Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate Reviews
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate might not be a revolutionary entry in the roguelite genre, it’s a really enjoyable and new kind of experience for TMNT fans. The diverse combat styles of the turtles, coupled with the engaging skill tree and well-designed levels, create a compelling core gameplay loop. The co-op mode shines even brighter, allowing players to team up and combine their turtle power in a truly satisfying way online, and off. While the repetitive enemies and sometimes uneven difficulty hold it back from greatness, Splintered Fate offers enough charm, challenge, and TMNT spirit to warrant a playthrough, especially for those who grew up yelling “Cowabunga!” alongside their favorite shelled turtle – I even found myself shouting it during my own runs.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate confirms all its good qualities, already appreciated at the time of its launch on Apple Arcade. A light and fun (yet challenging) action roguelike that is clearly inspired by the top of the class, that Hades capable of garnering major recognition even at The Game Awards in 2020. The excessive similarity to the Supergiant Games masterpiece is both a virtue and a flaw of the Super Evil Megacorp production, on the one hand wise in shaping an accessible and cooperative-friendly declination of the genre, on the other hand far too conservative in ideas. Kind of like a good all-you-can-eat pizza: you never turn it down, but there's definitely something more delicious out there.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is an appreciable roguelite that attempts to gather all Hades fans now waiting for the second chapter, due next year. Super Evil Megacorp's latest endeavour, however, is a production that struggles to stand out qualitatively, mainly due to a shaky technical compartment and a difficulty set too low, all the more so when played in co-op.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is a mostly successful Hades-like that’s a blast to play and really gels well together across all of its key components. It’s a little easier-going, the loading screens are a bit of a slog and the overall balance and storytelling isn’t as compelling or as tight, but Turtles is a fantastic IP to mesh with the genre, and this is about as close (and as enjoyable) as Hades as I’ve seen any other game in recent memory. Totally bodacious!
It captures the spirit and form of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but introduces a concept and a series of well-designed mechanics from a less explored genre within this universe.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Splintered Fate is inspired by one of the best games of all time, so coming up short was always in the cards. I think a sequel that provide truly unique runs with more variety in the environment is a must. I like the idea of what the perks and abilities offer, making you stronger, but when you are fighting the same enemies in the same locations, it’s hard to get that excited for the next run. The TMNT have a wide catalog of some pretty mediocre games and just plain awful titles and thankfully, Splintered Fate is not one of them.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate may not be the most original roguelike out there, but I had a blast playing it and would easily say it's one of the best TMNT games yet.
If you're a cowabunga and you've got company to join the battle to save Master Splinter, don't underestimate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate under any circumstances
Review in Greek | Read full review
eenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is more like a temporary short solution for those who find themselves "orphaned" by their favorite roguelike, like Dead Cells or Hades, and is a fan of the Ninja Turtles. There's no secret here: you'll pick a character and do a quick complete run many times until you get tired and depart for a bigger challenge or leave the game behind altogether. There aren't many incentives besides controlling Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo in fights against iconic villains, so don't expect anything grand or you will be disappointed.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
"Pizza with two toppings!"
Review in Finnish | Read full review
The turtles might be stuck in a time loop, but Splintered Fate’s smooth combat, availability of multiple playstyles, and snappy presentation make sure it’s an entertaining, if somewhat bumpy, ride.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is easily my favorite TMNT game in recent years, standing side by side with the mighty Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. Roguelikes aren’t for everyone by their very nature. Not everyone likes to lose and start again, but if you can look past that and embrace it, you’ll find a constantly rewarding challenge worthy of the moniker of master.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate comes to us from Super Evil Megacorp after its time at Apple Arcade and presents us with an action game with isometric views and roguelike mechanics that is undoubtedly "inspired" by the magnificent Hades. Splintered Fate is not as complete a title as the one from Supergiant Games but it adds new elements such as character selection or online and local multiplayer modes. Ninja Turtles fans will definitely enjoy it.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Splintered Fate is a great Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles roguelike that possibly sticks a little too closely to the template set by one of the genre's finest. And yet, as I played through run after run with a co-op partner, I didn't care one bit.