But who has time to think of these things when playing a game that feels like it’s on X100 speed? My solution: blindly bash buttons and be wowed when something cool triggers… to the horror of my partner, who did have time to strategize and think… Now “technically”, each button has its own function, with X being your basic attack, Y throwing enemies into the air, and A being a jump with the order in which you press the buttons triggering different combo attacks.
Thankfully for me, the combat never becomes too complicated, and so long as you can bash X, Y and A, you should be fine. I’d be remiss not to talk about the combat in a game almost exclusively focused on it. Now the toads want to be famous again and are on a quest to achieve just that. The trio have been trapped in an alternate reality where they’ve been worshipped as heroes for the past 26 years before returning to the regular world and hating every second of it. The story is presented in the classic Saturday morning cartoon format and centres around a trio of frogs, Rash, Zitz, and Pimple (and yes, those names had me giggling like a fool). Looking at Battletoads on the screen is comparable to the feeling I used to get watching cartoons as a child – overstimulated in all the right ways. It’s not often that I’ll play a game that takes me out of my comfort zone and yet sit there with a goofy smile, yet that’s exactly what I did here.
The first thing that jumped out to me immediately was how explosively colourful and fun the art style was. Battletoads is everything my partner has spent the last 12 years carrying on and much more. Simple and so much freaking fun that I can’t believe I’ve never experienced the franchise before. But after the roaring success of TNMT: Shredders Revenge and the hope that if I played Battletoads, it would stop my partner from constantly bringing it up in conversation, I decided to push my concerns aside and give the game a chance.įor anyone on the fence about the genre like me, let me summarize the game before we even go any further:īattletoads is balanced. That is why I tend to avoid beat-em-ups like the plague. Mostly, they always have abysmal controls combined with highly unbalanced gameplay and unfair difficulty levels that require godlike reflexes to pass-something I do not possess.
Let me first enthral you with all my hesitations towards beat-em-up games. So the moment I signed up for Xbox Game Pass and saw Battletoads among the collection, it was a no-brainer that I’d be the best partner and download it for us to play. In fact, the only reason I even know about the franchise is because of my partner instantly going on about it for the last 12 years of our relationship. Confession time: I never grew up on Battletoads.
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