I finally got around to playing this the last three days and wanted to post a few thoughts. First, the cutscenes were LAAAAME. They made little sense, and the one about a crossdresser was friggin stupid. Second, I'm pissed there's only five stages. Third, no matter what difficulty you play it on (well, I only played Normal, Hard, and Nightmare), you get the SAME ending and you get NOTHING for beating it on Nightmare (super lame). I only played it with Bill, but still. Do you get different endings with different characters?
A fair Contra game, but way too easy. Even Nightmare difficulty wasn't that hard, taking me only 3 hours or so to get through. Sure, I used 7 lives, but still.
Ok, with all my complaints out of the way, it was a good Contra game, but by no means a favorite of the series. Worth the 1000 points, and all Contra fans must play it, but I was disappointed with some things. Luckily, I only had to play it less than 7 or 8 hours to get through those three difficulties, and I know I'm not missing out on more (unless each character does have different endings, which honestly I'd just Youtube at this point). Ok, I didn't unlock the character for easy mode yet, but eh. I'm not sure I want to. I probably will, just to do it anyway though.
EDIT: Ok, I just beat it twice on easy mode. Once was with the girl robot. I got the exact same ending both times, So, just because you get an extra last boss on any mode but easy, you are not getting anythiong different. The only things you can unlock in this game is Nightmare difficulty and three more characters that control exactly the same, as far as I can tell.
-Rob
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