Turok: Rage Wars

2023-08-05
This was one of the first games I ever had on my Game Boy and I still have it after all these years. I think even then I knew it was a bad game. Sure the ability to combine different weapons to get new ones was cool but fundamentally it's an incredibly unfair and unfun game.You run around on the tiny ass screen and the whole time enemies are spawning off screen and shooting you from off screen. You have a split second to dodge them because you are trapped on said tiny screen and you only have a little health and lives to finish the game. I think I only ever got to like the third level as a kid. It is, in a word: trash.

The only saving grace is the music. The music in this game has no reason, absolutely no reason to be as good as it is. But it is. Enjoy it because it is the only reason to play the game.

I will say I'm thankful the game has cheats because even when I played on my Analogue Pocket with save states constantly restarting every time I got hit the game was taking for-EVER to clear. With cheats I could just have infinite ammo and lives and just run through the game with the machine gun firing nonstop. It actually made me realize how repetitive the game is. It largely consists of straight corridors filled with enemies. That's it. What an atrocious game.