<s>
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
:	I-Application
The	I-Application
Final	I-Application
Fight	I-Application
is	O
the	O
second	O
game	O
of	O
the	O
Turrican	B-Application
series	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
game	O
,	O
developed	O
by	O
Factor	O
5	O
was	O
released	O
in	O
1991	O
for	O
the	O
Commodore	B-Device
Amiga	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
was	O
also	O
released	O
for	O
the	O
CDTV	B-Device
,	O
Atari	B-Device
ST	I-Device
,	O
Amstrad	B-Device
CPC	I-Device
and	O
ZX	B-Operating_System
Spectrum	I-Operating_System
,	O
and	O
later	O
for	O
DOS	B-Device
,	O
and	O
also	O
for	O
the	O
Mega	B-Operating_System
Drive/Genesis	I-Operating_System
and	O
Game	B-Device
Boy	I-Device
rebranded	O
as	O
Universal	O
Soldier	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Amiga	B-Device
version	O
of	O
Turrican	B-Application
2	I-Application
along	O
with	O
Turrican	B-Application
,	O
Super	B-Application
Turrican	I-Application
and	O
Mega	B-Application
Turrican	I-Application
were	O
re-released	O
on	O
the	O
Playstation	O
4	O
and	O
Nintendo	O
Switch	O
in	O
2020	O
to	O
commemorate	O
the	O
30th	O
anniversary	O
of	O
the	O
original	O
game	O
,	O
under	O
the	O
name	O
Turrican	B-Application
Flashback	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
,	O
Bren	O
sights	O
the	O
new	O
Turrican	B-Application
fighting	O
suits	O
,	O
which	O
are	O
built	O
of	O
the	O
most	O
advanced	O
technology	O
known	O
to	O
mankind	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
can	O
be	O
described	O
as	O
a	O
cross	O
between	O
Metroid	B-Device
and	O
Psycho-Nics	B-Application
Oscar	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
the	O
huge	O
detailed	O
labyrinth	O
levels	O
and	O
the	O
morph-ball	O
function	O
were	O
inspired	O
by	O
Metroid	B-Device
,	O
the	O
overall	O
graphics	O
design	O
and	O
weapons	O
were	O
inspired	O
by	O
Psycho-Nics	B-Application
Oscar	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
a	O
music	O
menu	O
accessible	O
by	O
pressing	O
the	O
Space-Bar	O
(	O
Amiga	B-Device
version	O
)	O
,	O
where	O
all	O
the	O
in-game	O
music	O
is	O
available	O
to	O
be	O
listened	O
to	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
music	O
to	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
is	O
widely	O
regarded	O
as	O
one	O
of	O
Huelsbeck	O
's	O
best	O
compositions	O
,	O
and	O
it	O
was	O
performed	O
live	O
by	O
an	O
orchestra	O
at	O
the	O
second	O
Symphonic	O
Game	O
Music	O
Concert	O
in	O
2004	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2016	O
Chris	O
Huelsbeck	O
created	O
a	O
limited	O
Collector	O
's	O
Edition	O
Box	O
Set	O
featuring	O
new	O
live	O
orchestra	O
recordings	O
of	O
music	O
from	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Amiga	B-Device
and	O
Atari	B-Device
ST	I-Device
versions	O
of	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
,	O
as	O
published	O
by	O
Rainbow	B-Application
Arts	I-Application
,	O
began	O
development	O
in	O
May	O
1990	O
,	O
and	O
were	O
released	O
in	O
February	O
1991	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
a	O
January	O
1991	O
issue	O
of	O
British	O
gaming	O
magazine	O
The	O
One	O
,	O
The	O
One	O
interviewed	O
team	O
members	O
from	O
Rainbow	B-Application
Arts	I-Application
for	O
information	O
regarding	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
's	O
development	O
in	O
a	O
pre-release	O
interview	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
According	O
to	O
Manfred	O
Trenz	O
,	O
a	O
designer	O
for	O
Turrican	B-Application
and	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
,	O
he	O
picked	O
the	O
name	O
from	O
a	O
phone	O
book	O
,	O
and	O
Turrican	B-Application
stemmed	O
from	O
the	O
Italian	O
name	O
'	O
Turricano	O
 '	O
;	O
Trenz	O
further	O
stated	O
that	O
he	O
"	O
always	O
get[s]	O
titles	O
that	O
way	O
:	O
there	O
's	O
loads	O
of	O
good	O
material	O
out	O
there	O
,	O
you	O
do	O
n't	O
have	O
to	O
bother	O
making	O
it	O
up.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
has	O
seven-layer	O
parallax	O
scrolling	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
originally	O
coded	O
on	O
the	O
Commodore	O
64	O
,	O
as	O
was	O
its	O
predecessor	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
Turrican	B-Application
I	O
was	O
used	O
as	O
a	O
base	O
,	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
is	O
primarily	O
newly	O
written	O
code	O
:	O
Holger	O
Schmidt	O
,	O
the	O
programmer	O
of	O
the	O
Amiga	B-Device
version	O
,	O
stated	O
that	O
"	O
All	O
we	O
really	O
kept	O
were	O
the	O
scrolling	O
routines	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Trenz	O
expressed	O
that	O
his	O
design	O
philosophy	O
in	O
creating	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
was	O
'	O
making	O
a	O
game	O
he	O
'd	O
want	O
to	O
play	O
 '	O
,	O
and	O
for	O
this	O
reason	O
,	O
more	O
enemies	O
and	O
weapons	O
were	O
added	O
;	O
several	O
design	O
concepts	O
that	O
did	O
n't	O
make	O
the	O
cut	O
for	O
Turrican	B-Application
I	O
due	O
to	O
time	O
constraints	O
were	O
also	O
incorporated	O
into	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Trenz	O
also	O
expressed	O
that	O
some	O
ideas	O
from	O
fans	O
of	O
the	O
original	O
game	O
were	O
incorporated	O
into	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
,	O
stating	O
that	O
"	O
So	O
many	O
people	O
wanted	O
so	O
many	O
different	O
things	O
I	O
could	O
n't	O
please	O
them	O
all	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
was	O
developed	O
using	O
Rainbow	B-Application
Arts	I-Application
 '	O
custom	O
development	O
system	O
titled	O
Pegasus	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Julian	O
Eggbrecht	O
,	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
's	O
producer	O
,	O
expressed	O
that	O
a	O
difficulty	O
in	O
the	O
game	O
's	O
development	O
was	O
the	O
game	O
's	O
scrolling	O
conflicting	O
with	O
the	O
game	O
's	O
desired	O
frame	O
rate	O
,	O
stating	O
that	O
"	O
Action	O
games	O
consist	O
of	O
patterns	O
of	O
little	O
bytes	O
like	O
a	O
jigsaw	O
and	O
on	O
16-bit	O
you	O
waste	O
a	O
lot	O
of	O
time	O
just	O
by	O
building	O
up	O
the	O
screen	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Eggbrecht	O
expressed	O
that	O
while	O
the	O
team	O
wanted	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
to	O
have	O
'	O
arcade	O
quality	O
 '	O
graphics	O
,	O
he	O
stated	O
that	O
the	O
team	O
tried	O
to	O
avoid	O
"sacrifici[ing]	O
presentation	O
to	O
playability	O
"	O
,	O
giving	O
an	O
example	O
of	O
world	O
two	O
having	O
a	O
lower	O
frame	O
rate	O
and	O
less	O
parallax	O
due	O
to	O
the	O
high	O
number	O
of	O
enemies	O
on	O
that	O
level	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Atari	B-Device
ST	I-Device
version	O
of	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
was	O
programmed	O
by	O
Thomas	O
Engel	O
,	O
who	O
managed	O
to	O
get	O
the	O
game	O
running	O
at	O
a	O
25Hz	O
frame	O
rate	O
with	O
the	O
same	O
amount	O
of	O
parallax	O
and	O
sound	O
effects	O
as	O
the	O
Amiga	B-Device
version	O
:	O
Eggbrecht	O
stated	O
that	O
this	O
was	O
achieved	O
not	O
through	O
hardware	O
scrolling	O
techniques	O
,	O
but	O
by	O
"	O
using	O
eight	O
buffers	O
and	O
by	O
pre-shifting	O
all	O
the	O
enemies	O
in	O
memory.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
has	O
10	O
sampled	O
speech	O
sound	O
effects	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
game	O
's	O
sound	O
runs	O
on	O
four	O
channels	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
's	O
sound	O
and	O
music	O
was	O
created	O
by	O
Chris	O
Huelsbeck	O
using	O
Rainbow	O
Art	O
's	O
custom	O
sound	O
utility	O
TFMX	O
;	O
Huelsbeck	O
stated	O
that	O
TFMX	O
"	O
allows	O
you	O
to	O
modify	O
 [ sounds ] 	O
like	O
a	O
synthesiser	O
"	O
,	O
allowing	O
greater	O
audio	O
editing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Amiga	B-Device
and	O
Atari	B-Device
ST	I-Device
versions	O
use	O
a	O
16-color	O
palette	O
,	O
but	O
through	O
programming	O
techniques	O
,	O
the	O
Amiga	B-Device
version	O
has	O
around	O
120	O
colors	O
,	O
despite	O
being	O
written	O
in	O
16-color	O
mode	O
as	O
opposed	O
to	O
32-color	O
mode	O
due	O
to	O
memory	O
constraints	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
's	O
levels	O
were	O
primarily	O
made	O
by	O
Trenz	O
,	O
Andreas	O
Escher	O
,	O
and	O
Schmidt	O
:	O
Trenz	O
first	O
created	O
the	O
levels	O
on	O
the	O
C64	O
using	O
sprite	O
,	O
level	O
and	O
monster	O
editors	O
and	O
then	O
provided	O
the	O
raw	O
data	O
to	O
Schmidt	O
for	O
processing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
Rainbow	B-Application
Arts	I-Application
used	O
several	O
other	O
custom	O
editors	O
in	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
's	O
development	O
,	O
they	O
had	O
no	O
level	O
editors	O
for	O
the	O
Amiga	B-Device
and	O
Atari	B-Device
ST	I-Device
,	O
and	O
thus	O
edited	O
level	O
data	O
at	O
the	O
code	O
level	O
as	O
needed	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
'	O
MegaWeapon	O
 '	O
in	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
was	O
partially	O
inspired	O
by	O
the	O
Lotus	O
Blossom	O
weapon	O
in	O
The	B-Device
Last	I-Device
Starfighter	I-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
Console	O
conversions	O
of	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
for	O
the	O
Sega	B-Operating_System
Mega	I-Operating_System
Drive/Genesis	I-Operating_System
,	O
SNES	B-Application
and	O
Game	B-Device
Boy	I-Device
were	O
produced	O
by	O
The	O
Code	O
Monkeys	O
for	O
Accolade	O
,	O
which	O
had	O
kept	O
the	O
rights	O
for	O
the	O
console	O
ports	O
of	O
the	O
franchise	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
game	O
was	O
originally	O
developed	O
using	O
the	O
original	O
C64	O
source	O
code	O
and	O
Amiga	B-Device
graphics	O
as	O
a	O
base	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Turrican	B-Application
's	O
sprite	O
was	O
changed	O
into	O
a	O
marine	O
and	O
several	O
other	O
substitutions	O
were	O
made	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
rest	O
of	O
the	O
original	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
stages	O
are	O
still	O
present	O
and	O
remain	O
mostly	O
intact	O
in	O
overall	O
design	O
,	O
though	O
some	O
of	O
them	O
appear	O
in	O
a	O
different	O
order	O
,	O
along	O
with	O
the	O
three	O
new	O
levels	O
scattered	O
through	O
them	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
end	O
,	O
Accolade	O
only	O
released	O
the	O
Mega	B-Operating_System
Drive/Genesis	I-Operating_System
and	O
Game	B-Device
Boy	I-Device
versions	O
in	O
both	O
North	O
America	O
and	O
Europe	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Accolade	O
decided	O
not	O
to	O
publish	O
the	O
SNES	B-Application
version	O
due	O
to	O
the	O
high	O
cost	O
of	O
larger	O
capacity	O
SNES	B-Application
cartridges	O
,	O
so	O
it	O
only	O
exists	O
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
a	O
leaked	O
pre-production	O
alpha	O
ROM	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
none	O
of	O
the	O
computer	O
versions	O
were	O
published	O
in	O
North	O
America	O
,	O
these	O
disenfranchised	O
ports	O
were	O
the	O
only	O
official	O
North	O
American	O
releases	O
of	O
Turrican	B-Application
II	I-Application
until	O
Turrican	B-Application
Flashback	O
was	O
released	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Entertainment	O
Weekly	O
gave	O
the	O
game	O
a	O
D+	O
and	O
wrote	O
that	O
"	O
Universal	O
in	O
name	O
only	O
,	O
this	O
is	O
very	O
reminiscent	O
of	O
a	O
mediocre	O
action	O
game	O
called	O
Turrican	B-Application
,	O
featuring	O
the	O
kind	O
of	O
dinky	O
enemies	O
that	O
have	O
plagued	O
the	O
genre	O
for	O
years	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
a	O
hero	O
who	O
curls	O
up	O
into	O
a	O
buzzing	O
circular	O
saw	O
.	O
</s>
