Recent reviews by Cantras

Once the nostalgia dies down, and there's plenty of nostalgic love put into it, the gameplay is really lacking. Each Ranger plays exactly the same, each Zord handles exactly the same, and the combat is very shallow. Even the SNES side scrollers for Power Rangers had more variety than this game does as far as combat goes. Also, some of the Motorcycle/Zord levels are so chaotic, it's easy to lose track of what's going on and hitting a wall is instant death. It feels like they tried to copy the TMNT Shredder's Revenge but missed out on what made that game good.

And, not too surprising of spoilers, you eventually get to play as the Green Ranger. After you beat the game. There's no reason to replay the game after except for I guess getting each level's individual challenges which are just...for bragging rights I guess? They don't really award you anything. I went back to try and do a Zord battle with the Dragonzord to see if it would change the Zord battle. You can do the running and shooting part like you would with the individual Zords, but once you get to the actual Zord fight, you switch to Megazord anyway which is kinda lame.

And the juice bar is genuinely kind of...pointless? You can talk to Bulk, Skull, and Ernie in between episodes and play on the arcade machines in there. The arcade games are meh (the third one can spawn enemies on the things you're supposed to be protecting and they instantly get destroyed before you have time to even get to it, so that's genuinely pretty unfair). The conversations with those characters don't really feel like they justify an entire section of the game that feels like it was put there because "well we gotta put in the parts in-between where they're hanging out at the juice bar!"

Presentation-wise, sprite work is great, music is great, nice nods to the original series (enjoyed that they had Bulk and Skull's theme play when you talk to them), but ultimately, just not there for the gameplay. It's competent enough, but in a sea of superior games that both scratch that nostalgia itch while providing an engaging gameplay loop, the question is why play this? I guess if you're a diehard MMPR fan, but I'd wait for updates and DLC, see when it comes on sale. As it stands, $35 is too much for what you get.