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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection Review (Xbox Series S)

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Our Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection Review brings us to this timeless collection of original classics gives chasing down Shredder, fighting the Foot, and tangling up with Bebop and Rocksteady a fresh look at why KONAMI’s adaptations of the heroes in a half shell set the standard in beat ‘em up, action games.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection Review Pros:

  • Beautiful graphics covering 8Bit, 16bit, and more.
  • 8.5GB download size.
  • 1000 Gamerscore.
  • Action, platformer, beat ’em up gameplay.
  • Turtles lair houses –
    • Strategy guides for each game.
    • Box art scans for all the games in all regions.
    • Game manual scans for each game and region.
    • Classic magazine, catalogs, and media kit scans.
    • Comic book cover scans for TMNT 1984, TMNT adventures, TMNT 2011, Turtles in time, TMNT universe, and TMNT urban legends.
    • Handybsearch/filter option.
    • Soundtracks for each game and they have a cool cassette art icon.
    • Behind-the-scenes tidbits and scans for each game.
    • Animated show stills for every episode from the 87,03,2012 and 2012 seasons.
  • Games are available in Japanese or US versions.
  • Watch games that are auto-played and you can jump in at any time, you can fast forward and rewind time before jumping in.
  • Every game has an enhancement set of options unique to the game so you can adjust things like sprite flicker or easy mode and infinite lives.
  • Can remap controls.
  • Save at any time.
  • 13 games in one –
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (Arcade)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (NES)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (NES)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (NES)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (Super Nintendo)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Sega Genesis)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of The Foot Clan (Game Boy)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back From The Sewers (Game Boy)
    • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (Game Boy)
  • Online play is available for –
    • TMNT arcade game.
    • TMNT Turtles in time.
    • TMNT The Hyperstone Heist.
    • TMNT Tournament Fighters.
  • Each game has screen size (original/full/wide), filter (off/tv filter/monitor/LCD filter), border on and off options along with the ability to pull up the strategy guide.
  • Quit the game to go back to the game select screen.
  • The game selection is presented on a cool comic book-style art menu.
  • Every enhancement option has a pop-up description of what it does.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection Review Cons:

  • No mention of how to actually bring up the overall game menu for saving and guides etc.
  • Just Japanese and US versions of the game.
  • Not all games have online play.
  • Don’t really see the point in the animated cartoon stills section, it’s only a handful of screen grabs and they feel random.
  • Shows just how much better Japanese box art is compared to anywhere else in the world!
  • Gameboy games do not have the green screen option instead going for just black and white.
  • No filter for game sorting or filtering.
  • Only border art is off or the box art nothing else.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection:

Official website.

Developer: Digital Eclipse

Publisher: Konami

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Xbox

  • 9/10
    Graphics - 9/10
  • 9/10
    Sound - 9/10
  • 9/10
    Accessibility - 9/10
  • 8/10
    Length - 8/10
  • 10/10
    Fun Factor - 10/10
9/10

Summary

We wait years for a good Turtles game and then two come along at once! This is the definitive Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles collection full stop, Konami has gone far and beyond to wow and delight fans from the excellent ports to the new mod cons like fast loading and save states, but no they also added in optional cheat menus and a whole host of extras like promotional material and concept art. My mouth dropped when I saw the cartoon section but that reaction soon turned to disappointment because I thought it was every episode of the cartoon instead it was random stills from every episode of every cartoon which is till now understood why it’s there. Back to the games and the memories come flooding back, finding out that Tournament Fighters was on the NES was a pleasant surprise but I’m here for the Gameboy games and Turtles 2 the arcade game, there really is a game for everyone from fighting to platforming to Metroidvania, the Cowabunga Collection has it all and then some. If you ever wanted the history of the games then you are sorted, ever wanted to replay the games, and you are sorted. No puns but this is totally worth it and an absolute must-buy!

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!