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Battletoads in Battlemaniacs is the sequel to Rare's love-it-or-hate-it brawler on the NES. Like its predecessors, it features extremely difficult memorization-based gameplay with a ton of variety. Unfortunately, this game has less than half the stages of the original and some of them are just rehashes, such as the high-speed bike section.
With the exception of the checkerboard bonus stages, each and every stage in this game is just a rehash of the original Battletoads. There's a heavily scaled-back version of this game on the Sega Master System, but it was only released in Brazil.
Battlemaniacs was a huge disappointment, twice. The first time, I was pissed that there are almost no brawler segments. The second time, I was pissed that it rehashes most everything from the original except it's about a fourth as long. On the positive side, the graphics and especially the music are Rare-quality. It's still really difficult as well.
