A breath of nostalgia ruined by cut levels and enemies
For the most part the game is fairly faithful to the original SNES game. Shredder and the Foot Clan have stolen the Statue of Liberty and it's up to everyone's favorite reptiles to get it back. The gameplay is what you would expect from a good Ninja Turtles game, going around beating up Foot Soldiers, and Shredder's henchmen. The controls are responsive and fairly loyal to the original game. However the biggest improvement to the game are the graphics and voice clarity. Graphic wise, the game is vastly improved when compared to the orignal arcade and SNES versons, the voices are also clearer, allowing you to make out the various jokes.
While the game does have improved graphics, it also suffers from two major things: Cut levels and cut enemies. In the original SNES Game, the level in which the turtles are sent back in time, is the Technodrome, however in this port, the Technodrome level has been completly deleted, and instead the turtles go back in time at the end of the Sewer Surfing level. The other major flaw, which is the game's fatal flaw, is that numerous characters have been cut or replaced. Examples include: Rat King: Gone, Mousers: Gone, Slash: Replaced with a mud monster, Shredder: Doesn't become Super Shredder during the final battle, Beabop and Rocksteady: Gone, and are replaced at the end of the level with Tonka and Razar.
In the end, this is a game that will appeal to fans of both the new and old TMNT Series, however fans of the old series, will no doubt be disapointed with the missing levels and characters