Grasp Splinter ‘borrows’ a number of iconic Avenue Fighter assaults in his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge trailer

He’s from 1984, possibly he did it first?

Beat em up side-scroller followers have been excited to see the reveal trailer for Grasp Splinter as one among six playable characters in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, and whereas the upcoming title isn’t a combating sport, it most actually borrows a number of assaults and animations from Avenue Fighter.

Eager-eyed Chaos Productions Inc seen April O’Neil’s Avenue Fighter Alpha assaults when her trailer dropped again in August of final 12 months, and now we see Splinter take out Foot Clan troopers with some SF specials of his personal.

Whereas April had a number of strikes that appeared nearly equivalent to a few of Chun, Karin, Man, and Akuma’s in animation, it appears to be like like Splinter solely has one such copy / paste maneuver: the Tatsumaki “Hurricane Kick”.

At across the 0:15 mark, we see the clever outdated rat spinning about an outdated subway station in a pose we’ve seen Ken, Ryu, and Akuma in for many years. A little bit of a pink shadow aura follows and makes the assault a bit distinctive for Splinter, however there’s no denying it’s a straight up Avenue Fighter homage.

Splinter additionally has a dive kick and sweep that look considerably much like those April performs, however they’re a tad completely different. Proper earlier than we see the Tatsu, the TMNT coach slam an opponent on both facet of him repeatedly simply as Oro does together with his Kishinriki.

Whereas this does look identical to Oro’s throw, this additionally hearkens again to 1991’s Turtles in Time, through which gamers might pull off a really related throw with any of the 4 essential characters. All that stated, we’m undoubtedly excited for Shredder’s Revenge to drop a while later this 12 months for Microsoft Home windows, Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.

Try Splinter’s full trailer right here: