{"id":20930,"date":"2021-02-01T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20930"},"modified":"2021-01-27T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T00:14:11","slug":"turrican-flashback-switch-ps4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/01\/turrican-flashback-switch-ps4\/","title":{"rendered":"Turrican Flashback (Switch, PS4)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I love playing and writing about classic game collections and compilations.\u00a0 Usually I\u2019m pretty knowledgeable about the games on collections because I love classic games, plus I\u2019m old.\u00a0\u00a0 But the games on this particular collection, I\u2019m not as familiar with.\u00a0 Mainly because these games were more popular in Europe, and originated on computers that were more prevalent over there, like the Amiga.\u00a0 The Turrican series are run and gun 2-D platformer games and they were programmed by the same guy who did The Great Giana Sisters, which has an interesting history in its own right.\u00a0 Anyway, Turrican Flashback includes four games: Turrican, Turrican 2: The Final Fight, Mega Turrican and Super Turrican.\u00a0 The collection is available on Switch and PS4, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

The games play mostly the same.\u00a0 You play as a robot warrior dude who shoots everything that moves.\u00a0 The games have storylines, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re that important.\u00a0 You have a regular weapon and can pick up new guns and sub-weapons, too.\u00a0 You can also roll into a ball like Samus from Metroid, but you don\u2019t have much control in ball form and you just bounce and roll all over the place until you press the jump button.\u00a0 Other buttons shoot off a screen clearing attack, and in some of the games, you can launch a grappling hook and swing to new heights.\u00a0 Similar to Sonic stages, there are branching pathways that may lead to bonuses and goodies.\u00a0 The music in these games are famous for being good, too.\u00a0 While I didn\u2019t find them too memorable personally, they certainly have a lot of drive and pep in the tunes.<\/p>\n

Even though they started out on the 8-bit Commodore 64, the first two games on this collection are the 16-bit Amiga versions.\u00a0 Mega Turrican was on the SEGA Genesis, and Super Turrican on the Super Nintendo.\u00a0 You can also toggle various screen and wallpaper options, and there is a handy rewind feature as well.\u00a0 Even though I\u2019m glad I got to play this collection and learn more about Turrican, it was hard for me to get into because of some problems.\u00a0 Even though there are sub weapons you can fire in all directions, I really wish you could do the same with the main gun as well since enemies go all over the place.\u00a0 Since these games are older and originally came with instruction booklets, they don\u2019t do much explaining of the controls in the collection.\u00a0 These games also follow a lot of European game design trends, like sprawling levels and garish colors.\u00a0 Sometimes it can be hard to know where to go, and these games are pretty tough.\u00a0 But then, I\u2019m not too terribly good at these kinds of games either.\u00a0 But if you enjoy classic run and gun games like Jazz Jackrabbit or Gunstar Heroes, then you may want to check out this collection.<\/p>\n

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Turrican Flashback is rated E-10.\u00a0 You shoot all manner of robots that explode, but that\u2019s about as violent as it gets.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may find it too difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love playing and writing about classic game collections and compilations.\u00a0 Usually I\u2019m pretty knowledgeable about the games on collections because I love classic games, plus I\u2019m old.\u00a0\u00a0 But the games on this particular collection, I\u2019m not as familiar with.\u00a0 Mainly because these games were more popular in Europe, and originated on computers that were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20932,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930\/revisions\/20932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}