

Released 32 years ago, the game is still the best in the series, not outdated not only in mechanics, but also in graphics, sound, overall duration, difficulty and concept. There is no online, the controls outside the games cannot be rearranged, but the “jump-shot” and “shot-jump” are correctly spaced across the external and internal buttons of the gamepad, there are no complaints about emulation, there are even off-brand 60 Hz versions of Hard Corps and Contra III with more fast scan of the picture.Īfter the main top, I will briefly list the rest of the games from the collection, which I, for one reason or another, did not rank.

Technically, the compilation is done as standard for Konami.

If in the previous collection there were no two best “Castle” (Symphony of the Night and Rondo of Blood), which deprived it of any sense to buy it, then in the new one any of the top three “Counter” in itself justifies the money spent.īelow I list and rank the top 4 games in the entire series – as much as you love the pseudo-3D Hard Corps Uprising or Shattered Soldier, they don’t even compare to Super C, let alone the original or The Alien Wars. Unlike the Castle Vania Anniversary Collection, the new collection includes the correct games. On June 11, the Contra Anniversary Collection, another collection of Konami classics, was released on Switch, PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
