Turbo Child is a 2015 film set in a post-apocalypse during which a comic book e-book fan battles a neighborhood tyrant, with gory, comedic, ’80s-pastiching outcomes. It was not a movie I anticipated to get a metroidvania sequel, however right here it’s with a brand new demo and an April launch date.
It follows on immediately from the film, with hack-and-slash fight and loads of pixel artwork gore. I’m largely focused on it as a result of it features a BMX, with biking used to assist traversing a world as seemingly stuffed with ramps and half-pipes as with genre-staples like transferring platforms and flying enemies.
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You possibly can download the demo from Steam now. It isn’t the primary Turbo Child demo, however apparently this one has extra polish and extra zones than the model that appeared again in 2022.
Again in 2016, Alice0 used the tease of a much less fascinating ’80s-referencing bike recreation as an excuse to speak in regards to the Turbo Child movie, during which she defined why it did its homage the best manner.
“It is a actually enjoyable and earnest comedy-adventure-horror about teenagers and villains within the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Characters are greater than punchlines. As foolish because the story is, it bounces and rolls alongside properly. Sure, it throws in a number of references to Issues From The ’80s, however the most effective jokes aren’t ‘Keep in mind this?’. It is heat memory, not reference-blasting kookiness. And dang, it has some cracking sensible results. Actually good dismemberment, evisceration, and torso hats. Guts torn out by bicycle. Jaws ripped off. Gibs. Pretty.”
Hopefully Turbo Child (the sport) does not overdo it by comparability. There’s not lengthy to attend: the total recreation is launched on April tenth.