Was it a proto-Metroidvania?

For as much of a ball-buster TMNT NES is, I would give my left nut for a TMNT game like that today that mixes multiple genres, or hell even a proto-Metroidvania type game like Radical Rescue was. I liked Shredder's Revenge but the beat em up formula has gotten old after 35+ years. The Turtles are basically so old and, I'm sorry to say irrelevant, that you could do something really unprecedented and zap some life into the franchise again.