Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge was one in all my favorite video games of 2022. The beat ‘em up captured the nostalgia of the unique TMNT titles of yesteryear whereas fascinating an entire new viewers by adopting fashionable platform tropes. Shredder’s Revenge isn’t only a good turtles recreation – it’s among the finest.
DLC being added to the bottom recreation was a no brainer for the workforce at Dotemu – and that’s how we get to the place we’re at the moment with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – Dimension Shellshock.
Dimension Shellshock makes the present bundle much more worthy of a playthrough. Sadly the DLC has no new additional story missions, however as a substitute provides an entire new mode that’s truly reasonably enjoyable! Priced fairly fairly, is the bundle well worth the entry worth, or greatest left within the sewers?
Survival is the mode in query and, you guessed it – it is advisable to survive. Happening after the primary story, because the turtles have fun their victories over Krang and Shredder, the Neutrinos enter their lair to inform the brothers that they want their assist to retrieve the crystals they use to journey throughout dimensions.
Stereotypical story macguffin apart, this mode truly rocks. Levels are all different and have varied options; like difficult stage hazards to keep away from or distinctive artwork types. I actually liked the retro, black and white levels that evoked the unique turtles video games and comics (sure they began in black and white children). Every stage ought to undoubtedly be seen as a problem in single participant too. Maybe it’s best performed with a good friend or two.
When you purchase a couple of upgrades out of your crystals issues begin to get a bit simpler, however the preliminary problem might put extra informal followers off a tad. There’s very a lot an entire threat/reward underlying tone to Dimension Shellshock – must you select a lift to your HP going into the following wave, or take the crystal rewards to try to save sufficient for an improve? The selection is yours, however as I stated – this mode may be fairly unforgiving.
This additionally brings a recreation type to Shredders Revenge that I often don’t get pleasure from – roguelike. Every time you die and have to begin over, your crystal development carries over, giving the survival mode that ‘another shot’ feeling every time you fail and get knocked out. And belief me you’ll get knocked out rather a lot enjoying solo; the problem is difficult and undoubtedly not one for newcomers.
Moreover, the Dimension Shellshock enlargement brings two new characters into Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – Karai of the Footclan, and Usagi Yojimbo hero (and mutant samurai rabbit) Miyamoto Usagi. Each really feel like good contemporary characters to tackle the survival mode with, additionally permitting you to replay previous story missions to attempt to seize that 100% for every stage.
It’s right here the place I might have most well-liked even simply two or three new story levels squeezed in for the introduction of the brand new characters, however sadly they don’t get any particular remedy as such.
It might have been good to see a couple of extra characters delivered to the sport. The 2 we’ve got right here – Karai and Miyamoto – are good, however issues can be much better if there was a slew of mutants from the TMNT universe. If somebody may deliver Bebop and Rocksteady to the playable roster I might be most grateful. Admittedly, we get to play as them briefly in survival mode, so there may be nonetheless hope but!
Karai takes a little bit of getting used to when enjoying. Her swift actions are nice to leap out and in of the oncoming hordes of enemies, however she isn’t so nice when cornered. Usagi is extra of a fundamental character; mid vary and performs rather a lot like Leonardo because of his use of a sword throughout fight.
We additionally get some palette swaps for the characters. Casey, April and Splinter aren’t too thrilling they usually didn’t actually need additional colors for his or her costumes as they don’t typically change their search for a lot. The 4 brothers nevertheless fluctuate with every iteration. Having the ability to have Raph put on his bandana over his head as a substitute of simply his eyes is now my major character alternative. It’s nice to see such tweaks made, however we wish MORE!
A beautiful new mode that extends the enjoyable past the primary tales makes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – Dimension Shellshock a should purchase for individuals who loved the 2022 turtle based mostly delight. Whereas a pair extra characters on the roster and a handful of latest story levels wouldn’t have harm, that is undoubtedly one to select up for those who’re a fan of the heroes in a half shell.
