Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, TMNT, started off as a niche 1980s indie comic, and now it's a franchise that's bigger than the likes of Superman and Archie. Of course a franchise as storied as TMNT had several video games over the years and Shredder's Revenge took the best of all those beat-'em-ups and made an arcade style game that honors the legacy of the TMNT characters and old fashioned side-scrolling action games too.

This game's simply fun; the story is your typical Turtles vs Shredder storyline, and your job is to stop him from getting ultimate power by leveling up your roster of fighters over the course of an arcade game paced adventure. The gameplay is very fluid and retro-feeling, and the pacing is brisk in all the right ways; sure the storyline is a bit too short for longterm playing, but the story isn't the main priority: it's the fan service of the characters themselves against a simple plot backdrop. And that's more than okay.

Shredder's Revenge is simply meant to be fun, fun and more fun. It's a retro inspired game that balances modern sensibilities with old-school vibes in all the areas it needed to deliver. And for some developers that's nigh impossible to do.

A good time that's simple yet challenging, retro yet accessible for any devoted gamer, and its 'old' but charming aesthetic makes Shredder's Revenge an example of fan service done right.

Play this one on any system (save MacOS, yet). It's worth your time and money. 4/5 stars.

This is beat em up game, is e10+ is just no gore or blood, is just pixel violence, is a good game, but the story is very short, audio quality is a lot problem, I really don't care about it, so is a good game, get this a 9 out of 10, I originally at 8 or maybe 7,so that you have it,

I love the heck out of this game. The music the bosses and most definitely the specials and secrets in the game are all excellent dudes. Grab your pizza and kick some shell guys and gals. Cowabunga!

Played through the story mode with my brother and we loved every minute of it. Nothing in shredders revenge is revolutionary in terms of gameplay/design, but it is a great throwback to why Turtles in Time was such a beloved game. Even the the story can be beat in a little over an hour. There are multiple modes and characters to play as/level for replay ability. On top of that you can play the game with six players coop online. A great game that any TMNT fan will enjoy.

While the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' video game catalogue is filled with misses (especially in the days of Ubisoft and Activision), people know that the best games based on the mean, green teens are Konami's arcade beat-em-ups, which allowed four players to team up to fight through hordes of Foot Soldiers and bosses. Now, Tribute Games, with Dometsu, brings up Shredder's Revenge, a game that calls back to those arcade classics, while reinventing the system.

In this game, the Foot Clan hijacks Vernon's news show after the head of Krang's robot body is revealed. When Bebop takes over and reveals the Foot Clan's plot to give the Statue of Liberty a makeover, the Turtles, as well as sensei Splinter, and friend April O'Neal, go out to kick shell.

This game has a Story Mode, which is like Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, where you get a world map to explore and replay levels, as well as the arcade mode, which is a classic arcade experience with limited continues. All four turtles are present (and voiced by original VAs Cam Clarke, Paul Robson, Barry Gordon, and Townsend Coleman returning to do new voices, but the game also adds Splinter, the Turtles' rat sensei, and April O'Neal, their news reporter friend and usually the damsel in distress in the 1987 cartoon, as playable characters, with Casey Jones also appearing as an unlockable character. Immediately, this gives seven different characters, each with his or her own stats.

For gameplay, the game plays like the Konami classics, but with new stuff. One of those is the Ninja Power Bar, which is filled up as you put the hurt on the baddies, and when full, will allow use of a Super Attack, which can damage a lot of enemies at once (and can be helpful when facing bosses). For the story mode, there is a lot of content, as you will find minor characters like Vernon, Irma, and even the Punk Frogs, who when found, will give side missions requiring the locating of collectibles, which when completed, grants exp that allows a character to level up, earning more health, Ninja Power, or even unlock new super attacks and Radical Mode, a move that temporarily increases the character's combat abilities. Also, co-op mode is greatly enhanced, as up to six players can play online or locally or online (although the PS4 version is limited to four players for local play), and co-op moves have been added, like high fiving to share health, and even reviving allies.

While the game can be short, it is a blast to the past, as it has a lot of enemies and bosses, from the classic henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady, to using characters never used like Wingnut and Tempestra, the cast of characters is amazing. Also, the music is top notch (who knew they brough Ghostface Killah in to do a song for a TMNT videogame?) and overall, this is a good return to classic times. If you have not played this game yet, then it's time to come out of your shell and do so, as this is poised to be one of the greatest games 2022 has to offer.