{"id":1974753,"date":"2026-06-05T21:33:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1974753"},"modified":"2026-06-05T21:33:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:33:33","slug":"three-years-later-that-dark-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-last-ronin-game-gets-a-first-trailer-and-its-being-created-by-bayonetta-studio-platinum-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1974753","title":{"rendered":"Three years later, that &#8216;dark&#8217; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin game gets a first trailer, and it&#8217;s being created by Bayonetta studio Platinum Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul class=\"nav-links\">\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Home<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/news\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      News<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-last-ronin\" data-active=\"false\"><br \/>\n                      Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin<br \/>\n                <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_details\" id=\"main-content\">\n<h1 class=\"title\">Three years later, that &#8216;dark&#8217; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin game gets a first trailer, and it&#8217;s being created by Bayonetta studio Platinum Games<\/h1>\n<p class=\"strapline\">Shell is other people.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"headline_asset\">\n<figure class=\"headline_image_wrapper\">\n<p>        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"headline_image\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/tmnt-the-last-ronin-header-2.jpg?width=570&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;dpr=3&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Composite image showing the title character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin in silhouette against a NYC manhole and a newspaper with the headline &quot;Foot takes over city&quot;.\" loading=\"eager\" data-uri=\"tmnt-the-last-ronin-header-2.jpg\" data-lightbox width=\"570\" height=\"321\"><figcaption>\n          <span class=\"attribution\">Image credit: <cite>Paramount Gaming Studios\/Platinum Games<\/cite><\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"metadata\">\n<div class=\"avatar\">\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Wales avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/assetsio.gnwcdn.com\/1521645425.jpg?width=2048&amp;height=2048&amp;fit=bounds&amp;quality=85&amp;format=jpg&amp;auto=webp\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\"><\/p>\n<p>  <img alt=\"Matt Wales avatar\" data-autosize=\"crop_lossy\" data-uri=\"1521645425.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<div class=\"byline\">\n                  <span class=\"article_type\" data-slug=\"news\"><br \/>\n                    News<br \/>\n                  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"by\">by<\/span> <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/authors\/matt-wales\">Matt Wales<\/a><\/span>                    <span class=\"job_title\"><br \/>\n                      News Reporter<br \/>\n                    <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"published_at\">\nPublished on <time datetime=\"2026-06-05T21:33:33+00:00\">June 5, 2026<\/time>              <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mypop-header-wrapper\">\n<p><button class=\"mypop-button button wide\" data-state=\"follow\" data-type=\"tag\" data-uuid=\"3bd33623-c927-4ec5-aa29-ac8b8403a158\" data-name=\"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin\" data-follow-text=\"Follow Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin\" data-unfollow-text=\"Following Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin\" data-aria-follow-text=\"Follow Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin\" data-aria-unfollow-text=\"Following Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin\" data-popup=\"true\" data-force-login=\"true\" aria-label=\"Follow Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin\" title=\"Follow Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin\"><br \/>\n  Follow Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin<br \/>\n<\/button>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Some three years after it was announced an unnamed developer was taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/a> in a darker video game direction with a project inspired by the well-regarded TMNT graphic novel The Last Ronin, the game has finally &#8211; albeit vaguely &#8211; been unveiled. And it turns out the mysterious team behind it is none other than famed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/bayonetta\">Bayonetta<\/a>, Nier: Automata, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/ninja-gaiden-4\">Ninja Gaiden 4<\/a> developer Platinum Games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-last-ronin\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin<\/a> is described as a &#8220;AAA action-adventure&#8221; that follows the last surviving Ninja Turtle as he &#8220;embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost.&#8221; And, um, that&#8217;s pretty much all we know. Paramount has, however, released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_RnIOj126E\">suitably moody teaser trailer<\/a> to accompany the announcement &#8211; although it does, admittedly, lose quite a lot of its brooding energy when a perky electric guitar rendition of the old Turtles theme kicks in halfway through.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin | Announcement Teaser\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_RnIOj126E?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/b_RnIOj126E\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin | Announcement Teaser<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a brief tease for The Last Ronin.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_RnIOj126E\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The original graphic novel version of The Last Ronin, released in 2020, follows the titular Turtle &#8211; whose true identity is only revealed at the end of the book &#8211; as he prowls a grim future version of New York City where his three half-shelled brothers are dead at the hands of The Foot Clan. When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/tmnt-graphic-novel-the-last-ronin-will-become-a-dark-god-of-war-style-video-game\">video game adaptation was initially announced in 2023<\/a>, it was said to be a &#8216;dark&#8217; third-person action role-playing game in the style of God of War.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was also suggested &#8211; by Paramount&#8217;s since-departed senior vice president for games and emerging media Doug Rosen &#8211; that while the project would primarily focus on the lead character&#8217;s quest for revenge, other familiar faces might be playable in flashback sequences. Those plans might have changed significantly in the years since its announcement, of course &#8211; and that teaser trailer certainly isn&#8217;t giving much away.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no word of a release date for The Last Ronin yet, and the only additional information Paramount has provided so far is that it&#8217;s coming to &#8220;consoles and PC&#8221;. Mostly, its press release focuses on the creation of Paramount Games Studio; what it calls a unification of all Paramount and Skydance gaming studios that&#8217;ll focus on transforming &#8220;world-class IP into immersive franchise experiences&#8221;. Turtle power!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p>Some three years after it was announced an unnamed developer was taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<\/a> in a darker video game direction with a project inspired by the well-regarded TMNT graphic novel The Last Ronin, the game has finally &#8211; albeit vaguely &#8211; been unveiled. And it turns out the mysterious team behind it is none other than famed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/bayonetta\">Bayonetta<\/a>, Nier: Automata, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/ninja-gaiden-4\">Ninja Gaiden 4<\/a> developer Platinum Games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-the-last-ronin\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin<\/a> is described as a &#8220;AAA action-adventure&#8221; that follows the last surviving Ninja Turtle as he &#8220;embarks on a seemingly hopeless mission seeking justice for the family he lost.&#8221; And, um, that&#8217;s pretty much all we know. Paramount has, however, released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_RnIOj126E\">suitably moody teaser trailer<\/a> to accompany the announcement &#8211; although it does, admittedly, lose quite a lot of its brooding energy when a perky electric guitar rendition of the old Turtles theme kicks in halfway through.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin | Announcement Teaser\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b_RnIOj126E?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/b_RnIOj126E\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin | Announcement Teaser<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a brief tease for The Last Ronin.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_RnIOj126E\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The original graphic novel version of The Last Ronin, released in 2020, follows the titular Turtle &#8211; whose true identity is only revealed at the end of the book &#8211; as he prowls a grim future version of New York City where his three half-shelled brothers are dead at the hands of The Foot Clan. When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/tmnt-graphic-novel-the-last-ronin-will-become-a-dark-god-of-war-style-video-game\">video game adaptation was initially announced in 2023<\/a>, it was said to be a &#8216;dark&#8217; third-person action role-playing game in the style of God of War.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was also suggested &#8211; by Paramount&#8217;s since-departed senior vice president for games and emerging media Doug Rosen &#8211; that while the project would primarily focus on the lead character&#8217;s quest for revenge, other familiar faces might be playable in flashback sequences. Those plans might have changed significantly in the years since its announcement, of course &#8211; and that teaser trailer certainly isn&#8217;t giving much away.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, there&#8217;s no word of a release date for The Last Ronin yet, and the only additional information Paramount has provided so far is that it&#8217;s coming to &#8220;consoles and PC&#8221;. Mostly, its press release focuses on the creation of Paramount Games Studio; what it calls a unification of all Paramount and Skydance gaming studios that&#8217;ll focus on transforming &#8220;world-class IP into immersive franchise experiences&#8221;. Turtle power!<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin Three years later, that &#8216;dark&#8217; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin game gets a first trailer, and it&#8217;s being created by Bayonetta studio Platinum Games Shell is other people. 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