Like I say on all Turtles media, I had no experience with TNMT as a kid, outside emulating Turtles in Time. Which this game definitely follows in its footsteps, which is always a good thing.

Beautiful game, but that much is obvious. Both the graphics and music are fantastic. There's even an animated OP that really fleshes things out. This is one of those licensed games that it's a miracle that the IP owner let them come out the way they did. It's a really solid beat 'em up , while things seem simple at first once you get the hang of your moveset (which you will do by playing, not staring at the 23 tutorials before you can even choose your mode and Turtle), you will really feel that flow of your combos and realize what you can master with this game.

I went with Leonardo because I'm boring and while I did have the Usagi DLC, I wanted to play as released and the difficulty is pretty fair, even if bosses are a bit on the simpler side. A shoutout to the bosses too as they exude a huge amount of personality that must have come from the original show. With the bosses and gorgeous varied locations, I bet the real Shellheads or whatever TMNT devotees are called gushed over this one and I'm happy for them.

All in all, this is