Metal Slug Co-Op 1CC
Played by Marty (Player 1, Marco) and myself (Player 2, Tarma). The game was played with default DIPs (or at least, we played it on Fightcade assuming it uses default DIPs.)
This run took us longer to get than it should have because we just didn't play it regularly enough. We'd try a few times over the course of a few weeks, then forget about it for months.
Missions 1 and 2 went by without much trouble. Mission 3 started off pretty well: we got past the tricky jumps and O'Neill, both of which can be pretty dangerous, but then we lost the Metal Slug in the stupidest possible way: I got out to get grenades and accidentally landed on the upper level having scrolled the screen too far to get back to the Slug. We tried hard to find a way back to it, as you can see, but there simply wasn't one. We've done that mission many times before, and never lost the Slug like that, so I'm honestly not sure what we did differently that time. Nonetheless, we were able to complete the mission with no deaths, so we made up for the mistake.
Near the end of Mission 4, a soldier spawned on the left and threw a grenade in a way that caught me completely off guard. Because of this, I didn't destroy the artillery, instead leaving it looking mostly destroyed. Marty, trusting me to destroy it, was caught off guard by its missiles, causing us to lose a life on a pretty easy mission. Still, we pressed on.
On Mission 5, I obliviously ran the Slug into a mine that I just didn't see because I was focused on the missiles—again, despite being pretty familiar with the game. This wasn't really an issue as there was gas coming up, but I was so frustrated with myself over this mistake that I began to spiral and immediately got hit by a missile. I considered sacrificing the Slug knowing there's a replacement Slug somewhere on the level, but I wasn't sure where it was and decided not to risk it. This contributed to the boss going completely off the rails, resulting in both of us losing one life to it. Although we didn't have much room for error left, we were near the end of the game, and we knew we had a fighting chance.
Luckily, our practice and preparation paid off on the Final Mission, and it went almost perfectly to plan. I lost my last extra life early on, and there were several close calls, but we ultimately made it through!
This run was played on Fightcade. The replay is here: https://replay.fightcade.com/fbneo/ms...
You can find Marty here:
/ winafreeappleipod
/ martymoinklers
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:02 Mission 1
01:47 Mission 2
05:28 Mission 3
10:38 Mission 4
13:33 Mission 5
16:58 Final Mission
24:19 Ending