However, we sometimes broke this rule and made the players feel stress on purpose. The top priority we have always had was to let players play the game without being stressed. This is a problem, which quickly reduces fun and gameplay enjoyment, so sometimes we had to forget about reality and, for example, change the enemy's bullet to a color that was easier to see.

There would be no reason to improve other features if you cannot have fun with the basics such as moving, jumping, and shooting, so we focused our time adjusting game balance by researching players' reactions during income tests and location tests before launch.Īlso, if we drew too much detail in our graphics, it sometimes made enemy objects and attacks hard to see. 'Gameplay will be sometimes comical, but also challenging at important points and always cool to look at and play!'Ģ) Has fan reaction on the series led to design changes? Therefore, we built the whole game world based on the following description: However, it was still a video game and we didn't want it to be too brutal just because we pursued reality for the look of the game.

In order to differentiate METAL SLUG from them, and because we could create some cool machines and lots of action, we decided the series' main theme was war with lots of things to shoot.

We remember the series started based on one concept, 'Player-friendly action game with one joystick and two buttons.' At that time, there were a lot of comical games in this genre. 1) What was your inspiration for the METAL SLUG series?

Metal slug 1 concept art