In an interview with TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman published in Game Informer on March 5th, 2024, he revealed that the comic miniseries "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin", originally envisioned in 1987 as the final storyline during the original comic book's run and set 30 years in the future, was initially planned by Paramount to go "multimedia". However, they scrapped these plans, because concerns emerged about it conflicting with the sales and marketing for the recently-released 2023 animated film "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem". Paramount then suggested that Eastman and company adapt it into a video game so that they could "give it all the edge and all the attitude and intensity that [he] did in the comic series and even go a bit deeper."