Great beat em up for if you beat Streets of Rage 4 and want something else to scratch the “accessible modernized fun beat em up” itch. Good boss fights, strong music/vibes, nicely paced levels. Different lead developer but definitely feels based on the SoR4 blueprint. The two big cons for TMNT is that it has a few too many levels (16 compared to SOR4s 12) and it drags a bit near the end, and that its story mode has a leveling system that encourages you to stick with one character and not switch (because EXP and bonuses are character specific and not shared across the board).

If Shredder’s Revenge trimmed down a few of the repeat boss levels in the first half of the game and made progression save file wide instead of character specific, it would be (just about) as good as SOR4. I still had a really nice time though!

Reviewed on Sep 18, 2023


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