Licensed video games are a crapshoot: sometimes you get GoldenEye 007, sometimes you get Superman 64. And as a franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been on both sides, with fondly remembered NES and arcade titles, a surprisingly good Game Boy Advance TMNT tie-in, and, well, a relentless stream of generic garbage that’s left few consoles untouched.
There’s reason to be optimistic about the next release, though, and that’s because of its pedigree. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan is being developed by PlatinumGames, the Japanese studio responsible for world-beatingly awesome action games like Bayonetta, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and Vanquish. From the trailer above, it looks like Mutants in Manhattan will…
