Nitro Express

ボス戦中、無限に湧く一般兵が硬くて足が速い、かつ発生の早い近接攻撃をしてくるメタルスラッグ。 ボスの行動を分析したいのに常に5体以上の雑魚敵に囲まれてしょぼいグレネードで対応させられる。 戦いは数だと思い知るのにいいゲームだと思います。

In a world where the Japanese metropolitan police have infinite money use lasers, rifles and an RPG we got off the Yakuza to destroy rogue robots and save the citizens of Tokyo and decimate the local fish population (this is a fishing minigame with guns and it's actually quite good Anyway, good little game can't recommend more

Its price is a little steep but its a charming game for all of its thorns, a good game to snag on sale and play for a few sessions for ten or twenty hours. The characters and art are very cute, the story is pretty decent and had a strong ending, the gameplay is pretty decent with a decent amount of variety in weapon/gadget loadouts and unlockables. The soundtrack is BANGIN. There's a handful of touchy issues you should be aware of: [list] [*] Framerate locked to 30 FPS makes the action a little chunky and difficult to follow sometimes. [*] Identifying where your character is in the chaotic mess of everything exploding can be a challenge. The game's art direction does a pretty decent job of distinguishing most things at a basic level, but areas can get extremely busy and hard to follow. [*] Controls and responsiveness could have used some work. Jumping and landing has a recovery period that can make it awkward to cleanly dodge things. Rolling is tied to crouching and moving in any direction, which can be problematic when trying to jump a specific direction from a roll. Gadget slots are tied to weapon slots which was not immediately apparent and makes it rather clunky to use the gadget you want for the specific situation. [*] The game has a somewhat odd choice of encouraging the use of stable stances for damage bonuses (crouching does more damage than standing and moving, for example). This leads to a lot of times where you want to momentarily crouch to deliver high damage and then need to move right after, but as mentioned the somewhat clunky and overlapping controls do not make this feel intuitive. [*] Lots of actions like melee lock you in place or cancel existing animations which makes their use not feel very fluid. Not being able to swap weapons in the middle of a reload is another thing that makes controls feel clunky. [*] The game is somewhat short. There's 8 story missions and 20 "bonus" missions which are mostly just challenge scenarios that follow somewhat similar layouts or boss usage from the main mission with an added twist or added enemy spawns. [/list] All that being said the game is not overly insanely difficult or punishing but it was certainty enough for me to need to restart a few times and consider alternative weapons for the level. Once I was able to find gaps or strategies that worked I could usually do the levels pretty easily, but I never really felt like I was being pigeonholed into a singular loadout or strategy.

I can't recommend an arcade style game that can't be played with an arcade stick. Forcing you to use D-pad and analog sticks simultaneously, R3 and so on makes it impossible to even complete the first steps in the tutorial with an arcade stick, which is extremelly annoying. I just closed the game 5 minutes into it, stuck in the very first character movement tutorial. I appreciate the effort and I think I'll keep it (not asking for a refund, though I haven't made up my mind yet) but if the devs listen to feedback from users: please SIMPLIFY DRASTICALLY the input system and REDUCE the number of buttons needed (i.e. crouch with down, kick with shoot+right/left next to a kickable object, slide with diagonal down+jump), make it D-pad only (no thumbsticks AT ALL) and you'll have a much better game. Metal Slug wasn't only great for its graphics but for its COMPLEX SIMPLICITY: 8 directions, three buttons, and the characters can shoot, throw bombs, hit with a knife in short range, jump, aim in every direction (even while jumping, in the air), jump in and out the tanks, throw the tank as a projectile/bomb... Nitro Express is regrettably the exact oposite: thousand action buttons needed and directionals too, and you cannot even aim diagonally. It feels overwhelmingly limited in movement despite the huge ammount of buttons and thumbsticks that it craves. I'm sorry but that's a horrible design flaw. My recommendation for you, run'n'gun lovers and hardcore players reading this: Do NOT buy unless... 1. ... you're a control pad/keyboard player. 2. ... you're an arcade stick or hitbox player who has $500+ USD available to burn building a fully custom layout arcade stick/hitbox with lots of extra buttons for all of the thumbstick directions, R3, L3 etc that regular and official arcade sticks lack.

率直に言うとあまり爽快感が無い。 私がそう思っただけで、好きな人は気にならないかと思うのと、価格を考えると充分のクオリティかと思いました。 ただ、ムービーを観ていると、爽快感があるシューティングアクションっぽいのですが、 操作がちょっとクセがあります。キーレスポンスが軽いせいか、アクションが軽い気がします。 フレームレートが低いせいかコマ飛びして見える。 そのせいでプレイヤーを見失ってしまう。（エフェクトがド派手で何が起きているのか分からないというのもあるかも） あと、これが大きいのかと思うのですが、SEがスカスカ音で気持ちよくない。 シュンシュンいってて、リアルだとこういう音なのかもですが、、、 絵は良くて綺麗。演出も日本人なら分かり易い”あるある感”があって良かったです。 素直な操作感にして、SEを気持ち良くして、続編お願いしたい作品です。

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A charming Metal Slug-lite, done in a cute pixel anime style. The variety of enemies isn't very high, but the game gives you an impressive & entertaining variety of weapons to try out on them. The characters and the plot are done in the classic moé anime style, like if you combined Lucky Star and an unused Richard Donner script. If you like Metal Slug and you like cute anime girls, give this game a look.