Batman Returns (Super Nintendo, 1992)

The game takes the player through seven scenes featured in the film. Various members of the Red Triangle Circus Gang attack Batman throughout the game. Batman has a number of weapons and moves at his disposal, including the batarang. Each level ends with a boss character, which requires a little more effort and strategy to defeat. A number of levels are two-dimensional platform levels as opposed to the majority of the pseudo-3D levels where freer movement is permitted. The fifth level consists of driving the Batmobile in a chase scene where Batman must chase bikers and a heavily-armed van from the gang. In order to defeat them, the Batmobile uses a machine gun.

The SNES version of the game was released in 1993. It is fundamentally a left-to-right scrolling fighter beat-em-up, a genre that featured heavily on the console at the time. The gameplay and graphics are very similar to the Final Fight games.

The game takes the player through seven scenes featured in the film. Various members of the Red Triangle Circus Gang attack Batman throughout the game. Batman has a number of weapons and moves at his disposal, including the batarang. Each level ends with a boss character, which requires a little more effort and strategy to defeat. A number of levels are two-dimensional platform levels as opposed to the majority of the pseudo-3D levels where freer movement is permitted. The fifth level consists of driving the Batmobile in a chase scene where Batman must chase bikers and a heavily-armed van from the gang. In order to defeat them, the Batmobile uses a machine gun.

Reviews of the game were largely positive, although some criticism was made about the lack of originality. Praise was gained for the quality of the graphics, sound, fluent controls, balanced difficulty level and atmosphere (with music adapted from Danny Elfman's score for the film).

Batman Returns was awarded Best Licensed Game of 1992 by Electronic Gaming Monthly.[1]

This game is one of the best games ever to be created. Playing as the caped crusader, you get to go through 6 stages fighting all of the Penguin's goons, along with the Penguin and Catwoman. Filled with loads of fun, you get to use multiple combos on the enemies, along with throwing a goon up into a window or even clunk 2 goon's heads together. I wish other games were like this. I couldn't stop laughing, and the excitement stopped me from even wanting to put the controller down.

The presentation is top notch. You get a nice intro with pictures of the movie and the music. THE MUSIC! How did they managed to replicate the music from the movie so well into that Super-Nes cartridge?

The gameplay is a side-scrolling beat-em-up à-la Final Fight. Waves and waves of cloned bad guys run to you just asking to get knocked-out. At the end of each stages, there's the usual boss. The characters are huge and reasonably animated. You have lots of moves at your disposal, including the grappling hook and the Batarang. Also, you even have some Batmobile segments.

Overall, that game is a lot of fun to play, even if the enemies do get repetitive (a fault that plague the genre, of course).

In my humble opinion, Batman Returns for the Super-Nintendo is the third best Batman game of all time. The second position is for Sunsoft's Batman, based on the 1989 movie, for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The first is for Batman Arkham Asylum for the Xbox 360 or the PS3.

I repeat again, if you are a Batman fan, or you just like good SNES games, Batman Return is a essential for your Super-Nintendo library.

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