Who is the enemy soldier you are most afraid of in "Metal Slug 1"?
Not those artillerymen with bazookas,
Nor are shield soldiers using pistols,
And not those mecha tanks with super thick HP,
Rather, it is an "assassin" rebel who will fly in the air and shoot a knife.
If I'm not mistaken, every friend here has suffered at their hands!
(It was precisely because of the fear of these flying knife soldiers that they did not know that there were hidden hostages in this location for more than twenty years)
If you're driving a tank at this point, they'll change their attack and use climbing tanks to wreak havoc. At this point, players are safe as long as they are active. But if you don't move for a moment, the tank will be destroyed once, and with bad luck, the tank will explode directly.
The metamorphosis of the throwing knife soldier is: you only need physical contact in the air to die, and his dagger has not yet been pulled out before there is an attack judgment, so ask you if you are afraid. It is precisely because of this that it is difficult for us to win when we shoot in the air, and we often end up together.
Of course, if you play with your dagger, you can still kill those throwing knife soldiers.
In the arcade, dagger stabbing is essential for point-hungry players, because pistol killing rebels only has 100 points, while stabbing with a dagger can get 300 points. You can encounter so many enemies along the way, and these are all points!
I don't know if any players like me have challenged "Metal Slughead" to stab directly with a dagger?
Especially at the beginning of the game, all the enemy soldiers are standing and letting you kill, and the feeling of stabbing along the way is really amazing. If an enemy soldier does not stab him, he will feel a little lost. The great god's requirements for himself are such excellence.
Don't tell me, I was the only one who was bored!
In fact, every scene of "constantly pouring in enemy soldiers" seems to be endless, as long as you insist on killing here for a while, you will find that the enemy soldiers are limited in number, not inexhaustible.
At the top of the snowy mountain, there are 50 snowball-pushing enemy soldiers, and if you kill them all, you can get 15,000 points, although not much, but it is still very helpful for the ranking, and the time will reset after going up, don't worry about the problem of lack of time.
The fastest position to brush points, it has to be the last level, the position where the flying knife soldier jumps just above our heads, just need to stand here and poke, don't let any of them go.
In the game, all enemy soldiers are a knife in seconds, we don't know the power of the dagger at all, so is there a way to test it? The answer is yes.
After all! There is also an elite monster in the game, that is, Allen-classmate at the top of the snowy mountain. We only need to refer to his blood volume to know.
Well, how many pistol bullets is the equivalent of the power of a dagger?
"Metal Slug 1"
Eren is the only person in the game who can be stabbed many times in a row without dying, and his HP has been tested before, requiring a pistol and H ejection seventy times.
Then the editor tried to use the bomb and dagger for the challenge respectively (Lv4 default difficulty), and the result was:
Kill with a pistol requires: 70 rounds
Stabbing with a dagger requires: 14 times
Burn with a bomb: 14 rounds
The power of the bomb is equivalent to 5 bullets, which we all know. But I did not expect that the power of the dagger was also the same, and in the original generation it was already the same as the power of the bomb.
The dagger is five times more powerful than a pistol.
No wonder I felt that the dagger hurt Allen more, and it turned red after two strokes.
Metal Slug 2
So, in "Metal Slug 2", is the dagger the same effect?
With the addition of two girls in this version, the melee attack of four is no longer an option for daggers, but the damage is still the same.
The mummy in Metal Slug 2 is more resistant to fighting, and even in close combat, it takes several stabs to kill. And the mummies that appear in the second level are also divided into types, and the yellowish mummies have a little thicker blood.
It is precisely because of this that some mummies die with four shots, some mummies die with six shots, and some mummies need nine shots. If it is hoisted, 15 shots are required
The editor found a mummy that only needs to shoot nine shots to die, and test the power of melee killing!
The result is:
What is needed to kill the pistol: 9 rounds
Melee kills need: 3 times
In other words, the power of melee combat in Metal Slug 2 is much weakened, and the damage of a single attack is only three times that of a pistol.
In addition, the mummy killed by 15 rounds of the pistol must be stabbed 5 times to kill, which seems to indicate that the power of the dagger has broken the limit: 1 dagger = 3 bullets
Metal Slug 3
And what about melee damage in Metal Slug 3?
Many large creatures in this version can be destroyed with daggers, and even the final boss Mars Root.
The confidant goes to find a man-eating flower to try the power, in this version
The pistol takes out the man-eating flower: 6 rounds
Dagger to kill the man-eating flower need: 2 times
It seems to have been explained that in this version, melee damage is 3 times that of pistols, which is no different from "Metal Slug 2"!
The Man-Eating Flower is the most irritating creature in the 3rd generation, with too much HP and frequent swarms, as long as the player does not kill them all at once, they will be surrounded and murdered. Although close to the body can be quickly destroyed, as long as there are two together, the player may be swallowed by one of them.
In addition, whether it is a fork, a dagger, or an axe, a fat man or a thin man, if you want to stab the cannibal flower to death, you have to do it twice.
Z-shells dedicated to melee combat appeared in Metal Slug 6 and Metal Slug 7. This thing is extremely powerful, and it has a miraculous effect on those mecha-type bosses, and has the effect of tearing wounds. As long as you can survive, each boss will not be very difficult.
"Metal Slug XX" Liana's addition has become the biggest highlight, each character has such a move against the sky skills, Liana uses a moonlight saw, the power has surpassed other weapons, melee combat against bosses is very useful, and can even achieve second kills.
Those popular games have been on my mind for many years, and I always want to find an opportunity to review them. But when we actually played, we found that we couldn't engage in it, and the game was boring to play. Oh, yes! The friends around me have grown up, and they can never go back, and the more they play alone, the lonelier they get.
Missed that hot era, missed that passionate years, we need to make up for it with a lifetime!
Yes, a lot of things missed is a lifetime!
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