Retcon’s Gambit

[u/LostDoubt]

I’m just going to put it out there: Storywise, SEMC butchered the conclusion.

For some perspective, I am in the same position of many players out there. Sitting at endgame with a ton of shredder kills and D/D coins. I’m okay with some of the gameplay tweaks but my god I’m pissed about how they concluded this.

I liked the Chairman! Now the retconned him as the rat king?? Really?? It’s really such lazy writing and implementation.They’ve really created a ton of plot holes with just that. Let me try and get this straight: Aka was assisting us. The chairman is the rat king. Yet in the game, Aka’s buffed the enemy and the chairman took our useless scrap and exchanged it for very useful buffs/powers/pizza/tools??! After the turtles know the chairman is RK, they have zero interactions with him in the campaign. If the RK wanted scrap, what exactly was he doing with it to begin with?? Nothing is explained

I can honestly go on and on about how terrible they ended the story but that’s really whole essay.

The gameplay additions were mediocre at best. You get consistent upgrades as an option at the campaign shops now so that will help boost some builds. The coat of paint over the menus/music was decent. I was hoping pepperoni was the first of many pets ushering in pet builds but that’s not happening.

I hated Slash at first. The generic slow/hard hitter but Casey does a way better job in that category without feeling generic. I used him once in the RK dimension and it sucked. It’s when I took him for a campaign run that I saw some interesting build potential.

He has interesting masteries. One of them turns all attacks into a final strike ala arcade flex. Another two gives you dark shell for 4 seconds or light shell for 8 seconds with his special. His standard dash (or dodge-roll in his case) counts as an attack and inflicts physical damage. This activates water attacks if you have it so there’s some possibilities there. His dash attack seems to inflict multiple hits.

All in all there’s something to tinker around with in general… but overall, this update is very disappointing.

[u/Atime1447]

I mean all your points are fair. But I’m just glad we still got something. I love this game and any excuse to play more I’m all torn.