Contra: Hard Corps (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Konami's 1994 run-and-gun shooter for the Sega Genesis, Contra: Hard Corps.
I play through the longest path of the game as Ray, showing what (in my opinion) is the best ending, though granted, it's not as epically weird as the secret monkey ending.
I love this game. It is right up there with Contra III: The Alien Wars in its general quality, but its much harder than that game played on its hard mode. The graphics are fantastic for a Genesis game - everything moves blazingly fast, and the enemy design really highlights Konami's creativity at its peak. The controls probably could have benefitted from supporting the 6-button controller (it can be super-easy sometimes to get killed trying to change your weapons when you accidentally shift the shot mode), but I can't complain at all at how responsive and smooth they are otherwise. The music is also amazing, but seriously, Konami needed to get a grip on the digital stuff. For as excellent as their games were usually a showcase of technical mastery on just about any system, but their voice samples always sounded absolutely terrible, and this game is no different. Am I the only one that always heard "Burger eyes" instead of "Overdrive"? It's not quite as terrible as the NES game Ikari Warriors 2 for its unintelligibility, but it's not THAT far off.
But like I said, this game is amazingly hard. The Japanese one is MUCH easier, putting the US version in the same stable as Streets of Rage 3 or Konami's older The Adventures of Bayou Billy on the NES. It is completely beatable, but it really requires knowing the patterns and timings of every boss and mini-boss to stand a reasonable chance at. I loved the stiff challenge, but many I doubt would have the patience to chip away at the game, facing hundreds of game over screens along the way.
I was pretty pleased at how I played for this video - usually I have to use a continue to get to the end. I seriously don't know how people can get through it without dying. They have far more patience that I've been blessed with. But then, I'd never try to claim to be the best player at it. Merely good. Getting to "good" took far more effort in Hard Corps. than it would take to be god-like in most games, including ANY other Contra.
Well, maybe besides Hard Corps Uprising. ;)
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The constant use of background introduction to enemies was sheer genius.
This sits up at the top of the Contra pile along with Contra III: The Alien Wars, but it's easily one of the most insanely hard games I've ever played.
And one of the 2D games' 3D sequels that stood head-to-head with the originals :D
Alien Soldier: Hold my beer
Contra 3 is not even close to this masterpiece.
This is way better than any other Contra, or similar styled games.
@@BiriBiri925 Contra 3 has the whole movie like soundtrack, it definitely feels like you are playing in a movie, helping the original Contra heroes Bill and Lance to defeat the aliens. Of course this is the follow up that takes place 5 years later, but loses that movie feel to it.
Really an under-rated game. The enemy designs were unique, cool, and solid.
This game man... this game. It's just pure non-stop action, one of my all-time favourite run'n'gun games for sure. :)
Then you should try Trouble Shooter and Battle Mania: Daiginjou :)
Contra games were always been hard and challenging, but this game... Ho boy! It took the difficulty on a new whole level. Awesome entry in the series, but, wow! It really lives up to its name.
I can’t get past the first level but I’m obsessed, remember when video games were like that?😊
Some of the graphic effects on this game put the SNES to shame. It is impressive what the Konami developers were able to pull off from the Genesis hardware. It was very pleasing seeing them going all out and showing off their skills. I am sure they had a blast working on this game.
it's so fun to watch this side by side with Contra III: The Alien Wars and observe the SNES and Genesis's strengths at work. Both were amazing 16-bit consoles but had their own way of doing things.
It's the generation that best justified having multiple consoles on the market, imo. Each system's respective strengths and weaknesses imposed a certain vibe on each console's games. Even the few ports between the systems would have a different feel just because of the machine they were running on and that *owns*
Both Contra III and Contra Hard Corps were good. The former had the SNES hardware and was frenetic. Hard Corps had a party aspect (different characters) and if you had the JPN version like I did, each character could take 3 hits before dying with each life (making the game far, far easier).
A lot of people I know really like this game enough to consider this their favorite Contra game, despite the extremely high difficulty level. Honestly? Can’t really blame them. This is easily my favorite as well. There’s so much going on and there’s so much to do that it almost never feels boring, even if you game over and have to replay the game for the 50th time.
This is truly the magnum opus of the series.
Can't get why this one is your favorite. This game is like one big boss fight, and another one boss fight, and another one boss fight. There is no classic run'n'gun moment except few mins in first stage on a completely flat ground. In my childhood I played only Contra NES and SuperC so I have no nostalgia feelings for this one so it's "hard" to get this fascination for "Hard Corps".
Game has some cool ideas for bosses, but there is nothing else than bosses... why? xd Where are some stages, platforming, mass enemies to kill off etc.?
31:19 has to be one of the most satisfying boss deaths I've ever seen
I did 2 years of jail time Federal. This game was included in my PenPack with my model 2 Genesis..I was the coolest guy in the house thanks to this game and a Sega!!!
I remember playing this game too! One of the Best Contra games that I'd played! You should played as the Robot dude. His WEAPONS KICKED ASS!! The Wolf Cyborg was my 2nd favorite.
I could never get used to Fang's weapons. Once I played Sheena, it's hard to use any of the other characters!
@@jballs5434 Not sure you why you feel that way but maybe because I'd used the Game Genie when I'd played it.
This blows contra 3 out of the water!
One of my favorite but the hardest contra game I have ever played! =D
This and Contra 4 are some of the hardest Contra games out there.
This had time to bake in the oven, Contra 3 was near the beginning of the SNES's lifespan, and Konami was still getting their feet under them when it was created. Konami was also familiar with the guts of the Genesis, as the Motorola chip inside was close to the same one arcade units used. Though Konami had their fair share of misses on the Genesis (Sunset Riders, Castlevania Bloodlines, the story just didn't fit the timeline's standards,plus the game was short, and the weird way the characters walked on stairs, they floated above the stairs, and the damned boss rush copout in Hyperstone Heist, when the game could've used 1-2 more unique stages to it).
This game is good, but it has some bits to it that are as dull as plain white bread.
@@Bloodreign1 Ah no not really, did not have any bits that are dull as plain whit bread more than any other game would have.
@@karlizen4990 The boss that you have to follow through almost the entire stage before you can finally fight it would love to have a talk with you. That stage in itself drags the game down a bit. I've seen bosses that you'll see in the background of stages, but not one that you can't do anything to until you reach a certain part of the stage, yet it can still kill you throughout that stage.
@@Bloodreign1 Yes, this game did drag a bit sometimes. This game was longer than Contra 3, but I think Contra 3 was more fun. For some reason this game wasn't that hard for me, a lot of the bosses have blind spots that you're totally safe in.
Between the SNES and Genesis it's Contra 3/Gunstar > Hard Corps.
Love that dance at 2:34 haha
This is pretty impressive! You must have a gift for patience and fast reflexes to play this game! I can barely beat level 1 of this game and level 2 of Alien Wars!
My strategy on stage 1 in this game is to fire forward most of the time, and fire backward in small bursts at regular intervals.
Also, you can actually stand underneath the eye of the big miniboss near the end and just keep shooting at his eye, and this will kill him before he is able to hit you.
This game was so hard lol. I always die laughing at the start your just right into the action 😂
That's the beauty of contra, its that insanely fun
One the top sega mega drive/genesis games
Yep, so true, such a great game!
Well... any game with Rutger Hauer lookalike or Dog The Bounty Hunter is always a fun blast. :D
Hard corps, beavis and butthead, and maximum carnage. That was my Sega go to games there were alot more but those were the ones played the most
Oh wow I imagine the kid back then who played this game in 1994 completly baffled by such a quality in sound, graphics and animation. This is an astonishing "select player" sequence, it looks like the Michael Jacskon visual effect in his video clip "Black And White" you know the morph thing. The Genesis did had great capabilities. Just to mention it has a "Download" game feels but it was a different console "PC Engine"
the Professor fight reminds me of The Fly, with Jeff Golbum.
Now _this_ is a video game.
This game was one of my favorite Genesis games. The music, the multiple endings, the use of backgrounds. My favorite was always Sheena, just put up the blast wall and avoid anything that comes your way.
That was marvelous!
08:40 Burger.......fries. Instant lunch.
Man this contra was and still is hard!!!!! I never made it past the first level.
Best game I've ever played.
The graphics look great for an genesis game
Genesis had tonnes of great looking games...
Men...... This is amazing.
Was hard difficult But your game is sublime
Fun Contra game. I really miss my lock down button. Contra 3 and Shattered Soldier got me spoiled
Found this game through Emma Essex's music (namely Mayhem - Contra Overdrive, which is a remix of an OST from this game) and it's crazy how many sounds/samples I recognise from Emma's music
I've recently been thinking about how this game could be done on SNES, and I reckon that it could do basically everything you see in backgrounds of this game but with a proper overlapping HUD, more and nicer colours in most places, an additional background layer or two in many stages, proper transparency effects in the areas where the the Genesis version uses dithering, etc.
The sprites would be a bigger challenge, mostly all the OTT explosions really, although I think most of the important stuff could be done with a wee tweak or two in some places, and they could still have more and nicer colours in many cases as well.
Overall, other the than smaller horizontal view that you just can't overcome on SNES, I think a SNES version of this game could be pretty great. :)
Now I just need someone to try porting it or even doing some tests to demonstrate this!
Besides the Snatcher footage, I'd like to know if I could also use your Castlevania Bloodlines and Contra Hard Corps footage for that one video I'd like to get done in a month or so. -- AT
2:34 I like how Maximum Jumbo starts vibin' to the music after trying to kill you lol
Beautiful game
Nice story line
Kept getting game over after like the first 3 screens, so I came to actually watch someone who doesn't suck at this game.
10:12 the proper people was there
Contra was a super hard video game to beat. This is my opinion on my whole life history of playing video games
Who else had a crush on sheena when you first played this? I do 😍❤
2:33 Robot:"Everybody do the toxic waltz! Kick your friend in the head and have a ball! Come on and do the toxic waltz! And slam your partner against the wall! Everybody do the toxic waltz! Good friendly violent fun for all! Get up off your ass and toxic waltz! If you hit the floor you can always crawl!"
Hard game to beat ! I imagine this could take months to beat
thye should have made THIS their mascot. They would still be in business! this is epic
This was one of those games where you wanted a game genie and I had one this is the way the series is supposed to be played if only they stuck with the side scrolling and maybe doing some different art work maybe they will try to bring back the classic style in the future and I know about this collection and the castlevaina one as well
Going to my buddies house to try this game on 2 players with a buddy. ( Yes it's 2023) I've been a contra fan but never tried this version. This game looks like a mash of all the other contras and looks difficult!😅 Should be fun!
Gaming has always been forgiving and unforgiving but at least back then you could just plug in the game and play now it's become a vr online stand in line just to play game's.
This puts Contra 3 to shame, and C3 was one of the best.
The best contra for me. A lot of actions and variety with a very good presentation. Many ideas were used in the contra ps2 version (shattered soldiers). Even if hars corps uprising and shattered soldiers are superior, this one on genesis shows how the 90s were cooool. Anf then come Batman & Robin one year later. To beat the king ...
Had to watch it because I was never able to pass the whole game only when I discovered that option on top to defeat a monster with a stroller I think.
junto con el contra hard corps eran unos juegasos
25:53 I like how this boss explodes like when you die in Juno First, another Konami game
Speaking of classic Konami games, have any of you noticed this uses the same explosion sfx as Hyper Crash on the arcades?
This played by My Dad & Aunts (for Aunts, they using Sheena Etranzi)
These games are still so BA!!!!
They don't make em like this anymore!
Classic arcade action at its finest ^_^
Damn I miss the 80s and 90s!
Some of the weirdest battle boss sequences you've ever seen, no one needed drugs!!!
This game made you feel like you're tripping balls!
the helicopter noise on the plane tho
This game deserves a remake with better graphics. I would change nothing else.
Its there a way to play these sega genesis games on pc Windows 10 ?
Contra hard corps gameplay:
Stage 1 city destroyed
Stage 2 the rescue
Stage 3 the virtual zone
Stage 4 the forest
Stage 5 the laboratory
Stage 6 the water zone
Stage 7 The rockets
The character Ray looks like a lot Dolph Lundgren
I'm a Huge Contra Player/Fan since the start I even sport my Contra T-shirt when i can :) I missed out on this game when It came out :( didn't have a Sega Genesis only NES and SNES so I only played Contra,Super C and Contra III The Alien Wars those had the best Gameplay and Epic Game Tunes in my view- i later played Contra Legacy Of War on PS1 gotta be honest I hated it over all don't know about anybody else here- but this game here looks like it stayed true to the weapons and music- would love to play it but need a Sega not sure what the price for those are these days thanks for the post! :)
Hey ! It all depends what you choose. Nowadays there are lots of Sega Genesis clone consoles, and some of them are fairly cheap, but the cheaper ones often doesn't have stereo audio. Still its not difficult to spot one, and some of them even comes with built-in games. Used official Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive in some parts of the world) is also something that varies with price, because it all depends on the console overall shape. Scratched and dirty ones with missing controller or AV cable are naturally cheaper than mint boxed ones.
Speaking of the game, the original cart can be pricy, but if you dont mind not having an original one then Aliexpress will be your friend, where the games reproductions are often very cheap, being a matter of only few bucks.
In my opinion you can acquire a full set for approx 40-50 USD, counting the console with necessary accesories (AC adapter, video cable, controller) and reproduction game. It is really worth it, because Sega had gotten some really good games over time. I really loved games like Batman, Outrun, Sunset Riders, Space Harrier, Panorama Cotton (Japan only release), Streets of Rage 2 and many more you can find on the system. Plus nowadays you can get almost all of them on a flashcard, or buy a reproduction from China - excluding the Virtua Racing, since this game used a special chip. Good luck with finding the console and have fun playing !
A Genesis won't run you much, this game however, isn't exactly cheap anymore. Neither the original cart that has the Konami name imprinted in it, or the Majesco reprint (it has no Konami name on the back) will run you a bit of cash.
The most game of the world
It truly is the game ever
Got it 😎
Damn, its quite hard.
But why they make the US/NA released so hard.
They still got games on Blockbuster?
+Oswald Epic Loquendero Blockbuster went bust a few years ago, didn't they?
Also this game (JP version only) had Infinite Continues and a code. (Imagine, if the JP version would be harder?)
+NintendoComplete As a corporation, yes, though there's still a few "Blockbuster Video" stores in operation. They were originally Blockbusters, then just before the corporation folded, they allowed the owners to "buy" permission to continue to use the Blockbuster name and logo. So the ones that are still around *look* like the old Blockbuster, but are actually "mom-and-pop shops".
My best guess is that the stores that remain are still surviving for a few reasons: (1) They were in a good location from the start, so they still get lots of foot traffic; (2) Some people still prefer the personal touch instead of putting money in a machine; and (3) more recently, changes in the Redbox terms of service. I've never used Redbox, but what I've heard is that now you can only rent videos for one day, no matter how many you rent. So if you rent 5 or 6 at once, you'd better be prepared to binge-watch them. That *might* help the surviving video stores.
A pun that was lost on tons of kids because they thought it was pronounced "Corpse".
Creo que este juego es lo mas cercano que tenemos aun metal slug de sega genesis que sea licensiado, por el estilo de los sprites que me recuerdan a metal slug y por los jefes que son robots o aliens como el metal slug 2,X y el 3
Por favor! Contra fue hecho mucho antes que Metal Slug, nadie pensaba en un Port para Génesis xq Metal Slug no existía en esa época.
An officially released Sega Genesis game saying d•mn?? Interested
Contra Hard Corps. is better than ever!
Do you think there should be a Coding Secrets video on this game?
I wonder how much Deadeye Joe vomited inside that machine at 17:59.
I could swear I remember them having some sort of robot suits (Blue and red) instead of being humans
That's the EU version of contra games where they're robots because of censorship i think
@@junitsadelheid Yes, Probotector. Rambo wasn't cool in Europe, but making it all robots fighting meant the violence was okay.
25:41
Geez...
How Small is the Hotbox on the player?
Bro that boss bulit a Lego set
q ansiedad me daba este juego le tenia un cagaso a los jefes xD
Yo tambieeen jajaja
25:14 - Now CLEARLY you're just exaggerating about how difficult this game is! I see Ray getting shot in the head about 50 times without damage because hitboxes are awesome! :[
Hahaha it was sheer luck that I figured that out. Maybe providence ;)
Heh. Well, what can you do (besides shrug off mortal wounds)?
Kidding aside, I always get a laugh out of seeing attacks that clearly hit a person counted as a miss for some reason; typically weird hitboxes. Especially when the hit is blatantly obvious. =3
Yep. Typically, you make the hitbox of the character smaller than the sprite itself while projectiles can be more "boxy" in collision as a tradeoff
In Ukraine was also this game. It was amazing time 2010 maybe?
I only completed it once, with help of my big brother...
Classic
You selected best ending.
this is the best contra game ever made. its hard but not as hard as contra 3 alien wars. it had better unique characters and endings. snes was overall better but games like contra hard corps, streets of rage 2, alladin (sega), gunstar heroes, comix zone, bloodier mk games were the reason i kept sega.
If it hadn't been for Dead Eye'd Joe, I'd been married a long time ago.
It’s embarrassing how bad I am at this game.
is it Sega Game???
yup
Who's the gal playable character?
Sheena
@@dragons_hook Many thanks for the answer! :D
Entire game in 4 mega byte cartridge. Now game developers brag unity is not good enough.
*2 megabyte cartridge
It's not that hard. When you learn bosses' moves, it goes pretty straightforward from there. What I Didn't like about this game, it is more like Cuphead. I mean constant boss fights, not so much fighting with grunts in between. But overall, it's pretty cool game❤
Another game that helps break the false narrative that Japanese games/versions were always harder.
See also Resident Evil. Apparently their version, Biohazard, had weaker enemies and autoaim.
The JP version actually gave you 3 hit points! Lol.
La unica manera de la que pude ganar el juego fue con el guardado del emulador kega fusion
Japanese must be crazy
This game is adhd personified haha
I know graphics shouldnt be that important, but Contra just needs to look better than this
I remember this game being much harder when I was in the 4th grade.
37:01 Looks like The Hag from Thief 3: Deadly Shadows