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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge
Good old fashioned co-op beat 'em up goodness.
Who says impulse buys are a bad thing? Well... Anybody with with a functioning brain would say that, but I guess this time was a pleasant surprise. Myself and a friend of mine decided to reunite after a long period of absence over a mutual jelking session and a game reminiscent of those near and dear to our hearts: TMNT Shredder's Revenge. While he grew up with an arcade stick up his ass, I was molded by my off-brand "9999in1" NES cartridges. One of those 9999 games was "TMNT 2: The Arcade Game". I remember spending weeks playing it (and sometimes TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project) with my upstairs neighbor. Good times. This re-imagining or spiritual successor or soft re-boot or whatever the fuck you want to call it, is a lot of fun as well. Developed by "Tribute Games", who have at least 6 other pixel-styled games behind their belt. >(You) might be familiar with "Wizorb" or the more recent "FlintHook". Shredder's Revenge looks great, sounds good and feels tight. Even with 200 ping online play I've only encountered some glitches two times, both resulting in my turtle shifting slightly to the left. You can play it solo or with up to 5 other people (hate to see how confusing that gets, especially if everyone picks the same turtle) in story or arcade mode (as well as survival mode if you cough up for the DLC). The difference between the two is that in story mode, you accumulate XP, which expands your HP bar, your lives, your dong and special moves. Arcade mode locks you with a default preset and removes all the cutscenes and side-quests, but allows you to adjust extra mutators. For example: "Enemy death explosions now hurt you", "3 special charges given at the start of a level", "No revives", etc... Each character plays a little differently, even turtles differ in terms of damage, speed and range. We all know Don excels at range, Raph will do the most damage and Mikey will be 3fast5u. Apart from the turtles, you can pick Splinter, April O'Niell and Casey Jones. The aforementioned DLC also adds 2 characters, Usagi (furfag) and Karai (footfag). I had the most fun with fast characters like Mikey, April and Karai. April is especially fun thanks to her use of filming equipment as weaponry. Her super sucks though. In multiplayer, you are allowed to help a co-op buddy up by exposing yourself for about 5 seconds, and lend a single point of health with a simple high-five when you're both up. You can also be a dick and pick up every pizza, which can now also grant additional firepower instead of health. There are a couple of "Family sized" pizzas spruced around levels too, so even if you are a selfish fuck, you'll still heal the entire party.
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