Played with FallenGrace.
Dimension Shellshock sends you - and god willing, several other players - through various arenas based on other Turtles properties, like a Comix Zone inspired take on the Mirage comics or 8-bit zones that are clearly nods to Manhattan Project and the Game Boy games. For someone suffering from TMNT brain rot (like me!), there's probably enough here to justify buying it for eight or ten bucks. Addicts like to make excuses for what they're doing, it just a fun quirk of theirs.
For everyone else, I'm not sure it's really worth even the inconvenience of reinstalling Shredder's Revenge. Survival mode is serviceable, but feels a bit sloppy and underbaked. During our first few runs, Grace and I were not given power-up prompts and so were left scratching our heads as to what stuff like an evil laughing face meant versus a canister of ooze with Bebop's mug on it, but even when not glitching out, some features and mechanics are not particularly intuitive and resulted in us asking what something did a bit too often.
Newcomers Usagi Yojimbo and my wife Karai are excellent, and similar to Sonic Mania Encore, feel more valuable than the mode they're packed with. The sprite art for both of these characters is fantastic, even if someone on the development team clearly had a preoccupation with Karai's ass. I do appreciate that her defeat sprite leaves her in the Peter Griffin death pose until everyone moves on to the next round, at least. The additional color palettes are also good, I especially like the Game Boy and NES ones, and it doesn't take that much effort to unlock a character's full swatch, though the leveling system does mean you'll likely want to stick with one or two characters if you want to make real progress in the actual game mode.
I still had a good time with it, but I can't help but feel this pseudo-roguelike survival mode could've been dialed in a bit more, and I think I would've much preferred new campaign content, especially if it went with the same dimension-hopping motif.
Dimension Shellshock sends you - and god willing, several other players - through various arenas based on other Turtles properties, like a Comix Zone inspired take on the Mirage comics or 8-bit zones that are clearly nods to Manhattan Project and the Game Boy games. For someone suffering from TMNT brain rot (like me!), there's probably enough here to justify buying it for eight or ten bucks. Addicts like to make excuses for what they're doing, it just a fun quirk of theirs.
For everyone else, I'm not sure it's really worth even the inconvenience of reinstalling Shredder's Revenge. Survival mode is serviceable, but feels a bit sloppy and underbaked. During our first few runs, Grace and I were not given power-up prompts and so were left scratching our heads as to what stuff like an evil laughing face meant versus a canister of ooze with Bebop's mug on it, but even when not glitching out, some features and mechanics are not particularly intuitive and resulted in us asking what something did a bit too often.
Newcomers Usagi Yojimbo and my wife Karai are excellent, and similar to Sonic Mania Encore, feel more valuable than the mode they're packed with. The sprite art for both of these characters is fantastic, even if someone on the development team clearly had a preoccupation with Karai's ass. I do appreciate that her defeat sprite leaves her in the Peter Griffin death pose until everyone moves on to the next round, at least. The additional color palettes are also good, I especially like the Game Boy and NES ones, and it doesn't take that much effort to unlock a character's full swatch, though the leveling system does mean you'll likely want to stick with one or two characters if you want to make real progress in the actual game mode.
I still had a good time with it, but I can't help but feel this pseudo-roguelike survival mode could've been dialed in a bit more, and I think I would've much preferred new campaign content, especially if it went with the same dimension-hopping motif.
FallenGrace
8 months ago