/vr/ - Retro Games

20% wider screen is far more important in the age of the side scroller.

I used to play Contra: Hard Corps with the volume set to as low as possible because the death screams always made me jump. Especially because I was so focused on the game.
https://youtu.be/Z9rnWHqyzws?t=701

I don't even like Contra 3 enough to want to finish it, but Hard Corps is one of my favorite games.

They're really completely different games. Contra 3 has actual level design as opposed to Hard Corps just ferrying you from boss to boss with little in between. Hard Corps is also strictly sidescrolling whereas Contras 1-3 all have some sort of gimmick stage that I don't like. Both of these make me like Hard Corps and Shattered Soldier a lot more than any other Contra games. They're the only ones I not only liked enough to finish, but thoroughly enjoyed.

I play as Brownie.

>>3465509

I agree with this from a strictly gameplay standpoint, but Hard Corps' visuals, music, and general zaniness make me prefer it to Shattered Soldier.

Also Super Power Robot Yokozuna Jr. is way less cool than his dad.

>Contra Hard Corps (pic related)
>Wario Land 2 has two train levels
>McDonalds Treasure Land Adventure stage 2
>Mega Man 5, Charge Man's stage
>Mega Man X4, Slash Beast's stage
>Mega Man X5, Crescent Grizzly's stage
>Mega Man Legends 2, not a level but a boss fight, it's cool as heck so I'm including it

All I can think of off the top of my head.

>no mention of Hard Corps in this thread