Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (NSP, XCI) ROM + v1.0.8 Update + DLC

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge is a beat-up game developed by Tribute Games and published by Dotemu. It is inspired by and based on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series and borrows stylistically from the arcade and home console Turtles games developed by Konami during the 1980s and 1990s. The game was released for Windows, Linux, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on June 16, 2022, and PlayStation 5 on November 15, 2022. A version for iOS and Android was published by Netflix on January 10, 2023.

The Turtles voice actors from the 1987 series reprise their roles. Music was composed by Tee Lopes, with contributions from guitarist Jonny Atma, rappers Mega Ran, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, and singer Mike Patton. Shredder’s Revenge received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising the pixel-based visual style, playable character roster, and combat mechanics, while criticism was directed at audio quality issues and the short length of the story mode. The game was also a commercial success, selling one million copies within a week of release. A downloadable expansion, Dimension Shellshock, was released on August 31, 2023.

GAMEPLAY

Shredder’s Revenge is a side-scrolling action brawler with a pixelated art style. The player assumes control of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, April O’Neil, Master Splinter, and unlockable character Casey Jones as they combat opponents including the Foot Clan, Bebop and Rocksteady, Krang, and Shredder in locations ranging from New York City sewers to Dimension X.

Each character has their attributes (range, speed, and power) and plays differently. They have unique super moves and taunts. Throughout each stage, players can find pizza boxes, which can be used to heal them, and other pies that grant players extra strength and infinite supers for a brief period. The game features two different modes: Arcade Mode and Story Mode. In arcade mode, players have a limited amount of lives, and the game must be completed in one sitting.

Story mode allows players to exchange accumulated points for health, extra lives, additional combat moves, and a special ability known as Radical Mode which temporarily enhances the player character’s combat abilities. In story mode, each stage has optional side-content, challenges, and collectibles. In addition to the single-player mode, the game supports cooperative multiplayer for up to six players, both online and locally. Players can high-five to share their health or work together to perform certain moves.

A downloadable expansion, Dimension Shellshock, adds a new Survival gameplay mode, in which the Turtles and their allies must travel to other dimensions to stop Shredder from conquering the multiverse. The expansion also adds two new playable characters, Miyamoto Usagi and Karai, and unlockable character costumes.

PLOT

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo along with April O’Neil and Master Splinter are watching the news on TV when it is interrupted by Bebop, who announces the Foot has returned and is taking over the Statue of Liberty. The Turtles go to the Channel 6 building and find Bebop with the head of Krang’s android body, but Rocksteady takes it away while they are fighting Bebop.

The team fights Foot operatives and other adversaries while pursuing Krang, finding other parts of his body being reconstructed. Their chase leads them to Dimension X, where they fight their way through the destroyed Technodrome until they eventually reach their enemy’s lair in Dimension X and face Shredder and Krang in his new body. This was a diversion to get the Turtles away from New York while they were turning the Statue of Liberty into the Statue of Tyranny, a robot controlled by Krang. The Turtles return to New York and defeat Krang and the mutated Super Shredder.

After the battle, the heroes return to their lair and watch the news as the city is being restored, but are disappointed to see that the credit goes to the Punk Frogs. That night the Turtles, along with April, Splinter, and Casey Jones celebrate their victory with pizza, another ending is unlocked when finding all the cameos (Irma Langenstein, Vernon Fenwick, Burne Thompson, the Punk Frogs, and Neutrinos) to which they are posing at the restored Statue of Liberty, now sporting a red ninja bandana.