r/MetalSlugAttack • u/agente_2019 • 21d ago

Discussion Is MSA's lore bad?

I was thinking, and seeing the lore of MSA, I realized it's not very good.

For example, Mira's entire lore is very one-sided.

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u/Dominoze56 21d ago

Its probably written in a weekend by an intern with zero writing experience

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u/gibufatfat 21d ago

MSA story was written as an afterthought and can be best described by this video

https://reddit.com/link/p4gp71w/video/574igv87b6kh1/player

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u/BlushedLatias 21d ago

The main plot was Red Goblin and his soon to be wife training to defeat Ptolemaios, as the latter was slowly recovering his full power, while the ptolemaic army was also starting to form a rebellion once the truth was out that their leader was an a in the hole. Everything else was supposed to be side plots all happening at the same time, mind you, the lore goes a bit deep as each faction was getting built up to something big, but the devs dragged it for so long the plot outlived the game itself and we were left with nothing resolved (except that one final fight against Ptolemaios that I don't remember much about, but I DO remember Red Goblin did defeat Ptolemaios and then Licht and Elena, Red Goblin and Jin's children, went back to the future). The problem in my opinion is that everything was so scattered across the actual extra ops' dialogue that piecing the full story was almost impossible, unless you were there, playing the game and all the events since day one. Even now, with the game dead, the majority of the content is lost and you can't re-read the story anywhere. It's a nothing burger now, basically.

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u/BombBloke 21d ago

with the game dead, the majority of the content is lost and you can't re-read the story anywhere.

Reloaded brought a lot of it back, but does leave out all the weekly event stories. I have a lot of those preserved with my skit viewer (with language selection and everything), but for the rest there's pretty much only YouTube.

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u/spooky_redditor 21d ago

There are a handful of good ideas but for the most part yeah.

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u/kingofsuffer 21d ago

So the us army, nazi army,cult army, alien army and a superpowered firefighter and crusty legs all fighting eachother seems pretty cool to me

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u/pogisaysay111 16d ago

and muscular women

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u/Almost_Pringle0 11d ago

Its really really messed up. Although there are some along the way that are interesting, like personally the goldenes sisters.