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This Is the Run

This Is the Run: Contra: Hard Corps - Part 02

What do a dog and a robot have in common? Both love spread-guns.

Gaming's greatest challenges, met head-on by gaming's greatest game players.

Jan. 31 2018

Cast: Vinny, Dan

Posted by: Abby

In This Episode:

Contra: Hard Corps

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This is going well.

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that was the fastest run

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Why do I never have a seek bar for This is the Run, but I do for every other video?

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On the one hand, if you use him right (and that means using a glitch), Fang out damages everyone else by a country mile and lets you end some tough fights way, way faster. On the other hand, he is the biggest character, with the largest hitbox, and has probably the hardest set of weapons to use properly - he is absolutely the most difficult to use to full potential, and the most punishing if not played well.

On the third hand, I'd really, really like it if the canon run of This Is The Run features a mini combat robot and a wolfman with a gun arm and shades.

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This game looks great.

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I just watched the secret ending and wow, I actually never saw that back when I played this game. Of course, I wouldn't have known to climb up a wall in that particular place.

Why do I never have a seek bar for This is the Run, but I do for every other video?

Did you install an extension in your browser to eliminate it for one of the earlier This Is the Run features? I saw people mentioning it in comments during Jackal and it turned out they had forgotten that they had installed the extension.

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Wow, you guys are getting great at producing these TITR videos, but not so much at playing this game! Huzzah!

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@lincoln said:

I thought these were daily? Ran to the computer when I woke up for my morning fix and there was no episode :( Did they change it to every other day?

Nah, it was never a strictly daily show. In fact, with the original This Is The Run: Contra series, only the last two episodes were put up back-to-back like that. The rest were roughly every other day.

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this game is hilarious

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We're signing up for the long haul on this one aren't we?

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How you know when it's not the run before watching - When the video length is 14 mins and there is a new episode scheduled on the front page for the following day.

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What is it with Konami and Sega Genesis games with bosses that jump around and spin a lot. It was the same shit with Castlevania Bloodlines.

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This game is great. They need to put it on the Switch.

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"My D is a bubblegum explosion."

- Dan Ryckert

This is my new favorite pick up line.

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This is the best game in the series, it's so hectic and hyped up it makes the earlier games seem like walking simulators.

Also fang is the most 90s character ever, a rad wolf wearing jeans and sun glasses with a gatling gun arm.