Had some time to play it today, and credit fed through it on t-mode.
- Graphics, sound, music, presentation in general is amazing. This is definitely way ahead of a lot of official MVS releases. Looks and sounds great.
- Controls feel really good,
- Nice to have the options to play C-mode, even though it's quite obvious that T-mode is how the game was meant to be played
- Bosses are fine imo. There's decent variety in how they behave, and how they play.
That said, the game is REALLY FUCKING HARD?
I can clear Metal Slug 1 on one credit most of the time, but not any of the other slugs. In this game, I felt like I was really getting my ass kicked.
I think I played this on the normal difficulty, but I just got killed constantly here. Might have to try it on easy as well.
Game crashes for me as well after entering my name after clearing the game (and then restarts fine). I'm on a Unibios 1-slot setup. This doesn't really bother me much tbh.
Overall, I'm very impressed by this game I have all earlier ngdevteam games as well, and this is by far the one that feel most polished and like an actual official game. The presentation of this is insanely good, and the only complaint I have is that it seems too hard for me
I'll try it on t-mode easy, and see how that feel.
Dunno how it holds up, but right now I'm super happy with my purchase.
Thanks to everyone who posted videos and comments great stuff.
If you ranked this against all the metal slugs where do you guys think it would fall?
I don't think it's fair to judge this after just a quick session with the game, but below 1,3 and X for sure.
Probably ahead of 4, not sure about 5.
Definitely ahead of 2, but that game was just a rush job that is a pain to play because of the slowdowns.