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Turrican Anthology Vol. I Switch Free Download Romslab Over a year ago, we looked at Turrican Flashback, a compilation that seemed to be the testing ground for this compilation and its followup, both announced and put up for preorder in 2020. After a long, long, long wait that honestly got a little absurd, these compilations have finally finished up and made it out the door, so just how does this compare to Flashback, and does this volume manage to stand out on its own? Back when Turrican Flashback came out, it was the first major showpiece of Ratalaika’s soon to be common Emulation Engine, which was applied to plenty of fun obscure titles and I always get hyped whenever I hear of a new product with this tech in action. ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

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Overtime, it went from basic features like display options and an impressive CRT mode, to improving the CRT mode further, adding even more options to mess with, and more and more QOL stuff adding with each compilation and retro release. So, how did that all culminate in the Turrican Anthologies? To be honest, this compilation feels like what the whole engine was building toward, as nearly every single aspect of Ratalaika’s work here feels like mastery. You have the screen display options from before, excellently scaled and implemented, along with the option to swap between 50Hz and 60Hz for the Amiga games.

The ability to toggle different map layers on and off

You also have the returning CRT mode, better than before and still one of the top CRT filters I’ve seen in a commercial product, and here in the Anthology, a new visual option has been added, one that was arguably the source of this compilation taking so damn long to ship in the first place: a realtime map. What is this map needed for, you may ask? Well, some of the Turrican games, especially the ones in this volume are rather maze-heavy, so ININ probably figured this would be a handy QOL feature to throw in to guide newcomers to the secrets and alternate pathways the franchise is known for. Croixleur Sigma Switch NSP

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It does so by using your selected display resolution and having what would usually be the black border replaced by a map of the current level you’re in, that draws and forms out the further you progress, leading to a faux 16:9 display of sorts. With the press of the R3/L3 buttons, you can even adjust what shows up on these map elements, such as fake walls, where enemies will spawn, item pickups, outlines, and so much more options that to list them all would still understate just how in-depth this mapping tool is. This was honestly way more feature rich than I expected and made revisiting these games much easier than my original playthroughs in Flashback.

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Yeah, the HUD can clash with it at times, especially on awkward stages that aren’t so spacious, but believe it or not, the devs accounted for that too, by allowing you to mess with the opacity of the HUD, or hide it altogether to make it even more smooth. It’s still not perfect mind you, but definitely helps to enhance the look and feel of the games significantly. Those visual improvements weren’t all ININ added, oh no, as the music options get a nice boost as well! You can stick with the original, excellent scores, or choose between varying remix albums to play in a manner akin to Redbook Audio, as if these four games became PC Engine CD titles! CrossCode Switch NSP

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Definitely a lovely surprise, and it even seems to support the hyper ambitious Surround Sound option that the SNES titles incorporated, a lovely touch. There’s also a sound test in the collection menus for you to toy around with, so you can sample the albums available and pick the ones that you deem appropriate for the games of your choice. That’s not even the end of what these Anthologies offer, as each game comes with manual scans of the varying regional versions of each title: the Score Attack and Director Cut versions sadly don’t get anything unique (mainly because their actual physical manual was a lame one page fold-out leaflet) but the six different titles available in these compilations each include the regional variants of their manuals.

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With the only exceptions appearing to be other computer versions that aren’t included here at all. (so no C64 manuals for you) There’s even a bonus gallery that I assume is a general collection of key art from the franchise, but unfortunately it requires some sort of unlock criteria I haven’t been able to meet yet. Since I’ve covered 3 of the 5 included titles here in the Flashback review, I’ll mainly note how the additional QOL features impacted my experiences playing them in this volume, with the bigger focus here being on the two “exclusives” that Flashback did not get. Crossroad crash Switch NSP

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Whichever the case, they still use the same Ratalaika emulator as before, only improved with better rewind support, improved quality of life elements, cheats upon beating the game, and all the visual stuff with the Map I noted in the prior section. You even have a ridiculous amount of control options, from enabling the painful Amiga-style jumping controls of the original computer games, adjusting how the wheel/rope items get used, and more, so you can tune these games to your liking with ease!The game that kinda started it all: I noted in the Flashback review that this game definitely feels a bit weird due to being the first entry in the series, and this still applies here.

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