SHELL POWER

 Thanks to plenty of turtle wax, TMNT: SHREDDER’S REVENGE shines

- Dominic Tarason

NEED TO KNOW

WHAT IS IT? A long-awaited sequel to the classic arcade & SNES brawler TMNT: Turtles in Time

EXPECT TO PAY $25

DEVELOPER Tribute Games Inc

PUBLISHER Dotemu

REVIEWED ON Windows 11, Nvidia 2080 Ti, Intel i9-9900k @ 4.9ghz, 32gb RAM

MULTIPLAYER Yes

LINK shredders-revenge.com

I don’t think I’ll ever outgrow ’90s cartoons and sidescrolling arcade brawlers. So it was with some excitement that I fired up Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, a modern follow-up to Konami’s arcade & SNES hit Turtles in Time. It’s an exercise in targeted nostalgia, opening with a fully animated intro, a cover of the Saturday morning theme song, and even the return of the original voice cast—albeit with 30 years of added rasp to their voices.

That’s a strong first impression and a tough one to live up to, but I’m happy to say that developer Tribute Games has managed to recapture that classic spark, even if it’s sometimes at risk of being snuffed out by a few attempted modernizations that don’t fully deliver.