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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants

Critics expressed significant disappointment with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants, finding the gameplay overly simplistic and repetitive, lacking the depth and excitement of other classic TMNT beat ’em ups or the modern standout, Shredder’s Revenge. While there’s some mindless fun to be had, especially with friends, the game’s short length, lack of replay value, and high price point make it a hard recommendation for most players.

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A port of the arcade game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles released in 2017 which was based on the the 2012 Nickelodeon TV series. This port adds three new stages and six new boss battles to the gameplay of the original arcade game.

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75%

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50%

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What did you think of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants?

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Will Borger (IGN)

April 23, 2024

6/10

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is like a two-dollar slice of pizza you pick up while you’re walking home after a night out in New York City. It’s tasty in the moment, but it will leave you wanting a lot more.

Chris White (God is a Geek)

April 23, 2024

6/10

Despite some pretty visuals and colourful environments, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Wrath of the Mutants is rather repetitive.

Steven Impson (Press Start)

April 23, 2024

5/10

The simple gameplay of Wrath of the Mutants can be enjoyable in the right mood, but don’t expect anything more than a bland and repetitive button masher.

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Read the Reviews (27 total)

Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
But Why Tho?	Kyle Foley	6.5 / 10	04-23-2024	TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants has its moments of fun but needs to have more variety to be truly great. It is worth the price of entry if you just want to mindlessly kill some TMNT-themed enemies, but don’t expect anything revolutionary.	Read review
CGMagazine	Jordan Biordi	5 / 10	04-23-2024	I was shell-shocked by the pathetic mediocrity of TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants.	Read review
ComingSoon.net	Tyler Treese	7.5 / 10	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is a colorful romp that never bores or overstays its welcome.	Read review
eXputer	Hanzala Iftikhar	2.5FALSE	04-23-2024	With hollow gameplay and monotonous design choices, TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants rides the nostalgia train but delivers nothing.	Read review
GameGrin	Alana Dunitz	6 / 10	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is a fun arcade experience for home with up to four players, but it is very short!	Read review
GameSpew	Richard Seagrave	5 / 10	04-23-2024	Inspired by Turtles in Time, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants certainly plays like a blast from the past. After Shredder’s Revenge, you’ll likely find its gameplay too basic, however, and it fails to impress in other ways, too.	Read review
GamingBolt	Shubhankar Parijat	4 / 10	04-24-2024	Maybe there’s some superficial, fleeting fun to be had here, but TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is far too simplistic, straightforward, and shallow to ultimately be anything more than an utterly forgettable disappointment.	Read review
GamingTrend	Jack Zustiak	50 / 100	04-23-2024	TMNT: Wrath of the Mutants puts you on a roller coaster ride through the world of the 2012 cartoon. The ride proves amusing, but digging any deeper into its game design reveals the game to be a rather sloppy bout of sewer surfin’.	Read review
God is a Geek	Chris White	6 / 10	04-23-2024	Despite some pretty visuals and colourful environments, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Wrath of the Mutants is rather repetitive.	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	Chris Shive	3 / 5 stars	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is a decent addition to the collection of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. It succeeds by playing it safe. The two original arcade games are regarded as great arcade brawlers in addition to being some of the better Turtles games, and the gameplay of Wrath of the Mutants is heavily patterned after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time. Fans of the franchise and genre will undoubtedly enjoy playing through the game once or twice, but outside of collecting all the trophies, there isn’t much incentive for repeated playthroughs. There are no different game modes, no collectibles and the only difference in difficulty levels is the number of lives. Even with the additional content, it takes only slightly more than an hour to put an end to Shredder’s plans and rescue April. It’s fun enough to kill some time on a boring afternoon, but even the most hardcore Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan would hesitate to say this game kicks some serious shell.	Read review
IGN	Will Borger	6 / 10	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is like a two-dollar slice of pizza you pick up while you’re walking home after a night out in New York City. It’s tasty in the moment, but it will leave you wanting a lot more.	Read review
Jump Dash Roll	Connor Shaw	4 / 10	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Wrath of the Mutants is lacking in both content and quality	Read review
Nintendo Life	Jim Norman	5 / 10	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is not the steaming cash grab that you might have assumed by seeing the publisher involved. Neither is it anything close to the action-packed highs that we have seen from the heroes in a half-shell in recent years. Instead, we are left with a game that is perfectly serviceable but ultimately forgettable, let down by repetitive levels and combat and lacking any reason to go back for more. If, for some unknown reason, this is the only Turtles beat ’em up that you can access, then you will likely have a perfectly fine 90 minutes of playtime. But the alternatives on Switch deliver much more memorable, satisfying TMNT experiences.	Read review
NintendoWorldReport	Neal Ronaghan	6 / 10	04-23-2024	In a world where the Switch is filthy with TMNT arcade games across the Cowabunga Collection and Shredder’s Revenge, Wrath of the Mutants is a distant third place. It’s fine in the sense that if you get three buddies to play through it with you, you’ll probably have a good time. But beyond that camaraderie, this is a middling port of an okay game.	Read review
NookGaming	Andrew Camac	4 / 10	04-23-2024	It pains me as a huge Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fan to have written this review, but in an age where titles like Turtles in Time and Shredder’s Revenge exist, Wrath of the Mutants just isn’t worth any more than the quick 10-minute play I gave it on those half-broken sticks back at the arcade.	Read review
Press Start	Steven Impson	5 / 10	04-23-2024	The simple gameplay of Wrath of the Mutants can be enjoyable in the right mood, but don’t expect anything more than a bland and repetitive button masher.	Read review
PSX Brasil	TheTreeble	60 / 100	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants takes inspiration from one of the genre’s greatest classics, but fails to attempt to modernize the experience with its shallow gameplay and presentation. The result is a weak and repetitive game, even with its short duration.	Read review
Rectify Gaming	Unknown	3 / 10	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is a game that fails to capture the magic of its source material. It’s a repetitive slog that offers little in the way of entertainment value. Someone explain to me why there charging $40 for this …. Cowabunga? More like Cowabung-NO.	Read review
Screen Rant	Leo Faierman	1 / 5 stars	04-23-2024	TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants wears its age as a nearly-decade-old port, and some of that is to be expected. It’s still hard to understand why any of its elements weren’t modernized to keep in line with beat ‘em ups released over the past five years, let alone the recent Shredder’s Revenge, which remains the conspicuous elephant of comparison in the room.	Read review
Shacknews	TJ Denzer	5 / 10	04-23-2024	Wrath of the Mutants is a functional beat ’em up. I’ll give it that. If you liked the 2012 show and want more TMNT beat ’em up goodness to play, it’s fine if your co-op friends are nearby. Otherwise, there are far better options at similar or cheaper prices, even within this IP.	Read review
Stevivor	Steve Wright	6 / 10	04-22-2024	My strategy — if you want to call it that — was effective on Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulties and made short work of opponents. I didn’t play in co-op, though local 4-player play is an option; there, I’d imagine you’d simply need to coordinate powers between all playing. You’ll be unstoppable, and that’s a problem because there’s not a lot of game to play, even with the addition of new levels and mini-bosses.	Read review
TheGamer	George Foster	2 / 5 stars	04-23-2024	Even with my love of the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and my enjoyment of the fun, but simple gameplay, Wrath of the Mutant’s short run time and high price point make it an incredibly hard game to recommend. If this was a bonus game added to The Cowabunga Collection or a part of a sequel collection for some of the modern games then it’d be a notable treat, but on its own, it’s simply not worth it.	Read review
TheSixthAxis	Adrian Burrows	3 / 10	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants is almost an insult to side-scrolling beat ’em ups. Worst of all, despite this being a budget release, it costs more than the fantastic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge from last year. One to avoid like some green ooze on the sidewalk.	Read review
Use a Potion	Unknown	6 / 10	04-24-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants can be fun, but it’s a bit too simple and short to stand out for anyone other than fans of the series. The side-scrolling brawling gameplay is simplistic and doesn’t bring with it any fresh ideas, whilst the unbalanced difficulty feels like its designed to drain your health as opposed to offer a satisfying sense of challenge to the player.	Read review
VGChartz	Evan Norris	6 / 10	04-23-2024	Ultimately, Wrath of the Mutants can’t compete with Shredder’s Revenge or the better Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games out there. Still, thanks to its smooth controls, shallow-but-satisfying brawling, and diverse settings, it’s a competent beat-’em-up.	Read review
Video Chums	A.J. Maciejewski	5.6 / 10	04-23-2024	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants provides simple beat ’em up entertainment that can be kind of fun for a couchful of chums. However, its middling nature certainly leaves a lot to be desired. 🍕	Read review
WayTooManyGames	Leonardo Faria	4.5 / 10	04-23-2024	Had Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants been released in, say, 2021, I would have definitely complained about it, but I would have also said there was no better option for us fans out there. In a post Cowabunga Collection and Shredder’s Revenge world, however, this game feels almost like a joke. I don’t know who this game is for. By being so dull, so lifeless, so devoid of joy and excitement, Wrath of the Mutants actually stands out like a sore thumb.	Read review
WellPlayed	Mark Isaacson	6.5 / 10	04-25-2024	As a fan of the Turtle’s arcade roots, I’d happily recommend TMNT Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants for a run or two, but despite the new levels the lack of online support and barebones presentation spoils this pizza party.	Read review

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