TMNT is a great side scrolling beat em up that is sure to please fans of the classic arcade Turtles game.
The gameplay is pretty good. It's a side scrolling beat em up akin to the classic Turtles arcade game. It's certainly not as good as that classic, but it's definitely worth playing. The moves are simple. One button controls your jump and one controls your attacks. After you've defeated enough enemies, you will be able to summon a fellow brother and have them help kill some enemies on screen or give you a health boost. Although it's just mindless button mashing, it serves it's purpose and it brings you back to your days growing up with the arcade game.
In between each level, you'll be back in your lair and you'll have a few options to choose from. You can look at the trophies you've unlocked, practice a little fighting on the punching bag, partake in some mini-games, and buy items. The mini-games are given to you on the roof either by Casey or April, but none of them are hard or interesting. Unless you're planning on doing every little thing this game has to offer, these aren't worth your time.
The biggest downfall to this game however is how incredibly short it is. I finished this game in about an hour and a half. In terms of replayability, it is fairly decent because of the simpleness of it, but after you've played it once, there isn't much else to do. As mentioned before, you can check out your trophies and try to unlock the rest, but there's no point to it. You don't get anything significant for unlocking these so you'd be hard pressed to waste your time doing it.
The graphics are pretty good. Everything is very colorful and detailed. The Turtles look great and the enemies look fine. The environments look great and some are rather unique, especially for a side scrolling game. It certainly doesn't look as good as the newer handhelds, but it looks fine.
The sound is pretty lame. The soundtrack is uninteresting, there is no dialogue, and the sound effects aren't much. However, the reason I'm keeping my score for the sound at a decent number is because all of the weaknesses in the sound actually help to make this game feel like a classic arcade game and that's a great feat for a game like this.
I grew up with the Turtles. I read a few of the comics and I was a huge fan of the original 80's cartoon show. Over the years, I feel like they've gone downhill quite a bit. The live action show was just terrible, the new show is ridiculous, and the recent games before this one haven't been very good. The new movie wasn't great, but it certainly wasn't horrible. I think the Turtles are starting to gain some ground again and this game is a great indication of that. I haven't played one of the console versions of this yet, but if it even comes to close to how much I enjoyed this version, then I should be happy with it. Although it's way too short and fairly easy, TMNT will please fans of the genre with fun gameplay and a great sense of nostalgia.