Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed

[code]No spoilers in this review! Played on a Steamdeck [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]@MatureContent[/url][/code] This game is boring and feels lazy in design, just a soulless experience. The story in this game is kinda unimportant, there isnt really anything fun or deep or anything to hold on to and I started skipping cutscenes pretty fast. It also didnt help much that the cutscenes are these semi animated slide shows, where the characters within are moving 3D renders that just stand there while their voice lines play out, it made the already flat plotline feel even flatter. The levels are also nothing to celebrate. They are very short and in the most simple form of a beat em up you can imagine. You beat up an average of 10 to 15 identical enemies to complete a level, which for someone used to video games takes maybe a minute to two to accomplish. Usually you can excuse design like this on the age group in which the game is targeted for, but this game is clearly for an older audience than most of the other games published by Outright Games, and with that in mind, the oversimplified gameplay just comes off as boring and lazy level design. I played this a…

This game is not good. First of all, it provides nothing of substance in terms of gameplay. It's just one of those mindless Skylanders-type kids' games. It's also pretty broken (at least in multiplayer), with random invisible walls halting your progress (and sometimes a softlock or two). The game also looks pretty bad tbh. The artstyle they were going for would be... mid-to-okay, if the execution wasn't so budget. The character designs grossed me out with how ugly they are, although they did kinda grow on me. The soundtrack isn't bad tho. Having said all that, I really enjoyed playing this game together with my friend. Half of that was laughing at how ridiculously bad all those previous parts were. But the other half was this game's one true quality: the writing. The script is actually peak. Some people might not like it because it's very modernized and appealing to kids (many modern day references), but idunno we enjoyed it. It actually had some pretty real moments in certain character interactions, and the plot also had us surprisingly hooked to keep playing. Then why, if I had such a good experience with this game, am I giving it a negative review? Well, because I want to be ho…

Outright Games strikes again... doing serious damage to a licensed game property through accountant driven game design. Let's start at the beginning. TMNT: Mutants Unleashed looks great... and that's it. Everything else is awful... a shallow, incredibly badly ported Nintendo Switch game dumped on Steam more as a cash grab than anything else. Why? Now we can talk about Outright Games. These guys are a financial operation, they acquire media licenses to popular franchises (Fast & Furious, TMNT, Chicken Run, Peppa Pig, Transformers, DreamWorks Dragons, Adventure Time, Spongebob Squarepants, you name it) and pump out incredibly shallow mini-games with enticing looking visuals and nothing else going for them. This is purely orientated around generating sales from the license to pay off the license... at no point is any serious effort given to making a game that people would actually want to play. And that sucks for a lot of reasons, which TMNT: Mutants Unleashed exemplifies perfectly. See, while the accountants who run Outright Games get their quarterly sales (barely) and high five each other while underpaying the developers (who they'll surely replace with AI in no time), game…

I love the artwork of this game. Really unique with the artistry and CGI. Been having a lot of fun with this. I like how you can choose which turtle you want to play and each having skills to unlock.

good gameplay good story great soundtrack one of the best games from this dev imo around 10 hours long my only dislikes are the gen alpha terms are kinda cringe mikeys voice actor doesnt fit the charactor imo and the time gated missions thing

I really really like this game, sure the gameplay is real afwul but...... The fact that the writing in this game is so insanely good and really clever too totally makes up for it. Plus the humour is on point as well!