Wednesday, September 12, 2007
by colinh
So the other day I was at my friend's house and we were watching a speedrun of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on youtube because we had nothing better to do. After watching this, we started talking about how the difficulty level in games have decreased over time. Remember when games on the NES, SNES, and SEGA Genesis had a funky password system? Many didn't even allow saving so you had to beat the game in one sitting. I owned a Genesis and remembered the hours of effort when all that hedgehog action was happening. We then decided to rummage through his old stuff and look at what we found.Yes his old SNES, we also discovered an unidentifiable game. What was this mystery game? We did not know but we decided to start up the system and give the game a go to see if the new generation of games had corroded our skillZ. Right after the start screen we were thrown into the game's only option menu. We could tell that this was going to be a tough game because it did not even explain the different choices, there were just the letters A and B. Excuse my awesome photography skills (see bright flash in the top right corner for artistic value) but enough with the preshow, lets begin with the game. As soon as our characters materialized on the screen we were attacked by pigs. As far as I can tell we were some sort of amphibians with extraordinary fighting abilities. They were ridiculous, when my character attacked it's head transformed into large ram horns. This game was strange and quirky but it was hardly difficult, or so we thought. Our character's fighting abilities were more than enough for the relatively weak-minded AI of the computers. In fact they were so good, if I had to give this game a name I'd name it Combat Frogs. My friend described his character's attack as some sort of razor kick. Who knew amphibians could be emo? After a little bit of playing we reached and defeated the boss, who was some sort of stone pig.
The brown pig on the top took like 20 hits to kill, even more than the boss pictured on the bottom getting razor-kicked.
Either way we continued our game and beat the next level with ease and then we came to a bonus level. On this level the frogs surfed on checker pieces on a giant never-ending checkerboard filled with bowling pins. This would almost be bizarre but it was missing Italian plumbers breaking bricks with their heads while riding on dinosaurs.
Although the whole game up to this point has been fun and weird, but nothing could have prepared us for what we were about to face next. (Although surfing on the checkers helped.) The next level was the MOST DIFFICULT LEVEL in any video game I've ever played. The protagonists are now jetsking on some unknown surface with a backdrop that looks suspiciously like the inside of someone or something's head. This entire level is spent dodging stone walls that pop out of nowhere. If you run into one of these walls you lose a whole health bar and start over from your previous checkpoint. Not only was this level long, it was very annoying like one of those blow-up kiddie obstacle courses they have at carnivals/fairs. What makes it worse is that if you or your partner loses all of your health bars and has to use a continue, you start from the beginning of the level. Needless to say this no saving thing got annoying after we used up all our continues trying to beat this level.
Starting over for the 100th time on the same level is not fun.
So after another hour ........ we were basically still stuck on this level. We started playing the game at around 7:00 p.m and stopped around 9:30 p.m and in those two and a half hours, we spent maybe... half an hour going through and replaying the first few levels to reach this brain-skiing level, only to restart again. In conclusion :
We didn't have the skills to beat this old game after all.
Damn you next-gen games and your convenient save points, oh well I guess we can always go back to
PS: I still do not know the name of this game, if you do would you kindly leave a comment?
PPS: Is it called Biotoads?
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I don't know which one it is, considering whether or not it is a sequel. However, without a doubt, this game is a Battletoads game. That's right. Battletoads.
battletoads +1
Isn't the name on the cover of the cartridge?
At first I thought it was DOOM 3 or possibly Waring Ampibians or even mabye Conflict Frogs, Battling Reptilians was my next guess.
But now i can tell
this
is
Sparr....
BATTLE TOADS