This port, as all ports of the metal slug games, has a lot of slow-downs. Even if all those slow-downs are on the original hardware, would I have preferred to have the option to run the game smooth. The game itself is a lot of fun and has some beautiful pixel art. At its core is it an unforgiving arcade game that is designed to eat your money; but by having control of the difficulty setting, and the option of having infinity amount of credits, one can now play it very casually.
I find the slow-downs of the metal slug ports on gog to be OK. I would have preferred an option to run the game smooth, but having the original slowdowns has its charm. BUT, this port of metal slug on gog has the worst slow-downs, so it is hard to recommend it to other, especially when metal slug X is basically metal slug 2, that run smoother.
At large do I agree with a lot of the other reviews here; that the game is great, but not the port. Even if the slowdowns are part of how the game would have run on original hardware, would I still have liked the option to run the game lag free.
