Basado en la segunda película de Tim Burton, Batman Returns es un juego de acción y plataformas que mejora notoriamente en todos los sentidos a su antecesor. Mientras que otros juegos de Batman vuelven a la fórmula de éxito beat em up (que no significa que esté mal) o convierten un juego de Batman básicamente en un shooter, Batman Returns prefiere ser un juego con las características suficientes para hacer sentir al jugador que controla realmente a Batman mas allá del nombre y el traje, teniendo acceso sencillo a todas las habilidades del personaje de forma libre, ya que además del básico combate cuerpo a cuerpo o el saltar, podremos planear con la capa cuando queramos, podemos usar el garfio elevador para subir a cualquier superficie, agarrarnos o balancearnos, y tendremos acceso al cinto con todo tipo de armas y gadchets (murciélagos, bombas de humo, batarangs... ) La ambientación es realmente oscura, hay variedad de enemigos, los diseños son parecidos a los de la película, hay jefes finales (Catwoman y el Pingüino están aquí, por supuesto) la dificultad es equilibrada y la música cumple, aunque no es la de la película.
En definitiva, independientemente del cariño que le tengo porque es uno de los juegos de mi infancia, para mi, junto con The Adventures of Batman & Robin de SNES, es el mejor juego de Batman hasta la llegada de Arkham Asylum. De hecho, siempre me ha parecido que no estaría muy alejado de la saga Arkham si ésta fuera de 16 bits. Muy recomendable.
En definitiva, independientemente del cariño que le tengo porque es uno de los juegos de mi infancia, para mi, junto con The Adventures of Batman & Robin de SNES, es el mejor juego de Batman hasta la llegada de Arkham Asylum. De hecho, siempre me ha parecido que no estaría muy alejado de la saga Arkham si ésta fuera de 16 bits. Muy recomendable.
Dark and atmospheric with a cute Genesis soundtrack. But the level design is abysmal, not out of incompetence but out of sadism.
Great capture of the feel of the film. Spooky, grim, very hard for 7 year old me, thankfully I had a sempai to help me on the hard areas.
I played Batman Returns before I watched Batman Returns. Zero Regrets,
I played Batman Returns before I watched Batman Returns. Zero Regrets,
Atmospheric but flawed, Batman Returns is a decent platformer with interesting ideas but very broken overall. Let's start with the positive things.
The first impression you'll get is that the game is really atmospheric. It has 5 acts and each of them are richly designed in graphical terms. Everything is so gloomy, and the backgrounds are greatly detailed too. Also, that presentation at the beginning... perfect atmosphere.
The music is good too, I love the intro song and some songs from the levels, those cheap GEMS bleeps really suit the sombre mood Batman Returns tries to deliver.
Now, let's get in its biggest flaw. The second impression you'll get is that the game is painfully hard. I know there are games where this level of difficulty is the main attraction, but in those games the difficulty is well implemented (most of the time), here... not so much. I mean, no matter what you try, everything that moves will hit you because the collision boxes are all over the place (this later in the game becomes almost infuriating). Of course there are a lot of lives and health restoration items to mantain you with life no matter how much you got hit, but there are so many cheap deaths around the corner... and near the end of the game it's almost impossible to beat a level without losing 4/5 lives. At least, you have infinite continues.
In order to win the game, you'll have to conserve as much throwable weapons as you can so you can use them to quickly defeat the bosses. Now, some bosses are so overpowered that will kill you in a blink and you'll not get anything in compensation, you'll spawn with the same quantity of weapons you had when you died (so, if you wasted them while fighting a boss, sorry! There's nothing for you). The horizontal camera is short so it's hard to react to an incoming enemy or know where you will land in a jump. All of these flaws lead to some unsatisfactory-satisfactory kind of experience that's not so enjoyable.
This game could be a little bit better if the enemies were more easy to hit and the collision detection were better. As a veredict, play this game if you want a challenge and a good visual experience, but if you want to have fun, there are better games to try.
The first impression you'll get is that the game is really atmospheric. It has 5 acts and each of them are richly designed in graphical terms. Everything is so gloomy, and the backgrounds are greatly detailed too. Also, that presentation at the beginning... perfect atmosphere.
The music is good too, I love the intro song and some songs from the levels, those cheap GEMS bleeps really suit the sombre mood Batman Returns tries to deliver.
Now, let's get in its biggest flaw. The second impression you'll get is that the game is painfully hard. I know there are games where this level of difficulty is the main attraction, but in those games the difficulty is well implemented (most of the time), here... not so much. I mean, no matter what you try, everything that moves will hit you because the collision boxes are all over the place (this later in the game becomes almost infuriating). Of course there are a lot of lives and health restoration items to mantain you with life no matter how much you got hit, but there are so many cheap deaths around the corner... and near the end of the game it's almost impossible to beat a level without losing 4/5 lives. At least, you have infinite continues.
In order to win the game, you'll have to conserve as much throwable weapons as you can so you can use them to quickly defeat the bosses. Now, some bosses are so overpowered that will kill you in a blink and you'll not get anything in compensation, you'll spawn with the same quantity of weapons you had when you died (so, if you wasted them while fighting a boss, sorry! There's nothing for you). The horizontal camera is short so it's hard to react to an incoming enemy or know where you will land in a jump. All of these flaws lead to some unsatisfactory-satisfactory kind of experience that's not so enjoyable.
This game could be a little bit better if the enemies were more easy to hit and the collision detection were better. As a veredict, play this game if you want a challenge and a good visual experience, but if you want to have fun, there are better games to try.
Visuellement correct avec une ambiance dark plutôt réussie mais c'est au détriment d'une jouabilité très hasardeuse et d'une difficulté complètement craqué. J'y retournerai jamais de ma vie et préférez la version Super Nintendo, bien plus appréciable.
Batman Returns had a lot of different games on a lot of different consoles. Here, in contrast to Konami's solid but tedious beatemup for the SNES, Malibu Interactive shitted out a platformer comprised of five stages. The actual runtime is shorter than the SNES game, but it's pretty much worse in every single other regard. It kinda fails at everything. I looked around to see what else I may recognize Malibu Interactive for, and it turns out they made Cliffhanger, so I suppose being this bad kinda checks out. There's not really much to say about it though, it's just another game in the pile of western developed 4th gen platformers that all have the same flaws as each other for some reason.
Another horribly mediocre game by Malibu.