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Metal Slug XX (PS4)Status: Finished playingI started playing this game on Wednesday 1 January, 2025 // I stopped playing this game on: Thursday 2 January, 2025 |
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| January 2, 2025 12:18:57 PM | ||
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Played this co-op, on regular difficulty, and wow. This is SUPER hard. Lol. As in, I would have spent A LOT Of money to get to the end had I played it in an arcade. But, it is fun, and there's some neat crazy enemy designs and stuff going on... but, the game felt a bit too shallow? Like, it's just hard - and the character art is neat and all..but what else? I mean, we finished it maybe an hour and...there didn't seem to be much else in the game. So, I was feeling a bit disappointed. Also, we only unlocked a single trophy which felt strange. So, I looked at the trophy list - and there were a bunch of them, one for each character, related to some sort of special move - and I thought, what special move? So, into the controls screen I go...and whoah - there's a special move. Each character has a different one, and I can't say I know how they all work because some seemed useless - but there's a few that now make more sense in terms of the game's difficulty. One of the characters can grab soldiers and just fling them (this kills them) - and you can do this regardless of how tough they are (so, shield guys, guys with heavy weapons, etc.). Another character has a "defuse enemy attack" which includes bombs and grenades and things (not sure about lasers). So, this makes the characters a lot more interesting and the game (a bit) easier in that you have more at your hands to succeed - but, the special isn't the best answer and while it's not hard to do (it's a press three buttons at the same time combo), it's a bit awkward. So, I'm feeling a bit better about the game...and I'm still looking at the trophy list and I see one for rescuing all the POWs in a mission. Easy enough I think! So I open up mission 1 and...I only get to 50%! What? Then, on a 2nd run, I fall down into a hole by mistake and it turns out it was NOT a hole...but an alternate route...with a few more POWs! Huh! But, I'm only getting to 78%...where are all the other POWs? It turns out there's secret hidden POWs as well...and thanks to a guide I was able to get them out.. So, I spent a few hours playing around with the characters, trying out the special move, and playing the same mission over and over. Fun? Yes. Not sure if I'll play more though... |
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kudos for original design to Rodrigo Barria
