Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack (DS) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- A playthrough of Ubisoft's 2009 license-based beat 'em up game for the Nintendo DS, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack.
This video shows the entire story mode being played on the normal mode.
In 2009, TMNT: Arcade Attack was marketed as a way to "[c]elebrate the 25th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" in a "classic arcade-style game for the DS." The 25th anniversary of the original comic book, which began life in 1984, was certainly an event worth celebrating. Did Ubisoft give them a suitable bit of pomp and fanfare?
Nope! Some things definitely worked better than others, but in all honesty, this is a repulsively disrespectful pile of garbage. The turtle legacy deserves far better than anything of this… caliber.
They tried hard to make the game sound cool with its “features,” and if it had been released in 1993 with better in-game graphics, a larger move set, a better framerate, and a soundtrack that used nostalgic TMNT music, it might well have been a success. If Ubisoft hadn't happened, it might have been good. But Ubisoft did happen, and this title lamentably feels like shovel taken directly to the face.
The 3D graphics are ugly - I get that it is a DS game, and that the system wasn't a juggernaut of 3D processing power, but it can do far better than this. The style is alright, and there are a few cool animations, but TMNT Arcade Attack's graphics would have been acceptable for a relatively early PS1 title. Everything is lifeless, bland, and uber-pixelated. The framerate also likes to eat itself in the final stages - it's quite difficult to keep track of what's going on when four foot soldiers all throwing things slow the gameplay a stuttery, choppy mess. The soundtrack is okay - it's not terrible, but it never sounds like Ninja Turtle music. And why are there no voices? Of course, maybe that's for the best, given how the rest of it came out.
The prerendered FMV cutscenes of "animated comic book art" are thoroughly amazing, though. I must concede that. They actually look like an animated comic book. These cutscenes the sole redeeming feature to be found in this scrap heap, leaving me wonder why couldn't we have just gotten an adventure game that used those.
The fighting engine is pretty ropey. It's better than the one in Turtles in Time Re-shelled at least, since it lacks the 8-way fighting. Unlike in Tit:R-S, you can usually hit your enemy in this one as long as you are close enough, though that alone can be hard to do at times. The moveset is far more limited than Turtles in Time’s, leaving every level feel like endless mindless button bashing minigames. There's very little challenge, and the entire thing becomes quite a bore early on. By level 2 you'll be asking if it's almost over. By stage 8, you’ll probably be comatose. Get those Life Alert pendants ready.
But hey, if you didn’t get enough after the story mode, there’s more! In order to make it appear as if there is more content than the 90 min. long base game offers, there are several options that let you play the same game in essentially the same way! Go to a menu after finishing an area rather than going to the next stage! Play all of the stages without any cutscenes in between! Fall asleep slogging through the fiftieth wave of red, black, and blue ninjas!
The more "throwback" style games I play by Ubisoft, the less and less I like the company: TMNT: Arcade Attack is an utterly wretched waste of time and money. The only reason why I bothered going through it is because I didn't see any playthroughs of it on RUclips. Big shock, right? But this should be preserved as a reminder of just how dire cheap cash-ins can truly be.
Kinda like how kids still study the Holocaust in school. It was absolutely horrific, but it really happened, and the only way to be sure that it doesn’t happen again is to not forget it. The same lesson applies here.
Go play ET on the Atari 2600 instead - it would be something of an improvement.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
![Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) Arcade - 4 Players (Very Hard Mode) [TAS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/X6kIkZW_glE/mqdefault.jpg)
Played the hell out of this back then
Same
add a extra hell on it
I haven't seen many videos at all of this one, and I can't say I'm surprised. It's... not one of the better Turtles games, but still, those comic book cutscenes are awesome!
NintendoComplete que juegazo excelente
Me too this game is good and awesome
NintendoComplete People need to get NetherRealm Studios to do a TMNT game.
john craw Surely you can't be cereal.
Ancient One I would love to see a TMNT fighting game almost similar to Injustice.
That description is one for the ages. If you're going to be doing an anniversary for something, do it like you mean it.
Boss timestamp
24:58 Golden Food Ninja
44:57 Hun
55:54 Karai
1:18:13 Baxter Stockman
1:27:24 Shredder
It's kind of hilarious how much this game takes after the 2003 series, including straight up having the Fast Forward costumes for the latter half of the game, but was made its own continuity.
IGN review aside (2009/09/2 by Mark Bozon):
- I never thought Donatello would be at his worse with his survival; the lowest health. Previous games made him the strongest, just at the cost of low performance at close range.
- Leonardo is to show the science in turtles for his slow/poor speed. Previously, he's well-balanced = the master of none.
- Raphael and Michelangelo are balanced, but in competition in power and speed; one trades off his weapon range and the other by being the weakest. Sometimes, Raph is either slow or fast with the same poor range. Mikey shares the same strategy, but by being the fastest with the lowest attacking power.
Fun fact. Sam Riegel Donnie's voice actor in the 2003 show wrote the cutscenes for this game.
Broooo I played this game all kinds back then 😞😭 Miss it bro
Childhood game right here
This game was the shit back then. I still remember the music loop for the laboratory levels
i remember playing this as a kid and istg at one point i could get like an advanced suit for the turtles but i never saw it in this vid
i remember i used to play this a lot a very long time ago :")
Tsk, tsk...
Ever played TMNT: Manhattan Missions? Pretty nice DOS game for the license!
I remember getting mad at this game when I was little
Great Ninja Turtle Game On DS
so, what "combos" do you recommend? hehehe.
in these types of games it seems like spamming two attacks at a time may stun lock the enemy. i dunno.
Play E.T. on Atari?
Well, it's better than nothing I suppose...
Israel Flores This, on the other hand, is not. Lol
yes
Any recs for ninja turtles games (or like it) for ds/3ds? Seems the best was turtles in time, now I see see nothing like it..
There isn't much worth playing for turtles:/ if you want a good beat em up, I'd recommend Tokyo Beat Down on the DS and River City Tokyo Rumble on 3ds. They're both excellent. If you want something a bit quirkier, Code of Princess for 3DS is extremely good as well
1:27:24 The final boss song. I can't get my hands on it anywhere and I am trying to obtain it so I can add it to my playlist! Someone please make a playlist with the OST from this game so I can get the song I desire!
Cool
does it lave download play, or do you need 2 game cards?
So you're saying you didn't like it? :P
Ahahahahaha. That would be correct, sir.
Nice DS border
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES ARCADE ATTACK NINTENDO DS
Certainly you did dislike this game a lot, Alex, I don't remember other game description from you that is this disgusted by a game.
You know what I dislike the most about this game? The level design is just boring as heck, there is not obstacles, hazards or something interesting that makes the levels feels more than just a change of skin and textures, I guess that could be excused with a good gameplay wise but seems like that wasn't the case in your experience.
When Ubisoft had the license I don't know if them was that good, I remember liking the TMNT home console game but I don't remember anything more, the GBA game was cool, then people seems to really dislike the TMNT remake (Included you), and this game is certainly not interesting, I am not sure about the Smash clone.
Unfortunately the license went from Ubisoft to Activision and there a few shovelware games by them, doh, but I did like Out of Shadows, though.
I have no idea if the game made by Platinum Games is worth checking or interesting.
I hope Konami get the license back someday, even if them make a mobile game, at least I am sure it will be of quality.
The game was entertaining as hell though
Can we connect frind tmnt
I don't like the fact they wear colored bandanas. If the game is inspired by the comic, it should follow the comic concepts.
It's based on the 2003 series, specifically the first episode of Back to the Sewer.
Can we conect tmnt with frind❔
Da. Hora
I’m a fan of TMNT, but this game is disappointing. The combat is horrible, boring game. The only positive point in this game are the comic book cutscenes.
This looks boring. Turtles beatemups shouldn't be boring.