Contra: Operation Galuga Limited Run Classic & Ultimate Edition Revealed, Pre-Orders Live

Classic edition for me, assuming the reviews are decent when it comes out in a fortnight or so.

You gotta be kidding me. Why does LRG keep publishing things I want? Their fomo bs annoys me. Not to mention I don't even know if this game is going to be good yet.

@HammerKirby Yep exactly, and blame also falls onto Konami, a multi billion dollar, decades-long GAME PUBLISHER, using limited run, to publish their games.

This 💩 has gotten absolutely out of hand. SMH. 🤦‍♂️

I don't know why people seem to be so down on this one. I mean it's Wayforward. Same developers that did Contra 4 on DS. This ain't their first time doing this series and what an awesome game it was! I have yet to play a bad wayforward game so I'm stoked! I guess being a switch game instead of DS people were expecting more.

Hey at least it's traditional Contra and not that god awful excuse Rouge Corps. Sometimes what works is what they should stick with. 3D Contra just doesn't work.

Wayforward did a great job with Contra 4. It looked and played like a progression of the Konami in house prequel.

I’m not so sure about the graphical style, but if anyone is in doubt about this one, they can at least try the demo before they pre order.

@Truegamer79

People are down on it because the Switch demo was atrocious. If Wayforward releases the game in that state they're going to permanently damage their reputation.

The Switch demo of this is really bad. No chance I’ll be buying this from LRG (not that I ever buy from them anyway).

@JackieCMarlow
Well it is a demo duh. Don't judge until you've played the final product.

As a nonconsensual shareholder in Limited Run, I apologize for this nonsense

@Truegamer79 I'm trying to think of a time that a demo was released that ran and felt as bad a Galuga and then was fixed weeks later. Demos are supposed to be representative of the final release, duhhhhhh

If the demo hadn't convinced me to avoid the game altogether, I would be angry that the "expensive cartridge" version had the same price as the code-in-a-box version. I hope this happens to be a funny coincidence and not a new LRG scheme that forces code-in-a-box on retail, while holding the cartridge exclusive to them.

@Truegamer79 Isn't the exact point of demos to let you judge whether you want to invest money in the final product? If the demo makes the game look bad, either the full game is bad, or they failed to make the demo do what it's supposed to do.

@Truegamer79
“Well it is a demo duh. Don’t judge until you’ve played the final product.”

But that’s the whole point of making a demo; to demonstrate what to expect from the final product O_o

Glad we're getting standards retail version over here in Europe. Got the PS5 version pre-ordered, as the Switch demo was terrible.

Hopefully there will be a patch or two in its future. At least, it pretty much looks identical across all versions. I’d say the demo was fine other than three or four stutters, but then I grew up in the NES/SNES era when low FPS and flicker and occasional stutters were not uncommon.

The craziest thing about this is that I believe it works out to be cheaper than Australia's code-in-a-case release, even after tax/shipping.

Shame on Konami for pulling this kind of crap on consumers.

Performance issues in the demo mean I will play this one on something other than a Switch.

Tried the demo. Something about it didn't click, unlike the original despite lesser graphics and higher difficulty. No thanks.

@Truegamer79

its a demo, not an alpha. as in, "demonstration of the product."

OTOH i hope you are right and the game doesnt suck 😬

EDIT - WHOOPS looks like It was already a pile on before i got here 😅

It runs like crap on Switch. After masterful and smooth Prince of Persia this one is just unplayable

This is why I wanted it to be sprite based. I'm concerned about that performance, unless they can iron that out before release, which is not impossible. Hopefully our collective feedbacks have gotten back to Wayforward (Konami likely wouldn't care).

@Truegamer79 this demo is already questionable. Wayforward do indeed have excellent pedigree and I'm a fan of their games, but this first level was just o.k.

Limited Run... no thanks. I'm glad they're not involved with the digital release as well.

Physical is in the wild huh? Let me check GameFly and see if they have it in stock to rent.

@Truegamer79 I can't tell if you are joking.

Did this ever get fixed for the Switch? The input lag in the demo made it unplayable.

@-wc-
Are you referring to a Beta release?

Regarding to this article… wasn’t this already announced? I already have preorder one of these versions.

I actually dig this game. 😀

@rushiosan yeah, Konami is...lol.

@HammerKirby

because others do not want to publish it.
It is a niche Game and physical Media is dieing.
Don't be fooled by the Fear of missing out, most of the Switch Games are limited.
The first Runs are often with the full Game, the next are gone or only a Code in a Box.
Octopath Traveler and Doom 2016 are Examples, i got my Switch two Years after Release and there was no new Copy of Octopath Trabeler to be found.
I got Doom 16 gladly on Amazon, but for the full Price.

@Scrubelicious

no, i meant alpha. i couldve said beta, probably wouldve made more sense. ✌️

im glad you like the game! i havent tried it yet but im not personally getting my hopes up, as a lifelong contra far who's been through the ups and downs. 👍

No! I missed it! I was reminding myself to preorder but then real life stuff happened on my mind and I forgot about coming back for it.

@EVIL-C LRG is really not much different from other game publishers at this point.
Other publishers that publisher each others' games all the time.

Let me ask you why Square-Enix, a multi billion dollar, decades-long GAME PUBLISHER, using Nintendo, to publish their games.

@Truegamer79 The point of a demo is to help a potential buyer decide if they want to buy it. Duuh

@KingMike No. Its nothing like that at all.

@KingMike Lol, really? You're comparing a boutique publisher to both Nintendo and Square? Nintendo and Square (& Enix) have had decades-long working relationships with Nintendo. Square was one of the very few developers who Nintendo trusted enough with any of their IPs; I'm thinking specifically of Mario RPG. That relationship has continued. Nintendo could decide tomorrow that they won't be publishing any more Square-developed titles, and it wouldn't effect them much at all. (I struggle to think of any Nintendo IPs actually published by Square, as Mario RPG was a co-op venture, published ultimately by Nintendo). Nintendo and Square are not indie studios, nor are they really in the business of publishing indie-made titles.
The entire point you seemed to miss is that the entire point of LRG was to help indies get more exposure; specifically, give them a pass to phsycial retail. We have seen a dramatic shift away from this philosophy, to the point they are helping to create artificial FOMO shortages by courting multi-billion dollar PUBLISHERS who already have the means and infrastructure to SELF-PUBLISH their own titles, like Nintendo and Square do frequently. If you fail to realize that Disney, Bethesda, Ubisoft, Konami, etc. are using this as a shortcut, when they can already self-publish, and potentially denying a release to a great indie title (again, LRGs original purpose), then I don't know what else to tell you. It's a clear bastardization of LRGs original purpose and philosophy.

@LikelySatan That's actually good news, all things considered.

@EVIL-C Clearly, they aren't as "boutique" anymore. Have you heard of cable TV? Last I watched it however many years ago, so many "boutique" channels lost their purpose as their corporate owners just put whatever was hot within their own conglomerate network. MTV stopped showing music, Biography Channel ran anything but biographies.
Yes I am comparing them because game publishing no different. They go where they want. At least they stopped with that "we print enough to sell out in 10 minutes" nonsense they also started with.

@KingMike If you can't see the downsides with this continued practices, then there's nothing else I can add. But know that you're just contributing to this problem. 🤷‍♂️

@EVIL-C I don't know what you expect to happen. I don't know, email LRG to address your grievances to them, I guess.
It would be interesting to hear what they say.