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Are you bad enough to come to the rescue?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JL-73l_hCMg?feature=shared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asks the presser<\/a>. Yes, sir, I am pretty bad. Sufficiently bad, I must claim.<\/p>    <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div   id="gqq8s83tkl"    class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <\/iframe> <\/div><\/figure>    <p><em>Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns<\/em> will supposedly encourage &#8220;min-maxing and stat manipulation&#8221; and will add a tonne of weapons, which is more specifically 20 including evolutions. Brad Fang from <em>Contra: Hard Corps<\/em> will be there. That&#8217;s pretty cool. It doesn&#8217;t mention any new levels, but having the game become more <em>Contra-flavored<\/em> should be enough. It&#8217;s always nice to see Konami getting mixed in with a few stews after it spent decades burning all its goodwill.<\/p>    <p>Wait a minute, how is <em>Vampire Survivors<\/em> crossing over with <em>Contra<\/em> before <em>Castlevania<\/em>? Oh, that Poncle. Always zigging when you think they should be zagging.<\/p>    <p><em>Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns<\/em> infiltrates the main game via a patch on May 9th on all current platformers. PlayStation version will be arriving this Summer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featuring Brad 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