The teenager mutant ninja turtle has a long, rich history with a video game of the franchise. Over the years, we have seen that four brothers have taken the roads and sewers of New York in platforms, fighting games, pinball experiences and rosaulites, but the most closely associated style with the brand is beat-up-up action. There was a unique idea to deal with the title of turtle while maintaining the heart and soul of IP history in sports, behind sports like Strange Scaffold, Cloving and El Paso. The result is adolescent mutant ninja turtle: a strategic techdown, a game that originally mixes the beat-up-up spirit with individual gameplay conferences and mechanics of a turn-based strategy game. I had the opportunity to play several hours of strategic takedown and speak with the team behind this unique, yet somehow acquainted on the TMNT brand.
The idea of working on a licensed property first entered the brain of Strange Skfold Studio Head Xalavier Nelson in 2020, when he was almost tapped to become a creative director of a Robocop game. Although it fell through the occasion, Nelson continued to think about what would be to make a game based on a major intellectual property. Since then, Strange Scaffold has run sports such as El Paso, other places, clicking, an airport for aliens, run by Dogs, Life Eater, and scary Radanek Dinosaur Haveli 3, which collides with steam only last month.
Despite being busy with many sports in development at any time, Nelson continued to think about working on an established franchise. Nelson says, “Finally the idea of taking a strange outlook for the world of license with the right partner has been in my mind for some time, but it was mainly the right opportunity, right partners and the right universe.”
When Nelson was associated with Paramount Vice President, General Manager, and the head of the global Games and emerging media Doug Rosen, it came to the right fit. Nelson felt as Rosen thought the right way to cooperate with game developers, and it wanted to work with Nelson Paramount. After a long discussion, “We should do something together,” Nelson scrolled through the IP list of paramount in search of the right fit. He eventually landed on the teenage mutant ninja turtles, with which he felt that the team may take advantage of some mechanics developed during the concept phase of their upcoming turn-based character action game, Teenage Demon Slair Society. The team retained the turn-based strategy mechanics, but Nelson wanted to keep the hearts of the games that are the most famous for TMNT Akshanun.
“This is a strange scaffolding way; this is our brand,” says executive manufacturer and author Mada Fero. “We take the styles and we make a really bizarre twist on them. It is not the kind of turn-based strategy game that I thought can also be made. But because we had this incredible cameradry and teamwork between everyone in our team and our game design has been tightened and focused, as it is that Jean’s Mash-up by Jean’s Mash-up Turn-based-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side-side
I was doubting with strategic takedown in the session with my hands. After all, how do you mix such different styles such as turn-based strategy and side-scrolling beat? After spending hours with the game, I am still surprised how well it works. All this begins with giving several action points per turn to your character instead of only one or two. This allows you to defeat an enemy before the next and strategic beating yourself for the beating of enemies or beating yourself for your next turn. At its top, as you change, turns into levels, the falling of old parts and popping up new sections, you are forced to maintain further speed in the form of dash through the steps.
After trying to repeat the strategies used in the more traditional strategy franchisees such as Xcom and Mario + Rabbids, I failed in the first mission in a very spectacular way, which worried that I would worry that this game would be more challenging to play anticipated by me. I fell on the stage as it was mutated, and eventually overwhelmed by a leg clan ambush, resulting in Mickey falling into the fight. However, after knowing each character and how they play, I rarely failed in a mission.
I enjoyed learning the game style of each turtle through their specific stages in the first two chapters. Michael Angelo’s party-Dood Person shines in his skateboard-based attacks, allowing him to jump on enemies, while Donatelo’s BO staff gives him a pair range like NES game, and his technical talent lets him deploy various gadgets. Meanwhile, Rafael’s brawl mentality makes him feel ready to take the world with attacks that provide additional moves and even pull enemies to new places. Leonardo’s leadership ability and strategic thinking allowed him to become more powerful after defeating an enemy. If you do not like a certain step in the turtle trick, you can use in-game to buy new tricks and to customize their loadouts.
One of the most striking things about TMNT: Tactical Tekdown is that you only play as a turtle at a time, there is a clear difference from co–up beat-up-up classics, in which this game pays homage with so much love. Each strategic techdown phase gives you a turtle to automatically control, which makes the encounters feel ultra-tales for the moves of that specific turtle. While clearly gameplay mechanics that went into that decision, the story options gave air to that main idea. Prior to sports events, the world of turtle is upside down, in which both splunters and Shreder are dying. Turtles are somewhat disconnected because they find to find themselves.
“As a writer, what (having a turtle at a time) has forced me to do, clear relationship building is less confident and really bends … We are going to be the moments between the moments that are showing you in the middle of the moments, and there are going to be conversations that are happening outside the game, and this helped to guide the methods in which we drill for those conversations”. “Writing an artist contingent is already so complex, so the way we have handled character development, both were clearly and clearly, really free, due to being many attitudes.”
The unique story theme was one of the driving forces behind the Strange Skfold coming in the project. “I think one of the most under-discus pieces in the creative world, which we live now, especially in the time of mega-mash-ups of different universe, when you put forrtinite in every IP, within the next three months, within the next three months, it can actually be done under-discus on how every character is a real weight for them, if you want to handle them, if you want to handle the right way, if you want to handle the right way, if you want to handle the right way, if you want to handle the right way for them. Gravity. ” “When you are telling a TMNT story, if you are going to bring to the splinter, you want it to have a spotlight that is really that and these brothers have that role in this broad world. In this way, say what you can do in other points in the game, change it.”
After playing through the first two chapters of teenager mutant ninja turtles: Strategic Techdown, 22 May may not come soon. The strategy style can be very hit-or-miss for me, and let’s face it, not every TMNT game is very good, but I emerged to play strategic takedowns for my hours, which is excited to not only enclose with cleverly designed gameplay systems, but also see where this unique story goes. Sadly, how surprisingly good the game is with a controller, despite this, the weird scaffold could not confirm whether the game would ever come into the console. Nevertheless, Nelson teased that the studio is constantly examining ways to bring their game to wider audience. For now, however, teenager mutant ninja turtle: Tactical Tekdown is set to reach steam on 22 May.
