What The Hell Happened To Contra?
2,441You wouldn't be able to tell now, but in the past, Contra was one of Konami's flagship franchises. While there are many franchises known for a punishing sense of difficulty, Contra specifically is about a classic and precise style of gameplay, though it takes different forms forms. Aiming and character control have to be on-point.
In Contra games, you play as a soldier, progressing through waves of enemies that approach you from varying angles, all the while keeping cognizant of hazards and using precise character control. Contra games express all of the tension of a carefully-advancing guerilla unit, through the difficulty of design. You are not a superhuman, or a robot. Though in some games, you can do cool somersaults, and duck or shoot while ducking to more safely place fire on screen, or spin around...
But the series has sort of disappeared. So we ask the question: What Happened To Contra?
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