Turrican for TurboGrafx-16
Review #7083
Turrican
How did this spawn a successful franchise?!
Gameplay
Commits virtually every cardinal sin imaginable. Virtually unplayable.
Pressing up makes you jump. This leads to frequent unintended jumps.
Enemies have no hit boxes and drain health on every frame. So do their projectiles. You'll die constantly.
30% is completely unacceptable on a run n gun.
No rapid fire.
Tons of flying enemies but no ability to shoot up or angled.
Controls are reasonably responsive, but everything else about the gameplay is horrid.
Level Design
I can't get past the first level, so I have no idea what other levels look like, but the first one is a mess. Platforms seem designed to hide enemies from your attacks so they can destroy you with impunity. There's also no obvious direction to take. Do you follow the platforms up? The cave down and to the left? The seemingly endless expanse to the right?
Theme
Generic sci-fi setting. The title page looks bad. Like Silver Surfer merged with Col Sanders.
Art Style
The sprites have some impressive animation but their designs are incredibly bland. You look like a plastic Buzz Lightyear toy.
The backgrounds are just an empty single color and there's nothing else interesting to look at. The whole things looks like it was created in MS Paint.
Explosions look good, for what it's worth.
Audio
The song loops quickly but has a fast tempo and isn't terrible. Not great.
Sounds seem out of place, like they were lifted from a kids game.
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