I remember reading about this game years ago and what I took from it was this was just Turtles in Time IV but for the Genesis. This couldn't be further from the truth. Yes, it's running on the same type of engine and some elements are similar, but this actually is a different game.
The graphics are where the differences start, the stages are mostly different or the path from stage to stage is different. The sprites are VERY detailed I was actually a tad bit shocked how much better it looked. All the bosses, enemies, levels and even the turtles had extra details as well as some of the animations from the arcade are present.
The controls are just as shocking, I'm someone who played TMNT4 a lot growing up, and I always through it was a fast paced brawler, but actually HyperStone Heist plays faster and smoother with the stage animations and the characters frame-by-frame movement. The only issue i had with the controls was...while TMNT4 I had said that the dashing felt a bit inconsistent but everything else was fine, well in HyperStone Heist the dashing is perfect with no issue, but the slam and throw attacks don't active as cleanly as TMNT4, sometimes it just doesn't do it no matter how close or stunned the enemy and sometimes it just happens.
The music actually sounds pretty good, it has tinny spots here and there, but nothing that sounds bad, in fact it was odd hearing some songs in different spots but still fitting due to the setting.
This was actually a really good game and I consider it to be an alternate tale to TMNT4, I kinda feel like whichever one you played first, the other is just a different telling of another story, I would actually like to see TMNT 4 and HyperStone Heist combined into one game and see what that would be like.
The graphics are where the differences start, the stages are mostly different or the path from stage to stage is different. The sprites are VERY detailed I was actually a tad bit shocked how much better it looked. All the bosses, enemies, levels and even the turtles had extra details as well as some of the animations from the arcade are present.
The controls are just as shocking, I'm someone who played TMNT4 a lot growing up, and I always through it was a fast paced brawler, but actually HyperStone Heist plays faster and smoother with the stage animations and the characters frame-by-frame movement. The only issue i had with the controls was...while TMNT4 I had said that the dashing felt a bit inconsistent but everything else was fine, well in HyperStone Heist the dashing is perfect with no issue, but the slam and throw attacks don't active as cleanly as TMNT4, sometimes it just doesn't do it no matter how close or stunned the enemy and sometimes it just happens.
The music actually sounds pretty good, it has tinny spots here and there, but nothing that sounds bad, in fact it was odd hearing some songs in different spots but still fitting due to the setting.
This was actually a really good game and I consider it to be an alternate tale to TMNT4, I kinda feel like whichever one you played first, the other is just a different telling of another story, I would actually like to see TMNT 4 and HyperStone Heist combined into one game and see what that would be like.