This game is currently in development by Division 六, a long term Metal Slug modder and custom sprite creator. The game aims to implement features that were in the original Metal Slug prototype (and were dropped), such as the way the hostages follow you and fight by your side.

Wow, this is surprisingly super faithful to Metal Slug. They didn't even cheap out on the animations, they literally hand drew everything. I respect that.

SNK have always been legendary with its sprite artwork and animations. I fell in love with metal slug at Metal Slug X then beyond. Fan made games meeting that quality with original ideas and story? Oh yes please.

Metal Slug series has one of the most of the satisfying pixel art animation with the mix of gorgeous backgrounds and ensued chaos of war and bloodshed in terms of gameplay. For a fan game, this is very spot-on, except what's missing is the blood.

This looks, sounds, and feels so much like a Metal Slug game whilst also having such a distinct personality of its own. Absolutely phenomenal. I cannot wait to play this.

Omg it's so smooth. The sprites, the art style, the music, everything is here to make every Metal Slug fan blush with nostalgia!

Thanks for doing a video on my game! Feels surreal after being a subscriber for some time now haha The game is at its earliest stage right now, so except more unique gameplay features, sound design changes and more enemies!

I can't believe they managed to make the music have that "Metal slug" vibe , it sounded like it was taken straight from the original game.

I honestly really love the look of those soldiers. Always made me feel kinda bad for putting them down.

I have been following the development of this game for years, Since day 1. The creator originally wanted this game to be melee only 👀

That opening cutscene, though. That's what convinced me just how much the devs loved Metal Slug. I'm so looking forward to this.

I'm a huge Metal Slug fan and I do hope this becomes popular and successful. It looks great.

Man, the sprites look so good holy crap!

I just watched this a week ago! I'm surprised to see you guys play this! I've been a MS fan for a long time! So it's cool to see it also rise up to popularity!

This is a really faithful homage to _Metal Slug._

Ayyy, Alpha's playing it! Every new video brings it closer to the spotlight!

When you playing this game, my childhood game memories comes out...😢

Great fan made Metal Slug game! This would fill the hole left by the lack of Metal Slug game these days :D

Sin duda jugare Aqua Ippan para cuando tenga la pc para armarla y jugar esta joya, tendre que esperar medio año mientras trabajo asi que desenme suerte señores y me cuentan como les fue para los que ya hayan jugado este juego.

As a big fan of metal slug. Let me say… THANK YOU!

The fact that from granades you have oxytanks and bricks reminds me of the fact one of the metal slug games had stones as granades.

OMG I love it! Captures the humour of MS perfectly. I love the bricks and the moonwalking kid.

Love the art style of the MS games, the animations here are so smooth

The animations, the color palette, the spot-on style of music, the way the enemies spawn, the backgrounds, the level flow, the overall feeling of this game is mindblowingly perfect. If i hadn't read in the title it was a fan made game, i would have thought this was some kind of metal slug official spinoff. It's simply incredible. Maybe if i really have to pick on something, i'd say the impact of the secondary weapons isn't as satisfying as it was in the original games with the grenades, but i do understand the need and attempt at trying something different. Overall It's just a miracle of a fan project and i can't stress enough how incredibly amazing it looks and feels. Bravo!

Art-style is incredible.

A breath fresh air from the new 3d direction snk is going for. They forgot what made metal slug good. The sprite animation and man the music gots that classic metal slug feel to it. good job!!

the pixel art in this game is absurdly good, its up to par with the original metal slug games

This is such great news. The graphic art of metal slug was always beautiful and I missed it ever since. The music, the graphics, the feel everything oozes metal slug. Can't wait for the full release!

aww the ending song is so nostalgic

Finally, a game that can match Metal Slug's sprites' fluidity, those are rare.

As a huge Metal Slug fan, this has me uber hyped

Whoa, what an effort! Even the opening cutscene looks fluid as hell. Can't wait finally have special homage to Metal Slug that it needs by now. (Definitely not another mobile games of MS, of course)

This is my comfort channel

SNK's game art combined with fluid gameplay and storyline characters were really fantastic. Really bad ending for a good studio.

This is just a Demo, yet it give so much metal slug vibes

Thanks for showing it. I'll check it out. Meanwhile I'll try to calm myself down after hearing the outro pun XD

when you pick up the bricks,the narrator should say...BrIIIICKS

Omg I love this so much! Brings back so many great memories!

Me encanta este trabajo. De los más bonitos que he visto! Ojalá que todo te vaya bien para que lo termines!! Con gusto lo compraré!

Strange choice of weaponry The brat following you while backwards walking is adorable. Music is great

Honestly, it's a massive shame no one has made a worthy successor to the Metal Slug series. Looks like that's going to change.

This is awesome! Metal slug was an amazing game growing up. Great sound affects, just like the originals

The fact that this imitates Metal slug down to a tee it insane metal slug is such a different style from most other games and this has that style is a more E for everyone style (metal slug is a very bloody and Gory game it’s very good but difficult 😮‍💨) and the characters are more lengthy and tall

Looks and sounds absolutely beautiful. Can't wait to play a demo when available.

This looks gorgeous. Hope they add blood.

I like to think this is a prequel to metal slug one and that the kids you’re saving are the future POWs

Division 6 the uploader of all metal slug soundtracks and a Game developer ;)

the gun and grenades are so lackluster compared to Metal Slug. Other than that looks nice!

Amazing game it is and i tak with the developer regarding Aqua Ippan about the possibility of having a Neo-Geo version of the game in the near future. Also, your video was shared on the Neo-Geo thread on the forums over at AtariAge for others to take notice. Thank you for sharing this with us bro. 8^) Anthony..

Metal slug was one to best pixel shooting game and theme song before and now.

Love the Contra 3 motorcycle level inspired music!

I'm a big fan of Metal Slug, and while I can see the inspiration, I really hope it begins to embrace its own identity. At the moment, it feels like it's trying to /be/ Metal Slug, and it's weaker as a result of this. Enemies death animation seem to play at random, causing them to fly in wildly inappropriate directions based on how they died. The gameplay is also terse and slow, I counted like, a total of two times the enemies actually shot back, discounting the bullet sponge mini bosses. The bullets the main character fires is weirdly arrow shaped, the explosions feel really weak, especially since it's supposed to kill you, and the background is incredibly static. There's dozens of these little details that Metal Slug has that add up to create a truly interesting and action packed experience that this simply lacks. If it wants to be a more grittier version of Metal Slug, then let the creative direction approach that. If it wants to be another Metal Slug, then it /has/ to do everything Metal Slug did, at the very least. Given that this is in development, I do hope that the developers are reading this, and take it in stride. I sincerely hope that this project of yours is successful.

Oh my gosh! This is amazing! I have loved metal slug for the longest time and just watching this is WOW!!! I’m so happy that the MS community still thrives today!

Can't get enough of demo! But I respect to the team that they truly make the game this good since demo! I'll just replay a demo over and over. I'll instant-buy this game when it come out.

Wow, everything is awesome

As a Metal slug fan I approve of this game

I grew up on metal slug and other side scrolling games like it ❤️

it's as fun as the og metal slug i could even expect the next feature of HEAVY MACHINE GUN

Harpoon gun to the face . No reaction.. based 🗿🗿🗿

It looks and sounds perfect.

Thanks for sharing!! Love what I see so far!

音楽もグラフィックも良すぎる！

That looks very fine, the only thing missing are the weapon pick-ups.

You got me sold when i saw the baguettes. XD

I see Metal Slug inspiration, I watch

I saw him 28 minutes after this video was released.

Holy FUCK does this look great! When I was younger I had an old Metal Slug cabinet I played the hell out of. Needless to say, this looks and feels so much like it despite being its own thing. I *really* hope it comes to fruition, this is exciting.

If there was like, really more blood would feel even more like Metal Slug

Yo, this looks and sounds dope. I really like Metal Slug series especially the 2D one. People who worked on this one did a great job!

Great video 🔝👍

A must play!

a girl with a nail gun vs an entire army

I wish there was as much Metal Slug like and Contra like games as there are Doom Like Games

omg its just like Commando on Miniclip!! i freakin love commando ❤

It even has its own Hyakutaro Ichimonji. 👍

This looks very cool

That grapple shot at the beginning was * wild * and I think that's what was bouncing off everyone that got hit later on, but only cause you took down a ground to air missile launcher with bricks.😂

This is awesome and looks great

This is actually very well made

i hope this awesome game comes to steam

The motion of loading and firing rifle grenades like Swiss Army infantry in the 1970s or Japanese Ground Self-Defence Force infantry is very impressive.

This is really well made

Looks great

they need to put this on steam if its not already on there this looks swag

Needs some kabooms and vehicles. Otherwise, it's perfect!

simply mind blowing. So faithful to MS

Metal Slug without the pixel art sprites is just not the same. When it came out and 3D games were starting to take over the market, it looked so distinct, and so beautiful, that it survived across generations and technological changes. The original Metal Slug games still hold up. It's one of those timeless classics. No surprise that a game inspired by its style and gameplay looks so good.

This is really great! Needs alot more blood, but still really great.

God I miss the old arcades

Lovely 😍

If SNK ever decides to do Metal Slug 8 then they've got to hire these people to do it.

Bro es perfecto. Original, pero manteniendo la esencia de metal slug

Still better than the infamous 5 elite

This should be official since the "rights" was given away to some chinese publisher.

Cool artstyle.

Phenomenal But if I don't have an announcer going "Heavy Machine gun" every now and again, what are we even doing as a society?

xD that end joke hehe

The art style would easily make those Irem guys proud, it's as faithful as it can be. Still, I got to ask: Did the creator get some kind of license from SNK to do this. As we all know with fan games, IP holders can cancel it at a moment's notice by citing copyright infringement (a lot of the sound effects are directly taken from the series), even though we all know they're probably just sore at the idea of a fan-made game upstaging them, especially when they haven't done anything with it in recent years. There's nothing worst than having all that work go down the drain, and the IP holder is not even apologetic for it.

It's like Back 4 Blood vs Left 4 Dead. I hope this goes beyond basically a reskinned Metal Slug, like maybe new weapons such as a Minigun.

It kinda reminds me of ct special forces games