TMNT II: Back from the Sewers is the second of three TMNT games released on the original Game Boy, In this game, you control all four turtles through six levels (or acts, as the game calls them). You choose a turtle before starting an act, and like the first TMNT NES game, each one has their own life bar, which when depleted, results in said turtle getting captured, requiring to choose another turtle to continue. Each turtle has their own weapon, but controls the same, with B being attack and A being jump (with the ability to reverse the two button functions in the Options Menu). Also, the Turtles can do a jump kick, and the throwing star from Fall Of The Foot Clan has been removed, and instead, the ducking attack is swiping your weapon, with an additional slide attack being added and performed by pressing B and A while moving.
However, while the game is okay, it does have flaws. Your characters moves at the speed of a turtle, which is not good in some parts of levels, especially the ones where they have elements spawning enemies like Mousers or those little flying robots. Also, the game offers two bonus stages. One is a normal bonus stage where you collect pizza for bonus points and to restore the health of the turtle used to clear the stage, but if at least one turtle is captured, you go to a Rescue Game instead, where you face Rex-1, the robot policeman who appeared in that one episode of the cartoon, and must defeat him within a time limit for the right to free one of the captured Turtles (with damage taken from Rex-1 removing time).
While it is challenging, thankfully, the game's options menu allows you to change the game's difficulty, which affects boss patterns and even enemy spawn rates. It is a good game, despite it flaws, and is worth checking out.
