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''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge'' is a 2022 beat 'em up game developed by Tribute Games and published by
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. It is inspired by and based on the 1987 ''
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' (''TMNT'') is an American media franchise created by comic book artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Leonardo, Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), D ...
'' animated series and borrows stylistically from the arcade and home console ''Turtles'' games developed by
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during the 1980s and 1990s. The player assumes control of one of the Turtles or their allies as they set out to stop Shredder and
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from taking over New York City, while facing foes that stand in their way.
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approached Dotemu following the release of '' Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap'' (2017) about the possibility of developing a video game adaptation of one of its franchises. Knowing that Tribute Games had been pitching a ''Turtles'' game to Nickelodeon since 2010, the two companies decided to work together. The Turtles voice actors from the 1987 series reprise their roles. The music was composed by
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, with contributions from guitarist Jonny Atma, rappers
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, and
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, and singer
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. ''Shredder's Revenge'' was released for
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on June 16, 2022, and for
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on November 15, 2022. The game received critical acclaim, with reviewers praising the pixel-based visual style, playable character roster and combat mechanics, while criticism was directed at audio quality issues and the short length of the story mode. The game was also a commercial success, selling one million copies within a week of release. New playable characters and modes have been added to the game via downloadable content.


Gameplay

''Shredder's Revenge'' is a side-scrolling action brawler with a pixelated artstyle. The player assumes control of Leonardo,
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,
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, and unlockable character
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as they combat opponents including the Foot Clan,
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, and Shredder in locations ranging from
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sewers to Dimension X. Each character has their own attributes (range, speed, and power) and plays differently. They have unique super moves and taunts. Throughout each stage, players can find pizza boxes, which can be used to heal them, and other pies that grant players extra strength and infinite supers for a brief period of time. The game features two different modes: Arcade Mode and Story Mode. In arcade mode, players have a limited amount of lives, and the game must be completed in one sitting. Story mode allows players to exchange accumulated points for
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, extra lives, additional combat moves, and a special ability known as Radical Mode which temporarily enhances the player character's combat abilities. In story mode, each stage has optional side-content, challenges, and collectibles. In addition to the single-player mode, the game supports
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for up to six players, both online and locally. Players can high-five to share health, or work together to perform certain moves. A downloadable expansion, ''Dimension Shellshock'', adds a new Survival gameplay mode, in which the Turtles and their allies must travel to other dimensions to stop Shredder from conquering the multiverse. The expansion also adds two new playable characters,
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and Karai, and unlockable character costumes. Two more playable characters,
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and Mondo Gecko, are available via the ''Radical Reptiles'' DLC.


Plot

Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo along with April O'Neil and Master Splinter are watching the news on TV when it is interrupted by
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, who announces the Foot has returned and is taking over the Statue of Liberty. The Turtles go to the Channel 6 building and find Bebop with the head of
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's android body, but
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takes it away while they are fighting Bebop. The team fight Foot operatives and other adversaries while pursuing Krang, finding other parts of his body being reconstructed. Their chase leads them to Dimension X, where they fight their way through the destroyed Technodrome, until they eventually reach their enemy's lair in Dimension X and face Shredder and Krang in his new body. This was actually a diversion to get the Turtles away from New York while they are turning the Statue of Liberty into the Statue of Tyranny, a robot controlled by Krang. The Turtles return to New York and defeat Krang and the mutated Super Shredder. After the battle, the heroes return to their lair and watch the news as the city is being restored, but are disappointed to see that the credit goes to the Punk Frogs. That night the Turtles, along with April, Splinter and Casey Jones celebrate their victory with pizza; another ending is unlocked when finding all the cameos (Irma Langenstein, Vernon Fenwick, Burne Thompson, the Punk Frogs and Neutrinos), in which they are posing at the restored Statue of Liberty, which now sports a red ninja bandana.


Dimension Shellshock

The ninja team celebrate another pizza party (now joined by samurai rabbit
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and surviving Foot Clan member Karai), however it gets interrupted by the Neutrinos, who informs the turtles that Shredder is planning to conquer the multiverse. In order to stop him they must collect 6 crystals from different dimensions to reach Shredder's lair. After they have defeated Shredder, the Neutrinos award the heroes 10 new brands of pizza from other dimensions, however they find them difficult to be eaten.


Development

''Shredder's Revenge'' was developed by Montreal-based Tribute Games. The team had experiences working on brawler games at
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on '' Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game'' and ''
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''.
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approached
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following the release of '' Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap'' (2017) on the possibility of developing an adaptation of one of its franchises. After finding out that Tribute Games had been pitching a ''
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'' game to Nickelodeon since 2010, the two companies decided to work together after meeting each other at
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. The game was inspired by the animated series that debuted in 1987 and the arcade games in the 1990s such as ''
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'' (1991). While the game paid homage to older ''Turtles'' games, the team wanted to modernize the series by introducing various quality-of-life enhancements, online multiplayer, and locations that have not been seen in a 2D ''Turtles'' game. The game features voice acting, with the original cast of the 1987 television series,
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reprising their roles. The soundtrack was composed by Tee Lopes, who is known for his work on other retro-style games such as ''
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'' and ''
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''. Guitarist Jonny Atma provided the guitar recordings for most of the soundtrack, and vocals for the song "Panic in the Sky!". Singer
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was invited to perform the theme song for the game. American rapper
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contributed vocals to the credits theme, "It's a Pizza Party!", while
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and
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were featured in Shredder's boss theme, "We Ain't Come to Lose".


Release

Dotemu announced ''Shredder's Revenge'' on March 10, 2021. On August 25, 2021, a trailer was revealed during
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showcasing
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as a playable character. On February 10, 2022, another trailer was released revealing
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as a playable character. The release date trailer was revealed at Summer Game Fest on June 9, 2022, which showcased
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as a playable character. The game was released digitally for
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, and
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on June 16, 2022, and on the
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on November 15, 2022. A version for
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and Android mobile devices was published by
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on January 10, 2023. And later will be published by Playdigious without Netflix subscription on April 15, 2025. Four limited editions of the game were made available by
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: The Standard Edition, which includes a physical copy of the game, a reversible cover, an art booklet, a sprite sticker sheet, and a redeemable
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coupon. A PC-exclusive edition, that includes everything in The Standard Edition plus retro big box PC packaging, a USB stick with the game, a steel book case, and a mouse pad. The Classic Edition includes everything in The Standard Edition plus a retro VHS sleeve with a tape box to store the game and a steel book case. The Radical Edition includes everything in The Classic Edition, plus a strategy guide, a poster, a Shredder action figure, a shadow box, a mini arcade cabinet replica, a CD soundtrack, and blister box packaging. Merge Games and Signature Edition Games offered a special edition of the game, which included a physical copy of the game, a signed art card, a special edition outer sleeve, a pizza key ring and booklet inside the game case, a Shredder key ring, individual pins for all four Turtles, a CD soundtrack, a metal coaster, and one randomly selected Turtle mask. The soundtrack was released on digital platforms on the same day as the game's release. It was further released on CD and
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later that year by Kid Katana Records. To promote it, a single version of "We Ain't Come to Lose" was released on June 13, 2022. At release, there were no plans for post-launch
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(DLC) for the game. Dotemu's CEO, Cyrille Imbert, suggested that DLC could happen depending on critical reception and player feedback. Tribute Games' Yannick Belzil clarified that if DLC were to happen, they would like to bring in characters from other continuities and reinterpret them in the 1987 style, naming Jennika and
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as examples. One year after its original launch, a DLC expansion was announced in June 2023, subtitled ''Dimension Shellshock'', which adds a new survival game mode, palette swaps for each of the characters, and two playable characters,
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from ''
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'' and Karai. The expansion was released on August 31, 2023. A second DLC pack, ''Radical Reptiles'', was released on September 24, 2024; the DLC adds
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and Mondo Gecko as playable characters. A free update released alongside the DLC adds
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, Keiji Yamagishi, Tomoya Tomita, and Button Masher.


Reception

''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge'' received "generally favorable" reviews, according to
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; it is the highest-rated ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' game on the website. In July 2022, Tribute Games and Dotemu announced that the game had sold over one million copies in its first week. The Nintendo Switch version was the seventeenth best-selling retail game during its first week of release in Japan, with 4,365 physical copies being sold in the country. Critics generally lauded the game's appealing personality, animations, music, distinct playstyles, combat, and multiplayer. Chris Moyse of ''
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'' found the game's attention to detail to be charismatic, writing, "Where ''Shredder’s Revenge'' shines brightest, however, is in its personality, utilizing... Individual run cycles, taunts, and celebrations; goofy background characters; and nods to previous ''TMNT'' games, shows, and movies." Mollie L. Patterson of ''EGM'' thought that the game surpassed the quality of the titles it drew inspiration from and called its visuals "by far the game's best feature", while further praising the stage variety, accessible depth, distinct character-based playstyles, and enemy roster. Marcus Stewart of ''
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'' praised the use of level-specific objectives meant to encourage player exploration and the game's chaotic brand of local multiplayer entertainment, stating, "Sure, losing track of yourself in the sea of digital humanity happens often and can be mildly frustrating, but the joy of laughing and cheering alongside so many buddies dulls that irritation." Mitchell Saltzman of ''
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'' said that ''Shredder's Revenge'' had "one of the best soundtracks of the year", and commended the inclusion of additional character mobility options and a meter which incentivized skilled playstyles. Tom Massey of ''
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'' was impressed by the game's visuals and wrote, "Familiar locations are rendered with fresh, loving attention to detail, gorgeous colour, and an authentic cartoon flavour, all strung together with great visual storytelling", while also lauding the variety of stages and enemies, well-rounded character roster, and "sterling" soundtrack. ''
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''s Dominic Tarason thought positively of the distinct stages and characters, saying, "The backdrops rarely repeat, which is impressive considering ''Shredder's Revenge'' is about four times the length of ''Turtles in Time'' and far more detailed... The character art is equally lush—despite all having the same body shape, there's few frames shared between the turtles. Their animations capture their personality..." ''
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'' praised the game's use of
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and the stability of the online co-op mode, noting that it was "as sturdy as local o-op" TJ Denzer of ''
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'' said that ''Shredder's Revenge'' was one of the best beat-em-ups he had ever played, and wrote, "Each character is fun to explore, the music will stay in your head long after you stop playing, and even if the game feels a bit short, there are plenty of reasons to go back." Though critics generally regarded the game positively, they took minor issue with a few of its elements. ''Destructoid'' felt that while the title was deeper than its predecessors, it broke little new ground in the genre, and deemed its combat mechanics less precise than the ones seen in ''
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''. ''EGM'' criticized the game's subpar audio quality, and wrote, "''All'' of the audio in this game is disappointing... Some of the voice acting sounds really off. Attacks often lack that satisfying ''oomph'' when hitting an opponent. Explosions sound anemic. A few of the sound effects are just outright terrible." ''Game Informer'' and ''GameSpot'' expressed concern with the game's short length, repetitive side missions, and the lack of visual clarity during more populated multiplayer sessions. ''IGN'' and ''Nintendo Life'' noted that the lack of variety in the game's level design felt overly safe and made the game feel repetitive towards the end. ''PC Gamer'' expressed minor gripes with the hollow Story Mode, poorly scaled difficulty and leveling system, unremarkable side quests, and lack of longevity.


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