Comments on: BYTE-SIZE REVIEW Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled

By: nickpagee

nickpagee — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:05:09 +0000

very recently re-played Turtles IV, Turtles in Time on my SNES. Beat the game. Total button masher, totally repetitive, but I still love the imagination & mash-up of styles and ideals the Turtles brought with them. Also, I can still hum the music for the first 3 levels of TMNT 1 on the NES

By: Oxvylu

Oxvylu — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:35:57 +0000

A lot of the TMNT games have a great soundtrack. Thank the lord for BGM menu selections. I vote for a Gameboy TMNT Fall Of The Foot Clan re-dux-shelled!

By: Allen Barbar

Allen Barbar — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000

I only played the XBLA demo but I am intimately familiar with the SNES version as I still own the original cartridge. The SNES is still way better in terms of gameplay. Granted, its a button masher, but the SNES version had perfect control over the turtles. You can execute a screen throw or body slam on cue. In Re-shelled, like the arcade version its based on, is extremely random on the resulting attack. And what happened to the flip you can do when running? Or the 3 types of aerial attacks vs the 1 in Re-shelled? Did the arcade version really need to be simplified even further?

By: Wolfkin

Wolfkin — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:14:42 +0000

people forgot about TMNT3? I actually liked that one more than TMNT2.

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:59:09 +0000

Yeah, it was the Shredder. Doing that on Hard is a BITCH. The Foot are all those red guys with the shield items.

By: Shaun Hatton

Shaun Hatton — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:16:47 +0000

@JDavis – thanks for the clarification. We posted at the exact same time there. Makes sense. I knew about those other boss replacements already. At the time of the SNES title those characters being in the game made total sense.

By: Shaun Hatton

Shaun Hatton — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:14:54 +0000

Turns out that was the way to beat an incarnation of The Shredder, not Krang. Looks like I’ll be revisiting the original tonight.

By: JDavis

JDavis — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:14:41 +0000

It was Shredder that you defeated by throwing the Foot Soldiers in the SNES version, and the whole level leading up to that boss fight (the Technodrome, after the sewer level and before time traveling) is also missing (as it was never in the arcade version).

Also in the SNES version but not the arcade or Reshelled versions are Slash (replaced Cement Man in Prehistoric Turttlesaurus), Bebop and Rocksteady (replaced Tokka and Rahzar in Skull & Crossbones, as they were moved to the earlier-mentioned Technodrome level), the Rat King (boss of the SNES’s more bonus-level-like version of the Sewer Surfing level), and Super Shredder (who replaced the original Shredder bossfight at the end of the game for no apparent reason).

By: Shaun Hatton

Shaun Hatton — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:48:54 +0000

@Phil – yeah that move is still in the game. I just recall that also being tied into defeating one of the many iterations of Krang in the SNES version.

By: Phil Nelson

Phil Nelson — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:35:10 +0000

Throwing the Foot soldiers at the screen was just a normal move you could do, if I recall correctly. A fun one, though.