Battletoads would have been a cool game if you could change the difficultly down from "Next to Impossible".
THE GOOD
-Cool beat'em up fighting style
-Good sound effects
THE BAD
-Difficulty that will make you cry or throw the game out the window
-You don't get to play as Pimple
OVERVIEW
Battletoads is a game that will make even the calmest person go insane with how difficult it is. The story for this game starts with the Princess Angelica going out for a nice cruise, in her space ship, with a frog named Pimple. Then suddenly the two are captured by the Dark Evil Queen. Once Pimple's brothers, Rash and Zitz (both frogs), find out they are ready for revenge. Rash and Zitz have to fight and maneuver their way through the Evil Queen's enemies and traps. Rash and Zitz are the two playable characters in this game that they are two toads that you don't want to mess with.
GAMEPLAY
The fighting style is really fun. As you punch, kick or do any other attack on the enemy your characters hands and feet grow in size and swell up to deliver more damage. Sometimes your foot turns into a giant boot or, by swinging from a line, your toad turns into a huge bell. Once you connect these super attacks with the enemy you'll end up sending them off the screen, which is fun to watch.
There are a mix of levels that require you to fight your way through enemies and also navigating type levels. An example of a navigation type level is the following. The 3rd level puts your toad on a hovercraft and you have to maneuver around walls and jump over pitfalls in order to proceed further in the game. Now this is a very cool concept but the only problem is that the difficulty setting for the game is set to insane. The "beat'em up" type levels are tolerable (but still very difficult) because you can see the enemies coming and have enough time to react and defeat them. The insane difficulty comes we you play some of the navigation levels. The hovercraft level that I talked about earlier is a great example. On this level you ride in a hovercraft and have to dodge about a hundred walls with about half a second to react and the check points are few and far between. I will have to say that even with Game Genie codes it is still next to impossible to finish the game.
GRAPHICS & SOUND
The graphics are pretty good for this game. You can tell that a lot of careful design went into making this game look good.
This is one of the better things about this game. The catchy music and great sound effects coupled with a fun fighting style makes beating up enemies enjoyable.
CONCLUSION
So, this game could have been good but the difficulty takes all the fun out of the game. I would only recommend this game to those who have a lot of skill and plenty of patience. For others, especially the high tempered, you may want to rent this game first or stay away from it altogether.