EWJ fell off a cliff pretty quick and may be dead for real, I don't think Contra (and Double Dragon) have gone all that long without a new entry. Better shot of a decent new Contra than most other old franchises.
Many such cases. Lots of 2D shooters have a wonky difficulty curve because of the power up system and P&R is a somewhat severe case. It awards you an extra hp for every level you beat, but resets it to three if you continue. It takes a while to power your weapon up (have to pick up only one weapon type and skip the other) and taking a hit powers it down, and the base weapon level sucks. PROTIP: never get hit, then the game won't be so hard.
From a glance it looks like Wild Guns, Cabal etc... there's a tiny subsubgenre of 2D games where you shoot at the background, doesn't really have a name afaik
There's another exclusive to arcades called R.I.O.T. where you not only shoot the background but also the foreground. Great game.
When I was a wee shitlurker I could do the full longest run (Brownie only though), I used 3 buttons not because I didn't have a 6 button controller, but probably because I didn't even know that 6 button configuration was an option
It's a POS and I hated it.
Ah I was trying to recall the name of that very game, not only does it have foreground shooting, it also seems to have been made on LSD.
tbh I tend to think of Metal Slug influence as kind of a red flag, even though MS is great. It is very memey and gets attention from devs who are good at art but not other game stuff.
Trash, especially compared to Metal Slug. Maybe if it played strictly linearly it could've been good but they tried to get clever with level design and it's amateur hour all over.
Well there you go, there's another Contra coming. From Gayforward this time, the masters of ok-ish nostalgia bait.
And now there's an Ikari Warriors rotary joystick on the market, I imagine it would work with Midnight Resistance.
Because it wasn't a run and gun, it was Monster Hunter. You go out into various areas to grind out parts to build bigger and better guns to go to even more harder areas to grind out parts for bigger and better guns, etc.
Oh so instead of being actually fun and replayable, they thought bigger numbers means brain make bigger happy. Weak.
I'm disappointed it's not done in pixel art, because wayforward excels in pixel art. Their art department in general is great.
The idea was to make some fun, kooky looking guns as your piece together your perfect custom weapon for the next area. In practice it just turned into a bunch of grinding.
Gayforward. I like that.
I assume the reason is they're just trying to personally offend me in particular.
I talked myself out of buying one... for now.
I thought it was well-executed for a little flash game type of thing. Not much to it but they did a good job. They could have done a little more for replay value... can't even see your top score except on the end of level screen. The hidden level where you hunt down and finish off all the children that pretended to die at Sandy Hook was pretty funny.
Midnight Resistance on the Genesis is one of those games I want to love but the controls absolutely kill it. Why was it so hard for the devs to just imitate what Contra did?
