Having successfully finished Contra Rebirth (normal difficulty, five lives), I have to say that it is the weirdest Contra I know of. Sure, Hard Corps had a werewolf and a robot playable character, but this Rebirth is messed up.

When I played the game I skipped all of the cutscenes except the last because I was more concerned with playing through to the ending. But even then the glimpses of them definitely showed the strangeness: Commander Salamander, robot girl "Contra"s, cross-dressers, etc. But while I don't want to spoil the ending for those who haven't gotten to it with Bill, I will say it involves a naked dude handing a bandana to a robot girl before getting frozen.

From what I hear, the game has many unlockable characters which are obtained by finishing the game with different characters, so I'm sure there is more epilogue weirdness to be seen.

What did you guys think of the queerness of this game's cutscenes and design choices?