Ex-Metal Slug Developers Announce Black Finger Jet, A New Run-And-Gun Game

I'm not sure about 3D being mentioned in the trailer, I would prefer they do everything as pixel art like in Metal Slug. That said, as a small team having to do all the frames of animation would be very hard. Maybe they're going to use 3D models with a filter to create pixel art-like graphics?

Either way, I'm really keen to see what they come up with!

@BulkSlash To be honesto, the game's mix of 2D and 3D reminded me of Dolphin Blue, which which is currently the last game made by the Metal Slug team after the original SNK imploded in 2001-2002. So, it has been more or less 21 years since we have seen any Nazca member make a Metal Slug successor.

Hopefully they find a publisher to invest.

This looks awesome! Hopefully gets picked up and on Nintendo Switch/Switch 2 ASAP

It's Metal Slug 8!

@KGRAMR Ah, ya, was thinking it reminded me of something.

I think I like the idea of this. Not pure pixels, not pure 3d, rather an interesting balance. Can't tell if this is going to be Contra hard, or where it should land on the spectrum. This doesn't look too over the top hard. Hopefully there are some other features, combos maybe(?), that we haven't seen yet. Either way, I like the art direction here.

Looks good, it's a bit slow but I hope they can fix that when the game launch

Looks great very metal slug like but that’s a good thing hope it gets a release on switch

It looks interesting so far. The Metal Slug DNA is there, and some might think it's too much, but I like it. The 3D backgrounds look good so far and don't look as mismatched with the sprites as is the case sometimes. I did have a couple of concerns, however. One is that the lighting effects already look to be a bit too much. The other thing is something I talk about a lot, which is the screen shake. I find that really unpleasant and I will skip over games because of it. But many games make that optional, so hopefully that do that here.

I'm torn with this one. I've always liked the Metal Slug aesthetic since the first game and the 3D here looks decent enough, but the mixing of 2D-3D doesn't seem to blend that well, at least the way I see it.

Maybe the final product will be different though, so I reserve my judgment until then.

Hype for this.

I like the look of this - a little rough around some edges, but it is early doors.

Only thing I wasn't bowled over by was the sound. I thought the voice over work sounded very amateur, the soundtrack is off the mark and the sfx a bit washed out.

BUT... sound is easily changed, and I suspect it was rushed through for the alpha footage and will be much better further down the road.

Yes looks promising, no mention of platforms.