Developer: Zengami
Publisher: DigiPen Game Studios
Release Date: March 9th, 2018
Platforms: Nintendo Switch
Despite it’s name, Turtlepop: Journey to Freedom is not a game about popping turtles. Sorry Shredder.
Instead, Turtlepop: Journey to Freedom is a game about helping adorable little turtles get to the end of each level, avoiding various obstacles along the way. The game follows a model similar to that of a freemium game(without that annoying side of Micro-transactions of course). You select the next level along the path and proceed through various platforming levels. Players can link turtles together allowing them to control more than one turtle at a time. Linking multiple turtles together will help increase your score getting you closer 3-starring each level. You can also manipulate the environment using you turtle genie to help solve platforming puzzles.
Turtle Genie will help you avoid those pesky bombs!
As you progress through the game, completing levels and leveling up, you’ll be rewarded with treasure chests that give you a random assortment of cards. The cars will allow you to upgrade the farming facilities you’ll use to produce helpful items like bombs and watermelons which provide the turtles with helpful boosts. At the end of each level, you’ll be rewarded with a bonus round where you can rush a set number of turtles to the goal increasing your currency rewards which allow you to unlock and earn new upgrades for your various farms.
While simplistic in it’s design, the vibrant worlds you’ll navigate and the turtles you’ll play as are all really cute. It’s an exceptionally bright and colorful game. The sound effect’s make it all the more wonderful as well when you hear you little turtles scampering along the ground. It can be a little hard to make out what’s happening when the watermelon’s really hit the fan. I’ve blown up more turtles than I’d like admit due to all of the confusion that can occur at one time.
Turtlepop feels like a freemium game and it’s weird.
Despite that it doesn’t offer too much in the way of a challenge, Turtlepop has a ton of content ranging from over 100 campaign levels to two competitive multiplayer modes, and even co-op. It’s biggest issue is that there isn’t a ton of depth to game that feels like it might have found a better home on a mobile platform. It is however, still a fun and relaxing game to play and perfect for a younger audience.
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