In my earlier post about the games drought I had completely forgotten about the NDS game Contra 4. This fabulous little retro game looks and plays like the legendary Contra through Contra III, with single-shot kills, powerups from the sky, badass boss stages, and the hail of slow moving bullets.

Which means that like the others it’s frigging hard. I am playing on the easy setting where it mocks you for not being “hard core” but still I can barely make it to the end of the 2nd level with my 5 continues.