Battletoads (1991) vs Battletoads (2020)

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  • @MuscularAlligator420
    @MuscularAlligator420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +192

    The redesign of the dark queens looks like a Kim possible fan character

    • @phobosanomaly5383
      @phobosanomaly5383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Oh god your actually right

    • @alandanger6285
      @alandanger6285 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Kick Buttowski character

    • @Iad83
      @Iad83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      The original was an amazonian space dominatrix who spoke like a Saturday morning cartoon super villain. The remake is a frumpy cat lady in sweatpants. I'm not sure that the redesigners were fans of anything.

    • @Asaylum117
      @Asaylum117 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Even Kim Possible female characters look appealing. The Dark Queen redesign is just another generic modern cartoon female character to make the game less offensive for a democraphic that don't even play video games or care about actual good entertainment.

  • @tanookigt
    @tanookigt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +146

    The original game has the distinguished honor of being the only game that becomes 10 times harder in co-op

    • @Crazy_2100
      @Crazy_2100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne becomes harder if you summon someone.
      not sure if it becomes Battletoads level but still supposed to be harder

  • @BobExcalibur
    @BobExcalibur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    If someone calls you entitled, remind them they're not entitled to your money.

    • @youdontsay193
      @youdontsay193 ปีที่แล้ว

      Customer is king

    • @Projectmayhem82
      @Projectmayhem82 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Well said I work hard just to give my money away to a rushed piece of turd for the sake of commercialism.

  • @Ars-Nova258
    @Ars-Nova258 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

    So we can’t complain about the Dark Queen as that’s “Controlling what she wears”. Soooo they’re not “Controlling what she wears” by changing her figure and wardrobe? Also isn’t that body shaming?
    Regardless of what they call it, I’m not buying the game. Thanks for the video.

    • @shortymccutlery8919
      @shortymccutlery8919 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      It's stupid to presume women don't sometimes enjoy dressing salaciously

    • @rykehuss3435
      @rykehuss3435 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@shortymccutlery8919 Any woman who wears tights outside knows what theyre doing, especially at the gym. Same for bikinis etc

    • @hikineet177
      @hikineet177 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The bizarre part is that they think it matters if people want to """control""" how a fictional character with no rights, is dressed

  • @SyntheticMan
    @SyntheticMan  3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    TH-cam may be censoring the thumbnail of this video, I'm looking into it.

    • @TexasHollowEarth
      @TexasHollowEarth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Looks good here 👍! Love OG Dark Queen. The Super NES game is WAY more comparable to the NES version, but oddly shorter. The visuals are vastly improved over the NES original, which I always thought looked bad, even in it's day. I just can't get over the visual butchering of BT 2020 by M$. I refuse to play it. It was really stupid considering they had a quality Rash model from Killer Instinct (3). M$ shits on their own franchises alot.

    • @Gruntvc
      @Gruntvc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The thumbnail got changed.
      Also, got another indie FPS to wish list on Steam, Project Ferocious.
      Basically 1 guy trying to make classic Far Cry with dinosaurs using Unity. Yey.

  • @ezzahhh
    @ezzahhh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    Man I just miss the times when video games used to just be fun, feels like I've lived up to the point in my life where I've watched everything I once loved die a painful death.

    • @jurassicclassic6543
      @jurassicclassic6543 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      fun games still get made today, if you don't think so you might not be looking in the right places, nostalgia can make it seem like everything from the past was so much better but that's mainly when you compare the best stuff from the past to any random thing coming out today, if you do that its easy to think that everything is getting worse and you don't notice all the great things still being made today, if you believe that video games aren't fun anymore it might have more to do with you than the video games

    • @DionPanday
      @DionPanday 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@jurassicclassic6543 consoom product, do not question

    • @phobosanomaly5383
      @phobosanomaly5383 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Damn that's sad man

    • @BoleDaPole
      @BoleDaPole 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That's why you shouldn't be so attached to corporate properties.

  • @followertheleader
    @followertheleader 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Streets of rage had a better sequel after being dormant for so long

  • @RealNameDre
    @RealNameDre 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    I love these rants/retrospective, these unbiased opinions are great, keep em coming! 💯

  • @doctorogre1777
    @doctorogre1777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Synthetic Man's the plumber of gaming TH-cam. SOMEONE's gotta cover this low-mid tier games. Also, saw Prey at the top of that request list. That's the big one.

    • @hawkevick9184
      @hawkevick9184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The original Prey is not "low mid tier".

    • @SyntheticMan
      @SyntheticMan  3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I've gotten a lot of requests for the new Prey, not sure how many for the old. The games are not really comparable though. For what it's worth, I like the new one quite a bit, but never played the original.

    • @hawkevick9184
      @hawkevick9184 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@SyntheticMan The original is really awesome, runs on the idtech 4 engine, Cool setting, and did portal before Valve. I hate when people shrug it off as a mediocre shooter.

    • @ethanevenson3855
      @ethanevenson3855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@hawkevick9184 It’s pretty awesome, especially in the level design.

    • @ethanevenson3855
      @ethanevenson3855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@SyntheticMan New one is sick, but there’s still a lot of people angry about the cancellation of Prey 2, which is understandable.

  • @Dukephillips88
    @Dukephillips88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    I think battletoads found thier mark with the super Nintendo version. Although hard, it wasn't as brutal as the NES version.

    • @ethanevenson3855
      @ethanevenson3855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ^^

    • @7Zealot
      @7Zealot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Totally agree. I actually really liked the SNES version.

    • @WhiplashPuppet
      @WhiplashPuppet 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Battlemaniacs was beatable without save states, if you were willing to put the time in. Definitely can't say the same for the NES original though.

  • @firestarex3544
    @firestarex3544 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    So basically:
    Battletoads 1991: A nearly-impossible NES platformer/beat-em-up.
    Battletoads 2020: A cartoon with gameplay.

    • @osurpless
      @osurpless 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Perhaps if you played the first two levels only, in either case…

  • @Gruntvc
    @Gruntvc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Considering what Microsoft did to Battletoads, excuse me if I don't feel hyped for the new Perfect Dark game.
    Perfect Dark Zero was bad enough.

    • @ethanevenson3855
      @ethanevenson3855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      At least Zero had cool ideas, if terrible execution.
      For what it’s worth, the direction of the new Perfect Dark isn’t like... Offensive. It really is going to be made or broken by its level design, though.

    • @a8333
      @a8333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Im mixed on it , generally microsoft likes to fuck up rare software games for some reason so its possible they'll kill off perfect dark as well but it's the first AAAA game ever and they even made a whole new studio for it as well so maybe it'll at least be a solid game

    • @ethanevenson3855
      @ethanevenson3855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@a8333 Whenever MS makes a new studio to pointlessly continue a shooter, it always goes horribly. That being said, infiltrating office buildings like in the trailer during an ecological collapse sounds more Perfect Dark than anything, so the direction isn’t an issue. The biggest problem with Halo and Gears is that MS let hack directors hire people who hate the originals, and basically changed the games or the stories to try and meet what they perceived as modern tastes, which was misguided and pleased nobody. With everything I’ve seen on Perfect Dark 3, it seems like they totally get the original title from a theme/feeling perspective, but they absolutely have to nail the levels. If they try to go super linear or explain too much to the player on normal and hard difficulties, there’s very little reason to play it.

    • @Gruntvc
      @Gruntvc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @Ethan Evenson, Look up the lead writer for the new Perfect Dark game. Worked on comic books, uh oh...
      Part of me wants it to be good, but I just can't trust AAA gaming now. Been burned too many times.
      I'm more interested in new indie and AA FPS games now.
      Is it sad I'm more interested in replaying the upcoming Crysis Trilogy Remaster than most AAA games now? XD

    • @ethanevenson3855
      @ethanevenson3855 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Gruntvc I’ve realized over the last little bit that staffing isn’t really everything, so long as they can be directed in a good way. The same people who directed MW2, which was a pretty average game, went on to do Titanfall 1 and 2, which are significantly better. Bungie went from Halo 2 and 3 to Destiny, which is a significant step down, and everyone who stayed behind at 343 sucked miserably and delivered even worse games. The director of God of War 2 is responsible for God of War 4, which is baffling and hilarious, or it would be if it wasn’t so depressing.
      The staffing doesn’t really matter, so long as they can be motivated and made to perform, and what I’ve seen so far looks thematically on, it’s just a question of if they decide to fuck the game’s levels up or not.

  • @tadpolegaming4510
    @tadpolegaming4510 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I don't wanna think about the Tumblrized villain anymore

    • @shioq.
      @shioq. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🎶
      I'll tumble for ya
      I'll tumble for ya
      I'll tumble for ya
      I'll tumble for you
      🎶

  • @kanseidorifto5367
    @kanseidorifto5367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    So they basically killed off anything likeable about the designs and the characters to please the woke mafia.
    Got it

    • @Gruntvc
      @Gruntvc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      And the game flopped and likely killed off the franchise for good too.
      I still remember getting them damn Battletoads phone calls at work lol.

    • @shioq.
      @shioq. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      "you're entitled as a gamer". no, you are entitled as a developer to think that you should get paid by the fans for something that spits in the face of the fans. the consumers IS entitled to their preferences; they are the reason the devs get paid. I'm so tired of devs whining about the fanbase as if they would be working without that fanbase. if they don't like it, then find another job. THEY are entitled not the consumers/fans.

    • @kanseidorifto5367
      @kanseidorifto5367 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@shioq. watch em whine about gamers wanting sexualised females cuz they misogynists

    • @Snyperwolf91
      @Snyperwolf91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@shioq. I partially agree with you. I think Devs/publishers and Consumers are both to blame.
      The Corpos are at fault at the the reason that they abuse every possibility to make more money at the cost of quality/design/creativity because they made gaming much more into a product instead of an entertaiment-platform/hobby and they grow themselves such an entitlement . But thats not their own fault alone .
      The majority of Consumers just blindly buy bad games , excuse their purchase and defend the corpos exploitable actions like stockholm-syndrom going out of style. There is entitlement by the sjws and sheep in gaming that claim about sexism and racism in videogames when theres nothing to refference it or about small details that isnt even important for the whole game. Making mosquitos to elephants .

    • @Snyperwolf91
      @Snyperwolf91 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kanseidorifto5367 Cute superficial strawman argument. Make it atleast some more effort next time.
      You are indeed someone who generally supports limitations in creativity . Why dont you just ignore those vaguely called "sexualised" games and play whats alligning in your taste? Im not really into fan-service games but i dont mind it that those games exist .

  • @EatWave
    @EatWave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    It is not accurate to call the type of art style found in Battletoads 2020 CalArts Style.
    It would be more accurate to call it Algorithmic Art, the kind of inoffensive, yet inviting style that was first used for children's programming in the late 1990s (Nick Junior) but gradually found its way to advertisements then animation for older children.
    It can be called such because it is calculated to tick as many boxes in the Positive category for visual appeal while avoiding the most commonly cited unappealing traits, generating marginally distinct yet unremarkable character designs.

    • @golDroger88
      @golDroger88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      How can anyone find this pleasant to look at?

    • @EatWave
      @EatWave 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@golDroger88 There is no accounting for taste.

    • @gagliardivex9218
      @gagliardivex9218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's not cal arts but It's not fitting for battletoads. I wish the battletoads looked tougher like in killer instinct but they look like middle aged guys

    • @golDroger88
      @golDroger88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@gagliardivex9218 >they look like middle aged guys
      Just like the target audience hahaha.

    • @jameswilliams3399
      @jameswilliams3399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sounds to me like they accomplished an inverted result of what you describe.

  • @zander4529
    @zander4529 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    jjst wanted to say that i really enjoy your channel and how real you are. you’re also funny af. i think your channel is growing well too

  • @victorelias7208
    @victorelias7208 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Good production quality and audio, keep it up.

  • @snorkinstein
    @snorkinstein 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As one of the masochists who actually completed it legit as a child, I disagree with "old battletoads are just not fun to play" part.
    Overcoming absolute bullshit to get to see what game will throw at you next, beating one seemingly impossible section after another, raging after dying on the final levels with no continues left (level with mono wheel bike can go fuck itself), only to try again next day after school and finally beating the game in front of your friends, which makes them go "holy shit, how the fuck did you do that?", all that made it very fun and rewarding for me.
    There is also NES sequel called "Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team", it is not nearly as hard and has multiplayer that is actually playable.
    As for nu Battletoads... Maybe game itself is fun to play, but man, this art style is so repulsive, I just can't get over it. Every one I talked to about this game never played it, because it looks like one of those woke CalArts cartoons from Cartoon Network.

  • @QuebecSouverain
    @QuebecSouverain 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I managed to beat the original Battletoads thanks to Rare Replay's rewind feature. This game collection is amazing and the rewind feature is a God send for those unfair games

  • @elmono6299
    @elmono6299 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The biggest issue I had with Battletoads 2020 is that it didn't feel like a legit Battletoads game at all. If anything it was more of a parody of Battletoads than an actual game. While the idea of it mocking 90's reboots does sound good on paper. I feel it doesn't work for the toads and this idea would work better for Conker or Gex Gecko instead.
    Besides the obvious being the artstyle from a late 80's and early 90's comic book style clearly inspired off the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to all sudden looking like 2010's Cartoon Network series like Teen Titans Go or Total Drama Island. Another thing is that the Rayman Legends inspired puzzle solving platforms didn't fit the game at all and the emphasis on team work sounded good on paper was not well executed at all, often times it interfered with other players. And don't get me started on the stupid fix the space ship level as that level was completely confusing, insanely long to beat, and only through button mashing I was able to figure it out.
    While the toads themselves look fine, the Dark Queen looks terrible and boring. Not only they stripped away her iconic look for a cheap mash-up of Sombra (Overwatch) and Dr. Cortex (Crash Bandicoot) clearly to promote woke and SJW culture but she also got flanderized. She went from a sexy, overconfident, narcissistic, power-hungry dictator to some immature man-child. While definitely being pretty funny on screen, it's not her character at all.
    The worst offender of all, they removed too many elements from the original games such as jumping on giant snakes, going down a hole, race the rat, and so many others. Also the remaining original cast is absent. Notable bosses such as General Slaughter the Minotaur, Collath the Titanoboa, Big Blag the giant rat, and Robo Magmus are completely axed nor are they mention once throughout the entire game. Another one are the toad's boss, Professor Crow. They never explain what happened to him. Plus the Dark Queen was never a positive female role model to begin with. So turning her into a hero for feminist power does not work. Instead they should have used the princess they rescued from the 1st game instead and made her an ally to the Battletoads.
    Overall I say the Reboot is okay at best. The game is fun for the most part (minus some levels), the games cutscenes are hilarious, and I like the squash and stretch animations. I just wish they removed the Battletoads label and characters out of the game to replace it with their own original characters and made it into their own original game like Buster Bunnies or Battle Bugs. Therefore, the game would have been better received and it could have easily stood up on its own without having to stay under someone's shadow.
    That being said. While it is very unlikely we'll get another Battletoads game anytime soon. If we do eventually get another game. Hopefully it will be more faithful to its original source. 👊🐸🤜🐀

    • @georgie9303
      @georgie9303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A sequel is a good opportunity to fix all the issues. Hope they go with a more grounded style. I want to see the battle toads like how Rash looked like in killer Instinct

    • @elmono6299
      @elmono6299 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@georgie9303 hopefully by the people who did Streets of Rage 4 and the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredders Revenge.

  • @HrvojeGrahovac
    @HrvojeGrahovac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Shame that the 1994 arcade game didn't get praise back in the day

  • @EdnaKonrad4MVS
    @EdnaKonrad4MVS 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Personally, I prefer the arcade version of Battletoads (alternatively known as 'Super Battletoads' in Japan, though Rare Replay simply calls it 'Battletoads Arcade'), even though it only takes around an hour to play it from start to finish, due to the gritty, yet cartoonish, graphics, the awesome soundtrack (despite the fact that you can count how many songs there are with two hands), and the gameplay feeling like a prototype to Castle Crashers. Also, while it would still require a lot of continues due to the lack of recovery items, it actually feels like you can complete the game, as oppose to the nigh-hopeless platform/racing levels in the original Battletoads.

  • @wymanrtaylor
    @wymanrtaylor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is gonna be good
    EDIT: the reason I am still such a LEGENDARY GAMER at 35 y/o is because 6 y/o me made it to the snek level in Battletoads on NES. CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, THOSE SKILLZ DON’T FADE BRUV

  • @narshkajke
    @narshkajke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    I always like your rant about feminist and sjw, just telling it as it is...

    • @shioq.
      @shioq. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      gaming is being ruined like all entertainment. not everything needs to appeal to everyone. it's obnoxious gaslighting, and that's why I don't buy most games anymore.🏴‍☠

    • @gagliardivex9218
      @gagliardivex9218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@shioq. Indie is where it's at

    • @spongebelt
      @spongebelt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@gagliardivex9218 even indie games have SJW crap in it.

    • @TheNexDude
      @TheNexDude 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@spongebelt that isn't my problem because of how open the indie game market is. My issue is that because of how open it is the woke shit people look for can be found in the indie game market but nobody notices because it isn't popular.

    • @Daftanemone
      @Daftanemone 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Literally nothing is being ruined by this. Games are playing better than what you grew up.

  • @hiroyui9699
    @hiroyui9699 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I beat the game with no emulator back in a day. I'm also sure I broke two controllers trying to beat it. This game is the definition of n e s hard.

  • @MrHiglesworth
    @MrHiglesworth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    They made them all hard, so you would have to keep renting them from the rental shop.

    • @Gruntvc
      @Gruntvc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It's the arcade money eater mentality. Most 80s and early 90s games were like that.
      Did you know Capcom purposely made Resident Evil 1 1996 harder in the West to prevent rentals?

    • @MrHiglesworth
      @MrHiglesworth 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Gruntvc Was not aware of that.

  • @kanteannightmare
    @kanteannightmare 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Battle toads already had it's Saturday morning cartoon...

  • @lockedowne7312
    @lockedowne7312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Got this game when it launched in 91'. Me and my cousin had a blast at 11 playing this....ahhh the time before game saves lol. Made men outta us lol hearing your description of the game makes me feel good being that we smashed it and had extreme fun. 80s kids I guess..the remake was headache inducing

  • @johngilham1719
    @johngilham1719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Key to Battletoads is whacking the crap out of the crows and getting as many 1 Ups as you can. Amazing this guy doesn't know that.

  • @7Zealot
    @7Zealot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I got the NES Battletoads game for my 9th birthday. It was so hard that I cried. The end.

  • @lalitendudas9401
    @lalitendudas9401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I have a list of people to support on patreon. Once I finish clg and get a job I'll surely support u guys 👍🏻

  • @Soydrinker999
    @Soydrinker999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    All these remakes of old nes/snes games look like shitty flash games, the original still looks 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000x better

  • @Uncle_Roadkill
    @Uncle_Roadkill ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Battletoads & Double Dragon still reigns supreme.

  • @shyguy1630
    @shyguy1630 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I remember begging my parents to buy that game. Only to be stuck on turbo tunnel for months and only occasionally make it to the 4 level only on my last continue. So basically I paid full price to play about an hour of that game. Playing it in Co-op is damn near impossible at turbo tunnel.

  • @chrisschuber9149
    @chrisschuber9149 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is legit the first time Ive seen Battletoads past the tunnel

  • @cruxlamar9681
    @cruxlamar9681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Hey do you think your channel has been growing alot? I notice your views are

    • @SyntheticMan
      @SyntheticMan  3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Just trend-chasing, unfortunately. Seems to be the only way to make it on youtube these days unless you have really high quality content (not me, lol). I like covering modern games to an extent but they always end up being mediocre or deeply flawed. I did like RE Village though.

    • @shioq.
      @shioq. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@SyntheticMan do streams help? i've heard streaming helps with Al Gorithm, but I don't create content so I don't know. Your last stream was fun; great chat.

  • @lenarmangum6401
    @lenarmangum6401 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I played the original Battletoads on Rare Replay for the first time when it released on that collection, and even with the rewind ability I still struggling immensely! Even with the crutch of a rewind function I still had a hard time, I could not imagine trying to beat the original Battletoads without any cheats or exploits!

  • @gagliardivex9218
    @gagliardivex9218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    The toads look like old 50 year olds and the dark queen looks like an edgy teenage boy with issues
    This looks like a cartoon nobody cares about

  • @worstkiletzplayz7795
    @worstkiletzplayz7795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Nice vid
    Will you do a far cry 6 video

  • @form4li7y
    @form4li7y 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    0:19 Yeah, that sounds about right. 😆
    There's a reason people used to say "_____ is hard but not NES Hard." Some of those games were brutal! As a kid it really sucked when you rented one of those really difficult games on a Friday and was stuck with it.

  • @Jose-se9pu
    @Jose-se9pu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    As Johnny Cage would say; "go back to the '90s"

  • @elitereptilian200
    @elitereptilian200 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh man.. as a kid I spent countless hours with my friend trying to beat Battletoads, it was a new game back then, yeah I'm old 😂 we managed to beat it once and never touched it after that.. its such a classic and amazing piece gaming history..

  • @juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370
    @juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:06: although I somehow passed it when I was younger, that part is PTSD in videogame form.

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I never really had a problem with the 3rd level, but he 5th? Oh my god the surf level. Jesus Christ the surf level

  • @lastremain7867
    @lastremain7867 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They were definitely going for that Teen titan sgo humor for man children, this feels like a growing list of the games that feel like it was made by the wrong people who took an old IP and injected with modern liberal SJW lame humor.

  • @TheCnicus
    @TheCnicus 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the early 2000s as a kid i would go to the local Nickle-a-play arcade, Battletoads was all the way in the back and one of the very few game they had that were simply free to play due to their difficulty. Even the owners weren't insane enough to charge people 5 cents for that experience. I only tried it a few times but it was too much for my small brain.

  • @Ak1r0
    @Ak1r0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    13:22 At this point we should be saying Touhou-like. They are just that popular in the genre.

  • @bigbosso5604
    @bigbosso5604 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember playing this with my cousin Wayyy back . Ya we never made it passed the 3rd level 🤣

  • @JuN0
    @JuN0 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The new battletoads is atrocious. I won't even buy it for 2$. Absolutely hate the artstyle everyone uses now. All the enemies look terrible unfun to fight against and the cringe mini games that shouldn't even be there. I'll keep playing Battletoads arcade, imo one of the best toads games, I played it enough to finish it on one life. I'm good to wait until a new toads game comes out in the future and ( hopefully ) doesn't look like Steven universe trash.

  • @johngilham1719
    @johngilham1719 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you were a Nintendo junky in the 80s, you would've loved this game. And not using an emulator, ya might have even figured out that, again, the key to mastering the game is whacking the crows over & over, getting 1ups from crow after crow after crow after crow. If ya' haven't, ya' haven't played Battletoads. Not that fun? Incredibly fun ... Incredibly challenging ... but then I couldn't have relished completing a game more.

  • @ethanevenson3855
    @ethanevenson3855 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The only way I beat BattleToads was by going on an emulator and then playing it through in chunks, basically memorizing the game over a few days, and then beating my head into a wall over and over on the console, basically praying for the perfect run. It’s so much harder than other titles like Castlevania, Contra, and Ninja Gaiden.
    I fucking loved it, though. I was so excited when the sequel was announced. I had no idea it came out, and I feel like there was some conspiracy to stop me from finding out and getting really pissed off. I was actually still eagerly anticipating it until an hour ago when I saw the name of this video. With how the game looks. I’m not surprised. The art and attitude of the original games were a huge part of the appeal. It’s even worse than the new Commander Keen.
    This is supposed to be for super old people. Actual children don’t give a shit about BattleToads. What the fuck were they thinking?

    • @jameswilliams3399
      @jameswilliams3399 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Indeed, it looks dreadful and that kind of visual design would probably repel anyone that grew up playing this game.
      My guess is this is blue ocean and they are trying to capture new market but I don't know what kind of market they're after with this junk.

  • @DanteCrowlley
    @DanteCrowlley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    *It looks bad 'n has this cringe like humor, I actually fear the future of comedy a lot, they say every era the humor changes, but the 2000 era humor is goin' down the sewer faster then memes get saturated in Facebook, I wonder if past 2025 the humor will be LGBTQ friendly or SJW correctly so no one gets offended 'n all characters have this androgenous lookin' 'n use normal pronouns as joke to say how the old era was bad 'n dumb or something*

  • @KGRAMR
    @KGRAMR 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Although i've finished NES Battletoads several times (even once on a black & white-only TV), i gotta say that Super Battletoads (Battletoads Arcade) is still the GOAT entry of the series. IMO

  • @nickmanzo8459
    @nickmanzo8459 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If you want a game with a good soundtrack, decent story, fun art style that you and your kids will like, just get Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom. I got it because I love Metroidvania stuff, but my niece and nephew absolutely love the game too.

  • @carloats1811
    @carloats1811 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    CHEETAHMEN > BATTLETOADS ALL DAY!!!!

  • @TheHorrorExperiment
    @TheHorrorExperiment 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I don't care how much better the gameplay is, I'll never play/support a Feminist LGBTQ game.

  • @Snyperwolf91
    @Snyperwolf91 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I totally agree with you . The new battletoads is objectivly better than the first one on NES .
    BUT if you compare it with the SNES game you will be suprised how great this game looks and how awesome the soundtrack is . The gameplay has more into it but its almost the same as the NES game with just much better graphics and controls . Maybe a bit better than new one because of its artstyle and soundtrack alone.
    And if we talk about the arcade game then the arcade game is definitly very muuuuuuuch better against the new Battletoads !
    Bombastic soundtrack ,frantic beatem up action and also violence/gore . That game is metal af.

  • @shinami3758
    @shinami3758 ปีที่แล้ว

    I didn't even know there was a 2020 remake. Why am I not surprised about the devs putting in a scene about the Dark Queen's hideous new outfit?

  • @விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்

    Battletoads 2020 is trying so hard to be Rayman Origins and failing miserably.

  • @wildwest1832
    @wildwest1832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I care if you beat battletoads legit or not. Dont cheat. Practice and learning how to beat it is the better accomplishment.

    • @KopperNeoman
      @KopperNeoman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even the Dark Queen doesn't CHEAT.

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why should he care if you care? Not every accomplishment is worth accomplishing. You managed to withstand 100 direct kicks to the balls without falling down? Good for you, but no, I will not try to match your record, thanks.

  • @Btobebone
    @Btobebone ปีที่แล้ว

    maybe its because i was born in the early 80's and i was at the right age, but i was able to beat battletoads on the nes after many many failed attempts. id never have the time or patience for something like that today. it was definitely a game for people with a lot of time on their hands.

  • @morpheus1345
    @morpheus1345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You know, I'm something of a designer myself and I think this game is aesthetically awful.
    - There's no contrast between the characters and the background, both are hyper saturated;
    - The game have a lot of generic alien foes, which have nothing to do with battletoads essence;
    - You can make a cartooned art style, no problem, but that it's not an excuse to make a lame art style.

  • @BellowDGaming
    @BellowDGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good unbias review pointing all out the flaws and all the good the game has. So just like my first glance on gameplay it's good, but unlike the older titles and the art style if you don't mind you won't mind literally just for gameplay, but if the story is kinda of a commentary then yeah we got a problem there. Get it for free on game pass imho if you really wanna play it

  • @MrLaSilla
    @MrLaSilla ปีที่แล้ว

    Avgn getting to swear on youtube is like Dave Chappele smoking cigarettes anywhere he wants

  • @titusoneten6456
    @titusoneten6456 ปีที่แล้ว

    I played battle toads over and over and over as a kid. never made it past like level 3... Of course I never gave up, and yet i never made it past level 3.. Im seeing things in your video that I never saw as kid playing this for multiple years on end.

  • @metalkage
    @metalkage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i saw them in Killer Instinct but they went with cartoony designs

  • @owensubali4932
    @owensubali4932 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    didi you get the super mudkip edition?

  • @terryhudson1226
    @terryhudson1226 ปีที่แล้ว

    I Loved this game growing up. played for hours with family members couldnt never beat it due to always hitting teammate which causes fighting each other, but laughing our ass off while kicking each other ass while playing. always made it to the 3rd stage with 0-1 life left without continues. But had one hell of a blast making it there while killling each other.

    • @terryhudson1226
      @terryhudson1226 ปีที่แล้ว

      battletoads Double Dragons was good as well

  • @wildwest1832
    @wildwest1832 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    mini-games that add nothing to the game dont hurt the game? Id say they do. its a non-cohesive mess of stuff. What even is this? The variant levels are all bad too. A shoot em up? Stick to what the originals did. The challenge in the original games was never unfair.

  • @kAjtji
    @kAjtji 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I enjoy like 1/5 of Battletoads (2020). Only beat 'em up levels was good and rest not only sucks but looks like cheap indie game from 95% steam discount. I'd love to see a sequel that focuses only on the beat 'em up.
    Also artstyle is "meh". Toads looks nice but thats it.

  • @obnoxious_alien
    @obnoxious_alien 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I didn't even knew there was a Battletoads reboot, I actually wish I could unsee that ugly artstyle.
    Especially the design of the Dark Queen pisses me of-as a woman myself I'm kinda twisted about this "toning down" sexy outfits/design for female characters. On one hand I'm glad that not every woman looks like model that wears skimpy outfits(or like in One Piece, where the females are either drawn extrem sexy or extremely ugly, there's no in-between) while the male characters have "normal clothing" and not all of them are sexy(because that's real life) but on the other hand I think:
    1) artistic freedom
    2)many male characters also have sexist designs like having a extremely muscular body a lá Arnold Schwarzenegger, preferably a handsome looking face and no one complains about it or "censor" it like they do with the females now
    3)human are visual creatures, let's be honest we all prefer playing a video game with good looking characters(ok it's always individual taste but you know what I mean) - I can speak only for myself but I prefer playing a hot woman or man instead of a ugly old tard, when I customize I always make my main character good looking(or sexy if possible), because that's what I'll mostly see in the game and I want to see something that I like. If I want to look at something undesirable for at least an hour I look in the mirror.
    4)just because you don't want a character look sexy doesn't it mean you can be lazy with the design. First of, where are her boobs?? Woman have boobs, drawing a woman with boobs doesn't mean you automatically sexualise them. And that outfit is just trash, take Mortal Kombat 11 for example - they also made the outfits for characters like Kitana or Mileena less sexy that they used to, but the designs still look pretty. Even with that bad artstyle you could have come up with something better, this is is just straight up lazy.
    Sorry for the long rant(and sorry if I made any English mistakes, it's not my first language)

  • @leto1178
    @leto1178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Ahgly vvymin want attention too. If they can't get it by looking attractive they will get it by being annoying or obnoxxious. That's part of why they make the main baddie and their whole art style ahgly. If you can't wow them with beauty you have to get their attention in another way.

  • @rwln
    @rwln 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey synth, I haven’t been on yt for a while for a few reasons, but if your channel does get deleted I really do think you should continue not reviewing modern games but instead start only streaming on rumble or odyssey if your channel kicks the bucket. You have a dedicated audience who will follow you there, you can make a new streaming channel/ podcast successful and you can still be an influence. Just don’t completely give up on an internet career if TH-cam is no longer an option. You can make a difference in more ways than one

  • @smileyfaceproductions7477
    @smileyfaceproductions7477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Am I the only one who likes the brutal difficulty of Battletoads?

  • @TheDeadCobraTheDeadCobra
    @TheDeadCobraTheDeadCobra 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2020 is a ok game has its good moments but i do despise what they did to the Queen

  • @BobExcalibur
    @BobExcalibur 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    NES Battletoads is an interactive artifact of a specific era in gaming, showcasing the quality of Rare's game design and animations as well as illustrating the pressure to orient games toward the rental market. Its important for the sake of reminding players that as much as we might hate Free To Play design and Loot Box mechanics, malicious incentives have spoiled otherwise excellent games for decades.
    NuKerfuffleFrogs Illustrates cultural pressure subverting established intellectual property instead of creating their own, because none of the people who want to make this kind of media have the talent to create original media that people actually want to see. That's not a unique observation you need a singular work to illustrate; you can see it anywhere you care to look.

  • @thathandsomedevil0828
    @thathandsomedevil0828 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My cousin and I never got past the turbo tunnel.

  • @Executi0ner246
    @Executi0ner246 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Since you asked, I've playing Far Cry 2

  • @smawzyv9281
    @smawzyv9281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I played the nes one. And I found it fun and not nearly as difficult as you say it is. TMNT was way harder.
    And the new one looks too boring and repetitive. I saw some one stream the game and the beat em up section dragged on too long.

  • @Simba2UU
    @Simba2UU 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There was a Battletoads released in 2020?

    • @rohgadriscol
      @rohgadriscol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, only the rare replay released in 2015.

  • @bendovahkiin8405
    @bendovahkiin8405 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    battle maniacs and earthworm jim 2 is better

  • @tseeker5578
    @tseeker5578 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finished the original as a kid multiple times.Loved it.Not for a second I considered it extremely hard.There were others that made me invent excuses and hit friends out of rage simply because they "distracted me".

    • @BWMagus
      @BWMagus 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I don't often bother saying this, but I don't believe you; it is ball-crushingly hard to the point of being damn near impossible. I owned it as a kid too, and neither me nor my brother were ever able to finish over years of attempts, and no other game gave us that kind of trouble. I believe you beat it, but this "lol it's not hard" is just bullshit.

    • @magisteryura
      @magisteryura ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BWMagus, it is hard, but we finished it with my brother in coop in 2-3 month playing occasionally. In coop, which is harder

  • @maulressurected4405
    @maulressurected4405 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sadly the SNES Battletoads the speed bike stage is a lot harder, I could never get to experience it since I couldn't beat the 2nd stage. The arcade Battle Toads is good and the easiest.

  • @shioq.
    @shioq. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Battletoads 2020 looks like a cool Newgrounds game.

  • @poiuytrewqmnbvcxz236
    @poiuytrewqmnbvcxz236 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You make old games harder for a country that has rentals. Japan doesn't, its an easier version.

  • @synthnation9857
    @synthnation9857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the new Battletoads actually reminds me of other games that I really love, Shank 1&2. those games were so much fun and better than this (also having a similar art style but I honestly love the one in Shank more)

  • @HrvojeGrahovac
    @HrvojeGrahovac ปีที่แล้ว

    Only 22K views?! YOOOOOO!

  • @phelanmentzer1268
    @phelanmentzer1268 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The best thing I got for getting a one s is the rare replay code and that includes battle toads

  • @7dogguy
    @7dogguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    honestly i played battletoads snes version and its really similar to the original I think ill beat it without cheating because im an ultra masochist. I made it to the the change direction bikes in the snes version 1 level away i think. Was really depressed at the time in life so i never went through with it. I did however beat super ghouls and ghosts both times through and contra 3 on hard without bombs on original hardware

  • @Studios05
    @Studios05 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Honestly I like both. Both of them are clearly just trying their own thing and have their own identity

  • @katyushasjewishapple6799
    @katyushasjewishapple6799 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So... What your telling is... This is the Steven universe of video games...
    ......

  • @bobbylong5664
    @bobbylong5664 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looks like a teletoons cartoon lol

  • @heroinpenguin666
    @heroinpenguin666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I hate that Cal Arts stuff.

  • @COLT6940
    @COLT6940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    muh algorithm time.

  • @firefly44220
    @firefly44220 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro I was in 7th grade when this came out 😂 I owned a copy and yeah it was hard as hell. I could beat the turbo tunnel but gave up after that

  • @jamesthomas9619
    @jamesthomas9619 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think there's a reason this game is mostly forgotten, insanely hard doesn't necessarily mean fun

  • @jp3rd516
    @jp3rd516 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A lot of us loved these games cuz we were used to arcade games tht were designed to be unbeatable. For instance ninja gaiden is my all time favorite game but i never cpuld beat until it came out on 3ds virtual arcadr with save states. The difficulty of a game isnt that big a deal to me uf its fun to play.

  • @fips711
    @fips711 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why play it in 60fps when it disvalues everything you have to say?

  • @lordraptor5042
    @lordraptor5042 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    No. This is not BatleToads. This is Garbage.