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    Review: 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge' is way more than retro-cool

    by Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times Jun 17, 2022 6 minutes
    “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’ s Revenge” is a slick reinvention of a retro-styled brawler.

    For the nostalgic "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" fan, new game "Shredder's Revenge" will be something of a dream. The work, after all, pays homage to the original 1987 cartoon series as well as the iconic 1991 Super Nintendo game "Turtles in Time." It's the turtles at their most bodacious — lighthearted, chaotic and approachably humorous. And all of it is delivered with a loudly bright pixel art style.

    But it's not the late '80s and early '90s sentimentality that makes the game work as well as it does.

    It's the modern flourishes, whether that's newsperson April O'Neil wielding broadcast equipment as a weapon or a bounty of cutesy animations that the henchmen engage in before the brawling starts. Within minutes of booting up "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge" I smiled, enjoying the way the evil Foot Clan had besieged news station and immediately got to work behind the reception desk and in the recipe kitchen rather than trashing the place.

    Nostalgia is an important ingredient in "Shredder's

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