An addictive combo-system encourages you to work out fun strategies, as a higher combo provides bigger points to use on upgrades and power-ups.īetween levels, you can spend any cash you've earned on various items by visiting shops in the city. Apart from a few levels, you'll be able to pick your favorite turtle and bash through hundreds of baddies across seven enemy-filled stages. As a handheld game, TMNT is also best suited for fast play sessions, so the arcade-like gameplay is a perfect match. The ability to pick from the four diverse but similar turtle brothers has always lent itself well to this classic genre, and TMNT on GBA does a good job realizing that concept.

When you look back at the dozens of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games that have existed, the beat 'em up games have always been the most popular. The gameplay in TMNT should induce quite a bit of nostalgia for any 90s gamers, as it's incredibly similar to those previously mentioned classic Turtles games. It's surprisingly cool to see the scenes from the movie play out in a simpler way, breaking things down into exciting, quickly-playable chapters. The story is never overbearing in TMNT, and simply sets the stage for some awesome levels and environments. From there, you'll experience the major scenes from the film, including big fights with the Foot Clan, battles with cryptid beasts, and some other supernatural oddities. As April discusses her upcoming book about the ancient warlord Yaotl, the turtles recall their latest adventures. Having recently defeated their arch-nemesis Shredder, the four siblings and their rat-mentor Master Splinter have fallen on rough times. At the beginning of the game, journalist April O'Neil visits her old friends, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Since TMNT on Game Boy Advance is an adaptation of the 2007 movie of the same name, the stories are appropriately similar.

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