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Metal Slug: Awakening (Android)

I believe this game is called something else in the West? Anyways, this is not the Metal Slug game we come to know and love and normally I am averse to triple A pay to win affairs like this. But it's Metal Slug and I'm surprised that the game actually holds your hand well into I wanna say three-fifths of the story before you start hitting a wall on progression. So yeah I was enticed to spend some money for some easier grinding and here I am. I thought it was satisfying at least for my downtimes on the phone but if this was like my main game I would never have enjoyed its tactics.

As I said the game itself is like a watered down Metal Slug for casuals. Everyone has health bars now. You can double jump. Bosses have massive health bars. Progression is tied to increasing your gun rank via a gacha mechanism where you're eventually guaranteed a really good gun the longer you stay so at least it doesn't try draining you of your wallet if you're patient enough. Thankfully, the requirement for story mode isnt as high as the post-game which is what you would want to stick around for and hey maybe I will for awhile. Join a guild, do some running and shooting and getting some nice lookin' guns.

Kudos on the effort of the devs like its obvious some of these environs are copypasted from the first three games. And they could've just went and cloned everything in snippets. But they went the mile to hire voice actors for an actual story however simple. And they went and made a slew of unique boss battles which were also alright on its own. So Story Mode is not an afterthought here you got 14 chapters with 3 areas each and some retro chapters as well. It's an endeavor in itself. Oh and this is all in 3d btw. 2d-3d so it was nice to see those old enemies and boss fights now as full fledged polygons.