SNES vs. Genesis: A Battle for the Ages! [Part 1 is over, platformers coming up next]

[A Black Falcon]

R2 isn't all that great, I'd take Contra III or Hard Corps over it easily.

It is great, and I also still like Hard Corps more than Contra III for whatever reason it is -- I just played some Hard Corps too. Got to level 3 of the 'save the research center' path at the first branch, but got game over at the really hard boss in the junkyard level (where you have to fight the constellations) -- I got to level three with two or three continues left, and used all of them at that boss.

I like the game a lot, until I run into walls like that which make me annoyed at it again... it's just such a cool game though, with such a huge variety of kinds of fights. :)

So, uhh, did you not make it to the second half of the first level of Contra III where there aren't any enemies at all and you have to leap over a pit of fire. There's also columns of fire and eruptions of flaming debris that you have to avoid.

Agreed, that part's fun.

Yeah, I can't agree with this at all. It plays almost exactly the same as the Contra games. You run, you shoot, and waves of enemies come at you.

Yeah, I agree, it is the same subgenre... but it's definitely a different take on it, with what remains of the influence of games like Turrican in the game. Oh, and of course it has those shmup levels too.

Have you gotten to the shmup levels yet? You should at least do that. No slowdown, with lots of enemies on screen.

Well, either that or start learning some Turrican game and see if you like it. :)

By the way, level 2 of a Contra III is a top down shooter where you have to use the shoulder buttons to turn. It was pretty awesome, especially the boss fight at the end.

I know, I said in my last post that I'd just played Contra III and gotten to the third level... and yeah, those levels are pretty cool, I like them. The controls are a little odd (L and R to turn?), but it works, and the fun certainly is there, to say the least. The topdown levels are pretty fun.

The only negative to the first topdown stage is the boss, it's a real pain when you only have the basic gun... killing the stupid thing takes forever.