DrRyanSkelton on Nostr: Metal Slug Tactics The quick answer is just to say this game is worthy of the Metal ...
Metal Slug Tactics
The quick answer is just to say this game is worthy of the Metal Slug name. What it really is is Into the Breach remixed as Metal Slug. A quick playing, elegant strategy game where health is small and fights are over quick. The core conceit is that the farther you move each turn, the more damage you can "dodge," as in you just tank and ignore it. But if you can attack something a teammate is attacking, you can join in for a follow-up attack. This tug of war dictates every single move you make in the game. Move far, but make sure far is still useful to your teammates. A relatively short run length, a lot of different team members with different perks, weapons, gimmicks, and five difficulties that meaningfully change enemy formations and abilities all give this a lot of replayability.
Cons: Fairly buggy in its current state. A couple maps I keep running into feel overtuned, but since it is a roguelite, I do not get do-overs to see if it was just me misplaying. I do almost as much move recalculating here as I do in Bakery, but here it takes a fraction of the time because the whole game is designed around testing your moves and undoing them to see how they look until you finally make an action and commit, which again, might not be for everyone.
The quick answer is just to say this game is worthy of the Metal Slug name. What it really is is Into the Breach remixed as Metal Slug. A quick playing, elegant strategy game where health is small and fights are over quick. The core conceit is that the farther you move each turn, the more damage you can "dodge," as in you just tank and ignore it. But if you can attack something a teammate is attacking, you can join in for a follow-up attack. This tug of war dictates every single move you make in the game. Move far, but make sure far is still useful to your teammates. A relatively short run length, a lot of different team members with different perks, weapons, gimmicks, and five difficulties that meaningfully change enemy formations and abilities all give this a lot of replayability.
Cons: Fairly buggy in its current state. A couple maps I keep running into feel overtuned, but since it is a roguelite, I do not get do-overs to see if it was just me misplaying. I do almost as much move recalculating here as I do in Bakery, but here it takes a fraction of the time because the whole game is designed around testing your moves and undoing them to see how they look until you finally make an action and commit, which again, might not be for everyone.