Let's recap: Batman Returns (SFC).

[Recap]

Batman Returns (SFC, Konami, 1993.02.26)


Konami has always been a quality label. Even with big mass media licences, instant-sellers just for their name, this company never decreased its standards. Batman Returns was no exception.

Final Fight was the game to beat. Konami had their own precepts to define the genre (I'm referring to the Turtles series here), but they wanted to have their own Final Fight, a scrolling fighting game without weapons, bigger sprites and a subsequent smaller fighting area. Violent Storm was their Final Fight copy for the arcades, and Batman Returns was it for the home market. They surpassed Capcom's game engine with a new set of actions for the main character and the addition of some "Dragon Ninja" style stages as well as some "Out Run" ones.

Audio-visually the game was awesome. They translated perfectly Burton's film atmosphere and created the greatest Batman sprite ever seen in a video-game. Probably.

Sadly, enemies, most of them, weren't as well drawn. Graphics don't fill the screen, as was usual in this type of games on the SFC, but you won't find real flaws with them.

Some stages are a bit too long and even boring, but you'll always want to see what's next, so you'll keep playing. One-crediting the game is difficult but possible once you know how to get advantage of all your actions (as the guard). Continuing, as in any game of the genre, will kill it prematurely.

[Josh]

Lets recap: Its called a Super Nintendo. This is not Japan... fanboy.

[Jeremy]

Ah, I've spouted quite a bit on my love for this game in the past few weeks, and now there's a thread for that! I love this game, and think it's the best Batman game ever made, even edging out the NES/Genesis Batman game. The graphics are amazing to this day, and the music, sound effects, and atmosphere are still great. That, and it's just a purely fun game.

[johnk_]

Recap: you really don't have to put "Let's recap" before every single thread that you make about an old game.

We get it.

you can just put the name of the game.. save yourself a little effort... and it'll be cool.

otherwise, i remember it being a nice little beatemup when i rented it, as far as i can remember... but, meh.. not like we had a shortage of them back then.

[Recap]

Now you mention it, "Super Nintendo" is one of the most stupid names ever invented for a console. But, please, let's not make of it the subject of this thread...

No, this is not Japan, this is the Internet and I can be writing this from Japan. If you don't mind, of course.

By the way, if you haven't noticed it yet, these threads are dedicated to Japanese systems. If the game was released on Western markets, it's a side event I don't really take care of. Again, if you don't mind, of course. Sigh.

[Josh]

LOL!

Pathetic.

[Recap]

Recap: you really don't have to put "Let's recap" before every single thread that you make about an old game.

We get it.

you can just put the name of the game.. save yourself a little effort... and it'll be cool.

Thanks for the advice, but I'll keep it. If you don't mind.

[padman]

LOL!

Pathetic.

Greatest comeback ever.


Can't believe people are bitching at Recap for such petty things. Lame.

[FirstBlood]

Now you mention it, "Super Nintendo" is one of the most stupid names ever invented for a console. But, please, let's not make of it the subject of this thread...

And somehow Super Famicom set new standards in console naming.

[FX]

SuperNintendo Chalmers.