Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Splintered Fate Casey Jones DLC Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · Published February 5, 2025 · Updated January 31, 2025

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Splintered Fate Casey Jones DLC Review, The Turtles can use all the help they can get as they go up against Shredder and try to get their father back. Thankfully, their friend and fellow vigilante Casey Jones is always ready to pick up his hockey stick and do some damage. What’s more, he happens to know a shortcut to the rooftops of NYC! Strangely, their path takes them straight through the Junkyards and Punk Frog turf. Could this have anything to do with Casey’s missing ride? They are no match for Casey, though– what he lacks in finesse he more than makes up for in raw power. His Slapshot becomes the first ranged attack in the game, taking down punks left and right.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Splintered Fate Casey Jones DLC Review Pros:

Decent cel-shaded graphics.
994.56MB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – resolution, fullscreen, default display, graphics device, screen space ambient occlusion, and screen space reflections.
Mono sound option.
You can remap the controls.
Three ways to play – coach co-op, single-player, and online play.
Two difficulties – Easy and normal. All that changes is how the enemy fights.
Four-player Co-op support.
The optional opening tutorial, explains the controls, and mechanics of the game along with story elements.
Excellent voice work.
You can see enemy health bars and damage numbers.
Character interactions auto-play.
Roguelike action gameplay.
Dragon coins can be found and earned, these stay with you even after death and you spend them on permanent upgrades.
Casey Jones has two inspirations – applies guard break for 3s to enemies hit, and after a special your next attack is a final strike with a 30 percent crit chance.
Casey Jones has one tool – for 6s deal 30 plus damage and quickly recover special charges.
Play as any turtle and each has a unique tool, and abilities or buffs.
As you do a run you earn exp and when you level up you pick one of three upgrade choices.
A game over you lose everything except dragon coins.
Everyone can play the Junkyard in Online and Local Play when the host has access to it.
The game is played on a 3D isometric view.
After defeating Karai, you will be given a choice to enter the Streets or play in the new Junkyard storyline.
Your home in the sewers is the hub where you spend coins and choose a turtle, use practice dummies, etc.
Casey Jones has his own area in the sewers.
A reward is doled out after encounters.
Handy slow mob last kill in an encounter so you know when it’s over.
Breakable objects everywhere.
Very fast-paced combat.
The game has mini-boss encounters and the DLC adds new enemies The Punk Frogs and bosses made from junk!
In Single Player, you can pause the game.
You get story elements from Casey Jones and he explains what is going up top and how he came to be down in the sewers
New loading screen pictures.
A lot of elements are in play like dark, light, etc and as you level up you get the ability to build it up and enemies can be weak to them.
Your character has a circle around them with an arrow to help you navigate the world.
Run details in the menu show what you are currently running with your character.
Find scrap in breakables and enemy drops.
A shop can appear on a run and you spend scrap on items and health.
The dragon coin upgrades are split into training, technique, and specialty.
Artifacts can be found and equipped before a new run.
Takes a lot of mechanics and ideas from Hades.
The game is very fluid.
5 new Artifacts were added to the game with the DLC.
A full running stats screen.
You unlock new items and mechanics as you play the game.
Massive end of Area big boss encounters.
A wide variety of enemy types and features well-known characters.
For online play, you can select to start a new run or carry on with your single-player run.
The new enemies in the DLC look rad with mouse mohawks and brilliant boss characters.
Offline local multiplayer has full 4-player support.
It feels like you are always unlocking something new.
Online has created a run and joined a run.
Dreamer upgrades is another set of upgrades and buffs using the Dreamer coins, this one focuses more on getting more scrap, better loot, and re-rolls and are for bonuses to new runs.
All new seperate story for the DLC.
What I do appreciate is future runs do have you feeling like you are doing better, boss fights may be repetitive but they do mix up attacks and you can see different forms and patterns.
Another way of getting currency is picking certain rewards as you get a bonus amount of currency added.
It’s really satisfying and looks so cool when you have elements attached to your weapon, as you see them as you attack.
The game moves at a much faster pace than the Nintendo Switch version.
Casey Jones is a really good character once you get used to how he plays and you get some upgrades, his Puck move for example can bounce off and deal damage to multiple people and a real game changer.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Splintered Fate Casey Jones DLC Review Cons:

Casey Jones is not selectable straight away and you have to do a run before he unlocks.
You cannot just go up to Casey and select him, you still have to go to the Turtles selection part of the sewer.
Bare minimum graphics settings.
Probably a personal thing but I don’t like how often they say father all the time in relation to Splinter.
No way to just bring up the controls.
Doesn’t have the cinema mode option from the Nintendo Switch version that sets the FPS.
The difficulties are in a menu called mode select for some reason.
You have to agree to share information in order to play multiplayer.
The game isn’t super clear on whether you can use your offline run online and offline indefinitely or if you wipe over progress.
You cannot make private rooms.
The mouse cursor stays on the screen when using the controller.
No customisation options.
Does have repetition and how this makes you feel will depend on how you level up and scale your character.
Loading times are just not quick enough.
A lot of the scenery cannot be broken like barrels and some boxes.
The loading times are not as fast as you would like even on an SSD.
Sucks you have to unlock the Junkyard by clearing chapter 3 each time to get the option to go there.