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  • Awesome Music: With Daisuke Ishiwatari, it's to be expected. A few examples include:
  • Game-Breaker: Sayuri. She cannot wield guns, but her sword kills all enemies except bosses in one hit. And against bosses she does ridiculous damage. Her Razor Wind charge shot also goes through everything, unlike charged Heated Plasma, thus allowing her to hit many enemies offscreen where other characters can't. Her upgrades in Rising Mode make her even more broken. She can get a speed upgrade to her movement. You can also buy upgrades to her sword that can make her do up to double damage against everything. Since weapon capsules don't do anything to her, she's always at full power and not subject to Continuing is Painful like all other characters are. And the final nail in the coffin? You can buy automatic fire for her, meaning that you can just stand there and hold the X/Square button to hack away at enemies, and while you're doing so, charge up her charge shot which you can shoot off whenever you need to by briefly releasing the button.
  • Harsher in Hindsight:
    • Bahamut's killing of Mandrake in one of the endings in the original Contra: Hard Corps comes off worse as Uprising shows they've been allies for years. Unless you're thinking of Bahamut as a different person...
    • Try playing this after Shattered Soldier if you think Bahamut and Leviathan are Bill and Lance.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Uprising was set as a prequel to the original Contra, but then was followed by Contra Evolution, a remake of the Famicom/NES Contra which features Bill and Lance in which Bahamut and Leviathan were based off, plus two new female characters who are expies of Krystal and Sayuri.
  • Narm Charm: The voice acting in this game is bad, but it's probably done intentionally to invoke a "classic" feel. Examples:
    • Bahamut: "Show yourself, you bastard! SHOW YOURSELF, TIBERIUS!"
    • Krystal: "You can count on me!"
    • Harley: "I'm tough!"
    • Sayuri: "I grow tired of killing."
    • Leviathan: "YEAH! For the father!"
    • Tiberius: "You again. So, wanna be dead? I'm going to enjoy this battle."
      • "Now, then, can I beat you up? Let's begin the FINUL BATHOL.
      • Really, everything that comes out of his mouth, considering he sounds like he's voiced by Tommy Wiseau.
  • Spiritual Adaptation:
    • This game is the closest we'll ever get to seeing a run 'n' gun Guilty Gear game.
    • Likewise when playing as Sayuri, you're essentially playing a Strider game fighting against an oppressive regime.

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