Temporary boosts in dungeons are great in roguelikes. For Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, they are called Turtle Powers and that name is a callback to the classic days of the 80s cartoon series. They are great in the moment, but players will only know true power once they invest Dragon Coins into Dragon Upgrades.
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Dragon Upgrades are permanent and they apply to all Turtle heroes in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate. They can do everything from increase health to make heroes move faster. There are a lot of Dragon Upgrades to get through, but these are the best for the early hours of this latest roguelike sensation.
8 Health
Increase Health
Health upgrades are the end all be all of roguelikes. Players can go further if they just have a bit more juice in the tank. Every notch in the Health Dragon Upgrade category will increase a certain percentage of the character’s HP.
There are ways to increase HP temporarily in dungeons too such as gathering pizza boxes and then using individual pizza slices for restoring HP. It’s great that all four Turtles share the same HP pool too so players don’t have to upgrade every one of them.
7 Savor The Flavor
Food Restores More Health
Finding pizza slices in dungeons can be hard sometimes depending on the type of drops enemies contain. Most pizza slices will only restore a small amount while the aforementioned pizza boxes will restore some HP and also increase the bar.
Savor the Flavor is a Dragon Upgrade that will increase the potency of normal pizza slices, thus restoring more HP. The more ranks players have, the more pizza will restore HP. It’s a simple Dragon Upgrade to make life a little easier in the dungeons.
6 Splinter’s Revive
Revive After Death
Splinter’s Revive is the best type of healing feature a roguelike can have. If players happen to die, they will be revived for a small amount of HP. Another Dragon Upgrade, Astral Rejuvenation, will increase how much Splinter’s Revive will actually heal.
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Every rank into Splinter’s Revive will increase potency but more importantly, it will allow players to go into dungeons with more opportunities to get revived. It’s great for solo-play but it can be good for co-op sessions with all four Turtles in the field too.
5 Dash Charge
Dodge More
The best move for defense in the game is dashing away from enemies using a dodge. There are Turtle Powers, which are temporary boosts while in dungeons, that can add damage boosters to dashes. Otherwise, dashes are an easy way to avoid damage.
Players can't dash all day long though. They need charges and Dash Charge is a Dragon Upgrade that will increase how many dashes players can do simultaneously which will stack with every tier.
4 Swiftness
Move Faster During Combat And Exploration
Swiftness is another Dragon Upgrade that can potentially help with dodging enemy attacks. Every notch will increase how fast players move by a certain percentage. Like the game Hades, every room in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate is not that big and there is no backtracking to be had.
So, character speed may not be as high on the upgrade list as other ones on here. However, the faster Turtles move, the more naturally evasive they can be even without dashes although it requires a lot of notches into Swiftness to be effective.
3 Attack Damage
Base Damage Increases
Some players prefer to play their roguelikes defensively while others want to have a good amount of power to defeat enemies swiftly. For the latter types of players, Attack Damage is a Dragon Upgrade for them. It will increase attack power for basic weapons in the game from Donatello's bo staff to Michelangelo’s nunchucks.
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It will help clear out rooms in a jiffy although a lot of Turtle Power temporary boosts will do that as well. It’s all about balance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate.
2 Tool Damage
Increases Tool Damage
Besides the main weapons of each Turtle, they will come with Tools as well. Tools operate on a cooldown system that will recharge once players do a set amount of damage to enemies. It’s a bit different from other cooldown systems in games.
For example, Raphael will start with the Turtle Line, which will pull enemies toward him sort of like Scorpion’s grappling hook in the Mortal Kombat series. Tool Damage is a Dragon Upgrade that will simply increase how much damage any Tool can do.
1 Enduring Effects
Increases Duration Of Negative Effects
Enduring Effects is great for the type of player who likes to inflict damage over a long or short amount of time. There are negative status effects in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate, like Inferno, that will do just that.
Inferno in particular will hurt enemies for a set amount of fire damage every second. Enduring Effects will make attacks like Inferno last longer. Inferno, and other effect-based attacks in the game, can be acquired by finding Turtle Power boosts in dungeons.
- Platform(s)
- Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS
- Released
- July 17, 2024
- Engine
- EVIL Engine
