Metal Slug 5 One Life Game (Level-8)

Redone version of my Metal Slug 5 One Life Game videos, due to the originals having audio issues. The original videos have been made unlisted, and can be found in the playlist linked below:

   • Metal Slug 5 (Level 8)  

Metal Slug 5 is perhaps the only non SNK developed Metal Slug title I'd recommend to anyone, albeit only half heartedly. It lacks the bland, spiteful level design of 4 and 7, yet at the same time looks and feels like the fast paced arcade game the original SNK developed titles have. The soundtrack in Metal Slug 5 is by far and away its best feature, as it's something so far departed stylistically from what the original developers could have done, yet it fits the theme and style of the game so ridiculously well.

Unfortunately, Metal Slug 5 is quite infamously an unfinished game, as any time spent on sites digging up the heaps of unused content will tell you. I can't imagine how much better Metal Slug 5 could've been had it actually been finished, but at the same time, I wonder if I only enjoy the game so much because the level designers didn't have the time to put in all the bullshit elements they wanted to. Metal Slug 5 is by far the shortest Metal Slug game in average clear time, yet it is one of the most difficult in the series for me to one life clear because ALL of the bosses after the first are entirely luck based, RNG dependent crap. Each boss also spends an eternity off screen where they can attack you safely, which I find is complete horse shit. The game is also horrendously untested for 2 players. But, despite these glaring flaws, I would still take it over any other SNKP developed titles, which should perhaps go some way in telling you how much I dislike anything after Metal Slug 3.

Oh, and fuck the Sandmarine.