I find it overrated. First game had a lot of good ideas just not great execution as the controls in all of the Battletoads games feel loose. The Double Dragon crossover title was probably the best one.
Eh, I'd say the same thing about EWJ, honestly; they both lean on being pretty and having lots of gimmicks, but I feel Battletoads (the first one, at least) is better designed than EWJ, a game that suffers from the typical Virgin/Shiny "let's just vomit a bunch of platforms everywhere and hope for the best" level design.