Now you have to rescue not only April, but all your captured fellow Turtles! (Double Bummer!) Then you have to choose from the remaining Turtles and continue from where you were caught. Not to worry though, you can always recharge by eating pizza slices and whole pizzas pies that randomly pop up along the way! (Yum!)īut, if you lose all your hit points, then that Turtle becomes a prisoner of Shredder and his Foot Clan. You start with eight hit points, but lose a point each time you get zapped by one of Shredder's creepos or their weapons (Bummer!). (Don't worry, they just look tough!)Īt the beginning of each game, you get to choose between us four turtles (pick me! pick me!) and our respective weapons: Leonardo with his swords, Donatello and his bo stick, Raphael with his sais, and yours truly with his nunchuks! In addition to your weapon, you also get an unlimited supply of ninja throwing stars! (Rad!) (And like I didn't even use a calculator to figure that out!) At the end of each stage is one of Shredder's main goons, who's really tough to squash. The game has five really rad stages with three levels per stage.so that's like 15 different levels in all. Konami's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an awesome game that lets you take each one of your four favorite turtles on an adventure to rescue our friend April who has been kidnapped by that gnarly Shredder dude. A fun rental, especially if played with a friend. That said, the game's levels are good-looking and varied, and its cut-scenes should please fans of the cartoon. And if you fail to defeat a boss, expect to replay the entire hour-long stage in order to try again. eschew traditional patterns of alternating attack and vulnerability-they're all offense, all the time. Worse, the game's bosses are completely merciless. To prevent this, practical players will rely heavily upon the three-button combo that hits multiple foes, rarely using the Turtles' other moves. Swarming foes will keep you paralyzed as they pummel you into turtle soup. The Turtles thump and slice their way through hundreds of Foot ninjas, street thugs, robots, and mutant lizard-men before saving the world in a totally tubular fashion. Like their most popular game, the 1991 coin-op, this is a straightforward beat-em-up. I kinda doubt it, though.The quartet of former quadrupeds returns to videogamedom, sportin' a sweet art style lifted from the hit new animated series. I just hope if that happens then the people who already bought it this time around on the Wii will be able to get it without having to rebuy it. People who missed out on the game now may be able to get it then. but hey, its very possible it will be readded to the WiiU's VC in the near future. The game may have been pulled from the Wii's VC permanently though, because that platform is all but dead at this point. But now that its gone they can give the game a "cooling off" period, and then later on reintroduce the game and then people will take notice of it and be talking about it for awhile. so the thing is sales of the game had probably stagnated. We just took it for granted that it was there and we could always buy it if we wanted, but now that its gone we are here whining that we can't buy it, even though it was there for about 5 years and we could have any time. Now that the game has been pulled we are all talking about it, but was anyone talking about the game the day before it was pulled? Not really. That said, I'm beginning to think at least part of the reason the game might have been pulled is to wait for interest in it to build up again. Kytime, I don't know who owns the rights, but regardless of who it is one thing I can tell you is that all businesses are friendly towards making money, and if whoever owns it can make money via going the video game route then there is a good chance they will.