Metal Slug 2 com todo seu potencial realizado. Um Run 'n Gun frenético e lindo de se ver em movimento. Além de ser extremamente satisfatório de controlar, é impressionante o cuidado que o jogo tem com detalhes - desde coisas que afetam diretamente a gameplay, como seu personagem ficar obeso se comer demais, até coisas mais cosméticas, como o camelo que você trouxe da última fase saciar a sede no oásis da seguinte. Realmente um deleite de se jogar.
Now THIS is how you do a sequel. While I'm not entirely sure what happened with Metal Slug 2's development, I appreciated that the developers decided to remake it with a new engine they built for Metal Slug 3, and that's how you got Metal Slug X!
Compared to the original version, Metal Slug X has new enemy types, new weapon types, more dynamic confrontations with remixed enemy/weapon/vehicle spawns, and--most importantly--much more responsive gameplay that doesn't slow down nearly as much.
All-in-all, this is the most defining game in the Metal Slug series, but of course it wouldn't be until the next game that we'd receive run-n-gun arcade perfection . . .
Compared to the original version, Metal Slug X has new enemy types, new weapon types, more dynamic confrontations with remixed enemy/weapon/vehicle spawns, and--most importantly--much more responsive gameplay that doesn't slow down nearly as much.
All-in-all, this is the most defining game in the Metal Slug series, but of course it wouldn't be until the next game that we'd receive run-n-gun arcade perfection . . .
Metal Slug X is essentially Metal Slug 2 2.0, or, probably more accurately, Metal Slug 2 is essentially Metal Slug X 0.5. Stronger versions of weapons, new weapons, new enemies (mummy dogs!), and, most importantly, it doesn't slow down to a crawl for 50% of the game. It made me appreciate the changes from Metal Slug 1 to 2.
I remember being nine years old when me and my mother took me to a laundromat/pollo a la brasa place to wash our clothes since our apartment building didn't have washing machines at the time. My mom would watch her telenovellas on the crts hanging up all over the places while I begged my mom for a dollar in quarters so I can play Area 51, Soul Edge and this game. I remember trying to ask the kids around waiting if they wanted to play with me and even spotted them if they didn't have anything. My first exposure into the Metal Slug series and all those years later, still as great as I remembered it as a kid.
The iconic run and gun gameplay is simple yet extremely satisfying. The levels are pretty great and the whole game is just full of tiny touches you wouldn't expect here. If you get hit with a certain attack, you'll turn into a mummy and can only use your pistol and if you eat too much food, your character will literally gain weight almost to the point you can explode. The weapon pickups are common and dopamine hits when you get them and there's rarely a bad one here either.
Some bosses can take way too long and there's a difficulty spike near the end but that's really it for me.
I've only played a few Metal Slug games but I always come back to this one for a variety of reasons. Always a fun time with someone to just blow and shoot everything up in general.
The iconic run and gun gameplay is simple yet extremely satisfying. The levels are pretty great and the whole game is just full of tiny touches you wouldn't expect here. If you get hit with a certain attack, you'll turn into a mummy and can only use your pistol and if you eat too much food, your character will literally gain weight almost to the point you can explode. The weapon pickups are common and dopamine hits when you get them and there's rarely a bad one here either.
Some bosses can take way too long and there's a difficulty spike near the end but that's really it for me.
I've only played a few Metal Slug games but I always come back to this one for a variety of reasons. Always a fun time with someone to just blow and shoot everything up in general.
Cartoon ultra-violence? What a great way to spend your lunch break!
When I worked for EA as a tester, I got to eat lunch in their fancy cafeteria. When I wasn't hanging out with the colleague that was a fruitarian or freegan or whatever it was, I would play Metal Slug X on the NeoGeo arcade machine while everyone else played Tekken. It's a bit of a bullet hell side scroller, but with a silly amount of secrets, vehicles, and weapons. The whole Metal Slug series is like that and I'm sure that the folks who programmed them had a blast coming up with ridiculous things to do as weapons, enemies, sounds, and ways to die. The graphics are a bit cheesy for the year this came out, but you're not playing this for graphics, you're playing because it is ridiculous.
It definitely is ridiculous!
Review from thedonproject.com
When I worked for EA as a tester, I got to eat lunch in their fancy cafeteria. When I wasn't hanging out with the colleague that was a fruitarian or freegan or whatever it was, I would play Metal Slug X on the NeoGeo arcade machine while everyone else played Tekken. It's a bit of a bullet hell side scroller, but with a silly amount of secrets, vehicles, and weapons. The whole Metal Slug series is like that and I'm sure that the folks who programmed them had a blast coming up with ridiculous things to do as weapons, enemies, sounds, and ways to die. The graphics are a bit cheesy for the year this came out, but you're not playing this for graphics, you're playing because it is ridiculous.
It definitely is ridiculous!
Review from thedonproject.com