Neo Contra

[Captain Vegetable]

Yes, it is worth $10.

[Johnny Undaunted]

I've purchased Neo Contra too myself. Yes, I did found it to be ridiculously easy, mainly because the game simply hands out the more powerful weapon sets (Type D-F) after your first few playthroughs, allowing the player to ease through the game. It only took me a week to unlock everything, including Lucia II (aka Bikini Lucia). It's quite challenging if you stick to the default sets and try to get a high ranking with them, but I guess not many people feel to artificially extend the game's replay value.

[Diff-chan]

Is it worth essentially $10?

Hell no.

[Captain Canuck]

I think the reasoning is that the overhead levels in the old Contras ranged from outright suck at worst to not as good as the normal fucking levels at best.

To base an entire game on them is pretty fucking stupid.

They probbaly figured that they can pull off a Mercs or a shocktroopers. Mercs was especially well designed. The one player genesis version was still the shiz even after losing the 3 player mode it had in the arcade game.