Big thanks to for this trivia!Īnd this is what the REAL final boss would've been, apparently: Sean Connery on a floating pillar. It finally became 'playable' in Metal Slug Defence as a unit, with a description making note of it being unused for so long. According to the concept art, it would have carried the final bosses on its back. What's interesting is that it has no animation of it in shambles, unlike all the other bosses in the game, nor has it any collision detection in the sprite viewer (. According to it's animations, it has a laser on it's stomach, a retractable head, and the rest is left to the imagination. Unsurprisingly it was just a load of crap. He also appears in a promotional poster for the game, which is cool.īehold: The most prominent unused sprite in all the Metal Slug games.īack in the day, everybody (well, everybody in NeoGeo related forums, and in Metal Slug 5 related topics) was talking about the stone turtle, claiming it was the true final boss, and was unlocked by some ridiculous task, like collecting all the rats, killing all the officers with none escaping, completing the game without using a continue, and so on. So yeah, Glen's useless and unused except in an unused area (3: 9 T_1), but he's awesome. So I put a Glen in there and now everyone treats it as official even though it's just blatant fanon. What's up with the name, you ask? Well I rescued him, warped to a boss and finished the stage, and his name showed up as " Achilles". They would've had to have increased his AI by a lot before he could be a useful ally in the final game, but thanks to the game being rushed out, they just left the poor guy as an unused character.
He also doesn't recognise enemies and destroyable objects like Hyakutaro does, and combined with his gun's short range, along with how he likes to abandon you randomly, he's fairly useless. The problem is he always tries to cover your back, so if you're turning around constantly, he'll just run around like a headless chicken. When using Christmas Fio, note that practically all her damage is concentrated in the special attack, so try to bait out invincibility moves before attacking or attack from a distance to force opponents to waste them.He's an unused prisoner, who once released from his ropes, acts like Hyakutaro by staying behind you and firing. Early game Robert is a major nuisance consider waiting for him to waste the special first. Projectile cancelers also stop her attack. Even the insignificant tiny bridges on the pyramid stage or the water's edge on the Egyptian tomb entrance stage will block the special and cause her to become a dead weight in the early game if she is forced to stand behind the slopes. In the late game, she remains useful as she can still use her special for good spread damage, often hitting multiple units.Ĭhristmas Fio has a glaring weakness: any map that slopes upward even slightly will block her special attack. Smasher, Black Wall Cat, any melee KOF) to try and get a second special off. She will lose to Iori but he will have very little health left and be forced to use his special to kill her. Other leads she beats one-on-one include Leona, Red Samurai Infantry, Rebel Zombie and Smasher. If the map is short and the mummy is summoned to block her before she can use her special, she can knock the mummy back with two regular attacks and use the special to kill both the mummy and the soldier together. Her rocket does huge damage and has huge range, destroying weak spammed units and softening up stronger units from a distance.She easily shuts down the common Green Hazmat: the rocket kills them or the mummies in one hit. This attack is very damaging considering Christmas Fio's AP cost.Ĭosts 300 medals in the shop and only available for purchase in version 1.40.0.Ĭhristmas Fio is a vast improvement from the regular and fat versions. Special attack (Long): A rocket launcher that curves upward, travels a large horizontal distance, and explodes with a huge splash.
Slightly shorter detection range than that of Christmas Eri. Standard attack (Long): A single pistol shot. Standard attack (Close): Candy cane stab. For more info about the terms used above, click here.Ī vastly superior version of Fio, dressed for the holidays.
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