Nothing sets Shredder’s Revenge apart from prior TMNT arcade brawlers like making April O’Neil and Master Splinter playable. For the folks over at Tribute Games, it was a no-brainer.
“We really wanted to add [April and Splinter] ever since the beginning,” Yannick Belzil, narrative designer at Tribute Games, told GLHF. “For Splinter, we’re told he’s the master who taught the turtles everything they know. So we thought, ‘how does he fight,’ and what does it look like when he’s beating up foot soldiers?”