Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is a FREE mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This is NOT free on PC... the developers want you to pay them money for a mobile app you can play for free right now on your phone. Sure, at first glance this really is a 2D retro pixel arcade beat 'em up starring the famous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their friends. It's unfortunately hamstrung severely by the mobile/Nintendo Switch first game design, making this less than ideal to play on PC. You all have phones, don't you? Worse, the up front price for this free mobile app doesn't even get you the full game. You need to spend even more money to unlock the rest of the game content through DLC packs. They're gouging every opportunity they can! And remember... if you still love TMNT and you want to play this game, you can do so for free on your phone. There's no reason at all for you to pay money for a free game. From a technical perspective, as a mobile app, this doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. This game fails on the visuals because of the use of incredibly lazy, ugly pixelcrap. The developer would probably argue this is a "deliberate artistic choice" but we all know it's because the developer was incapable of producing anything better. The game looks very poor compared to professionally developed games. Whether the developer lacked the skill or the budget for modern visuals is irrelevant, this looks bad because of that developer decision. Gaming is a visual medium, and it's a disservice to gamers when developers don't bother doing their jobs and creating contemporary, high quality visuals. Games like Undertale and Stardew Valley are rare exceptions that succeeded [i]in spite[/i] of their awful graphics. Pixelcrap is never really okay, and there's no excuse for games that look this bad. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. Because this is a mobile app, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the iPhones that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate handicaps and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was an afterthought for the iPhone developers who are to blame for this. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for mobile phones forces upon a game. Once more, mobile devs have made gaming worse for everyone. I didn't spend thousands on building a gaming rig just so I could pretend it's an iPhone. These technical defects push this mobile app below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. You're forced to sign a highly questionable yet legally unenforceable End User License Agreement... for such a relatively low effort, low quality mobile app this comes across more as a delusion of grandeur than anything else. This agreement includes questionable requirements that may attempt to revoke consumer law protections that gamers expect to have, which is also highly problematic. Developers must learn they are here to serve gamers, not control them. I had my cat walk over the keyboard while the EULA was displaying, which fixed that problem for me. Next is pricing and value. Is this mobile app worth buying from among the 140,000+ games on Steam? Yet again, we've caught a greedy mobile developer trying to scam PC gamers. On Steam, this is $25 USD, on app stores? Free for mobile peasants. PC gamers have to pay for a free mobile app. Disgusting. Mobile devs need to learn PC gamers aren't gullible or here to be scammed. Charging money on Steam for something you can get for free on mobile app stores isn't an acceptable business model, it's a directly unethical attempt to scam PC gamers who might not be aware they could get this mobile app for free. So, given you can get this mobile app for free on your phone, there's no reason to pay for it here. You're getting scammed if you do. The other defects (because this is just a crappy mobile app) only make that more obvious. [i]$25 USD for a FREE mobile app!!![/i] Just who do they think we are?