Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
Genre(s): Action Beat em up Platform(s): Game Boy Developer(s): Konami (JP/EU) Ultra Games (NA) Publisher(s): Konami Predecessor: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) Successor: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan, released as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan in Europe, and simply Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (ティーンエイジミュータントニンジャタートルズ) in Japan, is the first TMNT Game Boy game. It was first released in Japan on August 3, 1990.

Plot

April has been kidnapped once again by the Shredder, Krang and cohorts, and Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello set out to rescue her from their enemies' clutches. The chase leads them through the sewers and the streets of New York City, the river, and then the Technodrome.

Why It Rocks

1. The graphics are very good to look at, specially for a Game Boy game release in 1991 as it's very detailled compared to other licensed game on the console, overral this game have better turtles design than it's sequel.
2. The controls are good and simple, you just have the d-pad, A and B and that it's you don't need to do specifics combinaisons for making a special move just like Kung Fu Master.
3. The music is pretty good, even for Game Boy standard.
4. Thr level design is good, much more different than the NES version as it is even more straightfoward.
5. Nice boss fight, some of them are challenging even trough some of them are too easy.
6. The cutscenes are pretty good for a Game Boy game, they are as good as Ninja Gaiden Shadow and all of them came from the 1987 animated serie.
7. The game is very faithful to the 1987 serie.
8. The gameplay is very fun.
9. In 2022, the game along with other Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, the game was re-release in the Cowabunga collection.

Bad Qualities

1. The game is too easy and barely challenging, especially compared to it's successors on the Game Boy.
2. The boss fight difficulty are poorly balanced as some of them are too easy or some of them are too hard like Shredder for exemple but Krang who is the final boss is extremely easy if you know the way to beat him very easily.
3. The game is too short, even back in the days as you can simply beat it in less than 20 minutes.
4. The last stage of the game have annoying enemies because most of them take 2 hit and when you did the second hit the enemies can shooting you.
5. Getting to the final stage before completing the other is very pointless because you will not getting the full ending, because of that selecting the stage before playing is almost useless.
6. The framerate can be pretty bad sometime, thankfully the sequel fixed this.

Trivia

1. The game's cover art is taken from the Archie Comics adaption of the first film, the same image source used for the blister packaging of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Splinter Speaks.
2. All cutscenes for this game are inspired by moments from the 1987 TV series, particularly the original intro sequence and the first episode Turtle Tracks.
3. A poorly converted port/clone of this game was released on the Taiwanese handheld system Gamate under the title Tough Guy.

Reception

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan receives mixed to positive reviews by critics.

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