This Is the Run: Contra: Hard Corps - Part 19

@insectecutor: I get the feeling they rarely read the comments or just forget things that are said in them. It took them a long time use the standing in the corner strat on the second level boss.

I've been shouting in the comments the last couple of videos that they can jump the robot baseball slide...since it is shown in the demo reel of the video when they start.

Feels like Browny's A weapon kinda sucks. Things take forever to die whenever @danryckert uses it. Use ful for some situations, though.

An incredible turn of events.

That blue tracking laser shot is wayyyyy to weak. I wouldn't use it on the normal guys that are fast.

Correct. If I remember correctly, it leads to the train level that's appeared during the attract mode in the intro to some of the episodes.

Hard to say. I agree with you in some sense, but Vinny's suggestion that they kill the "stationary" guys in that final hallway leading up fun patrol has me thinking that they took my comment from the previous video into consideration for this one.

Anyway, really interesting Bahamut battle toward the end. There was maybe a second or so right as the glitch started when I thought, "Oh, wow, I've never seen him move like that before." Sure enough, it shouldn't have happened. XD

I have a nephew visiting for a week. I'm thinking that we should have our own "This is the Run".

Can anyone suggest Switch or PC games that would work well?

Incredible, I was laughing my ass off during the last part

@lowlylowlycook: Cuphead, shovel knight, Castle Crashers or BattleBlock Theater would do the job.

I haven't played it yet, but Super Cyborg on Steam looks like a pretty good Contra clone.

In case anyone still isn't convinced that this is the run is the best thing on giant bomb right now, this video is definite proof.

I was wondering why there’s an extra 4 minutes

Interesting suggestions, mpozelot. I'm not sure I'm gamer enough to handle Cuphead. Maybe that's perfect.

Super Cyborg might be the closest.

@polkaduke: That's correct. There are four main paths, broken up at the decisions to rescue the research base and to fight Dr. Mandrake.

Surrendering to Bahamut is a bad ending, tho

The oddest ending yet.

I've been playing some Rocksmith recently. Anyone think that could work for a future TITR? Get Vinny to teach Dan enough to get him to 100% Freebird or something?

I could see it working pretty okay as a feature.

@fedallah said:

I am a huge fan of Rocksmith, it's definitely the "game" I've spent most hours on Steam. I'm not sure it works as a video feature, though... Listening to somebody learning to play an instrument for 30' can be tough. It's not feeding lifes to the final boss, it's somebody going "oh shit" with a clangy sound.

Plus, I've been told that Dan doesn't have the best ear for music. *Coughcodrile Rock Cough*

Nope, I put my family through me learning "Come As You Are" for weeks and weeks when I was 10 and they still don't let me live it down. Hearing/watching someone learn an instrument is _frustrating_

The biggest problem with this show is that they run the game once and then stop. Don't even play it again for a few days.

Real speed runners constantly reset a game and play it over and over so their muscle memory kicks in and they aren't forgetting everything they learned from their previous runs.

@kgkris: That's not a problem, it's the very thing that gives this show its humour and tension. If they spent hours grinding on it they'd finish it faster but it'd be less entertaining to watch.

@catlicker: @valeo:
Yeah, you're probably right. Still think a music game challenge of some kind would be a good choice, though. Something different, you know?

"Don't die here".

...or anywhere - isn't that the point?

What was that In-game Menu that popped up briefly? What are they playing this on?

The glitched run!

That was not the ending, but it certainty was an ending.

probably should have edited it to remove the big gap between the glitch and the last continue.