Sorry, this game not worth the price, it's very short.

[Wizzard]

$10 would be a normal price
for now, refund

[Sol4rSky]

Topo の投稿を引用：

Sigh... It's an Arcade-style run-&-gun, meant to be "short" and to be played over and over again. Just like your favorite music album. Actually, for it's genre this is a long game.

well that shortness should be reflected in the price, it's a game. Not music.

[VI]

On the same boat really. If It ever goes super cheap i'll be sure to buy it again. But for the amount of money there's a bunch of other games you could enjoy





Play Super Cyborg

[demondude777]

I still remember buying Contra Alien Wars on SNES for full price. That was more.

That was also a one sitting game. If you didn't beat it from the first level through the last in one sitting, you didn't beat it.

I've beaten that game countless times.

So what is better? A game that takes an hour to beat and can be played over a hundred times...yet still be fun? Or a game that takes 50 hours to beat and then you move on?

[Wizzard]

demondude777 の投稿を引用：

I still remember buying Contra Alien Wars on SNES for full price. That was more.

That was also a one sitting game. If you didn't beat it from the first level through the last in one sitting, you didn't beat it.

I've beaten that game countless times.

So what is better? A game that takes an hour to beat and can be played over a hundred times...yet still be fun? Or a game that takes 50 hours to beat and then you move on?

better for me "game that takes an hour to beat" for 5-10$

[Wizzard]

Dunther の投稿を引用：

Never played a Contra-like game, huh?

played a lot of Contra-like games

[Wizzard]

badhero4 の投稿を引用：

No clown for you.

said who played and liked battlebit remasterd

[Znakemaster]

I honestly didn't mind the length of the game, cause of how polished it is. The gameplay, the design, and the music were something I very much enjoyed. Aladdin on the SNES is a good example—as one of my favorite games, it can be completed in under 30 minutes easily. Yet, I've lost count of how many times I've beaten it.

[Topo]

BeanBoi の投稿を引用：

It's a little shorter than expected.

Most of the contra games and their inspired contra-likes take 2-5 hours, some rare ones venture off longer when you factor in stuff like multiple paths, endings, or secret routes/bosses.

This game is like 1-2~ hours long, and each level is 5-10 minutes long, with half of that duration being fighting the bosses. the final boss takes more like 8 minutes though

Which Contra game has a 1cc playtime of 2-5 hours?

[dark ages Gamepass]

Worth it guys

[Xavi]

Faust の投稿を引用：

Ye. In the words of a very wise man: "Even if the pu##y was great and sparks shot out of her ass and cannons blared and the mountains crumbled and the seas roared... No pu##y is worth a hundred and fifty million dollars!"

There is only so much polish and quality pixel art and high effort animation that can be applied to these nine (count 'em, nine) levels before you start wondering if maybe those 20 buckareenoroos could have been spent on something that lasts longer while providing comparable entertainment value per unit of time.

I guess if you're one of those weirdos who buys AAA games on release or tips a fiver to the pizza delivery guy - then this might be a worthwhile purchase. I tend to coast on the more frugal side, personally.

In fact, if I could be arsed to do the whole buy and refund song and dance, I would have just copypasted this post as my review.

You tip the pizza delivery guy less than 5 bucks? 😮

[Vielo]

This is a poor man's contra clone, worth 1-2 EUR at best.
People used to post better games on sites like Kongregate or Armorgames for free.

[artimid]

Topo の投稿を引用：

BeanBoi の投稿を引用：

It's a little shorter than expected.

Most of the contra games and their inspired contra-likes take 2-5 hours, some rare ones venture off longer when you factor in stuff like multiple paths, endings, or secret routes/bosses.

This game is like 1-2~ hours long, and each level is 5-10 minutes long, with half of that duration being fighting the bosses. the final boss takes more like 8 minutes though

Which Contra game has a 1cc playtime of 2-5 hours?

True, Contra is historically a short game. It's only longer due to deaths.

Contra (about 20 minutes), Super C (about 45), Hard Corps (about 30), Contra 3 (about 30).

[artimid]

Vielo の投稿を引用：

This is a poor man's contra clone, worth 1-2 EUR at best.
People used to post better games on sites like Kongregate or Armorgames for free.

Door is to your left. Try not to walk into it or slip on the stairs from all that drools you are leaving behind. People like you need to understand a basic thing: "If you don't have any interest in buying the game, go away."

If you actually own the game and want to whine, go for it - but if you folk want to just go into forums and whine about games you don't want/can't buy - then stop and move on with your lives. I'm so sick and tired of people like this just forming as a cancer on forums and gaming/or any communities.

Just leave. Figure out how to walk away and do so.

[Darkness]

SpielSatzFail の投稿を引用：

I do not own the game either, but I have to say I'm a bit shocked that the levels are THIS short. I mean 9 levels is alright, but only a few minutes per level? It can't be that hard to extend level architectures or make them last longer by putting some mini bosses in between.

The first stage took me 9 minutes and it felt like a chore, but then stage 2 took only 5 and felt way too short. Honestly, considering the simplicity of the gameplay, something around 7 minutes per stage is totally acceptable and perfect. Level design is way too simple that repeating the same patterns over and over is awful, if done just to extent playtime (which is how I felt about stage 1).

Gamers nowadays are used to games having a long duration as a good thing, thanks to open world games, where the majority of the gameplay is getting from point A to B with nothing noteworth happening in reality, and somewhat dull worlds for the most part.

Sometimes less is more, making a level longer won't necessarily make it better.

This is indeed a very short game, with simple controls and mechanics, and I suppose it could use extra modes for more replayability instead, but other than that, it's totally fine.

$20 is a totally fine price for a premium indie game, not regarding playtime, but quality, and this game has tons of it.

Vielo の投稿を引用：

This is a poor man's contra clone, worth 1-2 EUR at best.
People used to post better games on sites like Kongregate or Armorgames for free.

The opening intro alone is worth more than 2 Euros, it's nice to learn to give value to other people's work.

I'm not a huge fan of the Contra design, but the game is really well done, it's very polished. Not in league with Huntdown (which is 20 USD as well), but MAYBE nearly there... maybe 15 USD would have been a fairer price (or actually, 20 USD for Huntdown was just a steal, which is a fact).

[Faust]

Xavi の投稿を引用：

Faust の投稿を引用：

Ye. In the words of a very wise man: "Even if the pu##y was great and sparks shot out of her ass and cannons blared and the mountains crumbled and the seas roared... No pu##y is worth a hundred and fifty million dollars!"

There is only so much polish and quality pixel art and high effort animation that can be applied to these nine (count 'em, nine) levels before you start wondering if maybe those 20 buckareenoroos could have been spent on something that lasts longer while providing comparable entertainment value per unit of time.

I guess if you're one of those weirdos who buys AAA games on release or tips a fiver to the pizza delivery guy - then this might be a worthwhile purchase. I tend to coast on the more frugal side, personally.

In fact, if I could be arsed to do the whole buy and refund song and dance, I would have just copypasted this post as my review.

You tip the pizza delivery guy less than 5 bucks? 😮

That phrase was just for the bit. I'm not going to discuss the derangements of the tipping culture in a videogame forum on account of it being as far from the videogames topic as it could possibly be.