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Don't go in for Mercenary Kings then by Lurker 410942 02/24/2014, 10:02pm PST
Mischief Maker wrote:

Co-op makes even the shittiest of games seem fun.


Mercenary Kings is a mashup of Metal Slug and Monster Hunter, and you pretty much get what you'd expect. The levels and enemies are byootiful, sure, but by your 5th "Collect 10 Quality Linen" mission, you'll be pretty pissed off. Multiplayer is fun, sure, but that just makes a 15 minute slog through the same non-threatening enemies and ridiculously easy obstacles into 5 minute run through only HALF the level.

The bosses have 3 different attacks MAX. I just came off of a Megaman bender (PS2 Classic and X collections), so even though they were damn purdy to look at, there was nothing there that posed any kind of challenge.

The early access is huge, bug-free, and pretty much shows they took your average Metal Slug game and just streeeeeeeeeeeeeetched it out over a couple dozen hours and weapons, most of which are useless. What's the point of a gun with a 300 round clip and 10 second reload time? There's never more than 2(!!!!!!) enemies attacking you at once! You'll never need anything more than AP ammo and a sniper rifle since the levels are flat enough that a few shots with an extreme range gun will kill at least 6 guys off screen. Most of the people who play seem to think that the optimal strategy is to GRIND lower levels to build up the REALLY GOOD GUNS. No. There's no huge difference between a boss material gun and one of the Stallone-movie-reference guns. If you can't manage to dodge an attack with a 2 second telegraph, then a 10% damage increase probably won't save you.

If you do end up buying it (and please don't), then you'll HAVE to play online for it to be any kind of fun.
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