The entire time I kept playing this game, I couldn't stop thinking how weird this game was. Back from the Sewers kinda felt like they tried to combine elements of each TMNT up until that point and what they made was the turtles and enemies had huge sprites with weird hit boxes like TMNT(NES), a constant jump in of enemies like Fall of the Foot Clan, animations trying to call back to TMNT (2 as well) arcade and Turtles in Time. In theory this should be good but...

I always said I love the GameBoy because a lot of the times, games made for it weren't just mini copies of bigger games, they were game meant to compliment the series and the bigger games, and in a sense this kinda does that...but it feels more like an amalgamation of the series and lacks it's own identity.

I'll say the animations and sprite work looks good though the backgrounds are bland. The music is actually very forgettable save for the second to last level. The game does have like a cute pause menu, but honestly the bosses are very cheap with huge hit boxes and some bosses have counter attacks that require split second movement to not get hit.

I know it sounds like I didn't like the game, but I honestly did, it was just a weird way of going at it, but it was definitely an experience and I'm glad I played it as a bit of history of one of my favorite consoles.