HIGH Adorable adventure. Clever minigames as combat. Robot dog!!!
LOW A bit too much backtracking for an experience so short.
WTF Did I just dress up like a pinball machine?
HIGH Adorable adventure. Clever minigames as combat. Robot dog!!!
LOW A bit too much backtracking for an experience so short.
WTF Did I just dress up like a pinball machine?
HIGH Fluid combat and solid build diversity.
LOW Paper-thin story.
WTF The Shredder knows who Plato is?!
HIGH A pretty solid soundtrack.
LOW A comparatively weaker second half.
WTF A girl with a humongous rifle!
HIGH Giving into Lora’s darker impulses.
LOW Technical issues prevented me from seeing one of the endings.
WTF Did she just bite off what I think she bit off?
HIGH The intuitive control scheme and well-acted voiceovers.
LOW Everything else.
WTF The “mouse pointer” can exit the Switch screen’s boundary…
HIGH Hitting a huge group of goblins with the wand for the first time.
LOW The final third feels like a letdown.
WTF The musical mid-game box battle.
HIGH The music is absolutely stellar.
LOW Some relics of old-school gaming rear their ugly heads.
WTF Time-traveling antics make for interesting, but disconnected, fights and setpieces.
HIGH It’s a fine franchise choice to work out to.
LOW There’s no Japanese voiceover option, and the alternatives aren’t great.
WTF Kenshiro claiming that my punches are every bit as good as his. Uh… no.
HIGH Lots of ways to kill!
LOW The painful lack of innovation.
WTF Are the devs familiar with the concept of a difficulty curve?!?
HIGH Delightfully lively, humorous, and lovable characters.
LOW Retracing steps gets old in the later hours.
WTF Just what exactly are those bones next to Swamp the rat?