With a million units sold in a week, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge has repopularized the classic beat 'em up. The thing is, the genre never really went away, even if it's not as dominant as it was in the arcades.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
is the big gulp of oxygen the belt-scrolling beat ‘em up genre’s been needing for decades. It’s not though. To be clear,is an exceptional game and totally worth picking up, but it’s only the latest in a thriving but much-overlooked genre. In fact the game’s greatest successes are the result of conventional wisdom that’s been accruing in the space for the past 35 years.
First you’ve got co-op. Arcades are the primordial ooze that beat ‘em ups sprang from. And whether it’s meant for four players or just one, an arcade cabinet is an object that’s ontologically meant to be shared and gazed upon together. Games likebrought this knowledge forward into the Xbox Live Arcade era by including online co-op so you could play as a group whether you had meatspace friends or not.
Today’s beat ‘em ups also tend to respect your time. Despite their history as notoriously hard games created to consume countless quarters and require multiple rentals to finish, nowadays beat ‘em ups are usually brief experiences.went out of its way to faithfully adapt the gameplay from its predecessors, but thanks to the inclusion of generous checkpointing and extra lives I was able to see credits after two or three hours.
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