Are you a Turrican? Or a Turrican’t?
Factor 5’s beloved Amiga platform shooter has been egregiously missing in action for some decades now. At least, the series is back on modern systems in the relatively exhaustive form of the Turrican Anthology 1 and 2, seemingly physical-only collections that bring every notable Turrican to the Nintendo Switch along with some genuinely intriguing Director’s Cut editions of Super and Mega Turrican. Sadly, though, that’s not what we have here. This is Turrican Flashback, a cheaper, smaller digital compilation of just four titles from the series – making for a pretty major oversight.
See, with Turrican Flashback you’re getting the Amiga Turrican and Turrican II: The Final Fight, Mega Drive instalment Mega Turrican (which is, essentially, a port of the Amiga follow-up Turrican 3: Payment Day) and, lastly, the SNES title Super Turrican. Four very enjoyable and playable games, but where in the world is Super Turrican 2? Well, it’s on the Anthology set, yes, but its absence from Turrican Flashback is keenly felt.
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