As much as I enjoy the cheesy cutscenes and voice-acting, the levels typically either bore me or annoy me. Damage feels inconsistent in that sometimes my bazookas will destroy things in two hits and other times in 10 combined with stomps and machine gun fire. Damage from enemies also feels inconsistent since sometimes I can survive in the middle of a group of enemies no problem and other times i have to run from a couple. This inconsistency combined with the lack of checkpoints gets very infuriating. The levels also just generally feel pretty same-y in both visuals and gameplay with the only differences being some target locations and time limits. I've also had my fair amount of crashes which were very annoying.

Absolutely fucking stupid game. That's a positive. Fast paced blow-shit-up gameplay with an excellent soundtrack and ridiculous dialogues with absurd voice acting. Port is excellent. Fun as FUCK. Pretty good graphics for its time.

Has some flaws, such as how absurd the final boss can get and how energy pods are usually hidden in random breakables, of which there are hundreds if not thousands in every level (it's not as bad as the spirits in Otogi but it's similar, and I think the Otogi team was responsible for this one too). Also some weapon classes are just straight up useless (actually, about half are).

Can get a bit repetitive but it's super short (6h for me) and doesn't overstay its welcome. Has some sort of NG+, which is nice but idk if I want to deal with that (though I kinda wanna rescue all POWs for the Sword of Moonlight).

I love Jody, I wanna marry her.

Metal Wolf Chaos is as ridiculous as it's reputation makes it seem. The story is complete and utter nonsense, yet it's immensely enjoyable. In between the absurdist lines of dialogue in the script are some pretty funny jabs at the American political system that are just as relevant now as it was then which makes it all the more amusing. The gameplay for the XD re-release is also a ton of fun, I ran into 0 frame issues, and the controls were snappy. I wasn't expecting this game to be very good, but I was very pleasantly surprised!

Finally a good game by FromSoftware

This is a Japanese game from 2004, so thus it has a lottttta 2004 Japanese bullshit in it. The cameras bullshit, the controls are bullshit, the difficulty spikes are bullshit, the ways to get around those difficulty spikes are bullshit, the lack of actual content is bullshit, the replayability consisting of playing the same level over and over is bullshit, etc.

However, this is among the most batshit video game stories I’ve ever experienced, with a plethora of bizarre voice acting choices and typos and explosions and the fact that it is oddly prescient in a way that they never possibly thought it couldve been. It was very fun but also parts of it were such bullshit

Also RICHAAAAAARD