Contra Hard Corps is definitely hard, especially with the limited amount of lives you are given (and the limited continues), and how fast this game can get!

But oddly enough, I didn't find it as frustrating as Contra III: The Alien Wars. Maybe it was because of the route, or maybe it's because how I'm more used to the Contra series at this point, but regardless, I found that the game felt much more "no nonsense" than its previous entries.

Coupled that with the fact that you can hold on to 4 different weapons at the same time (and also bombs), and you can play as 4 different characters and the soundtrack kicks ass... yeah, this is a good Contra game.

A very hard one, but a good one, nonetheless.