WedNESday -Batman - 1989 - NES

To celebrate WedNESday let's have a look at the best Sunsoft game that the late 80's have provided and its a tie in game no less. Batman, the favorite DC Comics character of a lot of folks and overall legendary. 




A game that is in the collection of a lot of folks, but not that often talked about - because frustration arises when the name's mentioned. Nope, nothing to do with the game being lame - or nothing to do with the respect of the source material (The Tim Burton movie for these who were sleeping on the back)

But the sheer frustration of the difficulty that makes you think you're working for a Chinese sweatshop as soon as the level 2 kicks in. If there's a difficulty spike it goes soaring high then. And the first act of the game throws you a boss - every three or so level you get one.

Strap in for a challenge because a challenge it is and this one will put all of your gaming skills to the test. It follows therefore very loosely the movie, if not at all. Luckily enough your skills will be rewarded with unlimited continues, so it's not like you will need to start over and over and over again.

In terms of move the caped crusader has within the utility belt : Split Batarang, Batarang, a rocket gun ?! - Wai.. what ? and the puches. Which uses ammo you can collect upon defeating enemies - Do yourself the favor, use the punch on the first 2 level - you're going to need all you can get.

In terms of control, you're getting a walljump, jumps, crouch - note on the walljump you can actually use that to skip entire chunks of some level using well timed jumps - Skipping some tough sons of ... mailman.

The thing that shocks in this game, aside from the price CIB on the Nes is the overall production value, there's some cut-scenes in there. Which was back then soo elusive that it's worth mentioning and a soundtrack that's actually easily listenable outside of the game.

So what's the negative, well the negative is also the challenge it offers - level are longed multi segmented and offer a boss after each end segments, and ho boy is it tough.

Well you've got weapons right, you're the bat so use them.

As a conclusion the game is solid, challenging but never enough to make you drop the ball and interesting enough to make you go forward. If you managed to beat this game please come I need to give you a medal, it's well deserved.