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DarkRoast posted...

It's not that it's too difficult overall but that there's specific instances (the dam level) where the difficulty and the punishment for failure is unreasonable relative to the rest of the game.

Yeah. The biggest flaw in the game is that they don't refill your health after you complete a level. With trial and error, you can learn the pizza locations. But even then, you're talking about making multiple trips to refill health to all of the Turtles. The health replenishment in the final stage is halfway through the level and there's no exit - so that one you unavoidably must have healthy Turtles in reserve if you hope to make it through.

The difficulty spikes tremendously in the second half of the game. It's ultimately unnecessary because you're already looking at one of the biggest games on the NES. If the difficulty never went beyond what it was in the third stage, you're still looking at two to three weeks of gameplay before any kid is likely to beat it.