When it comes to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, viewers of different eras may think of many images popping up, 2D, 3D, black and white, color... And most people's answers should be found in the following binary image.
This is probably due to the fact that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles released two very good anime adaptations in 1987 and 2003, respectively, and at least among the fans I have been with, it is difficult to discuss which one is more classic.
It is undeniable that the ninja turtle in the shape of the white-eyed strong man in the 03 version of the anime is more restored to the original, and the relatively dark plot development is more in line with the fundamentalism of the manga, and the magic and sensuous op, I have been able to hum it until now.
“Turtles count it off！one！two！three！four！”
However, I think many Chinese viewers should not have touched the original comic, and the older friends (after 80/90) have a preconceived impression of these four green justice partners - about the 87 version of the animation that was repeatedly replayed on local TV stations when they were children, which contained the pizza-loving "Big-Eyed Cute" turtle boy Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Einstein (Donatello), and the hot air exhaled by the old standing fan that summer.
Yes, this is also my childhood memory of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and with its light-hearted and witty funny plot and four martial arts turtles (and a mouse), the 87 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles captivated me. Not only chasing anime, at that time I was also very keen to play "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" with my friends, which mainly focused on the side-scroll clearance gameplay on The Little Bully. It should be counted as the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" series on the FC canon works, launched by Konami a total of 3 generations, in that era when the horizontal scroll gameplay is still mainstream, the high popularity of the animation IP and the relatively reduced human settings, action experience makes this work become one of the gods that many bosses who sell cassettes will highly recommend.
However, due to functional limitations, the FC version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at that time could only support two-person online levels at most, which should be the biggest regret of that era for those who wanted to experience the four brothers of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles saving the earth together.
Speaking of which, you should also be able to understand why Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Schlader's Revenge received quite a lot of attention after its release.
Not long ago, invited by Gamera Games, a domestic independent game publisher who is also responsible for the distribution of this game, I grabbed a sneak experience of the demo version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Schlader's Revenge", this demo version probably contains the content of the first two levels of the game, the optional characters have been complete, in addition to the four Turtles, we can also operate Master Sprint, and in the 87 version of the animation often betrayed herself to provide heroes for the Turtles to save the opportunity of the heroine April.
After putting down the handle, I also have time to talk to you - can it come back from childhood memories from many years ago?
As you can see from the name, the production team Tribute Games is a studio that focuses on "tribute feelings", before that, they have developed a number of clean-up games based on FC platform pixel games, and the evaluation among players is still good, which also contributed to the birth of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Schlader's Revenge".
And the moment I opened the game, when the theme song of the 1987 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sung by Faith No More band member Mike Patton sounded with the HD reset animation, a feeling came from the bottom of my heart - it was all coming back.
This was especially evident when the arch-villain Schlader came on.
Many people should remember that the 87 version of Schlader is more of a funny careerist than a bad guy, although they are all aimed at "conquering the earth", the plan that schrader came up with is often absurd, while the villain of the game is abused, he often has to worry about his family relations, take care of his mother, and often be suspected by his police brother while carrying out the plan to conquer the earth. At the beginning of the game, after Schrader surprised him with a large ground drill and occupied the Building of Channel Six, he actually did not threaten the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with the hostages of the people/ordinary staff in the building, but allowed them to go to refuge, choosing to "go head-to-head" with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which was also in line with his personality.
The first two levels of the demo didn't give us a chance to beat Schrader, so we had to take out the classic villains under his hands, Pig's Head and Rhinoceros. In terms of action experience, Tribute Games also invited Dotemu Studios, which had developed "Angry Iron Fist 4", to participate in the design of the combat system, which is also a guarantee that the hand feel of this game is quite solid, of course... It is also very restored to the original.
I don't know if this is a tribute - this game has few operable buttons, for example, using Microsoft's controller, the joystick is responsible for character movement, ABXY is responsible for jumping, dodging, attacking and killing, which is just two more keys than the FC version, and almost no need to use the trigger. Unlike the FC titles, when the attack hits the enemy, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will also continue to use a set of fancy combos, which not only takes into account the viewing of the game, but also reduces the barrier to entry.
The use of the must kill technique does not need to consume the amount of blood of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but adds a new resource of energy, relying on combos to accumulate energy, after saving energy, you can use the must kill, the higher the combo The faster the energy accumulation speed, which also increases the upper limit of the operation of this game to a certain extent. Therefore, even if you don't carefully study the novice tutorial, you won't do anything, just press the attack button to automatically combos and the energy is full, and I will go through the whole process without a second life.
This is the first time I've spent less than 20 minutes to complete the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Schlader's Revenge demo version.
Feeling a little unfinished, I opened the second one, and soon I also found that some of this work is not just to sell memories, or, under some retro painting style, it touched me with a very comfortable clearance experience.
For example, instead of grabbing the controller, this time we can play online for four people
This is reflected in the rich details of the game.
Compared with the works of the FC era, there are more kinds of enemies in this game, in addition to the most ordinary bare-handed purple ninjas, there are blue ninjas who can block with spinning sticks, yellow ninjas who can attack from a distance, and indigo ninjas who are almost invincible on the front of the shield, etc. At the bottom of each level, there are also familiar old friends as guard bosses, such as pig heads and rhinos in the demo version.
The way the enemies appear is also humorous, except that in the FC version, they will drill out of the sewers and paste your face with a manhole cover, some will hide in the trash can when the player passes by and jump out to scare you, some will disguise themselves as social animals and knock on the keyboard in the writing booth to ambush the player, some will disguise themselves as gourmets in the studio of the food show, and some will not forget to exercise themselves when they are on duty, and the player will use the fragment time to get healthy when he does not break through to the level,...
In addition, their attack routines are not complicated, and the response methods of each enemy are also clear at a glance, but the combo attacks launched by these hordes of ninjas still bring me a lot of challenges.
In contrast, the level adds a scene interaction that is beneficial to the player, attacking the fire hydrant and breaking it, the gushing water column can rush the enemy into the sky, the lampstand in the studio can be used to smash the enemy after being broken, the exploded oil barrel is the enemy, if the dodge is not enough, even our side will be affected by the explosion, and the wooden box/takeaway box will also drop the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' favorite food , pizza, after being destroyed, and will also provide powerful effects such as blood/energy and invincibility.
Different levels are not just switching between different scenes, each new level can find a new way to interact, which is also a rather funny detail in this game.
Each operable character is impressive, as a 2022 clearance game, the characters in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Schlader's Revenge are more restored to the original animation than the simple shapes of the FC era, and the character image has become more plump under the blessing of various standby small actions and small details.
What's more, when I found out that the game also had a character trick table and opened it, I found that I may not have even touched the skin of the game when I first completed the level.
With just a few simple combinations of the keys mentioned above, we can rub out a lot of moves, including various ways of throwing, up, floating combos, charge attacks and so on. If it is an online game, the use of must kills between characters will also trigger a variety of double kills, which is beautiful and refreshing.
It's fair to say that when the details of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Schlader's Revenge, the fairly mature gameplay, stacks on top of each other, each level in the game is like an episode of animation that slowly unfolds in front of us, and this time we become the protagonists on the screen.
Overall, the trial process this time is not very long, even if the whole character has experienced it, it still only took me about 1 hour. And as the title says, in this short 1 hour, this work has carried me through a journey of memories beyond time and space, it shows a game quality that was born in today's clearance game, and I am glad all the time that I can play the game with air conditioning in 2022.
In a trance, I also "went back" to many years ago, where I still squatted with my friends in front of the old TV set and the little bully of the cottage, and this time, we can relax the once-conventional one-man, one-life rule a little, and four old green friends can finally get together and fight for justice.