[STEAM] Metal Slug Tactics’ demo is pure nostalgia for better and worse

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I’ve always loved the art of the Metal Slug series of side-scrolling shooters, so I’ve been keeping a keen eye on the fetching grid

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antics of

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ever since it was

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. For as long as I’ve been excited, I’ve also been worried. It’s been a polarising experience, like being alternately fed delicious sandwiches and those inedible rotlogs they sell at Subway. Still, I’ve remained cautious: is all this great pixel-art just a shroud pulled over a ***-hum tactics game to rescue it from naffness? It’s with this in mind I hungrily dove into the Steam Next Fest

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, as one might hungrily ***** into a bin to eat literal garbage if their only other option was Subway.

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