The day’s finally arrived for Switch fans looking to get their hands on Outermind’s Metroidvania Turbo Kid. Out today digitally via the Nintendo eShop as well as being available in a physical edition, Turbo Kid launched last year on Steam. And speaking of the Steam release, PC players have also been given a treat today in the form of an update that squashes bugs and adds a few optimizations and tweaks to gameplay.
Set between the end of 2015’s Turbo Kid and the upcoming sequel, the game takes place in a retro-futuristic 80s vision of 1997. You play as the Kid, a lone warrior armed with a machete, a mayhem-packed Turbo Glove™, and the ultimate human-powered weapon: a BMX bike.
Fight through the wasteland with a gloriously absurd arsenal — Turbo Blasts, circular saws, rockets, lightning, ooze, and more — and make every encounter a hysterical splash of pixel gore. Explore zones and bosses in any order, meet a cast of oddballs offering quests, laughs, and questionable advice, and shape your story with choices that change your path. Or skip all the talking and speedrun your way straight through.
Meanwhile, in addition to fixing bugs and optimizing performance, the PC update tweaks the following:
- Secondary weapons now cost about half as much because more weapons = more fun
- Improved Ooze Gun, leaving puddles that last longer on the ground
- Improved Rocket accuracy so they actually hit things
- Improved Lightning Gun, now reliably zaps enemies on the first try
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