/vr/ - Retro Games

battletoads had so much possibility.

it came out at a time where you had this interesting intersection of rock music/heavy metal, comic book heroes with exaggerated muscles, and this like...lord of the rings sensibility toward "worldbuilding". you can't even call it worldbuilding because it's not like they get too far into who the dark queen is, or even the battletoads. but would you really want them to?

don't know about you guys, but i've always been into GWAR. unironically. yeah you'd hear about them in beavis and butthead, or wherever else, but gwar kinda typified this aesthetic, and i think at some point battletoads came to a crossroads: they could've gone conker's bad fur day, or continue being more kid friendly. and i don't think it could've been kid friendly because there was too much rock n' roll embedded in the vibe, and kid friendly characters don't have spikes/studs. unless they're a bad guy in mario.

i'm pretty sure at this point if you made a bloody, ultra violent battletoads it would work. they missed their opportunity around the time of mortal kombat. imagine if we'd gotten a full-featured battletoads game around the MK2 era.

oh well.