SNK released an official video celebrating the Metal Slug’s 30th anniversary a few days ago.
The video itself it’s nothing too special, just a thank you using footage from all mainline Metal Slug games (and Metal Slug Defense-Attack too), but it ends with a message displayed on a NEO GEO cabinet: “MISSION REBOOT”.
Obviously a teaser for a potential new mailine game in the future, i’d argue about damn time since the new Saudi prince-owned SNK had been pushing out a plethora of F2P gacha titles using the Metal Slug license, ranging from crap to ok, MS Awakening was actually ok as in it was as close as you could get to a proper MS title…. for a F2P thing, so getting an actual, proper Metal Slug game would be nice.
I mean, given the current nostalgia-driven market and how it has been almost 2 decades since the last mainline MS game, Metal Slug 7, released for the DS in 2008, then ported-expanded on PSP, Metal Slug XX came out in 2009, and that version was rereleased on modern consoles back in 2018, almost a decade ago already.
So the fans have been starved enough, and this comes alongside PlayOn rereleasing a new version of the home console version of the Neo Geo hardware, the NEO GEO AES +, which will have newly made carts for the console but also will be compatible with the old ones.
While this is just a vague teaser of something coming up eventually for Metal Slug as a whole, it did make consider redoing a retrospective on the whole series. As in, i did do one a decade or something ago for an italian blog, so it has been more than long enough, and it would be a chance to do it proper, better and actually do a complete retrospective on the series.
Well, as complete as i can since all of the F2P mobile spin-offs that have been since discontinued, the only exception being MS Attack being rereleased as an offline paid game without SNK guest characters or microtransactions, Metal Slug Attack Reloaded, but i have other plans for that one.
We’ll see and i will lay down more concrete plans when we have something less vague for this “MISSION REBOOT”, in the meantime we’re reliving the 90s again as soon next month the new Mortal Kombat film will drop, Mortal Kombat II, a sequel to the 2021 adaptation, and recently the trailer for the new Street Fighter film was also released.
On this regard, after debating a bit, i decided i will just have a full lenght review of the 2021 Mortal Kombat film, and the new Mortal Kombat II will get an EXPRESSO review, i would have liked to revisit the older MK films but i’m already quite busy, the 4K Arrow Video collection lands this summer, and i already compromised (see previous ramble-announcement post) to still do Melee May this year (Musou May will most likely return next year, but it’s not final yet).
I will close off by saying that this year we won’t have a “Shark Month” per se, instead we’ll have the usual 6 shark movie reviews split between June, July and August, so we can have the reviews peppered through all the summer months, and to accomodate a mini “Summer Of EDF”, as in there simply isn’t enough material left to cover, just two games (and a PSVita digital only port of EDF 3/EDF 2017, which isn’t worth a full lenght review of his own and it’s still full priced at 30 bucks on PSN store for Vita).
That’s about everything for now, see ya.
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