Dotemu has provided a 7 minute BTS video for Metal Slug Tactics that shows what thought is going into the isometric turn-based tactics game during its development.
Metal Slug Tactics will be straying from the series’ tried and true run and gun gameplay. but as the team behind the game explains in the video, efforts are being made to keep the heart of Metal Slug beating even after a shift in camera angle and genre.
The game was confirmed for “Fall 2024” in August’s Nintendo Direct, but the proper release date is unknown.
Until then, readers can take a peek behind the development curtain themselves with the video the publisher has provided:
Interesting but it’s really hard to draw with a drawing tablet when the screen is not in place and you can’t even see what your doing on a plain drawing tablet with no screen being placed.
“Roguelikes are a direct reminder of the arcade put in another coin and start again”
A roguelike? No, I dont think I see it. Maybe? Just looks like a tactical to me. But his reasoning is the reason the home console killed the arcades. This dudes devolving his game.
And then he says,
‘ The movement and positioning gives you power exactly like in a run and gun.’
And again no. But Im sure in the planning meeting, they bought into it because he used the words arcade and run n gun and that brought up found memories of games they liked to play. You know, like Metal Slug. Then they made this.