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This Week in Games - Ninja Resurrection

The easiest way to seemingly get interested in a property that's on a hiatus (Rise of the TMNT ended a few months ago with little fanfare outside of Western animation enthusiasts who thought the show didn't get a fair shake) is a retro game. And fair play, this looks pretty good. Yes, I have fond memories of the Turtles arcade games, even if it's clear Turtles in Time is the clearly superior product. So hopefully the end result is a fun time a few friends can play on a screen with a pizza on hand.

When not even PlatinumGames can make a good Turtles game, you start to wonder if the license is cursed.

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When not even PlatinumGames can make a good Turtles game, you start to wonder if the license is cursed.

Ha I feel like that’s too harsh toward TMNT honestly. PlatinumGames had a notoriously awful run with licensed game development. The Legend of Korra game, Transformers Devastation, and of course TMNT Mutants In Manhattan. And it didn’t get much better when Scalebound was cancelled and Star Fox Zero ended up being so mediocre (though that was more on Shigeru Miyamoto). It just seemed like after Metal Gear Rising was such a success they thought they could coast by on that reputation. I guess publishers thought the same.
There’s a big reason Kamiya thanked Yoko Taro and Nier Automata for saving them after all. And honestly their part in that game is probably the worst thing about it. No one remembers Nier Automata for the combat.

-TMNT: Ah, bringing us in once again. Hopefully this is better than that godawful Turtles in Time remake Ubisoft tried years back.

Maybe a 2D Voltron shooter once WEP is sure of the same lack of Dreamworks.

KOF XV: Yuri proving once again how SNK has stepped up with animation & personality, which is what XIV was sorely lacking. Also, everyone is happy she got her braids back.

The game itself looks fine. I mean, pixel art beat-em-ups have pretty much been bog standard in the indie scene for the past decade so I'm sure it'll be competent if not derivative. You'd have to go out of your way to mess the genre up at this point.

There’s a big reason Kamiya thanked Yoko Taro and Nier Automata for saving them after all. And honestly their part in that game is probably the worst thing about it. No one remembers Nier Automata for the combat.

I still to this day have trouble understanding the rationale behind that decision. I mean, you're going to provide a remake of Turtles In Time without ANY of the original Konami development staff, and incorporate the 2003 series voice cast for the characters based on the 80's cartoon series when some characters from the 80's series never even appeared in the 2003 series???

I enjoyed the 3DS Senran Kagura games, but the series definitely lost me as it went on. The first one was kind of charming because it clearly had ambitions to be dramatic as well as fanservice, but it got sillier and sillier over time and became more generic and less interesting as a result. It doesn't help that the gameplay of the fully 3D ones just isn't as polished as it needs to be at this point.

Not really that difficult they were never going to get the original staff for the remake when it was being made by a completely different studio under a different publisher neither of which were based in Japan along with a good portion of the staff seemingly having not worked in the game industry since the 90's or the early part of this century. As for them using the 03 cast simple explanation with that is that the 2007 series was still on the air when the game came out so logically they went with them over the 80's cast.

It's bad logic. The '03 cast isn't the 80's cast. It didn't even work for the Turtles Forever special as the voice cast differences are practically night and day.

I remember it for the weirdness of having Schump mechanics despite being a hack & slash.

It's bad logic. The '03 cast isn't the 80's cast.

It didn't even work for the Turtles Forever special as the voice cast differences are practically night and day.

Yoko Taro wanted more 3D shoot 'em up mechanics, but PlatinumGames only know how to do generic hack and slash so it ended up being a weird ass amalgamation of both. There's a reason Platinum aren't doing NieR Replicant my man.

Unless you were the hardest of the hardcore of the 87 series’s fanboys you wouldn’t have cared about that and considering the biggest complaints about Reshelled was the new music and being based off the arcade version of TiT no one cared.

The characters from the 87 series in the special were not voiced by the original actors though.