9.4 /10 1 Votes
4.7/5 eBay Distributor(s) Sega Developer Konami Platform Sega Genesis | 4.8/5 Emuparadise 4.7/5 Let's Play SEGA Initial release date 11 August 1992 Mode Single-player video game Publishers Konami, Tectoy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Composer(s) Masahiro Ikariko
You Takamine
Kaori Kinouchi
Hideto Inoue
Kozo Nakamura Series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Similar Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games, Konami games, Beat 'em up games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cgr undertow teenage mutant ninja turtles the hyperstone heist for sega genesis video game review
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist, released in Europe as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist and in Japan as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder is a side-scrolling beat 'em up based on the comic book characters the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and was also the first TMNT game released for the Mega Drive/Genesis.
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- Cgr undertow teenage mutant ninja turtles the hyperstone heist for sega genesis video game review
- Teenage mutant ninja turtles the hyperstone heist genesis longplay
- Plot
- Gameplay
- Reception
- References
Teenage mutant ninja turtles the hyperstone heist genesis longplay
Plot
April O'Neil is reporting from Ellis Island when, in a sudden flash of light, her audience and herself witness Manhattan Island suddenly starting to shrink. Shredder then hijacks the airwaves and announces to the world that this was only a demonstration of the power of the Hyperstone, the treasure of Dimension X. With the Hyperstone in his possession, he now has the power to take over the world. The Turtles have no choice but to go after Shredder and stop him.
Gameplay
The gameplay of The Hyperstone Heist is heavily based on the second Ninja Turtles arcade game, Turtles in Time, which was also released for the Super NES during the same year. The controls are similar to Turtles in Time, but the ability to dash is now assigned to a specific button and the player can no longer throw enemies towards the screen.
There are a total of five stages ("New York City", "A Mysterious Ghost Ship", "Shredder's Hideout", "The Gauntlet", and "The Final Shell Shock"), which comprise a combination of new levels created specifically for this game and ones based on levels from the first arcade game and Turtles in Time.
The bosses include Leatherhead, Rocksteady (patterned after his appearance in the first Turtles arcade game), Tatsu (Shredder's right-hand man from the first two live-action films, who also appeared in TMNT: Manhattan Missions), Baxter Stockman (in his human form like in the first arcade game), Krang and Super Shredder.
Reception
The Hyperstone Heist is considered a good adaptation of the TMNT show into game form. When compared to Turtles in Time, The Hyperstone Heist features fewer but longer levels, fewer special effects, and inferior digitized voice samples, although the game features more frames of sprite animation than the Super NES iteration of Turtles in Time. Though the Genesis has an inferior color palette when compared to the Super NES, The Hyperstone Heist appears visually brighter, with a heavier use of color contrast than the Super NES game, though the visuals, particularly the shading on character sprites, are overall less detailed due to this hardware limitation. The game also includes more background layers, faster and clearer sprite movement, and overall faster gameplay.
Both games share nearly the same soundtrack and sound effects, but the songs play faster in The Hyperstone Heist. Though there are fewer than half the levels in the Genesis game compared to the Super NES game, each level is longer. Furthermore, The Hyperstone Heist is considered the more difficult game of the two, thanks to a more aggressive enemy AI and faster-moving gameplay.
ScrewAttack named it the 19th best Genesis game ever in their top 20 list, although they dismissed it as a direct clone of Turtles in Time, which they consider to be the best beat'em up ever.