Kevin from Denkiphile: "Inspired by the likes of Metal Slug and Contra, Mercenary Kings is the Kickstarter-funded shoot ‘em up tribute from the minds of Tribute Games, who previously worked on the similarly styled retro throwback beat ‘em up Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game. The game’s steamy jungle backdrop and gunplay are pretty much immediately evocative of the arcade shooters of yore – if you’ve played Metal Slug before, you’ll feel right at home."
Montreal-based developer Canari Games has announced their first title on Kickstarter, Lunark. Currently there is an estimated release window of April 2020.
This 2D shoot ‘em up is a mashup of Metal Slug and Monster Hunter. The story goes as follows: scientists were creating a bio-regenerating formula on a remote island when the chief engineer was kidnapped by Baron and his CLAW forces. A team with royal sounding code names were sent to rescue him. However, only your character and another survived the attempt. The deaths of your comrades are quite gruesome and portrayed vividly in pixel styled cutscenes.
Huh! A free upgrade to the previous ps4 version. Just redownloaded it again, acts like an update. Pretty amazeballs.
Chad writes: "By looking at the Mercenary Kings screenshots it’s easy to assume that it’ll be a Metal Slug copycat - and you would be right about that, the games are definitely similar in appearance. The gameplay, on the other hand, is vastly different: Mercenary Kings plays like Mega Man in a less linear environment."
