Contract Rush DX

This game is a masterpiece. This game is far to good to be this obscure. This is going to be a cult classic and if the developers keep the quality up then someday a game of theres will blow up. But I still hope this game will blow up someday, its too good to not find its audience. I might not ever of known all that, the game has a poor first impression with a slow intro stage. Afterwards though, no matter the level you select to be your first, the quality is exelent. The games baised arround a powerup system that grows the player over the course of a level, these powerups have many effects such as increaced speed, extra jumps, a spread effect to the weapon, the growth of your character in a level adds a rougelike sense of progression to what is otherwise a traditional megaman style run-n-gun and its a wonderful feeling. The game solves a lot of problems that are long standing in megaman, instead of aquiering new weapons with each level clear the game instead grants you more playable characters, all of whom play differently and have their own power progression within stages, this makes the level progression entierly upto the player free of the boss chains that make megaman games more linier than they might otherwise appear. The game also combats the uneven difficulty curve inherent to the level select system, where many games stuggle with the first level being the hardest and the game getting easier as you go on (a result of all the levels potentually being the first level) Contract Rush solves this with an event at its mid point that weakens the player character uping the tension for the last 3 levels, on top of this the hardest of the 6 levels is gated by currency so it can afford to be a little more chalenging. With a strong core I would recommend this game with a hearty thumbs up... but thats not all this game is. this game has the sauce, it has a cast of wonderful and fun characters. It has a charming 2000's flash art style, it has a sharp and brillient sence of humour, it has a fantastic soundtrack that has become a staple of my playlists, it knows how to invest you in its wacky world and characters, I really cared about the cast this game puts together and I would be drawing fan art of the lot of them if i had the skills. I emplore anyone reading this to buy the game, I emplore anyone who reads this to tell your favourite gaming influencer to play it, I want Cynthia to be as inescapable on my reddit feed as sans. I want more from this duo of devs and I want more people to play this game. This game will take of some day, and dont you want to be able to say 'i played it before it was cool'

Has its flaws (cough pirate village cough), but all around its a great game.

I do recommend this game it is very fun and has great mechanics and great story. I wrote you review out of sadness and disappointment however. I was a big fan of it ever since it was a newgrounds game, I was an active user on there and this always stayed my favorite game. Playing it now had this wonder continued for a lot of the game. It started losing that wonder at John wayford onward where the game started really loving adding randomized projectiles with precise patterns making it very needless difficult and some times impossible to not take damage. After this the finales non boss stages are a pain to get through and i really didn't have fun doing them. I am now at what i think is the final boss being deaths devil and its gotten out of hand for me. What once was a fun run and gun experience has turned into something that more resembles a rage game. I am throwing in the towel at this stage this isnt fun anymore. I will continue to play because besides from these major downsides the rest of the game is amazing and I think you'd like it too.

very great game and definitely worth the money! if it's on sale: get it if it's not on sale: still get it buy it from a bundle: actually yeah go do that

Usually I don't play games like this but it amazes me how much charm the world has and how refreshing every character feels to play and how intrigued I was by the story... and it was all thanks to Joshua Tomar voicing James Jimmy

A game so good that I wrote my only steam review.

all of the playable characters are fun, the contracts are fun, the bosses are fun, this game is fun! i really like the story too, reminds me of undertale in some ways. [spoiler] the secret boss was such a surprise, good thing i love rhythm based boss fights [/spoiler]