{"id":12307,"date":"2014-09-12T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T00:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12307"},"modified":"2014-08-23T16:27:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:27:30","slug":"teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/12\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TMNT_BOX\"<\/a>The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have delighted kids since, well, when I was a kid!\u00a0 I was a little too old to get into them back then, but boy I sure did love the original arcade game!\u00a0 Now the four heroes are just as popular as ever, with a computer animated series on Nickelodeon and a new summer movie.\u00a0 Fans can relive the action of the recent film with a game based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, exclusively on Nintendo 3DS.<\/p>\n

The game plays like a dungeon maze crawl hack and slash, with sewers, subway tunnels, and the dark streets of New York replacing the dungeons.\u00a0 You can view an overhead map on the bottom screen where you can see enemies and other points of interest.\u00a0 Switch between turtles in this single player game using the D-pad.\u00a0 Each turtle has different abilities and skills.\u00a0 Donatello can take out groups of enemies quickly with his Bo staff, strong Raph is great with one-on-one fights with big enemies, and Michelangelo can take out long distance threats with his ninja stars. Although in most cases, it really doesn\u2019t matter who you pick.\u00a0 I\u2019m only sad that my favorite turtle, Raphael, is so slow moving in this game.<\/p>\n

Between each level you can visit the hub in the sewers to do several things.\u00a0 You can choose which mission to tackle next, try side missions, view your challenges (think achievements), and buy items in the shop.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to stock up on pizza in the shop before you go on your next mission, especially since the levels get tough pretty quickly.\u00a0 You buy items in the shop with money you earn by defeating enemies.\u00a0 You can use consumable items bought in the shop by pressing the L button during missions.\u00a0 If even one of your turtles loses his energy during a level, you\u2019ll have to start over at the last checkpoint, so it\u2019s important to keep them full of pizza bought at the shop.<\/p>\n

The last thing you can do in the sewer hub is craft and equip new and stronger weapons for your turtles, which gives the game a light RPG element to it.\u00a0 You can find items in the levels to use for crafting, or scrap older, weaker weapons to make newer ones.\u00a0 As you defeat enemies, you\u2019ll collect glowing objects that raise your experience level.\u00a0 The higher your level, the better weapons you can craft and use.<\/p>\n

The main problem I had with this game is it doesn\u2019t come with an instruction booklet, and the in-game tutorials aren\u2019t always clear and oftentimes are forgettable.\u00a0 So it was harder for me to play and review this game because of that.\u00a0 Plus I just wish it would\u2019ve played more like the arcade game I loved as a kid.\u00a0 But if you liked the new movie and enjoy slower-paced action games, then you may want to try this one anyway.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 Even though you hit ninjas, sewer rats, and mutants with blades and other weapons, defeated characters just fall over and disappear.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the movie, they\u2019ll be OK with the game, too.\u00a0 Actually I saw the movie and thought it would be pretty good for kids.\u00a0 Reading skill is needed for the text in the game, and younger fans might get frustrated at the difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have delighted kids since, well, when I was a kid!\u00a0 I was a little too old to get into them back then, but boy I sure did love the original arcade game!\u00a0 Now the four heroes are just as popular as ever, with a computer animated series on Nickelodeon and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12310,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12307\/revisions\/12310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}