Making us feel like we have all the powers and skills of our most beloved fictional characters is one of the most often-broken promises licensed video games make, and indeed, TMNT: Out of the Shadows barely gets out of the gate before that familiar feeling of disappointment sets in. As I clumsily lurched through the tutorial, clipping through doors while the frame rate struggled to keep up, it was hard to shake the feeling that I was in for an unmitigated disaster. But once I settled into the decidedly off-beat groove of its combat, TMNTOOTS pulled its nose up a bit, comfortably averting a crash, but without ever truly soaring either.