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The Golden Age of Ninjas
Written by Philip Jones on Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Modojo's resident ninja Philip Jones laments the death of his species and reminisces about the glory days...
...Continued From Page 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Turtles have had a long history of portable games, seeing releases on the original Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, and the more recent TMNT movie tie-ins on the DS and PSP. While the games are indeed fun, they don't really coun't as real ninja games in my opinion, being more of a commercial cash-in on the popularity of the Turtles. The original Game Boy games , Fall of the Foot Clan, Back from the Sewers, and Radical Rescue are simple side-scrolling beat 'em ups, nice and easy for the kids of the day.
With a new series of the Cartoon show on our TV's, it wasn't long before Game Boy Advance games appeared. They were similar to the original Game Boy titles, only with more action, faster pace and much more cartoon-like visuals. After two outings on the Game Boy Advance, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus (which included the original arcade game as an unlockable treat!), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare appeared on the DS. More of the same then, yes? But this time with stylus based minigames? You do spoil us.
The latest games are the Movie Tie-in TMNT games, which appear to be nice 3D fighting games. You think you're in for some ninja treats, then as you start to play, everything goes wrong. For some reason it was decided the game would be a series of simple button presses, leaving you awkwardly limited in what you can actually do yourself. Steer well clear of these stinkin' barrels of turd.
posted April 26, 2007