One of the best gifts that Xbox Game Pass could give us for Valentine’s Day is the arrival of the retro style metroidvania Infernax. It’s been a few hours and for now it has me completely hooked, in the absence of knowing if I’ll end up liking it more or less than Sabotage Studio’s The Messenger.
With an NES look and a touch inspired by Konami’s Castlevania, Berzerk Studio has impregnated his work with multiple tributes to that time, the most attractive being the one that unlocks Konami’s Contra mode.
How to play Contra Soldier in Infernax
And what trick can there be if we think of Konami? Yes, it is just what you imagine: the famous Konami code. Surely you know it by heart as part of popular culture, but just in case you don’t remember, here is the combination:
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start
With an Xbox or Nintendo Switch controller there is no problem, while with a PlayStation controller you will have to replace the B with the circle and the A with the X. If you run it from the main menubefore starting a game, an achievement / trophy will be skipped and this phrase will appear afterwards: THE DEMONIC CURSE HAS BEGUN.
Next, you will see the protagonist with the appearance of a Contra soldier and something else… Yes, because you will be able to shoot with his assault rifle, so the game will become tremendously easier with this trick. And the good thing is that even the cinematics change, like the one of the villager whose fate you decide at the beginning of the story.