From the second it was introduced Metallic Slug Techniques was a winner in our eyes. Marrying the SNK traditional with the turn-based techniques style is a golden concept on paper. Listening to it’s a roguelike within the vein of Into the Breach was the coup de grâce for this sport being something however a banger. And we’re blissful to say it lives as much as these lofty expectations.
Metallic Slug Techniques does what it says on the tin: it’s a techniques sport with the world, characters, and, most significantly, graphical type of SNK’s Metallic Slug. You’ll take three characters to battle by means of 4 areas and defeat Morden, who has taken over the town. You’ll begin with the primary three of Marco, Eri, and Fio, however ultimately you’ll unlock new Metallic Slug characters and a few SNK crossovers too.
Every character comes with their very own distinctive talent units and weapons, with three additional loadouts out there, making for 36 totally different courses throughout 9 characters. These vary from balanced gunners, explosive specialists, and in-your-face fighters that go in with nothing however a knife, a shotgun, and a dream.
Whereas Into The Breach is inherently defensive as technique video games go, Metallic Slug Techniques embraces the supply materials by encouraging a extra excessive playstyle. You’ll achieve adrenaline – which lets you use abilities – and dodge factors – which reduces the injury taken – by shifting additional away out of your place to begin. Hunkering down will end in you getting blasted. Staff placement is extraordinarily vital too, because it permits you to use Synchronisation assaults, enabling two teammates to assault enemies of their line of sight.
Every area of the sport has you tackle three missions earlier than preventing the boss (you possibly can tackle the ultimate boss area after finishing only one different area for those who’d like, although). Missions can vary from depleting enemy ranks to escort quests, and every provides their very own rewards like XP, provide drops, and ammo. Nevertheless, every mission additionally has a secondary goal to make the rewards even better.
Sadly, in the course of the evaluation course of, we’ve encountered a bug that causes the sport to undergo lengthy hundreds in the course of the fight sections always. We’ve examined the sport on PC the place this isn’t a problem, however sadly each the PS5 and PS4 have this drawback. The group is conscious of it, and the sport has been patched since we received it, making issues a bit higher (it used to freeze throughout hundreds), however the lengthy hundreds are nonetheless persistent as of launch day.
We’re hoping this will probably be solved swiftly, as a result of proper now it’s a huge blemish on an in any other case good sport.