Contra: Rogue Corps director says Contra always needs a "buff, muscled guy"

Contra: Rogue Corps has some of the strangest characters in the Contra franchise by far, but it also has Kaiser, who is pretty old-school Contra. In an interview with Siliconera, director and executive producer Nobuya Nakazato explains his approach to characters in Rogue Corps.

I’m not really thinking too hard about the nuances of these characters during the dev process. I can definitely say there needs to be the buff, muscled guy as part of the Contra universe. That’s sort of the base definition of the franchise. If I start there, then I think about the other characters that may fill in the group. I’ll think about character designs and capabilities that complement and bring new and fun angles, but it’s not like I’m necessarily approaching each character with those design angles.