{"id":12735,"date":"2014-11-21T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12735"},"modified":"2014-11-13T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T00:22:10","slug":"teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-danger-of-the-ooze-360-ps3-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/21\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-danger-of-the-ooze-360-ps3-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze (360, PS3, 3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TMNT_BOX\"<\/a>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been famous with kids since, well, I was young.\u00a0 And now there is a popular new TMNT computer animated TV series on Nickelodeon.\u00a0 This game is based on that series.\u00a0 When Donatello picks up traces of a new super mutagen, it\u2019s up to the four heroes in a half shell to find it before Shredder and the Kraang aliens do!\u00a0 Danger of the Ooze is a single player 2-D platformer\/beat em up that plays quite a bit like an old school Metroid game!\u00a0 It\u2019s available on Xbox 360, PS3, and 3DS, but reviewed on 360 here.<\/p>\n

You can play as one of the four turtles and switch them out at any time.\u00a0 You can run, jump, punch, and kick bad guys while exploring the sewers, streets, and buildings of New York City.\u00a0 This game was actually developed by WayForward, and their style is evident here as it plays like a classic Metroid game.\u00a0 You even get a map with plenty of hidden paths and upgrades.\u00a0 If you find a room with a tatami mat, kneel and meditate to save you game and maybe even reveal more of the map area!<\/p>\n

Hidden about the maze-like map are items and skills that\u2019ll help you reach more of the areas.\u00a0 Ninja throwing stars can hit long distance enemies and open certain doors, just like missiles in Metroid.\u00a0 You can even find upgrades to let you hold more stars.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also learn other skills like double jumping and using smoke bombs to help you uncover more of the map and reach your goals.<\/p>\n

While battling Mousers, Foot Clan Ninjas, and Kraang aliens, you can chain together attacks in a combo move and when the turtles start spinning their weapons, you can press a direction to perform a \u201cShell Kicker\u201d which can knock the enemy back, skyward, and more, depending on what direction you press.\u00a0 The only problem is that hit detection is not always what you think it is, and you can\u2019t cancel a combo move right away once the turtles start spinning their weapons.\u00a0 Plus, floaty jumping movements make the controls not quite as responsive.\u00a0 Some items, like smoke bombs, are also hard to use at first.\u00a0 What\u2019s even worse is that the game doesn\u2019t even come with an instruction booklet, and when you click on the icon that says \u201cmanual\u201d in the game, it just shows a URL address for you to go online to find the instructions.\u00a0 That\u2019s no good!\u00a0 Is it not that hard to put them in the game, too?<\/p>\n

Normally in games like Zelda or Metroid, I don\u2019t mind backtracking, but here it is bit of a chore.\u00a0 Goals are sometimes not as clear, and if one of your turtles loses all their energy, they are sent to a random spot on the map for you to rescue.\u00a0 So it can be a pain in the butt to go back to save one of your turtle brothers.\u00a0 And if you only have one turtle left and lose all of your energy, you\u2019ll be sent to one of the \u2018prisons\u2019 on the map yourself, and not at a save point.\u00a0 But at least you\u2019ll keep the items you found.\u00a0 But finding the rest of your team can be a pain, especially if they are in an area you haven\u2019t been to yet.\u00a0 You\u2019ll just have to make sure to switch out turtles when they\u2019re low on energy and keep everyone filled with pizza pickups to prevent that from happening.\u00a0 But it can be hard sometimes.\u00a0 This aspect of the game reminded me of the first TMNT NES game, so if you enjoyed that one, you might like this new game as well.\u00a0 Personally, I prefer the mindless four player action of the arcade game.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame that these problems hamper the new game because a Metroid-style Turtles game sounds like a good idea initially.<\/p>\n

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

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Danger of the Ooze is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Comic Mischief and Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 While you do punch and kick a lot of bad guys, they\u2019re all either just robots or monsters that explode or run away when defeated.\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids watching the TV show, they\u2019ll be OK with the game, too.\u00a0 Reading is helpful for some of the text, and younger gamers may get frustrated at the high difficulty level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been famous with kids since, well, I was young.\u00a0 And now there is a popular new TMNT computer animated TV series on Nickelodeon.\u00a0 This game is based on that series.\u00a0 When Donatello picks up traces of a new super mutagen, it\u2019s up to the four heroes in a half shell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12735","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\/12735","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=12735"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12738,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12735\/revisions\/12738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}