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While we all love the way four turtles and a rat were forever changed by the Ooze, becoming martial artists and projectors of justice, there’s something to be said for the constants – the things in life that don’t change. Whether you were grabbing a couple of pads in the ’90s to beat your way through Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time, or wrangling a pair of DualSenses to play the recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, much remains the same.

The important stuff does, anyway.

“Shredder’s Revenge was always imagined as a spiritual successor to the great TMNT beat-’em-ups, so researching these was a natural starting point,” shares Adam J Marin, the game’s art director, when we ask how the team managed to replicate the feeling of the

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