![]() Metal Slug Tactics’ challenging missions build levels from different combinations of hand-crafted terrain tiles, keeping battle layouts unpredictable and ensuring clashes are won through calculated strategy rather than memorization. Players wield classic Metal Slug weaponry, leveraging skill trees, perks, and a super attack-fueling adrenaline system to outwit and demolish flanks of the series’ signature villains. Metal Slug Tactics reunites Marco, Eri, Fio, and Tarma as they lead the Peregrine Falcon Squad into a new battlefield through dynamic, strategic combat. Here’s the full elevator pitch on the game: You’ve got style and substance, with Metal Slug’s trademark animation translating surprisingly well to this more strategic flavor of combat. And it still looks really really damn cool in the process. Unfortunately we don’t have more stuff to talk about, and the only news from Dotemu is that the game will be available for PC and Nintendo Switch and it’s still a work in progress so, needs more time to improve the combat system at its best, delaying the launch date to a generic 2023.Metal Slug Tactics retains its goofy style, mixes in some fantastic art from D.Sloog, and switches the perspective up for turn-based tactics instead of run ‘n gun gameplay. Last but not least we have a gameplay feature called Sync.Īt first look it seems a classic flanking maneuver that allows you to hit an enemy from different sides with your member’s squad. Thinking that these last should be a trump card against buildings, thanks to some environmental destruction of the stages. We can use the classic fireguns, mecha and battle tanks of the Metal Slug saga. The challenging and roguelite feature seems to be based on a different and handed conformation of the battle stages during the missions. We can improve our characters and get them stronger thanks to a skill tree and perks system. We can guess from the trailers and the software house’s words that we will be facing a game based on a strategic/tactical turn system with RPG and roguelite components. There are some easter eggs from Metal Slug and other SNK games like King of Fighters and Fatal Fury, which will surely delight the longtime fans of the Japanese software house. We can recognize references about the world of Metal Slug, the main characters, the classic enemies and the iconic boss fights. The environments and the battlegrounds took inspiration from the old saga’s stages. ![]() The art direction looks very inspired too: Talkin’ about the technical aspect of the trailer, we can see a good looking and well designed pixel art, with the classic camera angle of a strategic/tactical turn based game. We will be able to choose between 4 playable characters from the classic saga: Marco, Eri, Fio and Tarma. The Peregrine Falcon Squad is back to face their old enemies and save the world once again. Thanks to these two trailers, we can try to talk about its early features and gameplay. ![]() On June 8, 2021, Dotemu showed the first reveal trailer about the game and later on 11 August a short gameplay trailer. Only playable on the arcade version at first, it also found its place in home consoles, with a total of nine titles to his credit. Metal slug is one of the most popular and iconic run’n’gun series, and between 19 made the history of the genre winning the player’s hearts and gaining critics acclaim. ![]()
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