Yes, I played through TMNT. If you’ve been reading my posts for a while you’ll know that I like a button masher from time to time. I decided to try TMNT for a couple reasons. First, I heard that the achievements were really easy. Second, TMNT brings back memories of my childhood and the original TMNT arcade games. The game is mediocre, but as button mashers go it was not to bad. I beat the whole game with all 1000 achievement point in under 5 hours. The game play is pretty linear. You work your way through linear levels until you get to a group of people to fight. Fight those people and then move to the next area. There are some jumping puzzles to get through a few areas, but for the most part it is just a matter of running and jumping form one area to the next. You have two options for attacking. The Y button kicks and the B button hits. Kicks do less damage, but they knock the opponent down. Hits do more damage, but can be blocked. For the most part I would keep hitting enemies until I was surrounded and then kick a few to give myself some room to work. After you take down 10 enemies without getting hit you active the special attack mode where it goes in slow motion and it only takes one hit to take down enemies. Additionally, after the first couple levels where you learn each Turtle’s individual unique move you can use them together to do powerful combo moves. Each Turtle also has a unique special team combo move they do. The special moves and combos keep the fighting from getting really boring and repetitive. The only real annoyance I had was the stupid one liners the turtles randomly say as you’re running through the levels. They each only say 2 or 3 things and it gets old hearing them over and over. As I mentioned the achievements are really easy. You get all of them except two just for playing through the whole game. Those other two achievements are not hard either. One of them if for beating a level without taking any damage. I got this on the first level of the game which essentially is a tutorial level and there are only 2 simple fighting parts. The last achievement you get for finding a gold coin. This requires you replay a level because the gold coins only unlock once a level has been beat once. I just played the first level a second time and got it withing a couple minutes.

As button mashers goes this one was pretty good. The easy achievement were nice. I would not have played the game through a second time or anything to grind out any harder achievements so I’m glad they were all pretty strait forward. If you’re looking for a mindless button masher or easy achievement points then I’d recommend TMNT.