Jerp plays Iron Meat (demo) (2020-06-21)
1I'm always the lookout for more Contra -- Iron Meat came up on my Twitter feed a while ago (can you guess I discover most of my games there?) and it instantly piqued my interest. After months of gif posts I finally get to check out the game first-hand thanks to the demo release as part of the Steam Games Festival.
Iron Meat plays as well as it looks, and the gameplay stays true to its source material (in fact, keep an eye out for my reaction to a very particular sprite during Stage 2's midboss - really got a kick out of that).
Even though I didn't fare very well and had to rely on the _very_ generous amount of lives afforded in the demo, I'm already itching to go back and see about doing a no-death run when time permits (or at least making that a goal at release).
00:00 Stage 1 - Forest
08:06 Stage 2 - Shaft
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