Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Turok: Rage Wars was the 3rd handheld Turok game released in 1999 that marks the first in the series to utilize a top-down perspective and thus a completely new 8-way character engine. The story is a sort of sequel to the GBC Turok 2 plot where the Amaranthine Accordance has used dimensional gates to travel to four different planets where they plan to set up bases from which to launch an invasion of earth. With only 4 planet levels it is rather short but very challenging due to the large enemy numbers and their quick movements. Each planet has its own defining, albeit cliche features - green jungle, arid desert, frozen and volcanic. The scroll stages from T2 were expanded upon, lasting a bit longer but offering more range of movement and enemy engagement.
Without going into any details this game is very broken lol. You can basically keep a weapon forever just by jumping after each shot. This made the sky the limit when it came to optimising and I had a fun time constantly pushing this one to sub 20. Feel free to ask any questions.
Link for the detailed description, https://1drv.ms/t/s!ArTHnFiKBGYH9wRkI8yFq_JeivmA?e=oEkcRV
Turok: Rage Wars was the 3rd handheld Turok game released in 1999 that marks the first in the series to utilize a top-down perspective and thus a completely new 8-way character engine. The story is a sort of sequel to the GBC Turok 2 plot where the Amaranthine Accordance has used dimensional gates to travel to four different planets where they plan to set up bases from which to launch an invasion of earth. With only 4 planet levels it is rather short but very challenging due to the large enemy numbers and their quick movements. Each planet has its own defining, albeit cliche features - green jungle, arid desert, frozen and volcanic. The scroll stages from T2 were expanded upon, lasting a bit longer but offering more range of movement and enemy engagement.
Without going into any details this game is very broken lol. You can basically keep a weapon forever just by jumping after each shot. This made the sky the limit when it came to optimising and I had a fun time constantly pushing this one to sub 20. Feel free to ask any questions.
Link for the detailed description, https://1drv.ms/t/s!ArTHnFiKBGYH9wRkI8yFq_JeivmA?e=oEkcRV
![Turok 2 Remastered - 100% - Hardcore in 1:29:32 [WR]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Fg9PeDIIr-s/mqdefault.jpg "Turok 2 Remastered - 100% - Hardcore in 1:29:32 [WR]
Previous pbs leading up to this one: 13120, 13054, 12959 and 12951. The 129 was easier to achieve than initially thought as I found a massive route change for backtrack segment that saves 20 seconds. Entering the Lair for Heart of Fire immediately after Mother boss and thus only needing a total of 3 checkpoint visits as you travel across the levels and finishing with the Hive to kill the Queen before Primagen. As I kept grinding this I could see a 128 possibility along with my sum of best getting as low as 1282x as well. I even had one such run reaching the Lightship with 12848 best possible pace which unfortunately died unceremoniously but my main goal for a while though was to get a mid 129 as I felt that would be satisfactory. As mentioned most runs, especially runs on pace on Hardcore can die in extremely abrupt ways and it was starting to wear on me a bit. This run is by no means particularly brilliant to me. Its a run of two halves with the first being mediocre containing weird mistakes with the 2nd half much better and golding backtrack, sealing the deal on the mid 129. To sum it up im both happy that I achieved the goal but not entirely happy with the overal performance.")
