Hard Bore

User Rating: 4 | Hard Corps: Uprising X360
Growing up, I loved the Contra games. The games were sweet, the campaigns were too short, and the difficulty was just mean sometimes (I swear, Contra used to talk about my Mother to my face, and not even care). So, naturally, when I heard Hard Corps. was coming out, I became instantly enamored with the thought of a Contra for today's audience, just with a some 3d aspects and tightly drawn anime.

I waited mths for this thing to release on XBLA after I had initially discovered it. And withing 45 minutes, I became bored. There's a boss that is a big circle robot, and you're flying on these hoverboard things, and you just keep shooting all sides until the casing breaks, but it had an insane amount of layers. I said f**k it and turned it off.

Maybe I missed the charm. Perhaps one day I'll back and try this. But I just feel like my time would be better spent sleeping than playing this sleeper of an arcade game.

Giving me and insane amount of enemies, and having the bosses has 6 or 7 "ultra" forms doesn't make the game hard, it makes it pretentious....

Just my personal thoughts... hope they release a sleek new COntra soon to get the taste outta my mouth from this one!