Whereas many Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are determined to see The Final Ronin make its strategy to the massive display, franchise co-creator Kevin Eastman defined {that a} online game adaptation simply made extra sense.
Per ComicBook, the author and artist famous that the concept to adapt the beloved TMNT story right into a feature-length movie was entertained briefly earlier than the artistic staff went in a unique route. “Nickelodeon, who has all the time been a fantastic companion and nice pal to all of the issues in letting us do what we do, they actually did not wanna take The Final Ronin idea into full on mainstream, like a giant live-action film, one thing to compete with Mutant Mayhem, which is gonna be phenomenally superior,” Eastman defined.
Regardless of this, Nickelodeon knew that it needed to do one thing with The Final Ronin that may please each followers of the supply materials whereas additionally inviting in franchise newcomers. “They collectively got here up with the concept of a online game as a result of we might go all the best way there. They may mainly take all of it the best way into all issues Ronin-verse. They’ve taken all of the completely different drawings and moments… the stuff we have seen up to now is goosebump metropolis,” Eastman concluded. “It is actually phenomenal. They took stuff proper out of the pages of the comedian e-book.”
God of The Final Ronin
Whereas particulars on the in-development Final Ronin online game are nonetheless scarce, Paramount has confirmed that the undertaking will play like a God of Conflict-style motion RPG, embracing the supply materials’s darker tone. The unique story, created by Eastman alongside Peter Laird, Tom Waltz and Andy Kuhn (who additionally did the artwork with Ben Bates) is about sooner or later the place Michelangelo is the one surviving Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Spanning 5 points, the narrative follows the aforementioned character as he embarks upon a solo quest with out his brothers in a bid to avenge their deaths by killing the second Shredder, Oroku Hiroto. The sport will comply with the comics’ storyline and can largely be a single-player expertise.
The Final Ronin rapidly turn into one the preferred TMNT tales up to now, occurring to spawn a follow-up, The Misplaced Years, which follows Michelangelo within the years earlier than he exacts his remaining revenge, chronicling his journey world wide to deliver justice to those who want it.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin online game doesn’t but have a launch date.
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