What?
Are you telling me when I was 9 playing Battletoads and thought it was just a great fighting game where my fist and foot blew up to comical portions while fighting radical rats with sunglasses that I was....missing something?
Please enlighten me.
Battletoads has five vehicle stages. Hey remember when Platinum could do games with great vehicle controls like Bayonetta and Korra? I sure don't.
Battletoads has three stages within the game that involves either going down or going up, restricting how much you can punch due to either the reduced traction of the game play space or the fact that falling to the floor = death.
There's only like, one genuine boss battle in the original NES game. And that was dreadful from both a difficulty to design standpoint.
So when people say "lol Platinum should make a Battletoads game!!!!" They have to consider like do you want another Platinum action game with the Battletoads skin? Because both the NES/Genesis releases of the game are more than just punching shit.
Not to mention Platinum's licensed games track record is abysmal. Korra and Turtles were hot garbage and Transformers was decent enough I suppose. I would rather have them work on passion projects than being Sunsoft 2.0.
Battletoads games have variety and Platinum sucks ass at variety.