Now Playing: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 - Mutant Nightmares

 Konami, whachoo doin'?

 And for the third, and last, entry in the series, Konami decided to mix elements from both previous games. Now mind you, TMNT 1 and TMNT 2, on consoles, were decent at worst and good at best, so mixing the best elements of both resulted in a great game. TMNT 1 on the GBA was good, while TMNT 2 is atrocious, so bad that I stopped playing it. Mixing elements from both was not necessarily a good idea.


 The Bad: The sprites have been redrawn, again, and for the most part they are pretty good, characters now have different proportions and what not... but they revert to generic sprites when going into shared actions, like jumping on walking, which means that Raphael slims down considerably, and Leonardo loses some muscle. It's only really bothersome with Raph though.
 Crystals are back! I hope only optional stuff is locked behind it, no levels or what not.
 You have to replay the entire game as other turtles. Yep, even if you clear stage four with Leo, if you want to replay the same stage as, say, Mikey, you are gonna have to clear stage 1 to four with Mikey. There are optional passages that only certain turtles can traverse, forcing you to replay every single stage to get to them with another turtle is really annoying. Gimmicky touch-based activities.

 The Good: The fighting is more akin to TMNT 1. Heck, you don't need to find your weapons again, which was one of the stupidest things TMNT 2 did.

 Overall: Not impressed.