Metal Slug-Inspired Metroidvania 'Guns Of Fury' Arrives On Switch & PC Later This Month

I really like this. I feel like being able to shoot is a lot more satisfying in a Metroid style game rather than having to use melee attacks.

guns of fury? really? 🙄

It feels like every second indie game nowadays is a Metroidvania. I'm seriously getting burnt out.

Why can't there be more Contra/Metal Slug homages that you could just pick up and play like Iron Meat?

@PKDuckman agreed, it's always F**king Metroidvania or a soulslike experience. Just give us proper old school gaming.

@Axelay71 @PKDuckman Yeah, I know what you mean. But it wa also inevitable with the expansion of gaming in general and indie developers being able to get their games out there. To be fair, Metroidvanias can be great games and they inspired a lot of people to make their own. I think part of it is that Metroidvanias are easier to sell because enough people are always going on about game length. And they are probably easier to balance as far as difficulty. I like them, but I also tire of them after a while. And I've seen people complain about everything, too many Metroidvanias, too many retro games, too many 3D games, too many 2D sprite games, too many 8-bit-style games, etc.

I think the problem with classic early console and arcade style stuff is that those games have trouble breaking through. It helps to find sites or channels that can curate those a bit. I just found a youtube channel that may prove useful for that. But those retro-style games are out there. I plan to play Iron Meat. Prison City is pretty good. Huntdown was excellent. Steel Assault is fun. Blazing Chrome is very Contra like. Same developer made Moonrider, a ninja action game. There's Valfaris. There are others and I have to do a better job at keeping up as well.

@Sketcz I'm glad you found it because I have no doubt I would have been trying to find it as well. And as much as I like this site, the search is not the best element of it. I wouldn't be surprised if I still that a browser tab open for the game from last year. I need to come up with a better way to keep track of these things. It reminds me of the experience I had with a game called Steel Assault, which is quite good. I had seen it when it was first shown as an 8-bit-style game. It was then changed to a 16-bit look. Somewhere along the way, I forgot the name of the game and had very little to go on until it came up in the news again and I suddenly noticed a few familiar elements that I could have easily missed. Just yesterday, I remembered a game I didn't list in my prior comment and had no luck finding it on here. The game is Spidersaurs and luckily I remembered something else about it which helped me find it. It's so easy for these games to pass you by.