TMNT: The Last Ronin Video Game Is In Development

The creation of a video game that is based upon the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles graphic book The Last Ronin has begun. Polygon reports.

News comes from Polygon‘s interview with Doug Rosen, senior vice president for games and emerging media at Paramount Global. Rosen says that The Last Ronin is a video-game in single-player role-playing action, similar to the Norse-themed God of War. It will be mature, just like the original story. The game’s developer has not been named, and the project is years away from release. 

IDW published The Last Ronin in 2020 with a mini-series of five issues. The story takes place in futuristic New York where three of four turtles are dead. The surviving turtle, whose identity is revealed at the end of the first issue (we won’t spoil it), dons a black mask and seeks revenge by fighting crime using both his and the weapons of his fallen brothers. 

It’s a cool story if you haven’t read it, and we’re excited to see it translated into a game. Rosen mentioned in the interview that Paramount has plans to develop different types TMNT games for young and older audiences. 

The Turtles have enjoyed quite the renaissance recently thanks to the launch of the well-received beat ‘em up Shredder’s Revenge last year, the nostalgia trip of the Cowabunga Collection, a Shredder-themed Call of Duty pack, and even a new animated film coming to theaters this August.  

[Source: Polygon]