i had a pretty awful time here. i was surprised at how barebones and boring the combat was considering this was a platinum game. boring ass levels do not help the lame combat, there's like 10 stages but only like 4 maps they reuse. they're not particularly interesting to explore and have the same like 3 or so missions throughout. they all end in a boss fight which unfortunately also kinda suck! pretty boring patterns, and way too much health. the items and health mechanics are all weird and feel pointless as well. it looks okay though, the environments and character models are pretty cool but I don't love the turtle models, I do like that they get white eyes in combat that was a cute touch. i liked the voices the turtles had, but the lines weren't particularly good. raph does literally say "Well that's a thing that just happened." at one point to give a vibe of the writing.

maybe it'd be okay co-op and utilizing that aspect but single player it was just not very fun at all. expected and hoped for a lot more from a platinum games ninja turtles game and this unfortunately was a massive let down.