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Full Release (1991)
Difficulty Summary
Players rate Battletoads as extremely hard, with punishing systems that demand precision, persistence, and mastery.
Why Players Find It Difficult
Players often rate this game as extremely difficult because of several punishing design elements:
Who Will Find It Difficult
Battletoads is likely to be punishing for most players, including many experienced ones. It is best suited for players who actively enjoy high-difficulty games and mastery-focused challenges. Players who rated games like Ninja Gaiden, Super Meat Boy, and Ghosts 'n Goblins at a similar challenge level may find Battletoads broadly comparable in difficulty.
Based on 14 ratings on Normal/Default difficulty, the average score is 9.1/10. Most players rated this game around 9.
Developer(s)
Rare
Publisher(s)
Mindscape, Playtronic, Masaya, Tradewest Inc, Sega
Genre(s)
Platform, Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Platform(s)
Sega Game Gear, Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga CD32, Family Computer, Amiga
Keywords
8-bit, female antagonist, finishing move, robots, death, mutants, street fighting, extreme violence, dark humor, auto-scrolling levels, original soundtrack release, snowman, pig, scatological humor, high score, friendly fire, cyberpunk, anthropomorphism, femme fatale, side-scrolling, second person perspective, melee, cheat code, difficulty level, animals, brawler, aliens, bloody, amphibian humanoid, meme origin, hand-to-hand combat, explosion, snow, temporary invincibility, boss fight, skeletons, ice stage, spaceship
About Battletoads
Battletoads is the first game of the Battletoads series. The game is a platform scrolling beat 'em up, with varying elements of racing, climbing and vehicle-based obstacle courses. Players start with three lives each time the game is started, which get replenished every time the player continues after getting defeated. The game contains no saving system or password features. The player has a maximum of six hit points that can be replenished by eating flies. It is by some considered to be one of the hardest games of all time, and it have previously been listed at 8th place in IGN's "Top 10 Most Difficult Games to Beat."
Users also rated
Players who rated Battletoads also rated the games shown below, with Ninja Gaiden (9.1), Super Meat Boy (9.0), and Ghosts 'n Goblins (8.8) being most similar in difficulty!

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Ultra Nightmare difficulty especially with The Turbo Tunnel, & Clinger Winger, even Harder than Silksong, Blasphemous 1, Nine Sols, & Even Salt & Sanctuary, & Ninja Gaiden, & every Ghosts n Goblins game, even on the hardest difficulty