The enemy here is totally foreign if you're not familiar with the comics, as Old Hob is a mutated cat linked to the turtles’ mutation. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures: Change is Constant is the kick-off, featuring the four fearsome fighting machines alongside Casey Jones. Instead of one box we now have two expensive core sets, each portraying specific arcs in the IDW comic series.
Instead of issuing expansions to this massively successful title its creators started over from the ground up. (He's known for little ditties like horror board game Arkham Horror and fantasy dungeon-crawler Descent.) But this is 2020 and Shadows of the Past is, well, the past. It was designer Kevin Wilson's return to form. This is a chest of toys for a generation that grew up on it, which is why I was so shocked and full of joy when the TMNT: Shadows of the Past board game arrived from IDW Games in 2016. So of course we're going to latch onto a swanky board game crammed full of miniature ninja turtles.
Sit a kid in front of the TV and turn on that radical cartoon from the '80s - they're instantly hooked like a fish jonesing for a worm. It's even more absurd that these four green reptiles could become so deeply lodged into popular culture that they're still bashing skulls at the age of 40. The concept of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is absurd.
