Side Quests: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind Review
As an elder-millennial, there were a few unmistakeable hallmarks of my childhood. My brothers and I played outside until the lights came on and drank from the hose because we weren’t allowed in the house. We watched Saturday morning cartoons while eating a giant bowl of cereal. No one lived and died by their cell phone…just their tamagotchi. And yes, we watched The Power Rangers with so much devotion, it was practically our religion. So when I got the opportunity to play Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind, I knew I had to grab my power morpher and buckle in.
The older I get, the more I’m convinced that nostalgia is the love language of my generation. Movies, tv shows, and video games increasingly reach out to millennials with the pieces of our childhood knowing that we won’t be able to stop ourselves from opening our wallets. Rita’s Rewind is no exception. While the story begins in 2023, it quickly rewinds to 1993 and we find our heroes at the point of the pilot episode when Zordon tells Alpha 5 to recruit human teenagers with attitude.
After the stage is set, Rita’s Rewind leans heavily on establishedPower Ranger lore. The Rangers must fight putties and an assortment of Rita’s monsters right out of the tv show. They even fight Tenga Warriors. Though the Tenga Warriors weren’t introduced to the tv show until season 3, it was cleverly explained that they were here from the future.
Beat-Em-Up in Angel Grove
Rita’s Rewind is primarily a beat-em-up arcade style game but there are actually four very different level types. The main beat-em-up style that played like TMNT, Streets of Rage, or BattleToads features the rangers in their suits going through different settings in Angel Grove fighting putties. In the tv show, these fights almost always started in street clothes and eventually it was Morphin’ Time! A slight departure from that, Rita’s Rewind never features street clothes fighting and morphing happens without the rangers shouting out their
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