This wins my award for World's Gloomiest Batman game. The graphics are dark, the music is dark, the tone is dark, everything is dreary in this game, which does match the mood of the movie, but even still, the Nintendo versions were cheerier than this. Not a bad game though, just really hard.
By far one of the hardest Batman games I’ve ever played in my life!!! Music was dope though I could never get past the first stage but my brother damn near beat this until our sega got to hot 😂
@@Darkshark201 This wasn't a Japanese made game, it was western developed, and in those days western devs didn't believe in difficulty curves, instead opting for strange difficulty spikes in their games. A majority of Japanese made games tended to be fairer on difficulty, introducing something new to you over time, and expecting you to learn it until the game teaches you something else, and the cycle would begin anew.
I think this game has one of the greatest soundtracks ever I love the songs that play during each map and then the boss song Batman walking with a pep in his step like he's Mr Big badass
Sega's take on Batman Returns, while not quite as awesome of a game as the SNES version was, is still a really high quality platformer with some great music and some incredibly tough game play.
Did you know in 20:17 while being chase with that giant ball you can jump and use the grappling hook 🪝 on the ceiling and hang just for 1 second so the ball can land first instead of being chase from it
So many years I would have little glimpse of memories of this game! The music and gameplay was perfect! Out of all the games I played as a child, this one was my favorite
Like Home Alone 2, Batman Returns for Sega Genesis looks like it was made for Master System because of strange color scheme. Actually MS got its own version of Batman Returns, pretty good platformer with music by Yuzo Koshiro. Game Gear version is almost the same, but with drawn cutscenes and ability to choose a weapon.
Till this day I can beat this game 3 times in one sitting am I the only person that knows in the mall when Penguin drop that ball chasing you down the escalator you can easily avoid it by using the grapling hook on the ceiling as soon as you drop down the first hole
It is a budget sound driver. There is not enough ROM storage for imimenting better sounds to make the cartridge cheaper for publish. And that it was the programmers bad choice of sound. The same developers from the X-Men Genesis. This Batman game has never made it over to the east coast in the 90's.
This was by far the best Batman Game in the retro era. It was so dark and grim, and the music was amazing. Difficulty was insane! I did manage to beat it ONCE though.
Oh, the memories! My family used to go to car boot sales on Sundays and if I was lucky I came home with one or two Mega Drive games I would play after school
Back in the old days when Nintendo and Sega produced a license property of the same game but with different gaming mechanics! Gamers who owned two consoles can buy the same game and to enjoy the different gaming experience at the same time! Nowadays, the same game released by different gaming console share the exact same version of that game.
That was the only inaccuracy since Catwoman doesn't die in the movie and the stray cat thing of course happened much earlier after being knocked out of the window by schreck which basically turned her into Catwoman
Good graphic, but in the box, with multiple languages, including Italian, there is the phrase "hit your enemies with the Batmobile". But in the Sega Genesis version there's no stage with the Batmobile.
This is no SNES version of Batman Returns (The one I grew up with, thank God), but I like this one too, anyway! Looks pretty nice, albeit the graphics look a bit too dark.
Took me a few years of on and off playing to get past that part. But once I finally figured it out it was easy. Never got past the sewer level though, I always lost too many lives in the circus.
This game reminds me a lot of the first Castlevania on the NES. Its really dark, its really grimy, and it can be really cheap at times, but theres just something about it lol
This was included in a bundle of games I got back in the day (sellers in the Penny Saver would sell them in that format). It's not a bad game, but it has so many cheap hits, and the collision detection is suspect. The music ranges between fairly good and abrasive, and the sound effects are on the lower end of quality. The stages and gadgets are the best aspects of the game.
If I am correct, check the details this is a Japanese port and it’s known between this and adventures of Batman and robin sega as the hardest games in Batman series
Trust me this game was not easy to be beat but I beat it at least I mean at least 10 or 15 times in my childhood when I stay at my uncle's house playing it that's when I was like 6 or 7 years old
To me, Batman Returns for the Genesis would have worked better if it was made by Sega of Japan in the style of Golden Axe or even developed by Wolf Team in the style of El Viento.
The end of this game always bothered me. Why did they have it that Batman killed catwoman? As a kid watching the movie, I thought they loved each other but were on different sides of the law (even tho Batman actively kills “bad” people in this continuity as well) preventing them from being together. The end felt out of place & dark for the sake of being dark. & if she beats Batman, does Batman die? Too many questions but no answers
I used to play this but never beat it, does it really end like this? What a depressing end. Falls to her death, sad music plays, the end? Not very satisfying for the amount of hours you put in. At least give me a couple still frames like MK
How come they made Catwoman in this game a villain whereas in the movie she was an anti-heroine, and how come here Batman confronts and kills her but in the movie, he risks his life to save her, despite her misdeeds?
She was part in penguin murdering the snow princess she blew up a department store… kidnapping and murder at the end yeah… It’s safe today this cat woman was a villain…
The end was probably the biggest inaccuracy here. Not to mention the stray cat thing actually revitalized her and happened when Schreck knocked her out of a window
I always thought it was interesting that the Genesis game for the first movie looked and sounded better than this one. Different studios, but it almost seems like a step backward though it came out after.
The lack of colors really hurts this game, but by no means is it the worst Batman game ever created. That (dis)honor goes to Batman Forever, which is an atrocious game. That one makes this one seem like a masterpiece.
Yeah. I appreciate the atmospheric tone they were going for but the colours just don't blend well enough with the limited palette available. Everything ends up looking grainy.
De los mejores. Batman, batman returns y el de batman y robin de la serie animada, todos eran buenos en sega y nintendo. El único malo fue batman forever para mega drive y snes.
Harlequins? Gargoyles attacking you? Cathedrals? Batman in purple suit? Is this game really based on the movie Batman Returns? I do not think so. In the movie there are no big-headed Bozo-style clowns or statues that attack you with gears. This game with its monstrous script changes sucks, as well as boring and pointless.
Pues claro que está basado en Batman Returns de Tim burton con algunos añadidos, como es normal... hay que ser bastante poco inteligente para decir lo que dices. El juego era muy bueno en su época. Un verdadero reto que te enganchaba.
@tiny2gunz927 it was game dependent. Some Sega ports were better, some snes ports were better. It depended on how the games played to the consoles' strengths. Like Sega was generally better for fast arcade games because it had a better cpu, whereas snes was usually better for visuals. Of course it also boils down to developers too and the game they make. Like batman returns on snes and genesis were actually different games which shared the same name rather than ports of each other. In this case Konami made a much better game on the snes.
