[Editors note: Recently dug out of the Golgotron archives, we give you this review. Blame Cory for not posting it sooner.]
I started this game out by playing the demo on the PSN… It was completely true to the original. The demo consists of the first level on the streets, it has wrecking balls dropping on your ass, and has Krang shooting lasers in your face. The demo definitely leaves you wanting, and ends with Baxter, the mutant fly. Very true to the original game. So I decided to try the full, reshelled game for $10.

Upon playing the full version, the first 2 levels are spot-on, but then there come the differences, and they’re impossible to miss… Most importantly, there is no fucking Bebop and Rocksteady in the entire game. In the original, you fight the duo on a pirate ship. This time around, they are replaced with Tokka and Razar and they take out the Technodrom almost completely (the exception being the final battle with Shredder). Secondly, there’s no Rat King. They’ve got his level, where you surf the sewers, but no final boss. Also, no Technodrome means no mousers. Yeah, you remember mousers, the metal, lunging bipeds with jagged jaws? Nowhere to be found. All cool minigames, like fighting footsoldiers on a lift and throwing them at shredder are gone too. They replace the Prehistoric Turtle with some gelatinous blob guy. None of these are minor details, they kept some things the same, like the Neon Night Rider level where you drive through a futuristic city on a hoverboard and fight Krang’s suit at the end, but nearly everything was changed.

Essentially, this remake is a piece of shit dressed in pretty graphics compared to the original. If you really have a hankering to kick some shell, get the rom, or dust off the old cartridge and play it like it was meant to be played. I looked it up, the original goes for the same price on ebay, $10, and we’ve all got a dusty SNES sitting around somewhere. Don’t waste your time on this half-assed revisit to the classic. Stick with the old graphics, and get the better game.