played on my switch as part of the konami cowabunga collection. i have to say being able to give yourself extra lives at any point by pressing the start button sort of ruins the tension. altho that’s probably the only way you could ever roll credits on this thing without spending like $40 as it’s very clearly designed to eat your quarters. difficult but not in an interesting way; there’s no way to master this it just throws tons of enemies at you and gives you very little health. nothing to be done really you’re gonna die a bunch no matter what. it’s pretty fun to stand at an actual tmnt machine with your friends and mash some buttons but it does very little for me at home alone on a console. what i want more than anything out of a beat em up is for the repeated mashing of one or two buttons to make me feel skilled and badass and the stiff and sluggish little combo here wasn’t doing it for me so much. what i really felt like was a sad sack near-30 year old sitting on a couch hitting a button over and over again in a game made for small children which is NOT something i’m interested in feeling!! moving around the map isn’t that fun, either, and there’s absolutely zero variation to the level design outside of cosmetics so…not much going for it. it looks nice i suppose, and i guess it isn’t two terribly painful to spend like 30 minutes with if you like the turtles but it’s basically a nothing game sadly. if you are compelled to play it raphael is definitely the guy to choose; sliding around with his special attack is the funnest thing you can do in the game by far