It’s hard to name games that are creative, fun, cute, yet gory and smooth to play. I know these are all words that praise todays game, but it’s all true! Hi my name is phant0m and these are my thoughts on… Turbo Kid.
Visuals
This game looks absolutely perfect! The artstyle mixes between colorful and beautiful or dark and sad. Its combination makes the game’s story moments make more sense and enhances the experience tenfold. Also the character design is great! I personally love how much the main character sticks out compared to everyone else. Although it doesn’t really fit in the rest of the world. It definitely just looks nice for what it is, other characters spark details. Enemies look fine and let you know what they’re gonna try as soon as you see them.
Gameplay
The gameplay is the highest point of the game. It not only feels nice to play through this metroidvania it feels awesome to absolutely shred my enemies into pieces of unrecognizable gore! I personally don’t play 2d games often because I usually find them more limiting than other games but this one never made me feel that way. Being able to earn several objects which change the gameplay often makes it feel fresh but also like you have a choice. *Spoiler alert of one of the weapons* but I personally loved being able to switch to a machete and taking down enemies up close instead of at range. The choice is yours during combat. And traversal also feels great. You can reach on ledges to jump onto others or even use some objects which I don’t want to spoil. So once you do get there; just know it changes the game!
Story
This is where my experience turns to a more negative tone. I personally had more fun exploring the world or destroying enemies that I kept forgetting what the story was either about, or got bored (which was probably my fault). I just personally found it too easy to get out of the way of the plotline which is great for many players into freedom, it just really got me more lost, especially since this is a continuation to a 2015 movie also called Turbo Boy, which I didn’t watch and left me confused with how the plot of this game started. Luckily for me I never felt the story was too important and if it did my experience would’ve been ruined much more than the tiny amount it did now.
Characters
The characters didn’t really peak my interest either. although their designs looked cool, their dialogue just didn’t interest me enough to pay attention to their wants and needs. But the way you can interact with them with the 4 given emotes is fun. These emotes don’t add a level of depth to these characters but they provide at least 4 more options to every convo; even if they are short or long.
Music
The game’s music is one of the stronger highlights of Turbo Kid. Not only does its multiple tracks sound nice they absolutely crush it. The soundtrack is super fun and exciting. The main theme especially just made me want to start playing multiple hours! Fantastic job!
Performance
The performance of running this game was incredible, while playing on my pc I didn’t lose any frames, didn’t have screen tearing issues and lacked any real flaws, if any during my runtime. As far as I’m concerned this may have been one of the cleanest gaming experiences I’ve had in a long time!
Verdict
Anyways if you’re wondering I do recommend this game! It’s super fun, relaxing, at times stressful but at the end of the day super entertaining and rewarding. I give it a 9/10. The only real issue was that the game was so good that the story couldn’t keep me compelled enough to pay attention. But it barely caused any problems to my overall enjoyment! Those were my thoughts on Turbo Kid! Thx For Reading! Keep doing great things! You’re good at them. Bye 🙂
Side Notes
Played this game with a Rx 6750 XT Powercolor GPU, and an intel i5 13400f. Game had amazing controller support, saving animations are so fun and have so much personality.
