Battletoads Reviews

Battletoads is ranked in the 56th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
3.3 / 5.0
Sep 2, 2020

I suspect that fans of the original will find a good dose of nostalgia here that may well make it worth the price of admission. For everyone else… well, if you grew up in the 80’s and 90’s you might get a touch of nostalgia as well, unless you were more a Turtles fan like me, in which case this will simply continue making the Battletoads look like also-rans.

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6.5 / 10.0
Aug 20, 2020

Battletoads isn't bad, but it is boring. It starts off relatively strong and quickly devolves into uninteresting minigames. When the title returns to beat-'em-up gameplay, it shows the potential to be something more, but then you're forced to play "rock paper scissors" or mash buttons for a few minutes, and it all fades away. The concept, characters and visuals are excellent updates of the original, so it's a shame that the gameplay isn't.

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6.5 / 10.0
Aug 28, 2020

The new version of Battletoads lacks character and seems that it's trying to escape its past. The game starts strong, but as you progress it loses its steam and becomes an average experience that can only excite the fans of the series at best.

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6.5 / 10.0
Sep 16, 2020

A fun and solid beat 'em up with some awesome speeder bike levels tossed in. Unfortunately, the game tries too hard to be funny and the character voices can get quite irritating.

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65 / 100
Aug 21, 2020

Battletoads has a notorious reputation among older gamers as both an incredibly challenging yet insanely wacky series. The franchise was one of Rare's smash hits but has been on a multi-decade hiatus and limited to cameo appearances until now. With Dlala Studios reviving the dormant franchise with a brand new entry that remains loyal to the original beat 'em up formula but with cartoonish hand-drawn visuals. Battletoads is a surprisingly amusing and lighthearted title with a charming story and fun combat and serves as a great new start for the franchise. If only it didn't release it with a major technical issue.

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6.2 / 10.0
Aug 20, 2020

Battletoads never shrugs off its 90s roots and refuses to grow up and act like an adult.

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Aug 19, 2020

Many of Battletoads' design sensibilities may seem archaic in 2020, but that was ultimately Dlala trying to build on the chaotic formula set by the original. Battletoads struggles as a single-player game but soars as a varied couch co-op experience party game for up to three friends. And hey, it's often laugh-out-loud funny too.

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6 / 10
Aug 19, 2020

Battletoads is a reboot of the classic Rare franchise, but fails to recapture the excitement and fun of the originals.

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6 / 10.0
Aug 30, 2020

Battletoads could be a great game and a decent beat 'em up if the developers didn't focus so much on mediocre mini-games.

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Aug 20, 2020

Overall, Battletoads feels like a bit of a relic of the past, which really speaks to how well Dlala have nailed that attitude-era style the 90s is famous for. The story can be humorous (at points) and there’s significantly more of it than I expected, while the variety in gameplay styles and mechanics keeps the experience fresh the whole way through. Unfortunately, that same style and humour does feel dated and grating at points, while the game’s combat sections are also some of its least engaging.

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Aug 24, 2020

Battletoads is an enjoyable experience that can be completed within five hours, but it’s nothing more than that.

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60%
Sep 18, 2020

Playing Battletoads is like having a box of sweets for lunch. It's no doubt unique and some of the chocolates can be quite delicious, but after you're done, you'll just regret not having a regular meal instead.

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6 / 10.0
Dec 18, 2020
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6 / 10.0
Aug 22, 2020

While the game is a beat em up at heart, that hasn’t stopped the game going completely off the wall and throwing everything from platforming puzzles to a full-blown twin-stick Bullet Hell Shooter into the game, this is accompanied by self-aware dialogue that ends up being 50:50 between hilarious and cringe worthy. The entire game feels like a jumbled schizophrenic mess where they felt the beat-em-up sections on their own weren’t enough to carry a new Battletoads game and chuck a whole bunch of random affairs into the second half of the game, some work like the aforementioned Bullet Hell levels and others just frustrated and confused me like the elemental Jeff slide.

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5.5 / 10.0
Aug 20, 2020

Ultimately, I completed Battletoads in 3 hours and 45 minutes and have no intention of ever going back.

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5.5 / 10.0
Apr 7, 2021

A cartoony reimagining of the classic Battletoads franchise is let down by mediocre gameplay and flat comedy.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
5 / 10
Aug 20, 2020

A game so bizarre it's hard to tell whether it's purposefully trolling its audience or if it really thinks its random collection of mini-games, crass humour, and wasted potential is a sensible way to go about rebooting Battletoads.

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5 / 10.0
Aug 19, 2020

Even though it's technically a game, Battletoads is not a good time

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5 / 10
Aug 19, 2020

Battletoads does have its good moments, between its beat 'em up gameplay, metal-heavy soundtrack, and strong boss design. It's just drowned out by its awful pacing and poor comedy that gets maybe a couple of chuckles from the entirety of its brief five-hour adventure.

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GameMAG
Top Critic
5 / 10
Aug 20, 2020

If you are new to the series, this Dlala Studios project can be a entertaining and varied adventure with a fun co-op mode and a spicy sauce of hardcore. But for classics' fans, such a "return" may seem as a complete dissapointment. In any case, sadly, campaign is terribly short.

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