Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge review – fearsome fighting team

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The heroes in a half shell return with a modern sequel to the classic 80s arcade game, but now with a six-player online co-op mode.

Next to Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is one of the most heavily licensed properties in video games. Indeed, the franchise’s early success owed much to games, with prominent 8- and 16-bit titles coming out just as the original TV show started to get big. The NES game in particular is still fondly remembered by many, but the pinnacle of Turtle gaming in the late 80s was the Konami coin-op… which now has a new sequel.

There’s no formal connection between the two games, because this has nothing to do with Konami and is instead being published by Dotemu, who were behind the excellent Streets Of Rage 4. That’s important not just because of how good that game was but because it’s also a scrolling beat ‘em-up. Shredder’s Revenge’s tone is obviously a lot more cartoonish but it has a similar eye for period detail and a desire to update the simplistic gameplay for a modern audience.

This is still just an old school beat ‘em-up though, where you can get through most of the game by simply mashing a single button, but there is nuance if you look for it… and even if you don’t the opportunity to play with six people at once goes a long way towards making up for it.

Although the preference for 16-bit consoles was to turn every movie and TV show into a 2D platformer, the genre of choice for arcade games was the scrolling beat ‘em-up. Everything from Alien Vs. Predator to The Simpsons got the treatment and while they all had basically the same gameplay these were amongst the most graphically advanced games of the era and were admired for both their visuals and co-op camaraderie.

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