Sometimes you have to look backward to get excited about something in the future. Brazilian developer Joymasher hopes you're willing to do that for Blazing Chrome. After spending half an hour with the game, I'd say anyone who pines for those old-school run-and-guns should bother getting excited for this.
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug, and its wonders work a couple of different ways. The most-realized effect is that people put on rose-tinted glasses for the comforts of their youth; years later, sometimes it holds up and sometimes it doesn't. But, a byproduct of nostalgia is that it can inspire creators to, in essence, recreate what they hold dear. When this is well-executed, we get something that hearkens back to those fondly-remembered days because the creators understand it just as well as we do.
I can't pretend to know Joymasher's past, but it seems to have involved a lot of Contra and Metal Slug. That's because there's no way Blazing Chrome would feel like such a great retro run-and-gunner if the developer didn't intimately understand and love the source material.
via destructoid https://www.destructoid.com/blazing-chrome-absolutely-nails-the-feel-of-classic-run-and-gunners-496053.phtml