Metal Slug. Pistol Only Run. Hard Difficulty. Playthrough.
5Prepare for what's likely one of the most hardcore runs I've ever done in this channel, a pistol only run in hard mode of Metal Slug 1. I'm playing the PSP version, which is a port of the Arcade through the Metal Slug Anthology collection, so I am aware that there is more difficult versions of the game, but nonetheless I had this one in handy and decided to use it.
So Metal Slug, Metal Slug, Metal Slug... I hear a lot about it, and of course as a SNK junkie, it makes sense I would know this franchise of theirs. It's their version of Mario, or Contra, or Sonic... and being SNK, it's a pure blast of adrenaline in the Contra style directly to your gaming muscles and veins, being full of tanks that look like World War 1 and World War 2 extermination tank prototypes, a crazed militaristic setting full of comedy and also LULZ as you see the goofy styled deaths and animations throughout, it's got 16-bit styled marching music + action movie styled music, and ... do I need to say more!? It's just one hell of a Arcade game, and it never gets old because it's just so god damn entertaining and it always was.
So this is a pistol only run, which I searched around in YouTube and couldn't find anything even close to this in the search engine... there are glitched runs for Metal Slug 3, but then again that game I will run in a completely different category as the transformations + pistol only run idea can lead to some ridiculously hardcore gameplay sessions (plus the ending bit of that is insane... it's a level in a level in a level, take that platformers, a Arcade company did it better than your Mario/Sonic shit).
So yeah, sit down and enjoy and prepare for laughs and craziness, as I take down the entire force of general Donald Morden with a motherfucking pistol, no grenades, no backups, tossed in the open at the enemy field, no line of contact, but still did it like a fucking man. Good job soldier! You can now go home, Marco Rossi, a job well done.