{"id":95061,"date":"2019-06-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/random_god_of_war_artist_shows_us_how_the_battletoads_reboot_should_have_looked"},"modified":"2019-06-14T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T09:00:00","slug":"random-god-of-war-artist-shows-us-how-the-battletoads-reboot-should-have-looked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/14\/random-god-of-war-artist-shows-us-how-the-battletoads-reboot-should-have-looked\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: God Of War Artist Shows Us How The Battletoads Reboot Should Have Looked"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af408353f3db2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/af408353f3db2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/random_god_of_war_artist_shows_us_how_the_battletoads_reboot_should_have_looked\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1XcmQCgABs?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Beloved Rare franchise <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/battletoads\">Battletoads<\/a><\/strong> made an appearance at this year&#8217;s E3, albeit sadly not for a Nintendo platform, in the form of a new three-player beat &#8217;em up. It all looks pretty fun and all, but just imagine if it looked like <em>this<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork comes from Raf Grassetti, Art Director at <strong>God of War<\/strong> studio Sony Santa Monica. We&#8217;ve actually featured his work on the site several times before thanks to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/tags\/god-of-war\">realistic recreations of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate characters<\/a>, but this time he&#8217;s turned his attention to what he describes as &#8220;the hardest game ever made&#8221;.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-instagram\"><\/aside>\n<p>He says, &#8220;My homage to the hardest game ever made! Battletoads was one of the games I played the most growing up. I\u2019ve always wanted to do my take on the games that really changed my childhood&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we&#8217;re <em>kind of<\/em> joking around a little here &#8211; we&#8217;re not sure we&#8217;d really want to ditch the series&#8217; cartoony vibe &#8211; but you never know how it&#8217;d turn out. At this point, we&#8217;d take any kind of Battletoads goodness on Switch.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Can you imagine a huge AAA version of Battletoads on the big screen? Would that completely ruin the franchise for you? Whatever your thoughts, share them with us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1XcmQCgABs?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Beloved Rare franchise Battletoads made an appearance at this year&#8217;s E3, albeit sadly not for a Nintendo platform, in the form of a new three-player beat &#8217;em up. It all looks pretty fun and all, but just imagine if it looked like this. The artwork comes from Raf Grassetti, Art Director at God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}