I've covered development builds of Iron Meat a few times on the channel (because it's awesome), and this latest one features two brand new levels and one reworked level (all with big boss fights at the end of them). This vid also shows off some of the different skins you can have for your character (including a very silly looking dinosaur costume). :)
Personally, I really like the name of the train boss 'Carrionvoy', that's so clever, and it looks horrific and gross in such a great way. Major props to the graphics artists
Yeah, Zombie army 4 dead war did it with undead war machines, now Iron meat comes along and its in full force with objects and machines included, not just vehicles heh...this concept got lots of potential.
It's like Daemons from Warhammer 40K with demonic flesh and metal fusing together Or Zerg corruption from Starcraft I love it so much. It's two opposite things fused in an unholy union
This game really encapsulates the old Shoot-em-ups of its era: having the detailed aesthetics of Metal Slug, the gameplay and power ups of Contra, and the soundtrack of Doom...
This soundtrack is neither like old or new doom. It's much more generic. New doom has very good metal. Old doom had lots of good metal with many other kinds of music that people seem to forget about
Big shoutout to Alpha. Who finds, plays, records, edits, and uploads so many videos for all of us to enjoy. I’m extremely lazy and older now, and I find watching video games more entertaining than playing. Dumb I know. Thanks for all your work!
I wonder about this often. Do you think it's because as we age and play more, less games and concepts feel fresh and exciting? Though I still enjoy and play a lot, there's no way I'd have the time or will to discover so much of what I'm into without this channel.
@@Atolm4 Probably because the longer we play, we start expecting the unexpected, feeling less of that charm that our video games had, and there's only so much niche genres and innovation to keep that charm up.
References to soviet/post-soviet culture: - train is a stylised ER2 (ЭР2), passenger train you can still see on duty on post-soviet territory - ad «Martian apples» (Марсианские яблоки) on a fence - a reference to 1963 song "И на марсе будут яблони цвести" (Apple trees will bloom on Mars), in Russia you could still hear someone say this phrase - address panels on houses say «Savushkina street» (улица Савушкина) - real street in Saint Petersburg. For example, so called troll factory founded by infamous Prigozhin once was located on Savushkina street - in forest level Mi-24 helicopter could be seen in background - among flying cars you can see, I believe, Volga and police UAZ - basic weapon which player receives at level start and after death is I believe a reference to AK-12 or some other AK - concrete fence PO-2 (ПО-2), a very widespread construction in post-soviet countries is seen in city level Maybe there are more
It works on a visual and aesthetic level, but the darker, more muted palette works on a *gameplay* level as well, since having bright enemy bullets means they're always going to "pop" against the background. It feels minor, but at the same time you can tell they knew what they were doing.
The enemies changing outfits to match the allies/civilians that would be present in the level area is a nice little touch of detail. The visual style is very much like someone injected a bit of Splatterhouse into Super Contra.
When I turned on the video and saw the Soviet ВЛ80 locomotive in it, the thought “What? did the Russians make this?” immediately flashed through my head. Again, great attention to detail and the spirit of the old console games from the 80s and 90s spoke in favor of this. After I went to the game's community page and saw that Darkman007, aka Vladimir Tugai, whom I personally know, made the music for it, all doubts about Russian developers were dispelled - this is definitely a Russian game)
Can we give a applause tot hose cabbies or cops that keep dropping power ups for the hero? I feel like everyone is forgettign they are flying through almost literal hell to help that one commando.
This looks like designed in Eastern Europe. Especially the level with train. Train-boss looks like something fresh. Like this part much more than demos introduced before
Yep, first boss is a mutated electric train model "ЭР-2". Such trains were manufacturing in USSR, partuculary in Riga, RVR factory and was ecspluatating until 2000-s all over Russia and nearest pespublics. I spent a lot of time in ЭР-2 traveling to the suburbs)
The video is perfectly edited, just great. Your videos have done so much for the game that I will mention you in the credits in the "special thanks" section Thank you very much! 🥩🥩🥩
As if the contra inspiration wasn’t enough of a selling point, the direction of flesh-metal based amalgamations and a kick ass soundtrack really make this look like a fun, badass romp! Looking forward to the official release.
Man I love this music!!! Whoever they got to do this knocked the soundtrack outta the park!!! I'm legitimately going to just rewatch this over and over again so I can just hear the music 😂
Command: *hey, our Russian base is under attack by chaos, what assets do we have?* Colonel: *some spartans, MP's, one hind-d and a purple dinosaur* Command: 😐
I am honestly interested in the lore of this world and based on the level settings and what is going on in the background one can guess that the virus spread so quickly that you are not years into the crisis but merely days if not hours into it.
I really tire of seeing "lore" all the time when describing a games story. Never used to see it now everyone loves tossing it all over the place, it's just overused. That being said, good observation
Glad to see you back with this underrated gem. I hope this game gets enough traction and let's players to grow a fanbase because I really love the concept of machines/vehicles/objects infected with flesh making them look zombie-like crude cyborgs of sorts like Zombie army 4 dead war. Just lot of potential fan designs and fanart of meat metal monsters to be had. And the soundtrack freakin' slaps hard, specially the City theme which is my favorite. Very good for remixs. Train theme really captures the theme of being on a speeding train or chase very well.
4:30 That part was badass! The way how the meat train sneaks in the dark forward and back around the whole screen while hearing that mysterious alien rock theme!
I love that this game has a co-op, you don't see it so often these days and I appreciate it a lot, playing splitscreen/co-op games with someone else in the same room is really fun.
OK thats good the dinosaur is a skin. I was watching it and then it was suddenly all goofy looking and I was like this doesn't seem to fit with how cool it looked in the first level lol
The stage graphics are very well done. The background is beautifully muted, the platforms are bright and so are the bullets and enemies -- even for the viewer the action is clearly visible and pops out!
"Hi! Yeah, well spotted. The correct order is Jungle, Train, City, but I switched them around a little as I've covered the jungle level quite a few times already and wanted to show off a totally new level first.
О-о-о!!! Просто восчудительно! Хороший графон и антураж - дело как бы в России далёкого будущего происходит, что не может не радовать... Я как буд-то бы вспомнил 2003 год: купленная и подаренная нам с братом в марте приставка SEGA, трофейный картридж из Астаны с Contra: Hard Corps на русском языке (достать такой в наших широтах было практически невозможно), лето, каникулы и... Как в той легендарной цитате, имевшей на то время вес и значение: "Вся жизнь впереди!"... Спасибо, Автор! Лойс поставил, пойду пущу скупую мужскую...
love both the music from the train boss figth as well as the way it is animated ,having large portion of its body circle around trugh foreground and then background before head appears in the front to attack ryly shows how damm massive this thing is and having it constanly move around as the boss attacks gives weight ot its movements .
"Get off my train." ~Caleb Of all the Contra games, Iron Meat seems to draw most of its Giger/Cronenberg influence from Contra: Hard Corps. The boss intros are reminiscent of Darius Twin. The purple dragon/kobold character could be the older brother of Susie from Deltarune (comparable to Brad Fang the cyborg werewolf from Hard Corps). And of course, the soundtrack rawks.
God, I love these Contra homages. The pixel artwork in this game is crazy good. If anything, this is up there with Metal Slug. Also, wishlisted it! Only gripes with it, is that they should leave the option to remove the "white flashes" when hitting targets, it's rather irksome, when you can't see the pixel artwork in its glory while shooting at it.
The aesthetics is astounding, atmosphere creepy and amazing vibes, music is top notch giving that retro vibes of being an actual arcade shooter game, sounds of the enemies of death and random effects are satisfying
Oh yeah. I remember seeing those super old videos where first it was a generic looking run and gun with human enemies and normal vehicles. Then it had meat but it was severely underutilized with only some being the tentacle heads but that's it...somewhat teamed with humans and had normal vehicles, there was those wall mouths but that was it. Then more meat showed up, infected replacing humans gradually and more quality improvements and art later, we are here in its true well-done creative glory. Been a long road.
This game is awesome, the sprite work is fantastic (my favorite sprite is ne of the mooks running with a finger gun) as well the backgrounds and the soundtrack is full of 16bit charm but modernized. This is what pixel art games have to look like instead of the low effort approach we been seeing so many times.
босс файт с поездом напомнил мне один из моих детских кошмаров. тогда мы с родителями гуляли вдоль ЖД'шки и тут один из поездов отрывается от рельс и пытается пикировать на меня и так несколько раз пока не проснулся. Стоит ли говорить, что через двадцать пять лет этот кошмар меня нашёл.
Life is so bizzarely circumstantial, making this exciting and meaningful for me to just indirectly bumble and stumble into. Such consistently well made / quality showcases and reccomendations . I've come to love it. You rock. 👍
That second level layout is just beautiful. Bless the designers. Edit: Because it says in your face how much of Contra inspired it. I think it’s literally the first level of Contra IIRC.
This is going to sound weird, but I like the genre of "inorganic-organic horror" if that makes any sense. Basically something looks cool to me but just gross enough when something inorganic is essentially taken over by organic matter. The only other example I can think of where this is done great is the vehicle bosses in Zombie Army 4 I think (the tank, apc's, etc.).
Yeah. That's what I was thinking as we really need more of this subject cause its underrated, who knows, we could have another zombie game with both human, animals and vehicles infested by flesh and distorted into crude cyborgs to possibly fight. Would be epic. Just Iron meat has limitless potential with its setting with how the Meat could graft into and make into hybrid-monsters. Same goes for Zombie Army 4...hope in 5 the Zombie vehicle concept is more expanded upon with new types of bio-mechanical abominations to snipe and take down...maybe even the upper half of a zombie with the lower half of a cart powered by flesh rotating the axles.
@@colonelrockrits9436 Man I'd love a ZA 5 as well. I'd love "_____ zombie problem has popped up in russia, japan, America, south America, etc." just expanding on the gross zombie formula anywhere in WW2 earth would be awesome Heck, what if we fought japanese flesh-steel "zombies" and one of the bosses is a giant aircraft carrier/whatever covered in zombie bits (gotta fight it in a plane or something else)
These people surpassed anything I've ever seen!!! My God you are too much 👏👏👏👏👏!!! I'm already a fan of this work of art you created, congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻!!!!
I wonder how these stages will connect together. Each stage introduces a new character, seemingly unaware of one another’s existences. I doubt they’ll all cross paths at some point in the game, but it’d be really cool if they did.
I just realise that before carrionvoy's fight the train stops but then moves without the wheels spinning and carrionvoy's shadow never ends. In other words the level itself is the boss or rather becomes the boss.
0:12 Nobody: People who put cellphones into microwave ovens: 0:18 ah yes, the worst kind of monsters: the people who steal your food from communal fridges at work 0:47 "Marty, you gotta go back with me!" "Where?" "BACK TO GO FUKK YOURSELF!" 5:54 in soviet futuristic tyrannical dystopia the train catches YOU! 6:40 *in Barney the dinosaur's voice* I love meat, and you love me 🎵 10:06 that one freeloader friend who comes up to take more pizza slices than anyone else despite being the only only who hasn't paid for it 10:15 people parking electric scooters just about anywhere in the way of pedestrians be like: 14:16 these roads are still in a better shape than country roads in Poland
Just realized the jeeps saws look like pizza cutters XD Dang that's quite a good joke there. XD That crashing helicopter could be that one friend who just started playing Battlefield and either crashes out of inexperience or gets stinger-spammed. Though I don't get the 10:16 joke there, i don't see any scooters or relevance there.
@Colonel Rockrits I think I meant the vehicle being dropped and exploding. There is a trend of people riding electric scooters and abandoning them haphazardly everywhere, on the sidewalk, in front of entrances, flinging them up trees, into fountains. So when I saw a falling and exploding chopper I immediately thought of those, because that's what people would do, jump out of it midway/midflight and let people deal with the fallout.
@@colonelrockrits9436 yeah, I get ideas for jokes after the scene passes and then I more or less guess where it was, because sliding the progress bar on a tablet is a pain
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I've covered development builds of Iron Meat a few times on the channel (because it's awesome), and this latest one features two brand new levels and one reworked level (all with big boss fights at the end of them). This vid also shows off some of the different skins you can have for your character (including a very silly looking dinosaur costume). :)
I liked Gritty Barney
Honestly, if you got a skin in this unlocked via a secret or something
I think that'd be really cool
@@Th3_Sp4Ce_M0nK3y An Alpha Beta Gamer skin? That would be sweet!
I misread that as "different ways you can skin a character"
Okay it’s a skin. I was kind of confused for a second there.
Personally, I really like the name of the train boss
'Carrionvoy', that's so clever, and it looks horrific and gross in such a great way. Major props to the graphics artists
Except that the train cars that carry people in specific are called train carriages. They did good, but missed the target a little with the pun.
@@LostInTheFarmersMarket how so
@@LostInTheFarmersMarketyou're overthinking things
Carrion + convoy
Yep, good
@@AlexNona80 I already covered that.
I love it when games use this “effed up amalgamation of flesh and steel” concept.
Yeah, Zombie army 4 dead war did it with undead war machines, now Iron meat comes along and its in full force with objects and machines included, not just vehicles heh...this concept got lots of potential.
Meat is murder. That's not a dietary statement. I mean, this meat is literally trying to murder the player. Midnight Meat Train 2, Meat Trainer.
It's like Daemons from Warhammer 40K with demonic flesh and metal fusing together
Or Zerg corruption from Starcraft
I love it so much. It's two opposite things fused in an unholy union
...like the chaos in warhammer 40k
Then you should play R-Type
This game really encapsulates the old Shoot-em-ups of its era: having the detailed aesthetics of Metal Slug, the gameplay and power ups of Contra, and the soundtrack of Doom...
This is Run and Gun. Shoot em ups are to ships and mechs in the sky above ground with no bottom or in space (primarily space).
Try also Super Cyborg. Also contralike.
This soundtrack is neither like old or new doom. It's much more generic. New doom has very good metal. Old doom had lots of good metal with many other kinds of music that people seem to forget about
@@wowalamoiz9489 THIS MUSIC ROCKS!!!!!!!!!
It's just Contra man, that's it - modernized, polished Super C.
Big shoutout to Alpha.
Who finds, plays, records, edits, and uploads so many videos for all of us to enjoy.
I’m extremely lazy and older now, and I find watching video games more entertaining than playing. Dumb I know.
Thanks for all your work!
Thank you very much! Glad you like the vids and thanks for taking the time to comment. Much appreciated! :)
I wonder about this often. Do you think it's because as we age and play more, less games and concepts feel fresh and exciting? Though I still enjoy and play a lot, there's no way I'd have the time or will to discover so much of what I'm into without this channel.
@@Atolm4 Probably because the longer we play, we start expecting the unexpected, feeling less of that charm that our video games had, and there's only so much niche genres and innovation to keep that charm up.
Not dumb at all. Im the same way, its a combination of laziness, other life obligations and back-catalog decision paralysis.
Welcome to the club my passions for games had been extinguished!
Id rather enjoy a nice video than playing it myself!
References to soviet/post-soviet culture:
- train is a stylised ER2 (ЭР2), passenger train you can still see on duty on post-soviet territory
- ad «Martian apples» (Марсианские яблоки) on a fence - a reference to 1963 song "И на марсе будут яблони цвести" (Apple trees will bloom on Mars), in Russia you could still hear someone say this phrase
- address panels on houses say «Savushkina street» (улица Савушкина) - real street in Saint Petersburg. For example, so called troll factory founded by infamous Prigozhin once was located on Savushkina street
- in forest level Mi-24 helicopter could be seen in background
- among flying cars you can see, I believe, Volga and police UAZ
- basic weapon which player receives at level start and after death is I believe a reference to AK-12 or some other AK
- concrete fence PO-2 (ПО-2), a very widespread construction in post-soviet countries is seen in city level
Maybe there are more
Info-mouse Prigozhin, lmao
Volga flying cars, Tigr armored car
Yep the basic weapon is the Ak-12 prototype ver 2012
It works on a visual and aesthetic level, but the darker, more muted palette works on a *gameplay* level as well, since having bright enemy bullets means they're always going to "pop" against the background. It feels minor, but at the same time you can tell they knew what they were doing.
I want to give an added kudos to whoever decided to add the purple dinosaur-ish character as a playable soldier.
They may have been a Barney fan 😂
Barney got tired of give love and decided to give lead sintead
Hats off to the artist for this game, its so amazing when artists get this level of detail in their work
Yeah, the train itself is beautiful.
Not to forget that the non-pixelated animations look like they were done by JamieR
The enemies changing outfits to match the allies/civilians that would be present in the level area is a nice little touch of detail. The visual style is very much like someone injected a bit of Splatterhouse into Super Contra.
When I turned on the video and saw the Soviet ВЛ80 locomotive in it, the thought “What? did the Russians make this?” immediately flashed through my head. Again, great attention to detail and the spirit of the old console games from the 80s and 90s spoke in favor of this. After I went to the game's community page and saw that Darkman007, aka Vladimir Tugai, whom I personally know, made the music for it, all doubts about Russian developers were dispelled - this is definitely a Russian game)
кругломордая электричка
а как же летающие ментовские "бобики"? )))
А как же босс ожившая хрущёвка и мини босс ожившая буханка?)
Не говоря уж об очень узнаваемом антураже города, эти заборы квадратные, машины, здания)
In 6:49 there was a mil mi 24, a russian atack helicopter
Can we give a applause tot hose cabbies or cops that keep dropping power ups for the hero? I feel like everyone is forgettign they are flying through almost literal hell to help that one commando.
I know right? Almost makes ya feel bad if you don't pick up what they delivered. Like you're telling them their risk-taking was pointless
@@Lazarultos Exactly!
This looks like designed in Eastern Europe. Especially the level with train.
Train-boss looks like something fresh. Like this part much more than demos introduced before
A Russian team made this
Yep, first boss is a mutated electric train model "ЭР-2". Such trains were manufacturing in USSR, partuculary in Riga, RVR factory and was ecspluatating until 2000-s all over Russia and nearest pespublics. I spent a lot of time in ЭР-2 traveling to the suburbs)
In 6:49 there was a mil mi 24, a russian atack helicopter
The video is perfectly edited, just great. Your videos have done so much for the game that I will mention you in the credits in the "special thanks" section
Thank you very much!
🥩🥩🥩
Thank you very much! Absolutely love this game. It just keeps getting better and better. Really psyched for the full release! Great work! :)
When I first saw the trailer, I saw great potential
Now, I can't wait to see the final product
Я видел тебя вконтакте ×)))
У меня там целая группа по игре есть, если что)
Создатель этого гений! 😄
Тут на высоте всё. Идея, оформление, музыка и, конечно же, дань традициям старой Contra.
this odd mixture of living objects and military weaponry trying to defeat you makes such great games
As if the contra inspiration wasn’t enough of a selling point, the direction of flesh-metal based amalgamations and a kick ass soundtrack really make this look like a fun, badass romp! Looking forward to the official release.
This really does feel like something straight outta the arcade.
Man I love this music!!! Whoever they got to do this knocked the soundtrack outta the park!!! I'm legitimately going to just rewatch this over and over again so I can just hear the music 😂
I'd love an animated series based off the cutaways, that's magnificent.
I'm struggling to think of an actual Contra game that's better than this.
Contra 1 is still the goat for inspiring stuff like this.
@@Padlock_Steve correct answer. Also with the added knuckles cartridge.
Are you joking? Haven't ever played Hard Corps?
@@wowalamoiz9489 Yeah, or contra the alien wars, shattered soldier is very good thoo
@@quad4machine769 All those are good, but they don't capture the batshit insanity like Hard Corps does
A DRAGON made out of a train?!?! That’s SO GODAMN COOL!!!
More like snake, than dragon.
@@ГотаБГcould be an eastern dragon
Or a snake @@ThatOne6uy
Очень грамотный ритм игры и звуковое оформление тоже идеально передаёт дух девяностых
Command: *hey, our Russian base is under attack by chaos, what assets do we have?*
Colonel: *some spartans, MP's, one hind-d and a purple dinosaur*
Command: 😐
Can confirm, Saint Petersburg in Russia really looks like this. But at least they still have commuter trains running, right? :D
12:01 Летающий ментовский бобик улыбнул! :)
Музыка на высшем уровне!
Да, и, вообще, CONTRAподобные игры мне всегда нравились!
15:50 как тебе улица Савушкина ?)
@@viktormaneev4429 Странные занавески в окнах на этой улице! :D
Фига ты глазастый, раз смог в этом пиксельном мясе рассмотреть отечественный текст! :D
Вы смотрели на поезд это эр 2
cleanest pixel artstyle ive seen in like forever, i love how detailed the biomechanical contraptions are, my fave so far is the Meat Train
I am honestly interested in the lore of this world and based on the level settings and what is going on in the background one can guess that the virus spread so quickly that you are not years into the crisis but merely days if not hours into it.
Basically Dead space and Warhammer 40k combined this but worse. 💀
if you want, you can ask the creator. He is quite active in the vk group
I really tire of seeing "lore" all the time when describing a games story. Never used to see it now everyone loves tossing it all over the place, it's just overused. That being said, good observation
I think that those are demons or something like that
@@jimboydejuan7869Nurgel's backyard...
Imagine going back in time to when the first Contra game was released and showing them this
The beat is insanely catchy.
Glad to see you back with this underrated gem. I hope this game gets enough traction and let's players to grow a fanbase because I really love the concept of machines/vehicles/objects infected with flesh making them look zombie-like crude cyborgs of sorts like Zombie army 4 dead war. Just lot of potential fan designs and fanart of meat metal monsters to be had. And the soundtrack freakin' slaps hard, specially the City theme which is my favorite. Very good for remixs.
Train theme really captures the theme of being on a speeding train or chase very well.
I'm glad there's another person who likes this specific niche thing
The machine and flesh amalgamation
If you like that just look up chaos marine vehicles dedicated to nurgle you'd probably love it
@@user-gu7yo5yn9g Oh, yeah I remember that too.
If only we could suplex the train
Wrong game genre, still would've been cool
Haha I see what you did there!
4:30 That part was badass! The way how the meat train sneaks in the dark forward and back around the whole screen while hearing that mysterious alien rock theme!
I love that this game has a co-op, you don't see it so often these days and I appreciate it a lot, playing splitscreen/co-op games with someone else in the same room is really fun.
now THIS!!! is the contra i wanted for so loooooooong!!!! heavy metal music, stage clear animation and it looks like the soldier from The messenger.
OK thats good the dinosaur is a skin. I was watching it and then it was suddenly all goofy looking and I was like this doesn't seem to fit with how cool it looked in the first level lol
The stage graphics are very well done. The background is beautifully muted, the platforms are bright and so are the bullets and enemies -- even for the viewer the action is clearly visible and pops out!
Theory: The creator(s) read the Clive Barker story, Midnight Meat Train, and were disappointed it wasn't more literal. So they decided to make this.
This looks sweet as hell and the music is fantastic. Good job watching and keeping us updated!
Okay, hear me out; an imperial guardsman and his mutant dinosaur companion, fight Chaos.
The maps look like a demon world
Are those levels in order? They don't seem to really lead into each other. I would have thought it would be like Jungle -> Train -> City.
"Hi! Yeah, well spotted. The correct order is Jungle, Train, City, but I switched them around a little as I've covered the jungle level quite a few times already and wanted to show off a totally new level first.
Really enjoyed this one. Cutscenes and 2d animations are also excellent
О-о-о!!! Просто восчудительно! Хороший графон и антураж - дело как бы в России далёкого будущего происходит, что не может не радовать... Я как буд-то бы вспомнил 2003 год: купленная и подаренная нам с братом в марте приставка SEGA, трофейный картридж из Астаны с Contra: Hard Corps на русском языке (достать такой в наших широтах было практически невозможно), лето, каникулы и... Как в той легендарной цитате, имевшей на то время вес и значение: "Вся жизнь впереди!"...
Спасибо, Автор! Лойс поставил, пойду пущу скупую мужскую...
I think you gain a really good understanding of what happening once you start to see skulls floating from a fiery abyss.
nah, I still don't get it
Demonic invasion?
As in, “you’re f**ked?”
love both the music from the train boss figth as well as the way it is animated ,having large portion of its body circle around trugh foreground and then background before head appears in the front to attack ryly shows how damm massive this thing is and having it constanly move around as the boss attacks gives weight ot its movements .
Holy moly ive been checking on Iron Meat for ages. Glad to see its got more released.
"Get off my train." ~Caleb
Of all the Contra games, Iron Meat seems to draw most of its Giger/Cronenberg influence from Contra: Hard Corps. The boss intros are reminiscent of Darius Twin. The purple dragon/kobold character could be the older brother of Susie from Deltarune (comparable to Brad Fang the cyborg werewolf from Hard Corps). And of course, the soundtrack rawks.
Man, this game looks astounding! I love that you can see the carrion train in the background in the city level - such amazing detail!
I think that’s a different train but yeah I see what you mean.
This is absolutely glorious and everything I love in a platform shooter. Everything just clicks.
God, I love these Contra homages.
The pixel artwork in this game is crazy good. If anything, this is up there with Metal Slug. Also, wishlisted it!
Only gripes with it, is that they should leave the option to remove the "white flashes" when hitting targets, it's rather irksome, when you can't see the pixel artwork in its glory while shooting at it.
it's to indicate you're hitting the enemy, most run and guns do this
Great work as always, Alpha!
Fucking hell, the soundtrack alone sold me! I cant wait for the full release!
0:25 это электропоезд пассажирский модель ЭР1. На таких каждые выходные в пригород катаюсь. Спасибо за ещё одну фобию...
The aesthetics is astounding, atmosphere creepy and amazing vibes, music is top notch giving that retro vibes of being an actual arcade shooter game, sounds of the enemies of death and random effects are satisfying
God this game did such a glow up, i remember watching omneof the first beta versions a year ago.
Oh yeah. I remember seeing those super old videos where first it was a generic looking run and gun with human enemies and normal vehicles. Then it had meat but it was severely underutilized with only some being the tentacle heads but that's it...somewhat teamed with humans and had normal vehicles, there was those wall mouths but that was it.
Then more meat showed up, infected replacing humans gradually and more quality improvements and art later, we are here in its true well-done creative glory. Been a long road.
I hope this does well enough for a console release one day.
This game is awesome, the sprite work is fantastic (my favorite sprite is ne of the mooks running with a finger gun) as well the backgrounds and the soundtrack is full of 16bit charm but modernized. This is what pixel art games have to look like instead of the low effort approach we been seeing so many times.
босс файт с поездом напомнил мне один из моих детских кошмаров. тогда мы с родителями гуляли вдоль ЖД'шки и тут один из поездов отрывается от рельс и пытается пикировать на меня и так несколько раз пока не проснулся. Стоит ли говорить, что через двадцать пять лет этот кошмар меня нашёл.
Блин,я сейчас представил,а если ещё и не знать что это сон то будет очень даже страшно
I love how this one sticks to a contra mechanic but also adds a lil bit of metal slug into it pretty impressive stuff right here!
Would love to see more of this. Especially Vehicle-Mutation monster. Because im a big fan of Contra alien boss design.
Carrion and The Thing meet Contra with some heavy metal thrown in for extra OOMPH.
17:54 lol the monster is doing the dark Toby McGuire Spiderman street dance with his face hands where he spins them like he's reeling in a fish
(2m) Damn, I was vibing for a few minutes from how funky this music is. XD
18:48 damn! i love the Chopper idea! terrifying and badass to me
I wouldn't be surprised if Lumpy Touch helped on making the sprites
hehehe, I recognize that beginning animation from anywhere ( 0:07 ) that's JaimeR, god I love his nasty art style, its gorgeous!
Honestly, the music is an absolute banger.
Life is so bizzarely circumstantial, making this exciting and meaningful for me to just indirectly bumble and stumble into.
Such consistently well made / quality showcases and reccomendations . I've come to love it. You rock. 👍
The complete version PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
это настолько эпично, что теперь я не смогу спокойно смотреть на электричку)))
That second level layout is just beautiful. Bless the designers. Edit: Because it says in your face how much of Contra inspired it. I think it’s literally the first level of Contra IIRC.
5:06 to think, the whole level, you were fighting atop this thing’s back
This is going to sound weird, but I like the genre of "inorganic-organic horror" if that makes any sense. Basically something looks cool to me but just gross enough when something inorganic is essentially taken over by organic matter. The only other example I can think of where this is done great is the vehicle bosses in Zombie Army 4 I think (the tank, apc's, etc.).
Yeah. That's what I was thinking as we really need more of this subject cause its underrated, who knows, we could have another zombie game with both human, animals and vehicles infested by flesh and distorted into crude cyborgs to possibly fight. Would be epic. Just Iron meat has limitless potential with its setting with how the Meat could graft into and make into hybrid-monsters.
Same goes for Zombie Army 4...hope in 5 the Zombie vehicle concept is more expanded upon with new types of bio-mechanical abominations to snipe and take down...maybe even the upper half of a zombie with the lower half of a cart powered by flesh rotating the axles.
@@colonelrockrits9436 Man I'd love a ZA 5 as well. I'd love "_____ zombie problem has popped up in russia, japan, America, south America, etc." just expanding on the gross zombie formula anywhere in WW2 earth would be awesome
Heck, what if we fought japanese flesh-steel "zombies" and one of the bosses is a giant aircraft carrier/whatever covered in zombie bits (gotta fight it in a plane or something else)
блин, не лупил в такое безумие под такое замечательное музло (( буду наверствывать!
Как там говорится... ШадАп энд тэйк май мани!
That is one of the coolest fucking boss designs I have ever seen
Barney the friendly dinosaur was broke and enlisted as a merc. Now, he's known as Barney the Fierce dinosaur
I like that the fire rate syncs up with the music
I didn't think that any developer or studio would make games in this style anymore, the last time I saw something this good is metal slug series.
Wow, the music and the graphics are so good and it's very Super Contra like, I love this so much.
I love this and that BGM is a chef kiss! (was not expecting Barney's badass brother to jump in this!)
Loved the little dad joke at the end
Wow, i met this game when your uploaded the demo, can't believe it's already out.
I'm gonna buy it now 😊
These people surpassed anything I've ever seen!!!
My God you are too much 👏👏👏👏👏!!!
I'm already a fan of this work of art you created, congratulations 👏👏👏👏👏👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻!!!!
You weren't lying about the contra-inspired part. F'n loved that game.
Never knew I needed dollar store Barney fighting a biomechanical tank, but here we are!
I wonder how these stages will connect together.
Each stage introduces a new character, seemingly unaware of one another’s existences. I doubt they’ll all cross paths at some point in the game, but it’d be really cool if they did.
Oh my...this looks AMAZING!!!
I just realise that before carrionvoy's fight the train stops but then moves without the wheels spinning and carrionvoy's shadow never ends.
In other words the level itself is the boss or rather becomes the boss.
THat feels like someone made it who is a great Contra and Turrican fan, I love it
I love this concept of flesh infecting and fusing with metalic objects
It is an impossible thing, but it is so intriguing.
it's called bio-metal / bio-mechanic
@@voltapony75I've been looking for a term for that
Thank you
The soundtrack is AWESOME!!
0:12 Nobody:
People who put cellphones into microwave ovens:
0:18 ah yes, the worst kind of monsters: the people who steal your food from communal fridges at work
0:47 "Marty, you gotta go back with me!"
"Where?"
"BACK TO GO FUKK YOURSELF!"
5:54 in soviet futuristic tyrannical dystopia the train catches YOU!
6:40 *in Barney the dinosaur's voice* I love meat, and you love me 🎵
10:06 that one freeloader friend who comes up to take more pizza slices than anyone else despite being the only only who hasn't paid for it
10:15 people parking electric scooters just about anywhere in the way of pedestrians be like:
14:16 these roads are still in a better shape than country roads in Poland
Just realized the jeeps saws look like pizza cutters XD Dang that's quite a good joke there. XD
That crashing helicopter could be that one friend who just started playing Battlefield and either crashes out of inexperience or gets stinger-spammed.
Though I don't get the 10:16 joke there, i don't see any scooters or relevance there.
@Colonel Rockrits I think I meant the vehicle being dropped and exploding. There is a trend of people riding electric scooters and abandoning them haphazardly everywhere, on the sidewalk, in front of entrances, flinging them up trees, into fountains.
So when I saw a falling and exploding chopper I immediately thought of those, because that's what people would do, jump out of it midway/midflight and let people deal with the fallout.
@@AntipaladinPedigri Ohh I see. Tbh it was kinda timed a bit late but yeah, fits well too.
@@colonelrockrits9436 yeah, I get ideas for jokes after the scene passes and then I more or less guess where it was, because sliding the progress bar on a tablet is a pain
@@AntipaladinPedigri Ahh, I see, sorry to hear, just to wonder what meme potential this game can get heh.
I've always liked the old Arcadian style, but most of all I liked the flying police uazike (UAZ)!
Oh dude, gonna love hearing 8-bit drummer jam out to this sound track
"i bet it's rail-y good." omfg that's..i am speechless😂 The game looks dope, can't wait to play it
these graphics are so metal-sluggish, i love it
Iron Meat is just a DOOM and Metal Slugs Spin-Off with an extra Cool Cutscenes. Worth buying it
Сразу видно русскую игру! 🙌🇷🇺 Молодцы, круто! ❤
🤘😆🤘 (The Music F*cking Slaps)
And that boss was epic