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| The look on Leo's face says it all. |
When it was first announced that Platinum Games were partnering with Activision to bring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to current-gen consoles, the news was greeted everywhere with much joyous cheering and spontaneous throwing of pizza parties.
With a CV that includes such gems as Bayonetta 1 & 2, Metal Gear Rising, The Wonderful 101 and Vanquish, Platinum are one of the few studios operating today that can scratch that character action gamr itch. Sadly, far from being a match made in heaven, Platinum's attempts to thrust the TMNT back into the gaming spotlight has been met with almost unanimous disappointment. So far, it's looking less heroes in a half-shell and more like a half-assed attempt to cash in on the new Turtles movie hitting cinemas next week.
With just 9 reviews, Mutants in Manhattan is currently sitting on a combined Metacritic score of 46, making it the worst reviewed Platinum game of all-time. GameCrate awarded the game 68 out of 100, admitting that while the game makes for a solid co-op experience and contains plenty of fun references and easter eggs for diehard shellheads, it is too repetitive to justify its price tag.
USgamer claim that though the game shows glimpses of that ol' Platinum magic and contains some good ideas, it feels too underdeveloped. IGN were less charitable, calling the game a 'slog', and Polygon slapped the brawler with the low, low score of 3/10, citing the repetitive encounters and lack of depth or challenge as crippling flaws.
As a big TMNT (as well as Platinum) fan, I have to admit this has all come as something of a bitter shock. My rampant fanboyism will probably prompt me to pick this up somewhere down the line, but for the time being it sounds like gamers would be better off throwing their hard-earned pesos at some of the other great games that have released in the past couple of weeks.
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