I had this game on one of those demo discs as a kid and decades later decided to try it out for real. Unfortunately it's a bit one note for my tastes and it definitely seems to be a product of that early 3D era of having horrendously obnoxious controls and camera angles.

Aside from some awful platforming sections on latter levels, and some of the on-rails sections being too long, this is legit a really good and solid Contra clone that puts the actual PS1 Contra's to shame

goes hard except for the final boss fight