Hello citizens of Vizzed! It's time for another review by yours truly, the great MitsuriZX! This time we are reviewing a game
that is pure action! Even the most hardcore fans will find themselves coming back to play this old gem! Contra Operation C!
Here we have Luisa and Lucas, who always help-me out!

Luisa : Hi everyone!
Lucas : What's up?

Contra is a side-scrolling platformer with a lot of focus on shooting. Initially launched for the arcades, it found it's way into
home consoles such as the NES, Genesis and SNES. There are a few other Contra games for the Game Boy, but this one
just makes-me happy. It takes the Contra formula of killing hundreds of enemies into portability, so you can play this
anywhere and anytime you want!

Luisa : - In the manual, it says Contra is "a title awarded to a superior soldier possessing almost super human drive and ability, while excelling in guerrilla tactics".
Lucas : - No kidding, you will really need some skills to beat this game! Try to rack up lots of extra lifes by killing enemies
where they re-spawn!

Ok, let's get to the gameplay. You have a jump button and a shoot button. And a pause button! But i don't think anyone ever uses that.
You can aim in various directions by using the directionals buttons. By holding down, you will lie down, allowing you to shoot
enemies that are small. It may even have other uses, too.

Luisa : - Remember to pick power-ups! Spread Shot is useful for killing lots of enemies at once, Homing Shot almost never misses.
Fire Shot is useful for killing tough enemies.
Lucas : - If you pick a Spread Shot and then another Spread Shot, you'll get the killer Spread Shot that shoots 5 shots at once!

You have 5 stages to finish. When you start the game, you're taken to the stage select, so you can always start from any stage you
want, except stage 5, you can only play that stage by finishing stage 4. Stages are divided into two categories :
Side-View and Top-View. Side View is just like Mario, Megaman, Sonic... you can move right and left, and jump.
In  Top-View, you see your character from above, and you can move him in all directions, however, you can't jump.

Luisa : - Stage 1, 3 and 5 are Side-View stages.
Lucas : - If you want to shoot directly down in a Side-View stage, you can always jump, hold down and shoot. That's the only way, buddy.

The graphics are very good for a Gane Boy game. The soundtrack is also amazing, lots of catchy music here. You just don't know
how awesome this game is. No matter how much i tell you about it, you should experience it for yourself. Half the fun of the game is
to overcome all challenges, the other Half is to enjoy it.

Thanks for reading this review. We know, it's an awesome review, yes. Here, take this secret with you before you go!

Luisa : - On the title screen, press Up, Down, Left, Right, A, B, Start quickly to go to the Sound Test. Now you can hear all that
awesome soundtrack with ease!
Lucas : - I've got nothing to say, this game doesn't has too many secrets. Bah.

Until next time, soldier!

This a well, and decent review. I really like it

Not bad. Contra is definitely a classic. Also I like how you gave a breakdown of the graphics, but unfortunately there were only one or two categories you broke down in the review. It would have been cool to see a breakdown of all of them. Also, please refrain from using any swear words on Vizzed. Could I get you to edit that one word out? It would be much appreciated.

Eirinn : Ok, i've edited it. Thanks, Elrinn!

And thank you. I'm looking forward to seeing your next review!

I agree it is good to break down or at least briefly address each category--a break-down in case more depth would be interesting to the reader of the review, a brief mention if only to satisfy our curiosity why that particular category did not deserve more attention (e.g. the music and sound effects are on the effective/dull side, so nuff said or something).

What I liked most about the review was the fun/conversational style and the featuring of multiple voices.  It felt like I was briefly invited into your weird social circle as you all shared different points of view about the game.  

Also, kudos for choosing to review a good game!  This gameboy Contra is definitely worthy of attention and by reviewing if I feel you rightly draw attention to it for the benefit of your readers.

On the negative side, if you are going to leave a paper trail that inappropriate content once appeared in the review but was later edited out, it would be nice if you could indicate via code that only us mature readers could understand what the word used to be and how it was used.  For example, if you said the B word you could write "I said that the boss of level 3 was a witch because the way it shoots bullets at the player is unfairly difficult to evade, though I started the word with a different letter".  The way it is now, history does not document the full colorfulness, albeit adult-content-inappropriateness of the original review and it is sort of melancholy, wistful and sad that no evidence of the original usage of the profanity is preserved, not even in coded language.    

Overall, thanks for the review!!