Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for February 2nd, 2021. In today’s article, we’ve got a full-sized review of the recently-released Turrican Flashback from ININ Games. We also take a quick look at both of today’s new releases, then head into the usual lists of new and finishing sales. Let’s check it out!
Reviews
Turrican Flashback ($29.99)

The thing about game compilations is that the kind of people who are typically drawn to them usually place a high value on completeness. For a variety of reasons, they often don’t get what they want in that regard. Turrican Flashback is another incomplete collection from ININ Games, who recently brought us the similarly incomplete Space Invaders Forever. In both cases, a remedy is available in the form of a more expensive limited physical version, but those more complete versions don’t have digital counterparts. How big of a problem is that" It depends on how you look at it, I suppose. You’re missing a lot of games in this set that people would consider important, and getting the lesser versions of two games where improved ones exist. The original Commodore 64 games that kicked off the series are absent, along with the NES Super Turrican and Super NES Super Turrican 2. There are official Director’s Cut versions of the included Super NES Super Turrican and Genesis Mega Turrican, but we’re stuck with the vintage versions here. There’s no question...