History YMMV / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime

* GameBreaker: The ability to control throws and slams in the SNES port. While the throw is required for the exclusive Shredder boss where you throw Foot Soldiers at him, the slams and throws reduce all enemies save for Stone Warriors into [[OneHitKill One-Hit Kills]] and you can earn extra lives really fast.

* ItsEasySoItSucks: The SNES port for some people. The gameplay is slower, bosses and enemies are easier than their arcade versions and Sewer Surfin' and Neon Night Riders became bonus rounds.

** "Prehistoric Turtlesaurus": The SNES version replaced Cement Man, a minor monster that only briefly appeared on the show [[note]]From the episode "Curse of the Evil Eye" as a creation by Baxter Stockman using said eye, to be exact.[[/note]], with Slash. Unfortunately, he's the hardest boss on the SNES version for many reasons. He is a LightningBruiser that's immune to frontal attacks and he can counter with a rolling attack that deals a few bars of energy when he TurnsRed. [[note]]Slash is vulnerable from behind, so it helps to sneak behind him as he attacks and then hit him from there.[[/note]]

* ThatOneLevel: Rest assured that if you're playing the arcade version and more used to the SNES release, "Sewer Surfin'" goes from a BreatherLevel to a real quarter-muncher. Enemies have their normal stage health in the arcade instead of being dropped in a single hit, the traps come out much more suddenly and haphazardly, and the Chunky Cheese Pizza Monsters don't swim underwater as a warning before they attack. The result is tons of cheap damage and eating hits while trying to deal with the Foot Soldiers they spam at you.

** This is how some feel about ''Hyperstone Heist'', since aside from adding a run button, there is not much else. There are some new areas, but everything else is a re-skin of stages seen in the Arcade/SNES counterparts, though the environments have more detail and faster game play compared to the SNES. Even the Baxter Stockman fight was ripped wholesale from [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame the original arcade game]].

** This is how some feel about ''Hyperstone Heist'', since aside from adding a run button, there is not much else. There are some new areas, but everything else is a re-skin of stages seen in the Arcade/SNES counterparts, though the environments have more detail and faster game play compared to the SNES.

* GoodBadBugs: Aside from the welcome addition of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Bebop and Rocksteady]] as level bosses in the SNES, you can also [[spoiler:use a glitch to make them fight and defeat ''each other'', doing the work for you.]]

** The music for the "Skull & Crossbones" level has parts that are very similar to Music/{{Metallica}}'s "Fade to Black".

* GoddamnedBoss: Super Shredder since you can't actually damage until after he attacks (touching the fire surrounding him actually damages you), and you have a short window to do it before he teleports, during which you can't hurt him either. He has the most health of any of the bosses, so you are in for a long fight. In hard mode, the damage window is so small that you are reduced to guessing whether Shredder will fire at ground level (the green one is a retro-mutagen ball that takes away a life instead of health, the red one just hurts like hell) or above with blue ice and hope you get lucky.

** The Arcade's teaser mode has a snippet from [[https://youtu.be/ayd-a44Nca4 "Pizza Power"]], from the "Coming Out of Their Shells" tour album.

* GoodBadBugs: Aside from the welcome addition of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Bebop and Rocksteady]] as level bosses in the [=SNES=], you can also [[spoiler: use a glitch to make them fight and defeat ''each other'', doing the work for you.]]

** [[AgonyOfTheFeet "MY TOE! MY TOE!"]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Sewer surfing onto spiked balls or getting hit by certain bosses' attacks that go along the ground.[[/labelnote]]

* UnexpectedCharacter: Most people probably wouldn't expect Tatsu from the first two TMNT live action movies to appear as a boss in ''Hyperstone Heist'' especially since most elements of the game were from the 1987 cartoon. [[note]] With the other exception being the {{final boss}} Super Shredder who of course is expected since it's [[{{Main/Big Bad}} Shredder]].
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** "This cave is creepy."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Falling into a manhole in "Alleycat Blues" has this speech balloon appear before the Turtle climbs back out.[[/labelnote]]

* AntiClimaxBoss: Super Shredder. The color flames around him show what attack he's going to use and as long you don't stand in front of him when he's about to attack, which given the amount of time before he does attack isn't that difficult, he'll never hit you. One of his three moves can't even hit you unless you try a jump attack so it does nothing but leave him wide open.

* DemonicSpiders: The Yellow Frisbee Foot Soldiers which first appears at "Skull and Crossbones". They react far better than their common part, throw a rather difficult to dodge boomerang attack that can hit twice and if you get too close they simply kick you away probably faster than you can attack, to top that they can endure a decent amount of punishment before dying. Fighting them with Michelangelo is a rage-inducing task, though well-timed attacks can deflect them.
* EvenBetterSequel: To both it's [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheManhattanProject NES]] and [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame arcade]] predecessors. This is widely considered to be one of the best [=TMNT=] games and one of the greatest, if not '''the''' greatest Beat 'Em Up of all time.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Those who are aware of the Arcade version say this about the remake, which was a bit ''too'' accurate to the arcade, and didn't have many features from the somewhat more popular SNES version.

* ThatOneBoss: The SNES version replaced Cement Man, a minor monster that only briefly appeared on the show [[note]]From the episode "Curse of the Evil Eye" as a creation by Baxter Stockman using said eye, to be exact.[[/note]], with Slash. Unfortunately, he's the hardest boss on the SNES version for many reasons. He is a LightningBruiser that's immune to frontal attacks and he can counter with a rolling attack that deals a few bars of energy when he TurnsRed. [[note]]Slash is vulnerable from behind, so it helps to sneak behind him as he attacks and then hit him from there.[[/note]]
** Shredder's Machine in Hard Mode (SNES version), the common mooks you use to throw at him now ''blocks'' requiring you to charge at them to break their guard and throw them at Shredder's machine, it gets tricky trying to do that while other Foot Soldiers gang up on you and Shredder keeps using you as a target practice. Hopefully you didn't forget to change the Auto-Dash before starting...
** Many have had complaints about Krang's hovercraft due to its difficulty in your hits connecting with his continuous shifting and teleporting, the bubbles coming out that temporarily stun you and the robots that fall from the hovercraft that you also have to contend with. Even in using a two- or four-player game doesn't make it any easier.

** To those who thought the game was "Changed" for the remake, also overlaps with ItsTheSameNowItSucks.

** Fans of the Arcade or SNES version do not like the fact that the Genesis version lacks the throw-the-Foot-Soldier at the screen maneuver. The reason for that was hardware limitations. Despite common misconception, the SNES version didn't actually utilize Mode 7 (which can only scale and rotate backgrounds, not character sprites) to achieve the effect, but instead just uses the same artwork redrawn larger across the three allowed background layers very quickly as a programming trick. However, the Genesis only allows two background layers so Konami couldn't implement the same trick without it looking totally janky. The Genesis can split background layers horizontally to scroll them independently, which is why it always had such good parallax scrolling, as seen in the open ocean surfing level in ''Hyperstone Heist''. The lack of a third layer is also why they needed to put the energy bars at the top in a black bar; those are essentially a separate set of sprites on top of a separate background.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Most people probably wouldn't expect Tatsu from the first two TMNT live action movies to appear as a boss in ''Hyperstone Heist'' especially since most elements of the game was from the 1987 cartoon. [[note]] With the other exception being the {{final boss}} Super Shredder who of course is expected since it's [[{{Main/Big Bad}} Shredder]].

%%** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtOFsZk1CX8 TECHNODROME ~ LET'S KICK SHELL!]]

** "This cave is creepy."
** [[AgonyOfTheFeet "MY TOE! MY TOE!"]]
** Gamers joke that now the year 2020 has passed, there's no flying hovercrafts.
* MisBlamed: The fans say that the ''Re-Shelled'' remake "Removed" several features that made the game good, like Bebop and Rocksteady, the Technodrome, and Super Shredder... Which weren't in the original arcade game. The aforementioned elements are from the SNES version, which expanded upon the arcade game.

** Fans of the Arcade or SNES version do not like the fact that the Genesis version lacks the throw-the-Foot-Soldier at the screen maneuver. As the throw-the-Foot-Soldier-at-the-screen maneuver didn't even utilize Mode 7, which the Genesis lacked, the reason for its omission remains unknown.
** The [=Arcade1Up=] miniature cabinet replaced the original theme song with a cover, presumably due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyers lingering legal issues with the original version]], which upset some fans.

** [[https://youtu.be/SqqhWrppAu4 BIG APPLE, 3 AM]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiOjePmJAmE SEWER SURFIN']]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0t_eshhdrQ TECHNODROME ~ LET'S KICK SHELL!]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri5XqNG7a28&fmt=18 BURY MY SHELL AT WOUNDED KNEE]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUbb2F9bFGE NEON NIGHT RIDERS]] (the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDGLLU3sm-k SNES version]], if you prefer)
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTIS3OJCMI8 STARBASE, WHERE NO TURTLE HAS GONE BEFORE]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaOlPqAowQQ CLIMACTIC BATTLE]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf9r9xVk7OA TECHNODROME ~ THE FINAL SHELL SHOCK]]

* EvenBetterSequel: To both it's [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheManhattanProject NES]] and [[VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTheArcadeGame arcade]] predecessors. This is widely considered the best [=TMNT=] game and one of the greatest, if not '''the''' greatest Beat 'Em Up of all time.

** The Arcade's teaser mode has a snippet from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlRf0fAZ6ZY "Pizza Power"]], from the "Coming Out of Their Shells" tour album.

** Fans of the Arcade or SNES version do not like the fact that the Genesis version lacks the throw-the-Foot-Soldier at the screen maneuver. This is due to the lack of Mode 7 graphics support on the console.
*** ...or so it would seem. But actually, throw-the-Foot-Soldier-at-the-screen maneuver didn't even utilize Mode 7, so the reason for its omission remains unknown.

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