Game:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989)

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Game: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Platform: NES
Completed: October 24, 2022
Rules: Beat the game with only Michaelangelo. No subweapons are allowed, including that invincibility item. If you accidentally pick one up, you have to restart. Also make sure to sing the leave me alone song for the entirety of the underwater section. It's the only way to truly complete the challenge.

I had such a great time playing through this game for the first time that I decided to give myself a challenge. I wanted to play using only the "worst" turtle but I actually wasn't sure if that would be Mike or Raph. I think Mike has better range but Raph deals more damage. I went with Mike since doing less damage often means being put in some very tricky situations because you have to hit many enemies more than once that would normally die in one hit to Raph. At least I think that's right. To make things more interesting, no subweapons are allowed at all. This includes the invincibility item that makes your turtle spin around. In fact, don't even pick anything up. Subweapons are lava. If you pick one up at all then the challenge is failed. Because using a continue revives the other turtles, don't do that either. There's a "no commentary" version of this that I uploaded as well if that better suits you. This recording was only of the successful attempt, not the hours of practice beforehand.

I think the commentary pretty much nullifies the need for written highlights, but you can always check the version with no commentary for that, or if you can't stand my voice or loud clicky controller buttons.

Final thoughts:
This challenge was really tough but was a lot of fun. Playing the game through like this really teaches you a lot about the game. Perhaps I'll give a Raph only run a try at some point since some may argue that he's actually the "worst" turtle.

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Mike Only, No Subweapons, No Death (With Vocals) 102422"

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