Battletoads - Official Release Trailer!!

It looks better than before, which really isn't saying much, and I dislike some of the new enemy designs, who look undercooked and... wonky, and the tweening in the cutscenes doesn't sit well with - YOU CAN PLAY AS THE DARK QUEEN? That's a cool addition, which comes within a hair's breadth of saving this game.
 
I'm surprised to see Dark Queen joins the gang. And her voice is younger than I thought  :o

Hmmm.... the trailer shows new nemesis the gang is going to fight against
 
it will bomb because of expectations , its not the way to deal with known property, they made it generic, shadow of every 201x cartoon.
Its parents that buy games for kids and they wont be pleqsed if they played original, interesting way to pissoff your customers from getgo.marketing genius.



 
I'm actually looking forward to this one, I'm gonna tell myself this is not battletoads while playing it that way hopefully I'll enjoy it more lying to myself ;D seems like lots more work has gone into it than streets of rage 4 so that's a plus
 
gameplay-wise i might be good, not holding my breath tho....

graphically....
this is almost some thundercats-roar / teentitans Go level Bull%$#T

So you mean to tell me that you have a 300 + dollar console so you can play a newgrounds looking flash game?
does not seem like a good deal...

it does not even have the animated grace that cup-heads has..

but again , this might turn out to be a wind waker type of surprise (i would rather play a photorealistic windwaker if they remade it again tho...)

Alas Rareware games have been flops for the most part in the last few years, even KI has lost stuff, like the fatalities (worst aspect is the always on connection & the pay for content crud they pulled)
 
I really don't like the art style. I was kinda hoping that the 'Toads would look like how Rash did in Killer Instinct. In my opinion, he looked great in Killer Instinct and I really would've liked a Battletoads game with that art style.

Having said that, at first, I didn't like the art style of Streets of Rage 4 either. But that quickly grew on me and now I really love that game. So, I will give this game a shot and see if it will grow on me. At least the gameplay and level design look like fun to me. And playing as The Dark Queen is a nice idea.
 
Beats back is good.

But this style make me not so satisfied.

Just like Sor4, looks like they tried the fast way to get result. And BT seems to use 2000 cartoon style.

But the problem is perhaps neither us old gamers or young ones will like it.
 
bWWd said:
it will bomb because of expectations , its not the way to deal with known property, they made it generic, shadow of every 201x cartoon.
Its parents that buy games for kids and they wont be pleqsed if they played original, interesting way to pissoff your customers from getgo.marketing genius.
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Gonna have to completely agree with you here, which is ironic because you were the one who reintroduced me to the Toads thanks to your mod, which I played recently.

Anyway, people have complained about this game since the original trailer, which I think was over a year ago. I made up my mind that I would still play the game, but I agree with all the negative sentiments about how this was handled, and it comes off as a zanier SOR4.

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nedflandeurse said:
Beats back is good.

But this style make me not so satisfied.

Just like Sor4, looks like they tried the fast way to get result. And BT seems to use 2000 cartoon style.

But the problem is perhaps neither us old gamers or young ones will like it.
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Looks more 2010s to me... early 2010s.

I fully expect characters to dab during the game.
 
MadGear said:
Miru said:
I fully expect characters to dab during the game.
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No idea what 'dab' is, but it sounds like a negative thing.
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It's a dance move EVERYONE these days feels the need to put in every other piece of media. I don't exactly hate it but it's played out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dab_(dance)

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DJGameFreak TheIguana said:
MadGear said:
Miru said:
I fully expect characters to dab during the game.
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No idea what 'dab' is, but it sounds like a negative thing.
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It's a dance move EVERYONE these days feels the need to put in every other piece of media. I don't exactly hate it but it's played out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dab_(dance)

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Oh, so that's the dab? Yeah, I have seen that before. I just didn't know that was the dab. To be honest, it's just a dance move, so I wouldn't be bothered if the characters did the dab. If it would hinder gameplay, than I would have a problem with it.
 
MadGear said:
I really don't like the art style. I was kinda hoping that the 'Toads would look like how Rash did in Killer Instinct. In my opinion, he looked great in Killer Instinct and I really would've liked a Battletoads game with that art style.

Having said that, at first, I didn't like the art style of Streets of Rage 4 either. But that quickly grew on me and now I really love that game. So, I will give this game a shot and see if it will grow on me. At least the gameplay and level design look like fun to me. And playing as The Dark Queen is a nice idea.
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You have no idea....

back in the day the Xbox forums, my friend 0llllollll0 posted a crud-ton of things Rare ware could have done with KI & battletoads withe the 360

basically you'd have a game with poly models, that have a better quality version of the pre-rendered models they already had (in killer instincts case), built with the same play -mechanics of the OG games with new moves & idle animations & AI (things that Rareware where experts since Perfect Dark)
the animation frames would respect the 2D versions to keep the exact same game-play whenever possible...

Either way the game would have the main, that would open re-makes of the previous 3 games, & even a Kinect fps mode for S#$ts & giggles.

to get an idea of how the levels would look like watch this splatter house take on the side-scrollig stuff...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQCdXDBOg_E

so anyway, things turned out weird for those IPs -

i feel  like Rareware back in the day liked to push the limits of systems in the graphics department for most of their IP's,
so if this re-make turns out popular at least there is a chance to see a game that has better visuals later on if the people working on  Rareware IPs ever get back to that old way of doing things....

but these are weird times, companies like Konami that also had lots of system limitation-pushing games are also leaving those roots
 
I gave this a play today, it was fun, I feel if the battletoads were reimagined as much as the ninja turtles over the years it would be more acceptable but I can see why this reimagining of the battletoads hasn't gone down well.

At times I felt like I was playing a cartoon aimed at teenagers, it's a little slow and some of the animations and offsets don't fit but it kept me entertained for at least an hour, it's not battletoads but if you just accept it for what it is you can have fun

6 out of 10 won't request a refund on this one
 
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