Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist: Scene 2: A Mysterious Ghost Ship Playthrough!

Channel:

Retro Gamer 365

Subscribers:

23

Published on March 27, 2023 9:30:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eld1sZY5zfA

Game:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (1992)

Duration: 8:29

1 views

0

Welcome to the Retro Gamer 365 where we are gaming every day! I am your host for this game, Professor Stu, and today we are continuing with TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist! This game is a latecomer to the scene and it is obvious: the graphics are cleaner and smoother, the gameplay has a higher number of sprites it can run on screen simultaneously, and almost the entire game is rehashed footage, enemies, and bosses from earlier games!

With that in mind, this game does have some serious advantages over its earlier iterations. There are also some drawbacks. One perk is that the turtles move much more smoothly and aren't missing frames of animations like they were in earlier games such as Turtles 2: the Arcade Game for the NES. A major drawback is that every boss and enemy in this game has been recycled from earlier games with the exception of Tatsu in the third scene and they even recycle him in the same game!

Scene 2 is truly a conundrum. Did they run out of cool things to name levels and just go with "A Mysterious Ghost Ship" to try and spook people? In all honesty, less than half of the level is actually on the ghost ship, there are no ghosts, and the ship is ridiculously huge. It is probably larger than the Titanic with how it is depicted! That is not very realistic for a wooden sailing ship.

Regardless, the scene opens with the turtles surfing above the water, not on it, into an area of water rife with obstacles. These obstacles include such things as pizza boxes with question marks on the covers, floating wooden barrels, long wooden logs, short wooden logs with spikes, a few dozen Foot soldiers, as well as... Flying Mousers?!? That is just weird, but okay, we'll roll with it. These Foot come in yellow, blue, and orange varieties and they all have matching color surfboards! That was a snazzy choice at least.

After clearing the water area the turtles just sorta drop into the midst of the "ghost ship." I mean, it is in disrepair but there is nothing "ghostly" about it. Anywho, there are hordes of orange, blue, yellow, purple, and white Foot soldiers as well as falling paintings on the walls, barrels falling from the ceiling which bounce across the scene, and finally Rock Soldiers from Dimension X!

Post graveling the Rock Soldiers, the turtles then fall into a cavern of some sort with no real explanation of how or why they are there. However, in true turtles fashion they are assaulted by more Foot soldiers. Yellow, orange, and white Foot await to make turtle soup while Rock Soldiers wait further to the right offscreen. After repelling their attacks, the turtles run into purple, orange, and white Foot who are also hungry. Following a similar pattern, they are defeated and more Rock Soldiers join the fiasco. Once a pizza appears on the screen be prepared for Rocksteady to make his appearance and he immediately declares how hungry he is! Why does everyone want to eat our heroes?

Rocksteady has four bars of HP and starts the fight by charging across the screen. He is immune to damage while charging so don't bother trying to hit him while he does. Seemingly, when he gets down to half HP he pulls out his rifle and starts firing it across the screen. Unlike in previous games he does not continue firing regularly but fires in bursts and then returns to running. Beat him down and he falls on his rump before crying about how he'll beat the turtles next time he sees them. I thought he was hungry?

Anyways, that's the end of Scene 2! Join us Wednesday as we take on Scene 3: Shredder's Hideout! I love how well thought out these names are. Go ahead and smash those like and subscribe buttons and keep on gaming every day!

Other Statistics