A dark RPG based on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and inspired by God of War is in development

The upcoming Paramount Global project is based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin comic book series

Polygon managed to speak with Doug Rosen, Senior Vice President of the gaming division at Paramount Global, and learned that the company is working on a dark RPG based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin comic book and inspired by God of War.

While most games in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe are designed for cooperative play and let players control all four turtles (or their friends like April O'Neil or Casey Jones), The Last Ronin will be strictly a single-player game. However, Rosen noted that other characters will still be playable in flashbacks.

The plot of The Last Ronin centers on one of the Ninja Turtles wearing a black mask and using all four turtles’ weapons in combat: nunchaku, sai, a bo staff, and katanas. Only at the end of the comic’s first issue was it revealed that the mysterious masked turtle is Michelangelo. The rest of the turtles and Splinter were killed by the Foot Clan, forcing Michelangelo onto a path of vengeance.

An undisclosed studio is working on the currently untitled AAA project. The game’s release is “a few years out”, but the developers will begin sharing the first details in the coming months.