase the convoy bs on higher difficulties. The content like u already said is pretty lacking, none of the mod is a straight up buff for easier latter runs.
Holy sh that was fast, either the game is very short or it doesn’t have a lot of things to get 100% OR you’re just really good at games 😂
He does these insanely fast
He's just fast, he said in this video that he's played like 50 hours
Price wise its not too expensive and it launched on gamepass so if you have GP its essnentially free!
The game is really fun but the bugs make it quite annoying
I’ve bought the game, and i’m loving it… but.. I wish I could rotate the map! Otherwise it’s fantastic 👌🏻
Thanks for another great review!
Can’t hang with any more super buggy games. Don’t care if it’s cheap or the tram is small. Release a product in a professional state.
Steam has WAY too many games in terrible condition. The acceptable bar of quality is too low, too often.
wait you 100% already? ITS BEEN 3 DAYS!! HOW QUICK SOME GAMERS ARE?!
I had it a few days early
Maybe you should give Matchless KungFu a chance
A metal slug tactical game was NOT something that was on my radar, might pick this up if it goes on sale and after its had a few patches.
Hey, I’d pay $20 for a replayable, short tactical game. Most Metal Slug games can be beat in an afternoon.
This is on gampass, for anyone only held back by the prospect of spending for it.
Metal Slug TH-cam Jazz 🎶