Super Turrican Longplay (SNES) [50 FPS]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- Developed by Factor 5 and published by Hudson Soft in 1993.
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I recently completed a longplay and review of Super Turrican 2 for the SNES and was pretty impressed with Factor 5's efforts. One of my viewer's comments mentioned that Super Turrican was a superior game, so I decided to check it out.
As with all Turrican games, the story once again sees the brave crew of the United Freedom Forces Avalon 1 fighting the tyranny of The Machine to prevent enslavement of humankind. Interestingly enough, the introduction mentions that the planet in danger this time is Katakis, which also happens to be the name of a horizontal shoot 'em up released by Factor 5/Rainbow Arts and makes me wonder whether the two games are set in the same universe.
Having played the game all the way through, it feels like Factor 5 used Turrican II as a reference design and then tailored the game to the strengths and capabilities of Nintendo's console with the end result being quite impressive.
This game feels much closer to the look and feel of the Turrican games released for the Commodore 64 and Amiga home computers than it's sequel does. I think the main reason for this is the level design in Super Turrican is much closer to the hime computer versions in that it retains the non-linear, exploratory elements from those versions where you can find secret locations and bonus power-ups if you look closely enough.
The weapons and power-ups in Super Turrican remain consistent with the game's predecessors, including the iconic 360-degree beam attack. However, Factor 5 decided to change this particular weapon's design so that it actually freezes enemies for a short period of time instead of actually doing damage, which is an interesting decision.
Also present and correct is the gyroscope attack, allowing the hero to transform into a spinning ball that provides temporary invulnerability and damages enemies on contact. Although the gyroscope was available in Super Turrican 2, there really wasn't any call to use it. Fortunately, it's more relevant here as Factor 5 designed this game's levels to include bonus areas and hidden passages that can only be accessed using the gyroscope, another feature that I associate closely with "classic" Turrican games.
Hidden throughout each level are diamonds (another Turrican staple) and bonus lives. These are rarely in plain sight and one of the challenges of the game is trying to locate and collect all lives and gems on each stage. Once a world has been completed, a summary screen tells you how many gems/lives you collected and how many were missed. It's great that Factor 5 did this since it encourages the player to try for 100% completion, but I'm not sure whether it's even possible to collect everything since certain levels have more than one route to the level exit and most of them are designed so that it's impossible to retrace your steps.
Another thing I really liked about this game are the graphics. Factor 5 took the design and art concepts from earlier games and took advantage of the SNES's graphics capabilities to make everything look even more polished. The robotic fist boss from previous games returns and features some very cool sprite scaling and rotation effects. The way the background in the final stage "throbs" is also a neat effect, making the place feel like you're inside a living organism rather than just a static level.
Audio and sound effects are great, with Chris Huelsbeck writing the music and sound effects. The tunes in the game still aren't as good as those from Turrican II for the Amiga, but they're still pretty good. I was also quite impressed with the clarity of the music in this game, with everything sound particularly sharp and precise.
The only niggle I have with Super Turrican is that a little of the magic from the C64 and Amiga versions seems to have been lost amongst the glossy graphics and polished presentation. The SNES (and Mega Drive) had a slew of top-grade platform/shooting games which delivered the kind of gaming experience that was much harder to replicate on the hardware of the 8-bit and 16-bit computers of the day.
Super Turrican is certainly a good run-and-gun shooter and it certainly feels more like a Turrican game than it's sequel. However, and I'm aware that this might be a case of rose-tinted spectacles, Super Turrican just doesn't seem to sparkle quite as brightly as it's computer-based counterparts.
#retrogaming
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I was trying to remember the name of this game, and i got here at your video. Dude, for real, thanks, i literally cried here because i remember all the good times i had playing this. I love you, really.
same here
This was a truly rare game, the music and sound effects really bring an epic vibe to your soul.
Pues yo me lo pasé en difícil y me pareció un total aburrimiento
Hurrican from poke 2007 es mejor.
Same.story
...i was 7yo.... Searching for years 😭
Super Turrican Longplay (SNES) [50 FPS]: A fun run-and-gun shooter that captures the spirit of the earlier Turrican games, but with better graphics and presentation!
Read the video description for my review!
This game was so epic and thrilling. Loved it a lot.
If you were an action shooter in the 90s, your last level had to be Aliens themed...Thems the rules!
The music themes definitely suite each level down to a t. Souch awesome sound effects too.
Recuerdos de niñez, gran juego.
Romantic and spiritual tune at the end. Everyone lift your hands and praise the video game gods
Chris Hülsbeck
Amiga Forever
The best Men ever. I love the&Chrisssss musik.
Awesome colors. Awesome music. Awesome sound effects.
one of the best games of its time.
Had the original on c64 and it kicked ass didn't know there was a snes version it looks and sounds epic. Cool video as always :)
+paddy oconnor Thanks - much appreciated :) There are Turrican games on the NES and Mega Drive too; I'll probably longplay and review them too at some point.
I remember beating this game when I was 7. Fantastic game.
Amazing music and very good sound effects.
AMAZING MUSIC??😂😂😂
Funnily enough, the wormland level's first segment with the flying ship actually appears in Rendering Ranger R2 in the second stage falling and exploding.
I remember seeing this in EGM and GamePro way back in 1993 I couldn't wait to get this game.
Amazing Soundtrack!
Just to make the connection of the 2 games more suspicious, has anybody ever noticed how both games end with an ice world and a alien wasteland...
I wish I could be a kid in the 90s again
Lo recuerdo bien!
En el area de los trenes....
Puedes entrar, estar dentro de varios vagones... Y hay muchos corazones!!
🙂👍👏✌️
It is a shame that this awesome game is short, it was meant to be long like mega turrican but it was discontinued because off business issues.
I love the music on this game still
amazing games
I remember playing this one on an arcade thinking it was a Super Metroid knock-off mostly because you could change weapons and turn yourself into a ball and deploy bombs.
Fun times playing these on my childhood, is a shame that neither this and Metroid have proper modern iterations...
Thanks for sharing.
There is Metroid Dread for the Nintendo Switch.
My opinion is this is much more engaging game with better music than super metroid. I literally stopped playing super metroid during the first level. Not engaging enough.
11:40 reminds me the JM Jarre music (err, I think its more like the SPACE and D.Marouani). I prefer the MD version of the Turrican, anyway Super Turrican is one of those games that just forced me likes the SNES more and more =) Some of the SFx, music tracks are very-very nice and musical for me. Really like the arrangement of the 15:11 track, esp. like that string pad chords and snares. And again - the stereo by Dolby is very cool esp. wearing the good headphones.
I was way too young to appreciate this game when I had it. Luckily I still had B.O.B. and Super Metroid.
Beautiful. The only thing the Amiga had better than this was the animations. Oh and the music, the tunes were made more atmospheric there.
So.. basically everything was better on the Amiga? I agree on that.
AOA! kkkkkkkk que jogo loco, jogava quando era pivete, nostalgia total
The game might not be like the originals but the music was awesome .
I was playing this game when i was like 4 years old and when i found out you can actually jump on the iron fist and just hold fire to beat it i felt so smart
I would really like to know, how many people clear about, that videos who are labeled as "Longplays" are made with save states or some other forms of tool assistance. This one shurely is. It would be great if it would be mentioned by the players in their video description.
@igakoga2481 If its not seeable or readable, most people will think its a tool less one life clear. Thats the problem.
Metroid + Contra = Super Turrican
T it's far better than those overrated games
you actually got a life bar in this one
Such a cool game! How good's the audio! 😺
I first played this on my Atari ST and loved it, but I have to say it looks arcade quality on the SNES.
The music of this game could perfectly fit into a 32 or 128 bits console game, the quality is above anything heard in a 16 bit console, sounds like Cd quality music.
+DieHard300 the way the movement and scrolling flows is also amazing for the time. Really everything in this game looks and sounds amazing for an SNES game, I'm not a fan of the Turrican series, I've always felt they were cumbersome and frustrating... but if the level design is better than the Amiga games I might give this a try. Yeah, I know, I'm probably about to incur the wrath of a bunch people that grew up with the games.
+Kristina I doubt anyone will anger for that, any real gamer from those times knows how difficulty unfair the games were back then. Turrican games were more balanced than usual for the Amiga but compared with games from the Genesis/Megadrive and Snes could feel frustrating indeed, let's not even talk about Spectrum games XDD.
And yeah, this Super Turrican not only have overwhelming graphics, sound and fps it's also much easier than the Amiga version and less labyrinthic but still challenging.
+DieHard300 +Kristina Super Turrican is definitely a more playable game than the Amiga or C64 versions - Factor 5 definitely knew what they were doing when they made this.
The quality control and production values involved in releasing a console game were much higher than those needed to release games on the C64 or Amiga, so it seemed so much more special when you found games that were actually decent :) Super Turrican is a very good game, but there were many other games equally as good on the SNES, so it's not quite as special in the same way.
+Al82: Retrogaming Longplays & Reviews I really can't think of any other SNES games where the animation and scrolling is this smooth and the sound quality this good, so this still seems pretty special among SNES games.
+Kristina +Al82 She's right on that, I was more a Genesis/Megadrive kid because the games were smoother than in the Snes but this Super Turrican breaks the limits of the console. It puts all the color and sound power of the Snes on screen with a Megadrive frames per second, I think no other game on the console managed to do that It's really one of a kind.
The only aspect this game doesn't stand out is the parallax Scrolling that is very limited as usual of the Snes(im not sure if there's even any).
Honestly I hated the 360 beam attack because really it just breaks the game in general like the bombs in Turrican 1 for bosses, even though it freezes enemies I think it's much more handy
Eu gostava desse game
hey, nice vid :). i would like to use couple of seconds in a video , if thats ok?! thanks
Did the developers have to pay royalties/buy the license to use Giger's ALIEN likenesses?
love of game
One of the missions reminds me of turbo tunnel frok battletoadsn
we gon get this on nso i bet lol
Alien levels gave me the 😨
You can freeze the ice.... 38:39
Super Turrican Longplay bis auf dieser stelle 34:54 ist das Game Cool!
La musica del minuto 16:00 se parece a la de la Oreja de Van Gogh.
Que cancion?
Ja joguei
That last boss was a fucking joke! 👎
All thank the amiga and c64 for turrican
Just the C64. The Amiga is a port like this one
@@KurtPedersen-tg7jc T1 was undoubtedly developed on the c64, t2 was finished on the amiga first although Manfred Trenz cites the c64 as the original design every port clearly is closer to the Amiga port than anything, so I think you can thank both
@@DigitalDependance Yes, and it shows... The Amiga version is actually shorter than the C64 version. Read "The End credits" on the C64 version of Turrican II where Manfred Trenz clearly states that *Turrican II* were designed and developed on the C64. So no, I only thank Manfred Trenz and the C64 version(s)
@@DigitalDependance Take a look at the video of C64 T2 from the same TH-camr . Jump to 1.26.40 where the programmer of Turrican I & II *clearly* states it. -You know, Wikipedia *isn't* the Gospel truth
@@KurtPedersen-tg7jc I don’t need to watch any videos I’ve finished both more times than I can count. I bought both on the c64 and amiga as soon as they were released.
Plus I literally stated Manfred Trenz cites the c64 as the lead platform for t2 before you waffled any of your nonsense. And yet again as I said go look at all the other ports and see if they more closely resemble the c64 or amiga.
Nunca pasaba del 3er nivel jajaja
I don't get this game - you just run and shoot everything and I don't see a challenge. Stay back, shoot, collect balls and use different weapons. What am I missing? I never played this game. I prefer Megaman and Metroid way better.
Craaaaaaaappp! Easily got its ass kicked by the longer and more sophisticated Mega Turrican on the Sega!
They're entirely different games. This is sort of an homage to Turrican I & II. Mega Turrican was in fact Turrican III. Why not just appreciate both games on their own right, instead of still sounding like an immature fanboy nearly three decades after the fact?
@@Jayce_Alexander Wow, sensitive!! It's just a game, you know. And you call me immature... Not as though it's anything life-changing or vital to the future of mankind. You need to chill, I think. Remember, opinions are like arseholes: Everybody's got one, nobody wants to hear anybody else's.
Oh, and for "entirely different games" they have a couple of near-identical levels. Watch walkthroughs of both and see! :)
Final boss looks stupidly easy compared to Super Metroid bosses.
comentario 69
larga vida a turrican
Comodore 69 XD
A typical console game. Not my cop of tea, honestly.
Un juegaso y diificil tambien
Great graphics and music, but level design and atmosphere were better on Amiga's Turricans