Metal Slug Story Explained Part 1
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- Metal Slug is a Run and Gun series created by SNK. It is considered as one of the best looking 2d games of its generation, and a major arcades franchise during the mid and late nineties.
While Metal Slug does not belong to the fighting genre, which is the main focus of this channel, it has a surprisingly deep and rich lore, that it would be criminal of me to continue ignoring.
Want to help the channel out?
Patreon : / shoryugame
References:
---------------------------------------
metalslug.fand...
Art works provided by Sasi Sage
/ sasisage
Art work for Rumi provided by : IMPORTANT BUSINESS DINOSAUR
importantbusin...
Music:
---------------------------------------
"Main theme" from Metal Slug
"First Contact" from Metal Slug 2
"Assault Theme" from Metal Slug 2
"Prehistoric Site" from Metal Slug 2
"Kiss in the Dark" from Metal Slug 2
"Final Attack" from Metal Slug 2
"Blue Water Fangs" from Metal Slug 3
"Hard Water" from Metal Slug 3
"End Title Credits" from Metal Slug 3
"Who Likes To Party" by Kevin MacLeod
• Royalty Free Music - W...
"Aurea Carmina" by Kevin MacLeod
• Kevin MacLeod ~ Aurea ...
A Canadian dictator. Don't see that everyday.
A racist Afro-American
SNK is chalk full of unexpected character types - ethnic wise. Even their lore is down right captivating and yet the quality of the games remains solid.
@@ignaciojohnjoy That's most of BLM
Hey, at least it wasn't an Austrian backed by Germany.
Trevor Phillips seems to fit
Love how such a rich lore is communicated entirely through gameplay and pantomiming. Great video, as always.
Much appreciated!
@@ShoryuGame thanks for this, I really appreciate it. I feel old! This is still my favorite video game.
Panto what? I swear you spergs say anything to try and sound smart.
Someone needs to do a Metal Slug VS Call of Duty lore meme vid
Seeing this post put a smile on my face. Rest in peace friend.
all my saved money from skipping lunch as a kid is being payed with this video
Aww yea
All my saved lawn mower money in early High School just to buy Metal Slug X on Ps1. Played it to death. Then I bought 4 and 5. Then the others. Never looked back.
The change from buying tortillas in my ranch in mex. Lol then my mom going finding me and pull my ear all the way home
Money well spent! 👍
*All
*paid
*video.
Man I remember playing these games in the laundromat while waiting for clothes to wash/dry and because of that I see it as one of the Mexican experiences
Metal slug runs in mexican blood as well as king of fighters and dragon ball
Wait. You mexicans had arcade machines in laundromats? We don't even have laundromats in Brazil!
@@TheBrazilRules they were pretty shitty ones, like clearly they weren’t from the actual manufacturers and would have multiple games that weren’t even from the same companies
Me too
@@TheBrazilRules nah but we had arcade cabinets, in my little town there was 3 liqour stores and each one had a cabinet, one of them being a neo geo arcade and the others with megaman x 1-3
I love all the lore videos for games that are normally not talked about
Just goes to show how mainstream games don’t always have the better content
That is in part what makes this channel such a GOD! DAMN! GEM!
if only they knew; thats as long as there are humans; there will always be war.
You mean SNK Games lol
no one is making a vid about that shitty game you made in class norman
"As they ran out of gas, they adapted their vehicles to operate without it." Lol Metal Slug 3 was wacky. SNK knew how to be creative, and they had a lot of fun doing it.
This video was amazing. I can't wait for the second part!
Number 3 got a rare perfect 100 score in the now forgotten (Best Video Game Magazine Ever) Game Fan Magazine. Made me wanna play it as I had only owned 2 (X edition), 4 & 5 before. Ended up loving it just the same - unbiased. My kind of insanity in a 2D game. If I aint playing classic Contra titles or Gunstar Heroes, it's Metal Slug. Everyone else can enjoy their First Person Shooters as I won't contradict them. But I know what I love and why I love it.
Can leap also 🤣
Metal slug 3 was like.... really magical when i played it as a kid. Like. Wow. Regular war, then alien comes, then we become allies, etc.
3 and 6 is my fav.
Those leg powered tanks and cable planes are some of the most hilarious Things I've seen.
@@Tpoleful no wonder they failed miserably in their mission
Lol everlasting peace ....... that last for like 2 days
Metal Slug Lore is so ridiculous it put Gears of War Lore to shame. LOL 😂
Long Story Short: After the end of *"The Pendulum Wars"* the World was at Peace for about 4 weeks until *"Emergence Day"* came and eventually *"The Locust War"* (Main Games 1-3) began etc.
(That's gotta be a New Record.)
Not even Treaty of Versailles lasted that little lmao
Iol
That wasn't everlasting peace, real everlasting peace has never been tried.
Imagine what the other side must have felt seeing bullets flying at them every split sec.
They can only fire 1 bullet every 2 sec.
I always thought Metal Slug stories are,
"See that green soldier? Shoot it."
"you're gonna die a bunch a times, but keep shooting"
Finally after almost 25 years, I have learned the story behind this game.
"Please take care of this in secret"
O.k, hyper machine gun, rocket launcher, grenade, homing missle, laser shot...
i never knew a rich lore existed for this game series , Thank you very much Sir
Glad I could help!
*I
*series. Thank
*much, sir.
Amazing, such lore on a "Show, don't tell" by the developers is amazing. Thanks for this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
So much better than Elden Ring's "Don't show. Don't tell."
10:16 The War was over and the world enjoyed a everlasting peace.......
"That lasted for like 2 days"
lol so much for everlasting peace..
Lol
there's a running gag that after almost every end credits a screen is shown with "peace forever!"
*an everlasting (because "everlasting" starts with a vowel sound)
One of the few youtubers I actually look forward to new videos from. You always make great videos no matter KOF or metal slug. Can’t wait to enjoy more content in the future 🙏🏽
I'm glad to hear that. Thank you!
In my head: Shoryugames makes me think of Capcom titles.
In reality: Shoryugames talks about Snk
😂😂😂
I’m sure we all share your sentiments.
Snk vs capcom moment.
Fun fact: the Metal Slug 2 crew showed up in an official KoF comic.
Which one? I know that Masato Natsumoto did the majority of 90's era KOF Comics (Orochi Saga).
@@jordanjackson6151 KoF Zillion, chapter 7, pages 20 to 26, with only Fio missing and Rumi being there instead.
You missed the part when they've constantly came back to live after being killed
*come
*life
*killed.
By far, 3 is the best. It's epic, it was also the start of introducing HUGE variety of enemies in the follow-up games, and it has a grand scope and feel. By visuals alone, the game tells its story. And all of it sums up into a 5 mission clusterfuck of pure thrill and enjoyment.
I've barely touched any Metal Slug game after 3, nothing can top that last mission imo
There are some missions that feel like filler, namely the crab and mayan ruins
Agreed, 3 is the best in the entire series.
Fun fact: Marco is 3 years older than Fio, and they are both Italian, the only difference is Marco was born in America in 2005, Fio was born in Italy in 2008.
They're zoomers
So currently Marco is (or will be since it's not April 13th as of typing this) 17 and Fio is (or will be in October 2th as of typing this) 14. They both don't know that in 8 years from now, they'll fight against mummies, zombies, and aliens. Hahaha!
@@angelsartandgaming Six or seven years from now, actually. Fio turns 20 years old during her first appearance in Metal Slug 2, so MGS2 is in 2028 or 2029. So yeah, six or seven years from now, Marco, Fio, Tarma and Eri will fight against mummies, zombies, aliens and all that crap. LOL!
@@LightStreak567 Oops! My math was a tad off. But yes, hahahahahaha!
@@Ninjafish130
Marco Rossi
Birthplace: Twin Falls, Idaho, USA
Occupation:
Major in the PF squad of the government forces-Company 1 squad commander
Birthday
: April 13, 2005
Height
: 180cm (5'11")
Weight
: 75kg (165 lbs)
Special Skills
: Computer programming
Blood Type
: Type A
Hobby
: Calculating running times of computer programs in his head; missing his subway stop; imitating "drunken master" moves
Fiolina "Fio" Germi
Birthplace: Genoa, Italy
Occupation
: Master Sergeant in Special Ops squad S.P.A.R.R.O.W.S, Intel division, the government forces
Birthday
: October 2, 2008
Height
: 158cm (5'2")
Weight
: 43kg (94.6 lbs)
Bust, Waist, and Hips Measurements: 88cm/58cm/89cm (Fio is a little more busty than Mai Shiranui from the King of Fighters games)
Special Skills:
Chiropractic; All types of housework; Ballroom dancing
Blood Type
: O
Hobby
: Cooking, embroidery
this game deserves it’s own anime show/series
it really doesn't. its story is very basic and 4 guys killing a whole army will get old very fast
@@yosefyonin6824 idk man have u seen the expendable movies? They have done 3 movies and they never die also a 4th was on its way.
@@link560633 expendables heavily relies on the famous actors i dont think thr the same can be said about metal slug
I play this series since I was kid and now when I'm a working adult I just found out one of my favorite arcade side scrolling game actually have a story beyond what show in gameplay and in game concept arts.
I never realised how much lore there was in one of the greatest arcade games I've played. I can't wait for part two. I'm really glad I found your channel
Thanks.
Guessing the Japanese army is also a reference to that lost Japanese soldier who kept thinking WW2 was ongoing years after it ended.
They got lost and kept fighting for the second Mordern war and never realized what was really happening outside of their location. I had no idea that's what actually happened to them, I always thought they were just some weirdos.
Really like how Marco and Tarma were just done and constantly wanted to resign from the army but were ultimately way too powerful as an asset to be let go until the wars were done.
So, I'm guessing that our heroes didn't meet the yetis in cannon then during the events of MS3?
They sure did. But I can't cover every single detail. The video is already too long.
@@ShoryuGame make them longer and add an X at the end of the titles.
10:22
“That lasted for like 2 days.”
Even though that I already know the answer it still makes me laugh so hard.
FINALLY! Someone who can break down what this game is actually about for me
WOW. Played every single Metal Slug game to date but this makes me look at the whole series very differently. Thank you. Now as i play levels again, i will feel more attachment and interest since i know the lore behind them.
I never realized how much I wanted an Anime of metal slug...
17:03 That wasn't O'Neal bones that came out of the water, that was the whales bones after O'Neal eat his way out of the whale
Makes sense
I still remember walking into laundromats and hearing "THANK YOU! Heavy machine gun.
Cant believe it's been so long since I started playing this game. I use to snack on chips and soda when playing as a kid now I snack on weed and beer while playing Metal Slug😄
Wait 2023? oh shit sticks...
I like all the details that are mentioned here. Though I have a few nitpicks:
Huge Hermit was an accident for the most part. The story goes is that a Giant Shell-less Hermit Crab outgrew its shell and saw the rebels' large artillery piece as a new home. When the rebel army found out what happened to their artillery they just played along and trained it.
Sol Dae Rokker was also apparently Mars People-tech. But it was worshipped as a divine entity by the ancient people who used to live there.
Thanks for the info.
I wish theyd do a super long game with every level, every weapon and features, and randomize them so we could play them non stop
Now that would be a grand metal slug game! Maybe they could call it "Metal slug forever".
First time I played a Metal Slug game was during my university years. The arcade cabinet was located in the lobby of the gym building. I was waiting for class, noticed it, and instantly fell in love despite the amount of quarters it would eat. It is the perfect illustration of how a genre of video games develops for the better since Metal Slug is everything Contra style games could become over time.
Awesome, I never knew the Metal Slug games have so much lore!
Also, I love how you're slowly turning from a KoF-focused channel into an all-out SNK one! KoF, SamSho, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and now Metal Slug! What are you going to cover next??
I remember playing some some of the Metal Slug games. They are really hard but damn they have some great animation. I love how you cover the lore of SNK games since they never get mentioned all that much. It’s interesting to see that they are all deeper than one would think. Well done with this video.
Thank you very much.
this series has some of the best art direction ever achieved in gaming pixel art
but who cares for the story? seriously. i was first introduced to metal slug by my thai friend he had it on psx and sold it as this massive game that is very well known in asia. we are in the early 2000nds here and none of my european frienda including me had ever heared of it. after that encounter i hunted down every copy i could get including the ngpc version...nowadays its all romdumps and i am glad for it. still think this is one of the best games that you play with anyone that comes to your house, no matter if they are gamers or not. its just a great series in vedeo games and i am happy that i got the recongintion it deserves. but seriously: who cares about the lore?
Goddang didn't even realize this game has deep lore to it.
Before i had wifi, i would always play metal slug x over and over without getting bored
Bring tears on my adult eyes
Small trivia: Fio was playable in KOF Maximum Impact 2
I like her unique moves, all based on weapons in MS
My favorite is when she wields her tonfas.
Fio was also a "Striker" in KOF 2000, Kinda upsetting she wasn't playable in that game, but I'm happy she eventually was in Maximum Impact 2,
I'm still hoping to see one of the MS characters to become playable Fighters in future KOF installments, Hell, Marco & Fio actually made a Cameo in the Ikari Warriors ending in KOF 14 (It could be a foreshadow but who knows).
My picks are Marco, Tarma & Eri (Sorry Fio, but I just found Eri way more Cooler).
Keep making these videos man I love how you expand on the snk stories that people gloss over
Poor Marco and Tarma. They get the Solid Snake/ Sam Fisher treatment and are too good to quit. You used to see that a lot with older war movies like Rambo, which I'm guessing they got inspiration from, and it's so cool the games still hold up today. Thanks for covering the story!
I played this at my elementary days until now the graphics is still great..
I like how whenever there is a common threat the regulars and rebels never hesitate to join hands
What makes Metal Slug games in the arcades (1, 2, X, 3 and 5) so good is that advanced players can find ways to find their way through all the stages WITHOUT DYING ONCE.
18:55 In a couple playthroughs i’ve seen the pilot fall on the right side of the screen onto the ground.
*Wow! Just wow...* 😮
(You earned a sub) 👍🏼
Oh my God. You came through. You did the video. I love your channel and continue to support your videos.!!!!
Thank you so much!!
@@ShoryuGame no thank you. Your the best and will always support your channel since day one. Also I was to tell you honestly from the bottom of my heart. Thank you and hope thing are going well for you
I loved your video, thank you so much for doing this.
I’m from Mexico and I grew up watching my older brothers playing KoF, and since I couldn’t compete, I would play this instead in the arcades. I didn’t know English but it didn’t matter, this game’s style says it all and even to this day I love seeing the ending of MS3.
Glad you liked it.
Lets give props to the Rebels, theyre loyal to the bone. When their men and leader got kidnapped by aliens to space they went after them allying with their enemies.
Ikr?
This was an excellent video. You did an amazing job relaying the story. I always enjoy your videos, but this just felt like something special. Thank you for all you do and keep up the awesome work!
Wow, thank you!
Thanks for this video is a refresher of the lore of these games, I knew that they are more than they just look like, but still without any dialogue the animation themselves show a lot of story.
When McDonalds and BK had Gamecubes and PS2s a local Wendy´s had NEOGEOs setup to free play and one of them had Metal Slug 1, X, 3 & 5, I played those games a lot with my sister and since then I hold them so dearly in my heart.
9:47 Bottom right : Really looked like that monkey was getting busy with the fish in front of it hahahaaha Sprite overlapping i guess.
My first metal slug experience was through an arcade game at a laundromat a few blocks away. Had to have been 7 or 8. I was hooked.
Eri is the shiz
2:30 Colonel Donald Mordan
3:40 Alan O'neil
3:57 Morden's' Plan
4:56 The Metal Slug
5:29 The 1st Modern Great War and the fall of the Regular Army
6:30 Marco Rossi and Tarma Roving and the Peregrine Falcons
8:58 Perergrine Falcons vs Mordan
10:23 uprisings
11:00 S.P.A.R.R.O.W.S
11:20 Mordan Returns
11:36 Eri, Fio and Rumy
12:30 Moedens Allies
14:15 Ichimongi
14:35 UFOS
15:15 Super Soldiers
16:30 Mordens Base
16:50 O'neils return
17:18 ALIEN Betrayal
19:15 Coup
19:44 Dr Moreaus Island
20:30 Russian Zombies
22:00 The secret Laboratory and the LV armour
22:40 Central America
23:48 Morden and O'neil confrontation
24:25 Imposter and the Rescue of Morden
Best game ever besides KOF of course. It’s sucks how a lot of my friends don’t know any of these games
High graphics games are so famous no one notices classic masterpieces like these
g God sadly they really don’t
Something tells me that Allen O'Neill is in fact William Afton's long lost brother.
24:56
best shmump game ever hehehe
nc work, i'm looking forward on to the next metal slug lore
Thanks.
The thing that i enjoy about MS is the fact that the series does convey the story to you through the settings you are in.
It gives you an inference based on enemy reactions, some of the random people you find along and the settings.
Haha! Rambo is still alive and survived inside the whale. 🤣🤣
The game is very SNK. KoF to ne exact. Why? Because of the clones! 😊
Thank you for explaining the story of the game. I can't finish the game in 1 credit. It takes several credits for me to finish the game. 😅
So excited to know Trevor and Nadia and obvisously the Ikari Team. ❤
Never stopped to think these games were telling a story! LOL! A clumsy supply drop that always got lost?! That's HILARIOUS!!
The 3rd one was one of my childhood favorites and the one i replayed over and over again with my cousins just because of how fun and easily adaptable it was
It was really good I didn’t know that there was this much into the story. As a kid I just assume that you just haul ass and shot and each story from each game is just made up to give you something to think about while playing.
I remember enjoying and beating Metal Slug 2 with my Dad ^^
Suchba great game!
Someone in 2023 better not kill some Canadian generals family
Ferb i know what we're gonna do today
Omg wtf there is so much character and lore in this story i love it so much
I love how you cover all the details of the story.
Bro like how they go from a regular mission the first game to fighting aliens by the 3rd god I love this series
"Fio is the best girl"
You cant change my mind
I won't try.
Fio was my first childhood waifu
It was good to see her as playable in Maximum Impact 2 and I think she had a bit of story in that game.
Wait what about eri?
@@meganinten0078 I always felt her interaction with the Ikari Warriors team in KOF was hilarious. I beat it with her and I don't think she even had an ending.
21:37 You forgot about the Yeti, weaponized woolly mammoth, monkey with a gun, and rescuing the president.
Love Metal Slug! Love this video! Gonna watch out for the next! Best vid about this awesome series. Been a fan since Metal Slug X.
Much appreciated!
You covered the story way better than I expected you to. Good work
Thank you.
As a person who hasn't played the other metal slug games, the only thing I know about metal slug is
Guy is mad at me
I'm here to stop him
I beat his army after dying 1..2.. how do I count past infinity?
Suddenly he comes back with aliens
They betray him
The pistol soldiers suck
He almost dies because he fell on the ground
T h a t s
I t
Nice summery!
So much beautiful lore in the world of Metal Slug,gosh im so happy that I picked up 2/X in my childhood.
But the main thing I love about this game is the fact that we are constantly reminded of how O'Neil just keeps coming back! Though...he did earn the nickname "Immortal Devil Sergeant" for a reason
7 more years till 2028 😳😳
0:22 I like how Marco cries in sorrow when he about to fall from the catwalk :))
1:13 Ah yes I remember that Hadoken shooting prisoner is iconic with his Hadoken skill :)
The rise of Morden is happening guys!
Mission 1 has started
10:20 that lasted for 2 days, pure comedy 😂💀
The art style of Metal Slug always reminds me so much of Dominion - Tank Police.
Oh jey
Someones finally loring the shit out of this game
Metal slug 1 is the one i like more to watch and play, but the story of the 2 is the pinnacle for me, amazing. Metal slug 3 is the cherry on top, they innovated the game a lot with the 3
Metal slug 3 has the longest mission and we all thought it was the end since the company got bankrupt they decided to end it with a blast.
Snk was for asian kids what nintendo was for Western kids.
even in my country algeria SNK ARCADE GAMES were huge especially KOF and METAL SLUG.
This is pure love of childhood days
KoF is also the most popular arcade game in middle east and in North Africa and South Europe.
@@osamaroum true
Um.. pretty sure Nintendo had a pretty similar impact on both countries.
the aliens were my favorite enemies. this game litterally had everything a kid could want in a video game. lots of action, gore, and enemies. constantly changing it up. i damn near cried when they defeated the aliens. best childhood game.
Oh no! The war is almost here (2023).
prepare yourself brother
Thank you so much for this video! It's the Kickstarting inspiration I needed for my next huge project!
Glad it was helpful!
I'm so happy I found this!!! I have never learned the story behind this game but I still enjoyed it especially when I did coop with my little brother!!! Thanks very much!!
Glad I could help!
In reality if you don't mind SG this is your BEST video till date. Man i love metal slug and never thought it got any lore. So thankful of you to tell us in your accent(falling in this video :)). My most fav part out of the first 5 parts is metal slug 3. What a part it was everything was changed and what brilliant new ideas it introduce. Simply love it. Once again thanks alot SG for this amazing and nostalgic video. Waiting for the much awaited 2nd part.
Much appreciated and thanks for the support!
@@ShoryuGame You are most welcome and thank you for making excellent content. Keep it up. 2 thumbs up.
It took me far too long to get to watching this vid. XP I think I love Metal Slug even more than KOF, so this was a surprise~
i really want to see the next iteration of King of Fighters have Allen O'Neil, John Crawley (from Art of Fighting), and Brocken (of World Heroes) to team up as Team Ikari's antithesis.
what are you guys' dream team?
1:33 MSA lore keeps expanding as we get new characters each week. Although, I feel like it can be turned into a lore video once the game shuts down.
:flop:
Is it okay i felt more bad seeing the dead rebel soldiers in space than the civilians getting bombed from spec-ops the line?
"Metal Slug 1 ended so the world can enjoy everlasting peace... that lasted for like 2 days." is probably the best line XDDDD
Man I didn't expect that you would tell the lore for metal slug that's awesome can't wait for part 2
Thanks, this will make me appreciate these games more when I play them.
Enjoy!
"They had to deal once again with O'Neil, who by this point, let's just assume he's immortal"
No argument there.
Things I never thought I'd see:
a two-part series on Metal Slug LORE
And here I am, stoned as fuck watching Metal Slug lore at 4:00 am... Sometimes the algorithm is good to us