Style: VGM
Primary Emotions/Themes: Grab your gun, lets go kick some alien ass!
Thoughts: This is it. This is the first ever video game soundtrack I ever owned.
Contra 3 was one brutal game on the SNES. It kicked my ass so many times. Eventually I had to use a game genie to beat it. No thirty lives code existed for the game.
Before I even bought this album I still would hum the first levels music to myself every now and then. This soundtrack is so fucking good.
This thing fully utilized the SNES sound chip. Every one of these songs are absolute bangers, and that's not just the nostalgia talking. This stuff holds up even today. The synth lead about a minute into the Neo Kobe Steel Factory, pure fire. The opening notes of Ground Zero, that'll get stuck in my head for weeks.
Every one of these tracks has strong memories of my guy screaming in agony as they die... resetting all of my guns to the default machine gun in the process. I'll miss you spread. Some of these levels were so brutally long that they needed the banger music to get me through it, anything less would have resulted in me throwing my controller.
Contra 3 is one of the hardest games I've ever played. Watching people speed run it these days and not take a single hit makes me feel like a less accomplished person, but they have practiced to the point to where the game is second nature to them. I never could do that. I beat it once and then it was over and done with. Now I'm content to relive those memories by listening to the record instead.
Written June 30th 2024
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