As the most representative of the horizontal board shooting game in the arcade circle, "Alloy Slug" has always had endless topics to talk about, whether it is the plot in the game or countless Easter eggs, the richness of its game content is to feed a bunch of professional players who study alloy slugs.
Indeed, the arcade series of "Metal Slugs" can be twenty years ago the arcade era has been popular to this day still has a decisive voice in the game circle, and the quality of the game itself is inseparable, whether it is the anti-war spirit or the story behind each character has become an open secret, widely circulated by metal slug players, but this is far from enough to depict the whole picture of the game, because in the many scraps of the game, there are more little-known stories. They're the key to really building the entire world architecture of the game.
Metal Slug 5 is one of the more special works in the Metal Slug series, where the player's opponent will no longer be the Modern Army, but a new mysterious organization, the Ptolemaic Legion, which can be understood as a real villain force. The villain force, on the other hand, clearly has greater ambitions, hiding in the rainforest and constantly exploring various ruins in an attempt to unearth powerful forces from the ruins.
And in the game there is an unskillable animation will appear in the plot, a mysterious mask with the excavation of the ruins, appeared in the local indigenous settlement, a native put on him, after a lightning bolt, the whole person underwent a qualitative change, not only intellectual and physical strength in all aspects of the surge, and brainwashed everyone, so that almost the entire Ptolemaic legion became his followers.
But later in the game, the protagonist did not see the mysterious masked man reappear until he brushed up on the Mammoth Tower and even defeated the final boss Death? This not only raises doubts about why the game originally released the non-skippable animation.
In fact, the "Metal Slug 5" that we can play at present is a deleted and optimized version, and the official has already thrown all the previous scraps into the "trash can", but deleting does not mean that there is no, and the sudden death god in the game has no connection with the front, which also makes many folk gods begin to explore the unsolved mystery.
In the official original manuscript, the Mammoth Tower actually has a more complete image, and the rumored stone turtle BOSS, as the movable core at the bottom, supports such a defensive tower, and the top of the tower, originally planned to stand the masked man and his followers, waiting for the protagonist's challenge.
In an official mobile game, there are also related animations about the masked man, although there are many pictures of orthodox arcade sequels, but it also definitely has a lot of reference value. The location where the mask man appears is where the final boss Death is located, so it is not difficult to see that he is the culprit who summons death, but because the plot is too protracted, in the final version of the game, his role is all deleted, leaving only an inexplicable masked animation for players to guess.
In a website that specializes in collecting and sorting out the scrap of the metal slug series of games, there is also an introduction to the mask man, and the conclusion is that this boss is the small BOSS before the appearance of the god of death, he can use the power of the mask to summon the god of death, so that the god of death becomes his pet and the player to fight, but unfortunately, few people in arcade games cared about the details of these plots, so for the compactness of the overall plot of the game, it was finally hidden by the official.
In addition to this mysterious mask man, in fact, a lot of interesting content about "Metal Slug" was shrunk in various ways for the overall length of the game, but this still did not affect its becoming the greatest shooter game in arcade circles. I wonder what other secrets you know about Metal Slug? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area
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