Fiends/Crab

The Crab-type Fiend (also named ???^[1]) is an enemy in Contra: Rogue Corps.

Description

This enemy only appears in Exploration Missions and under certain conditions. While the conditions are currently unknown, its encounter is believed to be purely random at the end of the 4th section's battle. If this condition is met, after taking out all the enemies guarding the Mission's exit, the gate will open, and a mysterious Crab-like entity will immediately spawn.

Battle

When the Crab-type appears, it shakes its claws high into the sky before starting its attacks. This small creature can launch one of its claws as a long-range straightforward fist-missile attack. After the detached claw breaks, it quickly grows it back. Whenever a character hugs close to the Crab, it performs a close-range spin with its right claw to repel them. It will never perform this attack twice in a row. When damaged enough, it will retreat into an eggshell.

If the eggshell lasts on the area for long enough, the Crab-type re-emerges from it, having grown slightly larger. The creature now gains the ability to charge up energy from its fists and unleash a long energy wave slash straightforward. The creature will retreat into a larger egg when heavily damaged.

If the large egg is left alone for long, the creature emerges once again, even more slightly larger. It can now unleash bubbles from its body, which slowly travel all across the area for a limited time. It can attempt to enter another eggshell when heavily damaged.

If this giant egg lasts long enough, the creature emerges at a large size much larger than when it originally started out with. At full power, the creature the creature retains its attacks while having access to new ones. It can unleash a four-time rolling jumping slam. It can also perform a large slam at anyone close to its proximity. It also can charge energy and unleash it into multiple purple lightning bolt strikes from the sky. When at low Health, the Crab will charge up energy into itself, then soon unleashing into a massive dual-energy explosion surrounding itself. This explosion cannot reach too far distances. Its claw beam slash may sometimes be fired three times in a row (first with one claw, then its other claw, then charging both at once). The beam slash size is lengthened thanks to the creature's grown stature. The creature may sometimes burrow underground and reemerge back above ground, similar to a Big-Mouth Fiend.

At largest form, this massive Crab takes a lot to drop but once enough damage is dealt, the beast falls to its back defeated and explodes. It tends to leave behind Legendary Loot. Defeating the largest form for the first time unlocks a Steam Achievement.

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See also

• Crab Machine - another Crab-like enemy in the Contra series.

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