Battletoads & Double Dragon

[Drixxel]

I liked this game for the most part, but level 4 sucked ass. Majorly. The rest of it was pretty fun. Incidentally, unlike trekbone, I found this one to be more difficult than the original Battletoads.

Also, I highly disagree that the SNES version was better. The SNES version has less responsive controls, and is much less forgiving. And while the sprites are bigger, all the stuff that moves in the Genesis version is completely static on SNES. The SNES version is missing the background-color-changing effect in level 2 (or was it level 3?). And the music is better on Genesis.

SNES BT/DD is somewhat of a punishing game.. cheap enemy attacks aplenty. I prefer the more detailed backgrounds of SNES BT/DD compared to the greater animation in the backgrounds of Genesis BT/DD, but the ol' Genesis release has superior control as far as smoothness of combat is concerned, making it the more playable of the two. It's a solid brawler on any platform.

..but if we're going to nitpick the graphics, it's always bothered me slightly how the sprites fail to go behind the background when walking over particular slopes of the first stage Ratship. That, and the bizarre pig faced drawings for Billy and Jimmy Lee in the Genesis' character selection screen are outright hideous.

[outrunner]

Who thought technos said here is the rights make a game and give us a cut to rare?I did?
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New Clayfighter
Please!

[The Sports Guy]

well i know its not EVERYONES favorite brawler.. but its my favorite, because at least in BTDD, you can hop on those ships and fight the guys, rather than fighting 10 waves of generic bad guys and then 1 boss over and over again for 10 levels lke in SOR. The only level that was repetetive verbatim was the one with the elevator near the end. Other than that, its 5 minutes of fighting THE SAME GUYS THE ENTIRE GAME, then a boss. I really liked BTDD because it was fresh and inspired me to care about the story, even if it was hokey. Has anyone ever played super double dragon for SNES? That game is the tough one that i am trying to get into lately.

[Genesis Knight]

I don't think I've ever seen a Battletoads game I liked.

[StarMist]

This game's a waste of two solid franchises. There's next to nothing of the DD identity and although the BT have their mechanical traits their identifying lv diversity has been chopped down. The speedbike lv blows. The bosses are jokes, in the Dark Queen's case one that goes on so long it grows painful. The running controls are imperfect = #1 cause of death, and if those burner traps on the rocket ship weren't irritating enough dismounting ladders is a bitch--plus I once accidentally raced up one, no idea how but that obviously got me fried. The rope descents in stage 3 are dodgy.
4-1, the Asteroids lv, is pure crap. It's followed by a mongoloid shmup finale that just drags and drags and drags.
Stages 1 and 2 are madly dull; few sections are really good. 3 is the game's highlight.

Cheap cash-in with the foreseeable results: 4/10.