oliverclaude
General Morden's Aide
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I don't know why an obviously talented outfit such as ngdev would go out of their way to make something so blatantly similar to Metal Slug.
They are technically talented, yes, but they lack knowledge in design and audio-visual presentation. On a pure practical level, copying the designs of others is less time consuming and lets them focus on their technical skills, like achieving 60 frames per second with Kraut Buster, tons of moving objects without slowdown in most of their shoot'em-ups etc. They should team up with some design gurus of the past, like Thalion and become their disciples. Then, I could imagine, their game design could evolve into something more original.