Battletoads
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Ok I have got to get something out of my system. I think Battletoads is the greatest nintendo game if not the greatest side scrolling game of all time. (this is just my opinion, im not looking for people to reply with hateful words or anything lol). The reason i think so highly of this game is because it has more than just your average 2d side scrolling games. I had played this game since i was about 5 years old and it is still fun to me. So by now... i kinda have the game memorized. I have always loved this game, but the other day i says to myself, i says "What is it about this game that makes me love it so much?" So i decided to play the game as a reviewer would play and not just a gamer. So here it goes, this is my first review... and i figure what better place to do it than in a forum so that i can get peoples opinion on if i should review more games... or just quit while im ahead. ok enough with the bull shit lets get started.
The first thing i noticed about this game was the music. Now in my opinion, in games the most important thing is gameplay and the second most important thing is music. Picture playing... oh i dont know... Sonic or Mario without music, it might still be a good game but without the music it just has sort of a boring feeling to it. The music at the title screen has a sort of rock tone to it if you will and several times i have waited 10 or 15 minutes before i played the game just so i could listen to that rockin tune. To me, that music was a indication that the game was going to kick ass right from the start. The best part is every stage has a different and unique song, unlike games like Friday the 13th and Back to the Future which only had one song just looped over and over throughout the entire game.
The next thing i noticed about it was the story line. It has the classic good vs. evil story line and the best part about the story line is its sweet and simple. I think every game should have a story line to it, but some games take it way too far like Final Fantasy which has more story line than gameplay, but dont get me wrong i love the Final Fantasy game... its just that everytime i play one, I feel like im reading a book rather than playing a video game.
Anyway, back to Battletoads. The gameplay is wonderful in my opinion. The controls might be a little hard for a casual gamer to understand his first time playing, for instance: If you have played Mario your whole life you are used to holding down the B button to make your character run faster, rather than in this game you must push the d-pad in the direction you are going in two times very fast, but once you get it down its like riding a bike. As for the beat'em up type of game this is is wonderful. Now, ive heard people compare this game to other beat'em up games such as Double Dragon, River City Ranson and Streets of Rage... which were all great games, but they were kind of slow for my taste. The fighting in Battletoads is fast pace and pretty brutal for a NES game. Infact, the whole game is fast pace. This game was the only fast pace game i had ever played up until Sonic on the SEGA Genesis. That might be hard to believe since several times in the game you have to stop at one screen and fight a few bad guys before you cant continue, but if you know what your doing and you hit your warps, then you will never have to stop moving through the entire game.
This game has been considered "evil" to the casual gamer (unlike myself) because of its difficulty. Now i love a game with a challenge and if you do too then this is the game for you, because it is anything but easy unless you have the entire game memorized and even then it is still tough.
To play this game you will need patience, skill and you have to be a quick thinker. Example: at the very begining of the game were you are dropped off by the vulture, there is a warp that will take you to level 3, although you have to kill 2 baddiesbefore you can get to the warp and it disappers in about 5 seconds... and it takes about 2 seconds just to get your toad dropped off onto the stage. So you have about 3 seconds to kill 2 bad guys and get to the warp before it disappers. Im not going to tell how to do this because some people who play this game might not know how... and it wouldnt be fun if someone just told you, so figure it out. All and all, this game is a winner in my book. It is challenging as well a fun and will definatly go down as one of the best games in history. Thank you for listening.
For those of you who are interested in Battletoads then you might be interested in these couple things. I have been waiting for a new Battletoads game for years... but i will admit, I am very afraid that if they ever do make a new Battletoads game that they will screw it up. If you are a fan of Battletoads and have been wishing for a new one as well, then i have a gift for you. If you have a dreamcast then you can play a homebrew'd Battletoads game (its kinda like having a new one). I am very impressed with the making of this game, for a homebrew game it is extremely close to the real thing. It has 5 different story modes (which are kind of cheezy, but still fun) which include fighting enemys from rocky movies such as Clubber Lang and Drago, and even a mode were you kill hords of zombies. Not to worry, there is still 2 game modes were you fight classic Battletoads baddies and bosses, so no worries. Not only does this Battletoads mod feature character select from all 3 toads, but they have also teamed up with Sketch, thats right, Sketch from Comix Zone (which was a great game). Burning this mod onto a disc is very simple to do, just follow the instructions on the website. WARNING: THIS WILL ONLY WORK ON CD-R's!!! Dont be like me and waist 2 days of your life trying to get it to work when the only problem was i was using cd-rw's (which they dont tell very often on the website). Anyway, here is your link-> http://dcevolution.net/game_battletoads.php
Thank you for reading (>^.^)>
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