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Metal Slug: The Ultimate History
Metal Slug: The Ultimate History is the first officially-licenced book to document the lineage of one of gaming’s most beloved franchises.
452 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2019
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July 15, 2022
I am disappointed in this art book. I do not think the people who made it understand the medium it is attempting to present.
Basically: it is using extremely artifacted, obviously rendered on a LCD screen "screenshots" to present the artwork of this game.
This is disappointing because it does not look very good, and is not in the format the sprites in Metal Slug were intended to be seen. These sprites were drawn on, and rendered on, crt monitors. They were not jagged sprites, they looked AMAZING in their original format. And that is not captured in this book.
This should have been high quality photographs of a high quality CRT screen. Instead, we got jagged screenshots from an emulator.
Basically: it is using extremely artifacted, obviously rendered on a LCD screen "screenshots" to present the artwork of this game.
This is disappointing because it does not look very good, and is not in the format the sprites in Metal Slug were intended to be seen. These sprites were drawn on, and rendered on, crt monitors. They were not jagged sprites, they looked AMAZING in their original format. And that is not captured in this book.
This should have been high quality photographs of a high quality CRT screen. Instead, we got jagged screenshots from an emulator.
March 13, 2024
HEAVY MACHINE GUN!
October 18, 2026
Metal Slug: The Ultimate History se divide en tres grandes partes: la historia de la creación de los juegos, una extensa colección de ilustraciones y material gráfico, y entrevistas con sus creadores. La parte histórica está bien narrada y resulta interesante, pero se me ha quedado bastante corta. Me habría gustado que profundizara más en el desarrollo de los distintos títulos, sus decisiones de diseño y la evolución de la saga. En cambio, el apartado artístico es uno de los grandes atractivos del libro, con una enorme cantidad de material que permite apreciar el talento y el trabajo que hay detrás de estos juegos.
El principal problema está en las entrevistas, que resultan demasiado repetitivas respecto a la parte histórica. Da la impresión de que los autores han construido buena parte de la narración a partir de esas entrevistas y después han decidido incluirlas también de forma íntegra, de modo que acabas leyendo prácticamente la misma información dos veces. Es una pena, porque las entrevistas podrían haber servido para ampliar y profundizar en aspectos que la historia apenas desarrolla, en lugar de volver sobre cuestiones ya explicadas.
El principal problema está en las entrevistas, que resultan demasiado repetitivas respecto a la parte histórica. Da la impresión de que los autores han construido buena parte de la narración a partir de esas entrevistas y después han decidido incluirlas también de forma íntegra, de modo que acabas leyendo prácticamente la misma información dos veces. Es una pena, porque las entrevistas podrían haber servido para ampliar y profundizar en aspectos que la historia apenas desarrolla, en lugar de volver sobre cuestiones ya explicadas.
September 8, 2022
A book that covers the entire metal slug videogame history with interviews of the developers and tonnes of art and screenshot. Only thing preventing it from going 5 stars, is the obvious unspoken tension that the first three metal slug games are considered superior that what follows. It never seem to make peace with that
March 2, 2022
Another huge NeoGeo volume by Bitmap Books. Love how this dives into the early games from Nazca including the sublime 'In The Hunt'.
November 11, 2023
Visually stunning, and excruciatingly complete.
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