Post by Goemon on Sept 17, 2006 20:06:06 GMT -5
Here are some of my thoughts:
First of all, the pre rendered bg's work pretty well with the character sprites in most missions. (but look completely horrible in a couple) The unique character abilities, along with the ability to carry two weapons really doesn't effect the gameplay much and the new attack moves are useless imo. (of course they look cool and can be used to earn points though)
When it comes to the gameplay it resembles MS 3 with large enemies that take a long time to kill to the point that it can get tedious. (giant crabs... fun..?) It's possibly the most challenging metal slug i've ever played, (or maybe i'm too used to play MS games on a keyboard) which i admire, but the level designs came off as being flat and unoriginal. (and not because of the rehashed sprites) Most of the bosses battles where very fun and challenging but too streched out imo. If it wasn't for MS 5 i'd say this installment has the most drab and boring final boss yet. Also, I feel disappointed in the uncreative level design that gets increasingly worse through the game. (There is a drill slug in this game and it's section is the worst section i've played in a MS)
My fav. section is probably the horizonal flying section which reminds me very much of a Gradius level.
I've only played it on hard mode so far. In the options menu there is a 1-8 setting of difficulty from the arcade but before starting the character select screen they implemented more difficulty options. (odd)
First of all, the pre rendered bg's work pretty well with the character sprites in most missions. (but look completely horrible in a couple) The unique character abilities, along with the ability to carry two weapons really doesn't effect the gameplay much and the new attack moves are useless imo. (of course they look cool and can be used to earn points though)
When it comes to the gameplay it resembles MS 3 with large enemies that take a long time to kill to the point that it can get tedious. (giant crabs... fun..?) It's possibly the most challenging metal slug i've ever played, (or maybe i'm too used to play MS games on a keyboard) which i admire, but the level designs came off as being flat and unoriginal. (and not because of the rehashed sprites) Most of the bosses battles where very fun and challenging but too streched out imo. If it wasn't for MS 5 i'd say this installment has the most drab and boring final boss yet. Also, I feel disappointed in the uncreative level design that gets increasingly worse through the game. (There is a drill slug in this game and it's section is the worst section i've played in a MS)
My fav. section is probably the horizonal flying section which reminds me very much of a Gradius level.
I've only played it on hard mode so far. In the options menu there is a 1-8 setting of difficulty from the arcade but before starting the character select screen they implemented more difficulty options. (odd)
. She's away this weekend, so the one good thing about that is that I'll get some time to sit down and play the game a bit more 
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