Factor 5 Prototype Cartidge: Mega Turrican 2

Before you read, I'll let you know that I made up the story. and it's (kinda) inspired by NES Godzilla Creepypasta, so, enjoy, or not?

I'm Jim, and I'm a big fan of Factor 5 ever since 1991, when they ported Turrican on the Amiga computers, and made other amazing games on Amiga, SNES, and Genesis. I Ioved Turrican to death, it was my favourite shooter franchise,

In fact, Turrican is the only run 'n game game series where there was no bad entry!

Seriously! even Turrican III (which is by many considered to be the worst entry in the series) was amazing too!

It wasn't until when they released Super Turrican 2 on SNES, it was epic, however...... a few years later nothing was heard of Turrican again, you can tell I was sad.

However, back in 2009, somebody said they had, and I'm not making this up, a sequel that doesn't exist........Mega Turrican 2,

I thought he was lying, but after that, he sent an ACTUAL image of the Genesis cartridge.

"how did you get that?" I said,

He then said "my dad used to work with Factor 5!, sadly when they made the game, it was on pre-alpha stage and and then they knew it was to late, the PlayStation was already out, and the Genesis was already disconntinued back in 1998! when I came back home from dad's work, I kept the cartridge with me, I wasn't too long ever since I qoute-unqoute "finished" it, and.......... it was the weirdest, most horrifying thing I ever seen. everytime I look at the cart, I can't shake the feel of terror and the feel that it ALMOST seems that the game is looking at me..... not sure if you want it though."

"send it to me!" I instantly replied, suprisingly, he never said a thing, just an "okay..." and that's it.

3 days later I finally got the cartridge, I took it out of the box out of existment, and noticed that the cover art is actually Turrican 2's cover, but mirrored and in black and white. Also the title (for some reason) says "Factor 5 Prototype Cartridge: Mega Turrican 2" and the back of the cart says "_THIS IS A PROTOTYPE GAME MADE BY FACTOR 5 AND SHOULD NOT BE SOLD IN STORES_". That makes... sense?

Whatever the case, got the cart, took out my fresh Genesis model 2, popped it in, and I'm ready to play Turrican, my childhood of a franchise.

For some reason, while there IS (sorta) a title screen, there is no intro, nor music, no logos, no "copyright"-something stuff or anything else, there's just "Start", "Options", and that's it.

Options doesn't work for no reason, it just plays an REALLY annoying beeper for sound, it's short, but it makes you cringe hard.

So...... I started the game and for some reason...... it's AWESOME, the graphics look just as flashy and amazing as Thunder Force IV, or a Neo Geo MVS game, the action is fast-paced and frantic just like Metal Slug, the weapons- while there is the usual Spreadshot and Laser and Bounce and Flamethrower (from Super T2 for SNES, but shoot longer)- are neat, there are new ones like a charge-shot, a missile launcher, a plasma machine gun, and a heat beam gun, the music is acually a techno remix of The Desert Rocks from Turrican 2, and everything is smooth and fun, and there's also a feature that wasn't in any Turrican game: 8-path shooting!!!! there are SOME glitchs though, like randomly appearing enemies and powerups you can't pick up, screen tearing and (kinda) jittering backgrounds, but ever since this is a prototype, that's fine.

Everything was fine, until I made to level 2 (yeah, not the usual 1-1 to 1-2 to 2-1 from the early games, just level 2), the game froze, and it also played a glitched version of Bren saying Laser, it sounded slowed down and......distorted, I took the cartridge out and blew on it, put it back and the game reset back to level 2, "strange..." I said, "maybe the game has an auto-save thing of sorts?" I said too, but what's stranger, is that the level's name is "Glücklich", no that's not a glitch, it said that, it acually means "Happy" in German, not sure why, even though Turrican is a German franchise.

However, there was MORE enemies in the level, thankfully, I had my Laser ready!

I destroyed those robot bastards clearing my through a level that seems to resmble a redesigned version of Turrican 2's level 4-1, The Wall.

I reached level 3, whose title is called "Fabrik" which means "Factory" in German, the level, for some reason, is empty, no enemies, no powerups, no obstacles, nothing, not even music, but the level drags out for WAY, TOO, LONG, I also found some corner where there's a 1-up, I had to get it because why not? however, when I did, I saw something HORRIBLE.

You know that feeling when you feel that your blood froze? you know that feeling when you feel that your heart skipped a beat? you know that feeling when you feel that you're paralyzed? that's the same feeling when I saw that......thing, to explain it, it looks like a grotesque, mangled, deformed, headless alien with tentacles for arms, and ribs coming out of it's chest, and legs that look like spider legs, soulless black skin, and a bloodied stump for a head as if the alien's head got chopped off. I shot the shape-less beast with a laser, and it let out a blood-gurgling shiek of a screech, before exploding into flames, I can't believe I saw that, in fact, who would put "that" in a Turrican game?! I finished the level, and then the game played a cutscene, Bren McGuire found a spaceship only to make it to level 4, "Himmel", "Sky" in German.

The level is a normal, Thunder Force IV-styled level, the level also resembled the mountains from level 1-1 from Super Turrican, but with cheerful design taken out, the sky is dark, there's a moon in the background and dark grey clouds, and the mountains had a "shredded" look in them, it all seems to take in a midnight setting, aside from normal spaceship enemies and a battleship boss fight, everything was normal, but what confuses me is why thereare no stars? why the music is just heartbeats? why does the game soumetimes flicker? I'm serious, sometimes it flickers a picture of someone, or someTHING, and the level is just long as heck, it could be enjoyable though.........

But the same can't be said for level 5, "Angst", go Google-Translate that, you won't like it.

The game started to creep me out when I gazed at the level, it's a..... "cave", but a grotesque, fleshy, organic one, there are lakes of blood and a mess of eyeballs in the backround, fleshy aliens as enemies and others lying on the bloodied up floor, possibly dead, there are floating brains, man-shaped organic aliens in as enemies, deer-like deformed aliens with skinny bat wings and dragon heads, and most of the enemies are just a nothing but lumps of flesh, blood, eyes, organs, and teeth.

I nearly puked at the sight, the graphics had a "semi-real" look to them, not even an SNES with a Super FX2 chip while pushed to the limits can even remotely handle that! also, for some reason Bren's ship looked half of it's size, making the level bigger, more than something out of R-Type, the music is a frantic version of the final level of T2, The Final Challange, and the dead aliens on the ground look like something out of the NES Godzilla Creepypasta. The mini-boss, dear lord, I wish I never saw that thing, it's hard to explain, but it's a GIGANTIC lump of organs, bones, intestines, and actual faces of humans with a creeped-out expresion, 8 arms, exposed brain, and........ it breaths fire? I don't get it, the best way to kill the is simple:

1. destroy each of the heads, but be careful since they scream a blood-freezing horrid scream of pain when you destroy them, the last one is the worst.

2. destroy the arms, they're stretched out and long, so keeping a charge shot would be wise.

3. destroy the brain.

4. finally kill the damn bastard by shooting at it's chest!!!!!

After it melts into a tsunami of gore and guts, Bren, for no good reason, goes into a blood lake.

Level 7: "Blut", "Gore" in German.

So, I went "underblood" (NES GC cameo) and, actually, the place is kinda cool yet boring, there's not many enemies to fight but there are a bunch of alien fish that swim around, nothing improtant, there are alien sharks that attack but nothing else, it's another nother SHMUP level, however what suprised me is that there is an actual Turrican boss in here, the famous Metal Fist, it looks cool and the fight is a good challange! but when I defeated it, it started to change shape, and it's sprite started to shatter and it turned into a Metal Human Head, or what like to call it: Not-Metal Fist, Not-Metal Fist attacks were the same, but faster and more powerful, but out of luck I destoyed it, going to the next level, but then, this happened: instead of the level's name and written in white, it said "Mord", "Murder" in German, in blood-red, then the text appeared saying "DIE", then it started spamming in the screen filling it in, the game started chuging up as if it's trying to render something BIG, and to my suprise, it did, out of the words, it formed an image.

Well, if you're wonder what it is then imagine Bren McGuire's innocent face, but distorted, twisted, mangled, with a HORRIFYING look, mouth twisted into an impossible smile, and black fluids coming out of the eyes,

the text was repeated over and over and over, as if it's saying:

DIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEIDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIEDIE

and then it formed that doppelganger Bren face.

I had to scream, I had to scream as loud as I can, and ran out of my room faster than how I thought, and washed my face, couldn't believe something like THAT could be in an entry that was in an age-friendly run 'n gun franchise!

Then...... level 8 "Mord" began, I had to shut down my Genesis, take out my cart, and put it away, I think that if the game came out like this people would've had nightmares, and their childhood memories of Turrican would've been destroyed.

I went to bed, lying still, I then fell asleep, and had a nightmare, the best I remeber is that I was in a dark place that resembles my city, and a red figure standing in front of me, it then came closer, and from a distance, I knew what it was, it was that reddish Not-Bren McGuire I saw earlier. It then said a bunch of gibberish and gurgling noises, but from what it said, it might want me to finish the game, after it jumped at me, I woke up, covered in sweat, ready to take on the cartidge, next stop in Hell, Mord!