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malvarez1
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I’m pretty excited for this one, Platinum rarely disappoints.
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Doubleclouder
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| Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2026 10:51 pm |
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If it's anything like Platinum's Transformers Devastation game then the turtles are in good hands. I would prefer a more cartoony/animation art style than realistic though.
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malvarez1
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2026 11:28 am |
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| Doubleclouder wrote: | | If it's anything like Platinum's Transformers Devastation game then the turtles are in good hands. I would prefer a more cartoony/animation art style than realistic though. |
I don’t know if you’re familiar with the original Last Ronin graphic novel, but this is one time where realistic graphics arguably make way more sense than a cartoony one.
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residentgrigo
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2026 12:08 pm |
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Licensed Platinum is historically shoddy. It´s how their abysmal first TMNT game came about. We´ll see but the first volume of this comic is good.
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Ashabel
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| Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2026 10:26 pm |
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| malvarez1 wrote: | | I’m pretty excited for this one, Platinum rarely disappoints. |
Platinum bled out all of their veterans because the current president has been obsessed with GaaS projects. Also, painting this as a great developer/franchise reunion like the trailer did is hilarious when you consider the first TMNT game by Platinum was so uniquely horrible that the publisher removed it from storefronts within a month out of shame.
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Beatdigga
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| Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2026 6:44 am |
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| residentgrigo wrote: | | Licensed Platinum is historically shoddy. It´s how their abysmal first TMNT game came about. We´ll see but the first volume of this comic is good. |
It has to be a franchise they care about. It’s why Transformers Devastation was so well received but their Korra and TMNT games were seen as well below average.
The problem is that Platinum from that era isn’t the same as today’s Platinum, with most of their talent having left.
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Scion Drake
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| Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2026 7:25 am |
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| Ashabel wrote: | | malvarez1 wrote: | | I’m pretty excited for this one, Platinum rarely disappoints. |
Platinum bled out all of their veterans because the current president has been obsessed with GaaS projects. Also, painting this as a great developer/franchise reunion like the trailer did is hilarious when you consider the first TMNT game by Platinum was so uniquely horrible that the publisher removed it from storefronts within a month out of shame. |
In some fairness Ninja Gaiden 4 I think was made after the staff exodus and it had pretty great gameplay if an unimpressive story. So whatever staff remains may still have some of the sauce.
In terms of hopefully differences, this appears to be a direct adaptation of the Last Ronin story, one of the most celebrated and best-selling stories of the franchise so hopefully that gives it some more investment than the original story from the last TMNT game Platinum did.
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BadNewsBlues
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| Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2026 10:23 am |
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| Ashabel wrote: | | Platinum bled out all of their veterans because the current president has been obsessed with GaaS projects. Also, painting this as a great developer/franchise reunion like the trailer did is hilarious when you consider the first TMNT game by Platinum was so uniquely horrible that the publisher removed it from storefronts within a month out of shame. |
Yeah that’s not likely why.
Games are seldom ever removed from a storefront because of being terrible. Only two major examples being Afro Samurai 2 and PS4/Xbox One versions of Cyberpunk 2077.
A cursory examination shows the game was removed apparently because Activision lost the rights to the IP/let it expire months after the game’s release.
| Scion Drake wrote: | | In some fairness Ninja Gaiden 4 I think was made after the staff exodus and it had pretty great gameplay if an unimpressive story. |
Unimpressive story is a feature of Ninja Gaiden games not a bug.
| Scion Drake wrote: | | gives it some more investment than the original story from the last TMNT game Platinum did. |
Which was based off the IDW comics but while it was fairly early in it’s run. Which leads to poorly aged aspects like Armaggon whose a boss in the game but is much later revealed in the books to be a cosmic level entity.
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