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General Gaming / Re: Games Beaten, Completed, or Played in 2022
« on: January 15, 2023, 03:48:36 PM »It looks like Luigi Dude and broodwars both played all the TMNT games. I am going to start that collection soon, but will just be playing one game every once in a while I wanted to start with Turtles in Time, but and deciding between the SNES version and arcade version. I am guessing the arcade version looks nicer, but the SNES version is better balanced for completing without needing unlimited lives/credits. What are your thoughts on the better at home experience?
The SNES version is better. It's got an extra level, and is much better balanced game. For one, the SNES version lets you actually do the move where the Turles grab an enemy and smash them left and right, which is great for handling situations when you're being swarmed by enemies. In the Arcade version that move just randomly happens. The SNES version also lets you double tap to run in the options menu, while in the Arcade version you have to move for a while before you start to auto run. The double tap to run is a much better option for trying to get away from bosses attacks and larger groups of enemies. It also adds some new boss fights that are better then what's in the Arcade version as well. You'll need to beat Hard mode to get the ending, but you can set the game to let you have up to 7 lives and 5 continues so even Hard mode is still very beatable.
The Arcade game is cheap, even by Arcade standards. The better you're playing, the more enemies will keep spawning on screen until it reaches a point where you'll be overwhelmed. If the Arcade version let you do that enemy slam move at will this would make it more doable, but since that move just randomly happens in the Arcade, it pretty much means you have to rely more on luck then skill. This is why the games pretty notorious for being almost impossible to 1CC, even among the very hardcore.
Of course since you can just keep spamming credits to win, the Arcade game will take less then an hour your first time through so it'll still be worth playing just too see the differences between it and the SNES version. The sprites and animations are better so it's worth a playthrough to see what a pretty version of Turtles in Time looks like.