I forgot about this and most other TMNT games until Tatoruzu recently brought up the dumpter fire that is Ninja Turtles gaming.
It was ok. The story was SUPER generic, and kinda lame. It was too short as well, and these are both sad because PlatinumGames had some heavy hitters previous to this.
Gameplay was fun. I hear a lot of people call it generic and repetitive, but I enjoyed it plenty. It wasn’t overall too special, though. Standout parts of it were the ‘unique’ (they weren’t unique at all 😭) special moves of all the brothers, and yeah. It was pretty barebones, just fast-paced basic combat. That isn’t bad, because like I said I enjoyed it plenty.
Story was just… wow. It had about as much depth as an episode of the 87’ show. I can’t even track what the main objective really was- just stop Krang and Shredder from doing what? Extremely boring. Super formulaic. Overall just a shallow mess.
I talk too negatively most of the time, so I will cut this slack. PlatinumGames didn’t do anything like this previously, they only did original stories, so overall it was ok for a first attempt. I loved the cel shaded artstyle, and even though the run sucked, basing it off the IDW comics was pretty cool at the time.
Overall, it was like a 5/10. Good stories matter to me the most, and if that’s what sucks about the project, then yeah. It’s not too great. Just a generic hack and slash game.
