History VideoGame / SuperCyborg

* AntiClimaxBoss: Xirxul Lifeform turns out to be this, despite effectively being the BigBad of the game. It remains huddled inside of Niatoid Seeder, which itself sits firmly on the platform and it's only means of attack is spewing slow, easily destroyed spores. The player can stand safely on one spot and dispatch all of the spore organs, ending the fight relatively quickly.

''Super Cyborg'' is a {{retraux}}-style action game released for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, but inspired by old-school arcade games popular way back in the late 90s.

An outbreak have occurred in a bio-lab in a top-secret government facility, when experimentation on an alien life-form called the "Xirxul" leads to it escaping confinement and infecting everything in its path. Soon enough, the outbreak had spread beyond control, leading to a massive infestation of assorted hostile alien life. Like ''Contra'' before it, you are an elite SuperSoldier (this time also a {{cyborg}}, just because) and you're sent to contain the alien outbreak across seven levels infested with monstrous enemies.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: The underground cave level have you fighting the Captured Bedlaah, a gigantic insect monster entangled in a web, which goes down without too much difficulty since it's stuck. But after you kill the Captured Bedlaah, you then discover the monster is the ''meal'' of the stage's actual boss, the Akhamafold Octopod, which is far more deadly and angry at you for exploding its lunch.

* PeopleJars: The second stage in a bio-lab have a number of humanoid organisms stored in tanks in the background, presumably subjects of other "Super Cyborg" experiments. There's also an enemy monster in a tank which attacks you when its tank is shot at.
* RibcageRidge: The sixth level in a bio-lab have gigantic ribcages in place of bridges for you to walk in-between platforms. Over their spines.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Most of the game have you killing aliens from a side-view perspective, just like ''Contra'' (its main inspiration). But the sixth level suddenly flips to a top-down perspective similar to ''VideoGame/IkariWarriors'', before going back to side-view after killing the boss (and remains as such for the remainder of the game).

Compare ''VideoGame/IronMeat'', another {{retraux}} game based on ''Contra''.

An outbreak have occurred in a bio-lab in a top-secret government facility, when experimentation on an alien life-form called the "Xirxul" leads to the it escaping confinement and infecting everything in its path. Soon enough, the outbreak had spread beyond control, leading to a massive infestation of assorted hostile alien life. Like ''Contra'' before it, you are an elite SuperSoldier (this time also a {{cyborg}}, just because) and you're sent to contain the alien outbreak across seven levels infested with monstrous enemies.

Taking a page from the classic RunAndGun action game, ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'', one again earth is a hellhole taken over by an alien life-form.

* {{Determinator}}: The Flying Jarmai and Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism - getting shot until ''it's an immobile bulk robbed of its ability to move'' or ''blown in half'', respectively, and those bastards will still keep on attacking.

An outbreak have occured in a bio-lab in a top-secret government facility, when experimentations on an alien life-form called the "Xirxul" leads to the Xirxul escaping confinement and infecting everything in it's path. Soon enough, the outbreak had spread beyond control, leading to a massive infestation of assorted hostile alien life. Like ''Contra'' before it, you are an elite SuperSoldier (this time also a {{cyborg}}, just because) and you're sent to contain the alien outbreak across seven levels infested with monstrous enemies.

* AllThereInTheManual: The bosses are named in the [[CollectibleCardGame Trading Cards]] used for promoting the game itself. [[https://steamcommunity.com/app/341550/discussions/0/451848855017464865/?l=spanish Yes, really]].

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: The underground cave level have you fighting the Captured Bedlaah, a gigantic insect monster entangled inside Akhamafold Octopod's web, who goes down without too much difficulty since it's stuck. But after you kill Captured Bedlaah, you then discover the monster is the ''meal'' of the stage's actual boss, the Akhamafold Octopod that's far stronger and deadlier, and angry at you for exploding it's lunch.

* CobwebJungle: The fourth level is set in a cavern that's coated in assorted cobwebs. And to nobody's surprise, it ends with a boss battle against the GiantSpider, Akhamafold Octopod.
* CombatTentacles: Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism seems to contain an ''infinite'' number of these, repeatedly sending tentacles from it's mouth on you.
* {{Determinator}}: Flying Jarmai and Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism - getting shot until ''it's a single severed head'' or ''ripped vertically into half'', respectively, and those bastards will still keep on attacking.

** One of the recurring signs of the Xirxul outbreak, is the walls growing ''eyes''. Which observes you from the background while you're fighting monsters left and right.
** The first boss, Imeotra beast, is a giant alien head on a stalk bursting from a wall, consisting of just a nose and a mouth. Turns out the eye is growing inside the mouth, when it opens up to launch a BreathWeapon / {{Eye Beam|s}} crossover attack.
** Giddagn Symbiont is an alien monster whose body is a mess of organs, with five visible gigantic eyes on it's surface and none on the head.

** Imeotra beast have a hidden single eye in it's mouth /chin area, and you damage it when it's eye is revealed. When killed, the eyeball ''explodes'' leaving behind a hole.

** Giddagn Symbiont has five giant eyes growing on it, and you're required to blow up all to kill it.
** Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism will, in a last-ditch attempt to destroy you, extend it's eyeballs on gigantic stalks to launch EyeBeams. You destroy it for good by blowing up both eyes.
* GiantCrab: Seamegnon Creature which you fought in the laboratory, complete with gigantic extendable pincers which can shoot projectiles.
* GiantFootOfStomping: Omniard Monster Being doesn't have much to work with, being a tiny, deformed human-alien hybrid, but it's legs (all four of them which it uses to crawl in a bipedal manner) are ''huge''. Naturally it's sole attack is by using them to stomp on you.
* GiantSpider: The cavern levels have these enemies appearing everywhere. And it caps with a boss fight against a ''massive'' arachnid monster, Akhamafold Octopod.

* MiniBoss: Omniard Monster Being, Captured Bedlaah, and Evevva Parasite are all fought ''before'' the level's actual boss, and are considerably easier than the succeeding boss fight.
* MonstrousCannibalism: The Akhamafold Octopod is about to feast on the Captured Bedlaah, before you interrupt it's meal by blowing up the former.

** Akhamafold Octopod can lay numerous mooks from it's abdomen as one of it's attacks.
* OverlyLongTongue: Taken to the extreme with Flying Jarmai - it's third and last form is just a head, with a long, segmented green tongue that seems to stretch ''forever'' in a wave-like pattern towards you. Jarmai just keeps on extending said tongue until you destroy it.
* PeopleJars: The second stage in a bio-lab have a number of humanoid organisms stored in tanks in the background, presumably subjects of other "Super Cyborg" experiments. There's also an enemy monster in a tank which attacks you when it's tank is shot at.

* SandWorm: Evevva Parasite resembles a deformed, eldritch version of an underground worm monster, which chases you down a narrow corridor as an AdvancingBossOfDoom.
* SequentialBoss: Flying Jarmai starts off as a gigantic insectoid monster coated in flesh, who repeatedly flies in and out of the screen as it battles you using organic projectile launchers from it's abdomen. Dealing enough damage will blow up Flying Jarmai's back half, only for the front to continue the fight by trying to stab you using it's claws. And if you defeat it, reducing Jarmai to a severed insectoid head, the head will continue fighting while planted on flat ground (this time as a StationaryBoss however). Kill it a third time and you complete the level.

** The Imeotra beast is a head tethered to a massive stalk.
** The laboratory level ends with you fighting Zeonix Life System, a massive Xirxul heart in the center of a clearing, while tubes around the place dispenses enemies. The heart itself can occasionally spew projectile attacks but it's immobile the entire fight.
** The third and final form of the Flying Jarmai. Since you destroyed most of it's body and it's a severed head on the floor (but ''somehow'' still capable of defending itself).
** Captured Bedlaah couldn't move about due to being entangled in the Akhamafold Octopod web. But after destroying Bedlaah, you then face the web's owner, Akhamafold Octopod.
** Giddagn Symbiont is a series of intestinal-like organs growing from the walls, so it's expectedly rooted to a spot. With it's eyes and mouth launching projectile attacks.
** Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism is a monster clinging to the exit of a shaft, rooted to the top while sending down an insane amount of tentacles to grab you.
** Niatoid Seeder, the FinalBoss, is encountered growing on a platform, and remains there for the entire duration of it's fight.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Most of the game have you killing aliens from a side-view perspective, just like ''Contra'' (it's main inspiration). But the sixth level suddenly flips to a top-down perspective similar to ''VideoGame/IkariWarriors'', before going back to side-view after killing the boss (and remains as such for the remainder of the game).

* {{Determinator}}: Flying Jarmai and Darvograhellix Reprocessing Organism - getting shot until ''it's a single severed head'' or ''ripped vertically into half'', respectively, and those bastards will keep on attacking.

** Monster spawners (resembling a gigantic ''mouth'' growing from the ground) will repeatedly regurguiate alien life-forms to attack until they're blown to bits.

* OverlyLongTongue: Taken to the extreme with Flying Jarmai, who needs to be killed thrice. It's third and last form is just a head, with a long, segmented green tongue that seems to stretch ''forever'' in a wave-like pattern towards you. Jarmai just keeps on extending said tongue until you destroy it.

** The laboratory level ends with you fighting Zeonix Life System, a massive Xirxul heart in the center of a clearing, while tube around the place dispenses enemies. The heart itself can occasionally spew projectile attacks but it's immobile the entire fight.

** Captured Bedlaah in the Akhamafold Octopod web couldn't move about due to being entangled in it's center. But after destroying Captured Bedlaah, you then face the web's owner, Akhamafold Octopod.

Taking a page from the classic RunAndGun action game, ''VideoGame/{{Contra}'', one again earth is a hellhole taken over by an alien life-form.

* InspirationNod: From the title screen, the "C" in "Super '''C'''yborg" is designed to resemble the same alphabet from ''Contra''.
* MookMaker: Monster spawners (resembling a gigantic ''mouth'' growing from the ground) will repeatedly regurguiate alien life-forms to attack until they're blown to bits.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: The first half of the game have you killing aliens from a side-view perspective, just like ''Contra'' (it's main inspiration). But the sixth level suddenly flips to a top-down perspective similar to ''VideoGame/IkariWarriors'', before going back to side-view after killing the boss (and remains as such for the remainder of the game).