Vimm's Lair: SNES Reviews - Batman Returns

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Batman Returns

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Reviewer: Ibrahim Date: May 14, 2006
OK...flame me all you want, but I gotta say that Batman Returns is by far one of my favorite games. Now to be fair, its not one of my favorite games because it has the best game play the SNES has to offer or graphics or anything like that, it is my favorite cuz I grew up on it and loved it...but that's not to say the game itself is bad! Read on to find out what I mean...

Graphics: 9
Ok, while many people may say that the graphics of Tales of Phantasia are a lot better and yadi-ya...there is no denying that the graphics of this game are damn good. I mean there is one level where a building catches on fire...and it looks pretty damn sweet. Batman looks great and he is well animated and the fat clowns (I love those guys...they look like giant babies) are my all time favorite generic enemies...even up to this day! But I gotta say...there isn't a great diversity amongst the enemies so yeah, it can get a lil repetitive killing the same guy over and over again. But in contrast the levels are all beautifully done and different.

Sound: 7
The sound is ok...nothing great nothing terrible. You get the theme song all throughout the game (which can really get to you!) except for once in a while during boss battles where the music changes to a more intense beat. Anyways, it didn't really bother me much because I wasn't playing batman for the "great music".

Gameplay: 9
Alright the game play is pretty damn good! I mean fair enough your skills don't upgrade as you play along (you got your attack button, jump button, special attack, and item button) but then again not many beat-em ups had upgradable attacks...I mean think of streets of rage! Everyone loves that game, but its not exactly the most diverse game out there...so u cant hold this against batman. On a different note, there are some cool things you can do...like they have interactive backgrounds! Yeah u heard interactive backgrounds! You can throw people into posts and they will bend, throw them into a wooden bench and it will break, at a window? it shatters...you get the point...Also unlike SoR (which is a great game) here is sum diversity in the game play. You have your standard beat-em-up lvls, then you have your more platformer levels where you have to use you grapple and then there is the awesome car lvl where you drive in your car and shoot at bad guys (I play batman just to get to this lvl!) so I would have to say the game play is pretty damn good albeit not perfect.

Overall: 9
I think this game deserves a nine...it pretty much did everything right....but then again I'm just a batman fan. :D

Anyways, if you like batman (who doesn't?) try this game out. If you completely detest the Dark Knight (heathen!) then this game is not for you :P