Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed
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Developer(s)	Aheartfulofgames
Publisher(s)	Outright Games
Series	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Platform(s)	Nintendo Switch PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S
Release	October 18, 2024
Genre(s)	Beat 'em up platformer
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed is a 2024 platform beat 'em up video game developed by Aheartfulofgames and published by Outright Games. The story is set in the universe of the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) and takes place shortly after the film's events. It follows the Turtles, who, after being accepted into society and achieving their dreams of attending high school, must deal with a new wave of mutants causing havoc across New York City.

Gameplay is presented from the third-person perspective with a primary focus on the four Turtles — Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo — traversal and combat abilities. The game can be played in single player mode or in two player local cooperative multiplayer mode.

Mutants Unleashed was released for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows on October 18, 2024.

Gameplay

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed is a 3D beat 'em up platformer set in a fictionalized New York City. It is presented from a third-person perspective, showing the playable character. The playable characters are the four turtles — Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo — who each have their own unique playstyle. In addition to the single-player mode, the game supports two-player local cooperative multiplayer.

Plot

Several weeks after the Turtles defeat Superfly and were accepted into society as heroes and normal teenagers, many mutants, dubbed "Mewbies", start to immigrate to New York City, leading to many community centers opening shelters to begin co-existence between the humans and mutants. Suddenly, all the Mewbies start to act aggressively, leading to a city wide curfew and cancelling school. When Bebop and Rocksteady start to act aggressively themselves, the Turtles defeat them at a concert they created and discover that they became aggressive due to drinking water, which they believe is contaminated, but only harmful to mutants.

While studying the contaminated water, called the "Pheromone," with the help of Donatello's new friend, Sai Modi, Genghis Frog becomes infected. At the water treatment plant, the Turtles defeat Genghis and encounter the culprit: a mutant chameleon named Cammy Leon, determined to perpetuate the world's perception of mutants as threats to society. They then discover that the pheromone is also airborne as Leatherhead was also affected, due to her riding subway trains, resulting in her preparing a doomsday shelter before they defeat her. While attempting to develop a cure, Sai's lab explodes and ends up contaminating Wingnut with a more unstable pheromone, causing her to kidnap Splinter, Bebop, Mondo Gecko, and Ray Fillet.

After freeing them, Sai resumes researching for a cure, which the Turtles use to cure Wingnut when they confront her at an abandoned movie theatre before delivering it out via pizzas. However, it only makes the Mewbies completely feral, including Michelangelo, due to Cammy managing to contaminate the pheromone further. After defeating Michelangelo, the Turtles confront Cammy, whom they defeat before discovering the Techno Cosmic Research Institute (TCRI) capturing and collaring the Mewbies with mind controlled headsets, inducing martial law on the city. The Turtles learn that TCRI were the ones that released the Mewbies, including Cammy before complying with her request to orchestrate the whole disaster. With the help of their friends, the Turtles expose TCRI's plan by disabling the blimps transmitting the devices before intending to destroy the building producing the pheromone. However, concerned for any Mewbies that wouldn't survive, Cammy enters the building just as it explodes, resulting in her being completely feral. She then goes on a rampage before the Turtles defeat her, resulting in her falling from a mass height and into the East River, but her body was nowhere to be found. The curfew is soon lifted and the purified Mewbies begin doing community service.

If the player completes all relationship objectives, the turtles discover Tobias "Toby" Scanlon, who runs one of the community warehouses, has stolen Sai's research and the turtles confront him aboard an airship, where he dons an exoskeleton mech. Upon being defeated, Toby reveals his intention to upgrade the pheromone to affect humans as well, which was filmed on a drone Donatello had built, and is incarcerated by TCRI. Sometime later, Mondo shows off a mass mural of the turtles, their friends and allies, including Cammy, who, unbeknownst to everyone, has revealed to have survived the fall.

Marketing and release

Outright games announced the game in September 2023 for unspecified consoles and Windows. In March 2024, the game title was revealed, as was its developer, Aheartfulofgames. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed was released for the Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Playstation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and Windows on October 18, 2024. It will be available in two special editions: the Deluxe Edition, which in addition to the game includes an exclusive steelbook, pin badges, keychains, and an artbook; and the Collector's Edition, which includes everything in the Deluxe Edition as well as a season pass, statue, poster, LED sign, mouse mat, notebook, pen, stickers, and collector's box.

Reception

According to Metacritic, the game received "mixed or average" reviews.

External links

• Official website