Well this one was pretty fun!
If you had limited continues, I would think this game would be impossible. But with unlimited continues, I think this game is way easier than the first. The stages for sure were harder, but with a forgiving checkpoint system at the end of each sub-stage, you really just had to get past each one once. And none of the stages ended up being so bad that I couldn't get through them. A few of them felt a bit too hard, but I never died more than 5 or so times on a stage.
Towards the end there were a couple sub-stages that you would have to redo if you game overed on the boss, but I was able to get through them pretty consistently after the first time.
The reason this game is so much easier though is the bosses. The first game's were super hard and unforgiving. But the bosses in this game actually felt really doable. The first few bosses are pretty easy. The last two bosses feel hard at first, but if you learn their attacks/patterns and how to dodge them, they become really consistent. It actually feels like good game design.
... Well, okay, the later bosses have way too much health so it just becomes a bit tedious, but they were definitely doable and it was a breath of fresh air actually feeling like I could beat the bosses.
The controls sometimes felt a bit unresponsive I guess? Sometimes it felt like my shots just wouldn't work if there was a bunch of stuff on-screen, and sometimes my jump inputs felt ignored, especially the the last stage. But for the most part it was fine, and Batman felt much more controllable in this game than the first.
Overall, I enjoyed this a lot! The graphics are great, the music is very good, and it's just a pretty solid game.
If you had limited continues, I would think this game would be impossible. But with unlimited continues, I think this game is way easier than the first. The stages for sure were harder, but with a forgiving checkpoint system at the end of each sub-stage, you really just had to get past each one once. And none of the stages ended up being so bad that I couldn't get through them. A few of them felt a bit too hard, but I never died more than 5 or so times on a stage.
Towards the end there were a couple sub-stages that you would have to redo if you game overed on the boss, but I was able to get through them pretty consistently after the first time.
The reason this game is so much easier though is the bosses. The first game's were super hard and unforgiving. But the bosses in this game actually felt really doable. The first few bosses are pretty easy. The last two bosses feel hard at first, but if you learn their attacks/patterns and how to dodge them, they become really consistent. It actually feels like good game design.
... Well, okay, the later bosses have way too much health so it just becomes a bit tedious, but they were definitely doable and it was a breath of fresh air actually feeling like I could beat the bosses.
The controls sometimes felt a bit unresponsive I guess? Sometimes it felt like my shots just wouldn't work if there was a bunch of stuff on-screen, and sometimes my jump inputs felt ignored, especially the the last stage. But for the most part it was fine, and Batman felt much more controllable in this game than the first.
Overall, I enjoyed this a lot! The graphics are great, the music is very good, and it's just a pretty solid game.