'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin' Is Getting A Video Game Adaptation
THQ Nordic revealed it was in development during their digital showcase Friday
THQ Nordic confirmed on Friday during its digital showcase a videogame adaptation of the acclaimed IDW comic miniseries Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, following a report from Polygon in March. They had gotten word from Doug Rosen, the senior vice president for games and emerging media at Paramount Global.
Because it was an “in development” announcement, no release window has been revealed, but the game will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The trailer therefore doesn’t reveal much, instead relying on themes and symbolism to be of any relevant visual substance. That is aside from text calling it the "official adaptation" of the comic series of the same name from Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Ben Bishop, Luis Antonio Delgado, and Esau and Isaac Escorza. Whether any of them are actually involved directly with the game is unclear.
Black Forest Games, one of many THQ Nordic-owned developers, is indicated to be involved. Black Forest has recently developed include Titan Quest and the newer Destroy All Humans! games including the 2020 remaster of the original, the multiplayer component Destroy All Humans! Clone Carnage, and Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed. Nickelodeon is involved as well, presumably as IP owners at the very least.
As far as the premise of the game, of course it’s going to lift from the synopsis of the comic it’s adapting, reading
"Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost," a preview of the book explained. "From legendary TMNT co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, get ready for the final story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles three decades in the making! What terrible events destroyed his family and left New York a crumbling, post-apocalyptic nightmare? All will be revealed in this climactic Turtle tale that sees longtime friends becoming enemies and new allies emerging in the most unexpected places. Can the surviving Turtle triumph?"
It’s a darker story clearly, about Michelangelo, so he’s going to be the main focus and character played in a third-person format that Rosen likened it to God of War and its sequel God of War Ragnarok. He suggested that other characters might be playable, too, but that'd be through flashbacks. During the digital showcase, THQ Nordic also announced South Park: Snow Day, Titan Quest 2, and released new trailers for Gothic 1, Trine 5, Tempest Rising, the Alone in the Dark reboot, Outcast - A New Beginning, Way of the Hunter: Tikamoon Plains, and Last Train Home. The reveal trailer is below.
