Battletoads

"A very poor game lacking the sufficent skills to be medicore."

It was Summer and I was looking for a good old Genesis game to purchase before school started, I saw this game at the good ol' Rent-A-Game. I looked at the lower-priced video game rack and saw this game. I was impresseed by the graphics, and the story (I thought) was like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I bought it for 4.99$, and my mom drove me back home. For the first few days this game entertained me, but after a few hours of insane difficulty and bad one-liners made by the toad you play as, made me wonder ''Why didn't I just save my money?'' You, the average gamer deserves more than this, a lot more than this. So if anyone wants this game, unless you enjoy beating the tar out of monsters and henchmen with bats and beams, I pray that you at least rent it before you buy.

Plot: The basic plot is that you must retrive two kidnapped friends by the name of Pinple and Angelica. I know this is a kiddie game, but ''Pimple''. Anyway, you must get them back from the dark witch or she'll ''destroy'' them. You get a little heads up on each level before you enter it, this duck-lookin' guy tells you what you're supposed to do. I'm assuming that the duck-guy is the Battletoads' leader (or in words a Dr. Light.) One question, why can't he help you? All he does is sit and jabber around, and ''helps'' you.

The plot would have been okay, but if you were like me, who was new to the Battletoads universe, nobody tells you who exactly are these people that you're saving. The diolauge was pathetic, ''I'll squash you puny Toads!'' ''Get readyy Toads, your about to face the most hunky dory fight ever!'' Catch my drift?

Gameplay: Another Final Fight clone, a good beat em' up side scroller. It's really boring and repettitive the entire game, while beating stone easy bosses, and impossible levels. This game's kinda in a way messed up. You beat and beat and beat. You kill and kill and and kill. It's get's really boring, the only fun was beating your partner with that huge copper bat.

Sound: Nothinh interesting. Mostly beating sounds. Your characters don't even grunt when they get beat to no end.
Nothing remarkable at all.

Graphics: The only good point in the entire game. Crisp bright colorful and animated.

Overall: This game is begging to be medicore, but it can't.

Reviewer's Score: 3/10, Originally Posted: 07/20/02, Updated 12/11/02