Dotemu and Tribute Video games’ glorious Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge just lately fired up our ardour for the heroes in a half-shell in a approach we’ve not felt for a very long time. With the approaching launch of Konami’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Assortment, we’re on the point of drown in one other wave of pleasure and nostalgia very quickly.
With so many TMNT video games having come to Nintendo consoles over time, it is powerful to know precisely the place to start, not to mention which Ninja Turtle (or Hero Turtle within the UK) to decide on when you do decide on a recreation. So, to assist type by way of all of them, we requested you pretty Nintendo Life readers to charge the Turtles video games you may have performed and assist us rank each TMNT recreation on Nintendo techniques — and the result’s under.
Bear in mind: the order under is up to date in real-time in response to every recreation’s corresponding Person Ranking within the Nintendo Life recreation database. At the same time as you learn this, it is completely potential to affect the rating under. If you have not rated your favourites but, merely click on the ‘star’ of the sport you want to charge under and assign a rating proper now.
And what of Konami’s aforementioned Cowabunga Assortment? We’ll add that in as soon as you have had a while to attempt it out, however as a compilation comprised of lots of the finest video games within the record under, we’re hoping it will aid you resolve what to play first as soon as the sport launches.
So, able to eat some scrumptious pizza within the sewer? Seize your colored eye masks of alternative and let’s give the Foot Clan a sound kickin’…
Writer: Activision / Developer: Magic Pockets
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often known as simply “Ninja Turtles”, to keep away from confusion with the 2013 3DS recreation) is an isometric motion recreation primarily based on the Michael Bay-produced 2014 movie of the identical title. You may play as any one of many 4 turts, with each having his personal particular capacity — tank, healer, mage, rogue.
Enjoyable truth: Danny Woodburn, who voiced Splinter within the 2014 reboot, reprised his function on this recreation.
Writer: Ubisoft / Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
This Ubisoft-made recreation primarily based on the 2007 film took its cues from Prince of Persia with its acrobatic rooftop platforming, plus the standard “play as any of the Turtles” alternative. Launched on nearly all platforms on the time, the PSP and the DS model have been, clearly, considerably downgraded to fulfill the necessities of the hand-held consoles.
Writer: Activision
True to basic TMNT-style gameplay and ambiance, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an brisk beat ’em up with character upgrades, secondary objects and a number of gameplay modes. It tells a Turt-tastic story by way of minimize scenes within the fashion of the animated TV reboot, and handles the supply materials with care. Nevertheless, with gameplay is usually shallow and rapidly repetitive, it failed to fulfill the heights of the retro TMNT video games.
Writer: Konami / Developer: Konami
This 2005 Konami tackle the TMNT collection relies on the 2003 TMNT TV present, which was just a little edgier and adult-oriented than the unique TV collection from the ’80s. The “Mutant Nightmare” of the title refers back to the final of the sport’s 4 chapters, which has the Turtles preventing bosses of their desires, after defeating all their traditional enemies like Shredder and the Foot Clan.
Writer: Konami / Developer: Konami
One in all many TMNT video games impressed by the 2003 TV reboot, Mutant Melee is a Turtley tackle the Smash Bros. method, with 22 playable characters to unlock and pit towards one another in “Final Man Standing”. There are different modes obtainable to combine it up just a little, like “Knock Out”, a timed problem; “King of the Hill”, the place gamers can earn factors for staying in sure zones for the longest time; and “Maintain Away”, which works like an Overwatch-style escort mission for an essential chest.
Writer: Activision / Developer: WayForward
Developed by Shantae studio WayForward, with a soundtrack composed by Jake Kaufman (who would later be the composer for Shovel Knight), this recreation was designed to cowl the hole between seasons two and three of the 2012 TV present, with story components from each, in addition to references to the NES recreation. It was additionally certainly one of three 2014 TMNT video games!
Writer: Activision / Developer: Magic Pockets
A companion recreation to the Nintendo 3DS Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, this was the second TMNT recreation to be printed by Activision, and the primary recreation to be primarily based on the 2012 Nickelodeon present. As Turtles video games go, that is very a lot lower-tier fare.
Developer: Ubisoft
This single-player action-adventure recreation was primarily based on the 2007 CGI film, and developed by Ubisoft after they gained the rights from Konami. Just like the DS and GameCube releases, this recreation focuses on a darker edgier tone for the Turtle bros, just a little extra in step with the unique comics.
Writer: Konami / Developer: Konami
Battle Nexus is a stealth-focused action-platformer which options storylines from season two of the 2003 animated TV collection, and contains each solo and four-player native co-op. On Sport Boy Advance, it is a very totally different recreation to its console equivalents, and options the voice skills of Sam Riegel (Phoenix Wright within the Ace Lawyer video games, and Donatello in lots of TMNT incarnations) and Michael Sinterniklaas (Leonardo, and Taki Tachibana in Your Title).
