Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge Developer Talks Modernizing Timeless Beat ’em Up Fun

The team behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge talk about modernizing the timeless beat ’em up fun in a new behind-the-scenes video.

Publisher Dotemu and development studio Tribute Games, in partnership with Nickelodeon, today shared their vision for bringing the timeless fun factor of beat-’em-ups into the present in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. The Turtles’ new adventure is coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One this summer.

Tribute Games has used all the passion born of their childhood love of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to analyze the series’ past beat-’em-ups and ensure that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge stays true to the Turtles’ spirit remain.

Delivering a modernized experience that fans deserve was very important to the team. Tribute Games has achieved this with clever improvements such as unique attributes and moves that emphasize each character’s personality.

Tribute Games co-founder Jean-Francois Major said, “We designed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge to resemble a season of the classic 1987 cartoon series, treating each level as a separate episode. Fusing elements of the expanded TMNT universe with the imaginative fighting styles fans have come to expect from The Turtles resulted in the non-stop pacing of an action film and the balance the game strikes between the personality of this iconic world and the fleet-footed combat , is a playful frenzy.”

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge brings together the work of two retro pros. On the one hand, Dotemu, development studio and publisher known for faithful ports, as well as excellent remakes and sequels of popular series, including Streets of Rage 4, the quick-witted hit nominated for Best Action Game at the Game Awards 2020, and the fast-paced Windjammers 2 and the acclaimed Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap.

On the other hand, Tribute Games, the studio behind original IPs with a retro feel, like Panzer Paladin, Flinthook and Mercenary Kings, which combine the spirit of classic games with a new feel. The Tribute Games ranks also include key talent, having contributed to games such as the acclaimed Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, and 2007’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the Gameboy Advance.

Here’s how Tribute Games weaved the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles essence into their modern beat-em-up: