Metal Slug Tactics – For a long time, the name “Dwarf Rambo” must have created a “fierce” childhood for many readers, especially gamers of the 8x and 9x generation who grew up with arcade games – a genre of shooting games. I uploaded an attractive challenge, with extremely flattering pixel graphics.

However, Metal Slug Tactics possesses turn-based tactical gameplay, unlike its “predecessors”. This also makes fans somewhat disappointed and not really confident in the game.

Does Metal Slug Tactics Can it overcome the shadow of its “elder” and satisfy gamers? Let’s take a look with Vietgame.Asia!

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FAMILIAR FRAMEWORKS

One of those things Metal Slug Tactics What this game series brings to players is the beautiful pixel graphics and animation – which is the “money selling point” that this game series possesses.

You can completely see the humorous images of familiar characters such as Marco, Fio and Eri in the journey against General Morden. Later on, more and more familiar characters of the game series will be revealed, you will meet again and once again, fight with them.

The sound also did a great job of bringing out the attractive tones inherent in the Rambo Dwarf series, such as gunfire or firecrackers, which are very pleasing to the ears! The game’s background music is like silent “warriors”. Although it doesn’t sound as prominent or heroic as JRPG games, they create the rhythm of the game very well and make players feel like they are playing a game. game Metal Slug real action.

Content and plot have never been the game series’ strong points, and Metal Slug Tactics is no exception. The game possesses a humorous and outrageous narrative style, enough to create depth and personality of each character, as well as create story lines for missions. However, if you don’t care, that’s okay.

One of those things Metal Slug Tactics What it brings to players is beautiful pixel graphics and animation

UNIQUE TACTICAL GAMEPLAY

Of course, the “money spot” of Metal Slug Tactics Not only in the graphics and sound, the turn-based strategy gameplay, although not the usual “formula” of this game series, is cleverly deployed and extremely “addictive”.

The game’s fighting style is quite accessible to those who are familiar with this genre. Each character will have two different types of weapons – regular and special, with the latter requiring very limited ammo to use. Besides weapons, they also have different types of skills with different strengths and weaknesses. For example, Eri uses grenades to attack, dealing good AoE damage; Fio has the ability to move the opponent, helping players control the situation;…

When a character attacks an enemy within the range of other characters, they will activate the “Synchronization” mechanism, which “shocks” the damage and defeats the enemy faster, similar to the “Synchronization” mechanism. Team Attack’s mechanism Disgaea 5.

With the number of enemies often being much better than the small force you possess – which is limited to only three characters per battle – thoroughly using this mechanism is the premise to make let the balance of numbers tilt in your favor. However, if teammates are within the range of the attack, they will also “eat” stray bullets, so remember to coordinate accordingly!

A plus point that the game brings is that the game screen is relatively small in size and fits on your screen, allowing you to easily and completely control the outcome of the match. Environmental factors are also relatively important in the game, because you will have walls to help block bullets or shelters (Cover) to support damage resistance if you are nearby.

Metal Slug Tactics forcing you to use terrain factors and military characteristics to pass the level. However, you should not let the character stand still for too long in one position, because you will not be able to accumulate evasion points if you do not move at all. As the name suggests, this type of point will help the character overcome enemy fire more smoothly and receive less damage. Not only that, moving also helps the character accumulate Adrenaline points, which are used to perform the character’s special skills.

For the writer, this is a pretty good mechanism to motivate players to always move in battle, taking full advantage of terrain types to win the game, in a “run and gun” style!

Because of the existence of many layers of tactics and requiring players to calculate quite carefully, the game allows you to undo a character’s turn, as long as they have not taken an action (attack, use skills). If you accidentally miscalculate too much, you are allowed to use Reset Turn twice per battle to return to the beginning of the turn.

Each campaign will include many areas with a variety of different missions and rewards, you can completely choose the right direction to reach the boss. Missions are randomly generated each time the campaign starts, with a variety of mission types such as: survival, target destruction, target protection… It’s up to you to choose which mission to do and what reward to get. Suitability is entirely up to you.

Failure of a mission or the defeat of all characters results in the campaign being failed, and you will have to start over from the beginning. This creates a loop similar to rogue-lite titles like Hades nice Into the Breach.

All elements of your gameplay Metal Slugs Tactics blend together very tightly, making you keep pressing the replay button and telling yourself “just play a little more!”

…turn-based strategy gameplay, although not the usual “formula” of this game series, is cleverly deployed and extremely addictive.

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RELATIVELY MANY ERRORS

Metal Slug Tactics Really played very well. However, the writer’s experience was somewhat interrupted by a few silly errors.

When starting to play, the writer often encountered problems related to Reset Turn. Sometimes, they cause the characters to cluster together in an invisible box, unable to move or skip a turn. Or, in some other turns, the turn announcement dialog boxes sometimes hang permanently on the screen, making it impossible to continue the game.

These things can be avoided if the writer has the ability to exit or replay the level. But no! The game does not support this button (which the writer thinks is very common in strategy games) and you almost have to completely replay the campaign just because you accidentally get an error.

Fortunately, these bugs appear to have been patched somewhat in recent updates.

The writer’s experience was somewhat interrupted by a few silly errors