the grunter

As I watched the new Dark Knight trailer over and over again, all of a sudden I crave a fun Batman game. And since the past 4 Batman games released on console all sucked, I took out one of my all time favorite consoles which is the SFC and put in Batman Returns (bought it at Akiba in 2006, for only 504yen!!). Played a first run to get familiar with the controls again, and then rushed thru all 8 levels in the game with an incredible satisfaction. The many ways you can grab enemies (my favourite will always be grabbing two at a time and bonk their heads together, you can even do it to bosses!), the different level design (2D with depth, 2D w/o depth, driving the Batmobile), the most faithful to the movie soundtrack and not to mention the Tim Burton-ness wrapping the whole game. All this not only make this game the best movie adaptation ever, but as a stand alone it is still one of the best 2D scroll fighters I’ve played.