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Believe me when I say that A. I don't take pleasure in having The Contrarian Opinion and B. that I wish I could rate parts of the game separately. I'll keep this fairly brief but here's my problems:

-Game world is too big for its own good, large swaths of nothing in it.
-It's exhausting when every enemy and every boss is a health sponge with an ultra extensive moveset designed to catch you. Especially when these enemies are placed in the way of the boss runback.
-I can't tell you how many times the bosses in this game having such strange stances cause my attacks with the Hand Axe to just whiff. Makes me wonder why they even bothered having so many options if they're going to punish you for not going with the Claymore or Katanas.
-Very apparent dip in quality after the Royal Capital. Namely:
-Fire Giant is a tedious slog with some attacks that I swear you can only really dodge by pure chance.
-Godskin Duo is the absolute worst boss ever implemented in a From Software game. I would genuinely rather fight the the Royal Rat Authority and then Prowling Magus and Congregation over Godskin Duo.

The part where I gave up was at Malacath, Daedric Prince of "How Am I Expected To Dodge This Attack", when the self-protective part of my brain asked me why I was still playing a game that was making me actively miserable and deeply upset.
I did not have a good answer to that question.

Such a shame too because I actually was having fun for a while with the game.

EDIT: Beat the game, what I said still stands. I guess the fight before the final boss and the first half were okay. Still, everything after the capital left a bad taste in my mouth.

All I can say that hasn't been said is the following:

If you genuinely think Battletoads is anything other than a pile of crap you've already played this game, got all achievements, and gloated to everyone else about your pointless accomplishment.

If you don't think that then you should stay away from this. Far away. Move to a different country under a different name and start a new life free from this. Start that hobby you were always meaning to get into.

I don't recommend it in any way shape or form. But not because it's short. You shouldn't play it because it's not even remotely fair.

Let's recap shall we?
-Annoying enemies that are so horifically frustrating to fight that you're better off just sprinting past them. Again.
-"Hey you know how people really hate the Anor Londo Rafters? Let's do that but you're going down and this time the great arrows explode. Clearly the problem was that it's not unfair enough."
-The Gravetender bonus boss is legitimately something I would expect out of Dark Souls 2. It's a bunch of wolves, an NPC with a gimmick weapon and then at half health a giant wolf shows up who goes utterly ballistic.
-Friede somehow makes the Gravetenders look pleasant in comparison. Phase 1 is okay but then Phase 2 happens and you now have to deal with a giant rampaging manchild bird thing flailing around screaming while you get pelted with ice. In a series where one of the biggest problems is difficulty handling multiple enemies. Also Friede can heal both of them. It might have been a bit less dumb but when you try to hit her out of it Ariandel is busy throwing a tantrum and smacking you with his soup bowl.
-There's a three phase fight. Why is there a THREE PHASE FIGHT WHERE YOU DIE ONCE AND HAVE TO START AGAIN FROM THE BEGINNING.
Not even Dark Souls 2 did that to you unless you went out of your way to do it. And even then you still didn't suddenly unkill the first phase just because you died to the third. It also helps that the last and true last bosses are pushovers.
-Every time you die to Friede, she tells you to basically go away. Every. Single. Time. It's difficult to not imagine that she's a stand-in for the developers once it happens again for the 57th time.

I get that it should be challenging but there is such a thing as "going too far". This went way too far. This went so far that the line they crossed is in an entirely different continent.
Don't get this DLC. It's money better spent buying supplies to brew toilet wine. It at least leaves a better taste in your mouth than this pile of garbage

EDIT: Hi. For those of you who claim that I am actually terrible at the DLC and that's the only reason why I don't like it, please watch the following video of me beating Friede at SL1 on my third try: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aieVpeaicU Thanks for your understanding.