Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2003 action game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Studios and published by Konami Digital Entertainment.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a 2003 action game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Studios and published by Konami Digital Entertainment.
The player can play as either Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo or Raphael. Each turtle has his own unique set of levels to complete. There is a story mode for one or two players, and also a versus mode where two players can fight head to head. In the versus mode, players can fight as all four turtles, Splinter, Casey Jones, Hamato Yoshi, the Turtlebot, Hun, Oroku Saki, and Shredder.
A "Challenge" mode is unlocked by defeating Oroku Saki with any Turtle in the Story Mode, which needs to be complete to unlock Hamato Yoshi and his dojo.
The main gameplay loosely adapts the following season one episodes: "Things Change", "A Better Mouse Trap", "Attack of the Mouser"s, "Meet Casey Jones", "Nano", "Darkness on the Edge of Town", "The Way of Invisibility", "Notes From the Underground" (Parts 1-3), and "Return to New York" (Parts 1-3).
Shortly after a group of Mouser Robots destroy the Turtles' old home, they begin to look for a new one. Michelangelo eventually gets on Raphael's nerves, causing Raphael to leave for the surface. There, he is confronted by Purple Dragon thugs, Casey Jones, and Dragonface. Baxter Stockman soon uses invisible Foot ninjas to capture Raphael, and Donatello is forced to rescue him. Afterward, Donatello analyzes a strange crystal he found in their home, noting that they look like mutated brain cells. Raphael kicks Michelangelo into a wall, revealing a large tunnel behind it. Donatello's crystal start glowing and the Turtles decide to investigate. They follow the tunnel and they are confronted by genetically mutated humans.
After a few scuffles with these mutants, the Turtles find that these mutants were turned into their current state by past experiments of Shredder's scientists. The crystals Donatello found are the only thing keeping these mutants alive, and cannot leave their underground home as a result. They plead the Turtles to defeat Shredder, so that no more humans will suffer as they have. The Turtles decide to defeat Shredder once and for all, and promise the mutants that they will come back for them if they ever find a way to reverse their condition.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is abandonware and no longer sold or supported by its publishers. Files are archived here for these platforms:
Especially the first season, it was the best thing ever made about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the video game based on this series when I was a kid. So, I only played this game recently while rewatching the 2003 series.
What can I say about the game, as a child, I would have been absolutely thrilled, but now considering my gaming experience, the game initially tried very hard to follow the events of the cartoon, dialogues are identical, locations are repeated just like in the original, but closer to the middle, there are changes. Maybe it’s good or bad. But I didn’t like it very much.
Also, the game felt more childish than the first season of the series. The darkness disappeared, there were even more jokes, and silly dialogues. On a medium level, everything plays out like Dark Souls, it’s brutal. I played as Donatello, and from the second to last chapter, with the dungeons with monsters, it started to feel like sheer Hell.
Bots completely take you down, I haven’t played on the keyboard like a piano in a long time, and in the last chapter when I fought Stockman, I just lowered the difficulty level. Because it was impossible to pass.
In general, the game has difficulty. At least as Donatello, I noticed it’s much easier to play as Leonardo.
So here are the cons I identified:
– Half of the locations do not match the original
– More childish humor and dialogues
– Broken balance
– Weak musical accompaniment (The series has very energetic soundtracks, but in the game, they made some melody references but it rarely plays, and often some light music that sometimes doesn’t match the events of the game).
So, despite my strong love for TMNT 2003,
I give it 4 out of 5 (Objectively, without nostalgia, 3.5 out of 5).
I downloaded “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES” from this site and upon downloading it, I’m having issues with the music in the intro, the battle-music, as well as the transition between stages.
I checked all the audio settings and definitely didn’t find anything enlightening. Does anyone have any idea how to fix it? I would be very grateful.
With nothing more to say, thank you.
And I didn’t have any technical problems with it.