After playing this, I agree that it feels like a completely unrelated game with the Batman IP slapped onto it. Almost every enemy is some kind of robot, cyborg, jetpack ninja, tank, weird giant monster and I have no clue what the fuck the bosses are even supposed to be. The "cutscenes" between levels trying to follow the Tim Burton's movie story is almost comical.

many such cases

>>11805470 (OP)
I guess... but it feels enough like Batman in how it plays, the dark aesthetic and its OST also fit the IP well, so it gets a pass in my eyes. If you'd prefer something that follows Tim Burton's film more closely, I'd suggest Sunsoft's very own Genesis title, it's mostly overshadowed by their NES effort in online discourse, but I'd argue it's just as good, if not better if you value accuracy like me.

>>11805470 (OP)
Possibly, but they also could've just thought that it was cooler to have Batman fight a bunch of robots and ninjas and cyborgs, instead of just endless waves of generic handgun-wielding goons.

>>11805470 (OP)
>After playing this, I agree that it feels like a completely unrelated game with the Batman IP slapped onto it.
That's kinda just Sunsoft's style. You look at Fester's Quest and that game was, despite suspicions to the contrary, really just designed to be the way it was from the ground up.

This goes even for Journey To Silius, which was going to be a Terminator game (and apparently a VERY different one to what we finally got):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBpJB2NmUOg
The early 'quick time event' style game they were noodling on, following the plot of the movie, apparently didn't pan out, so they start over and make the sidescrolling action platformer. They apparently did not mention this to the film studio, or show it to them at any earlier point, then submitted it after they considered it finished, whereupon the studio told them to fuck off, revoking their Terminator license. (Perhaps they had seen the first build and was expecting that).

So Sunsoft retools it into an original property, but best I can tell, they didn't change all that much with the known versions of the sidescrolling action one, and likely this take on Terminator never was all that close at any point.

>>11805531
Agree, though I haven't actually tried the Genesis game. Is it as tough?

>>11805470 (OP)
That's how it was back then.

Games were made by Japan and Western IPs could sell them in the West, that simple. These games weren't made under the guise of honoring source material or creating the ultimate Batman etc gaming experience, just kinda thrown together to be close enough to recognizable. It wasn't art school kids making these it was old random Japanese guys trying to make a buck

>>11805470 (OP)
Oh batty batty, I will bewed

I finally 1cc'd it. It really isn't hard once you know what to do, though those two fucking pixel perfect jumps in the last level still get me.

>jetpack ninja
That's Firefly.

>>11805470 (OP)
>I have no clue what the fuck the bosses are even supposed to be
I think the human bosses are supposed to be Killer Moth, Electrocutioner, and Firebug (not Firefly; they're actually separate characters in the comics). Originally, Joker wasn't even going to be the final boss, but I'm glad they changed that in the final release.

>>11807116
Who's the guy right before Joker?

Almost every game back then had the bad guys be robots unless it was blatantly a game about the US military or a member of them, then the enemies could be Soviets.

>>11807185
Firebug

>>11805882
>Agree, though I haven't actually tried the Genesis game. Is it as tough?
I'm not sure, it has difficulty settings and limited continues, unlike the NES version, so on Easy I'd say it's much easier than on NES, but on Hard? It can be a challenge simply because of getting sent back to the title screen if you fail too much, so I'd say that it's close enough for that alone, certainly worth a try.

How many threads with this same topic have you done already? It's tiresome. From now I'll call you the BatNes-schizo

>>11808295
What did he mean by this?

>>11808308
He did the little sword thing kings did to knights but to OP

>>11806004
It's always interesting to rhink about just how familiar the devs were with the IPs they were adapting. Like Terminator was popular in Japan, so I wouldn't be surprised if people working on it knew and were fond of the movie. Even though it isn't really a licensed games, the Japanese version of Monster Party withall the parodies did seem to have been developed by horror fans, since some of their pseudonyms in the credits even implement random horror references. And then of course Castlevania was absolutely made by fans of old American horror films. I guess the difference with the latter two is that they weren't commissioned licensed properties, but seemingly internally generated ideas, so the references were likely organic and not some businessman telling them "make a game based on [hot new thing], have it done in 4 months"

This is one of three games I actually own for the NES. Bought some dude's two NES and a conttoller off his wife for $40 on CL a couple years ago and this was the first game I bought from the local retro vidya store to test the systems. Excellent game. It really gets you going. Love the music. Love the controls. The wall jumping is lit. The punching is great. Batman's guns are very good and I love that he actually has them. I've made it to Joker, but haven't beaten him yet. One day he's going down.

>>11805470 (OP)
That's why it's kino though

>>11808726

>>11808902

>>11805470 (OP)
The sequel is even more absurd OP, I mean who the fuck thought it was a good idea to just give BatMan a god-damned gun of all things imaginable?

>>11808726
Joker is easy once you know the trick. Always stay close and punch the shit out of him, except when he raises his arm to make thunders fall, then you need to take two steps back. Then immediately get close start punching again.

>>11807190
It did seem to be that way back then, I always figured it was because it's easier to portray your character murdering robots than actual humans. Same with how the TMNT cartoon changed the foot soldiers to being robots whereas in the og comic they were ninja humans or whatever.

>>11805882
>Xenophobe originally had boxart that reflected the arcade version's campiness instead of the !Xenomorph
huh

>>11805470 (OP)
But did you beat it?

>>11809031
I'm not reading that spoiler nonsense, you twat. What do you get by ruining vidya for others?

>that ninja in level one that finishes his cig before fighting
>"man I bet he's not that difficult to kill after that, I was just a shitty kid"
>let him drop the butt
>he fucks me up immediately
well shit

>>11809168
I don't even remember what he does, I beat the crap out of him before he can move everytime I play the game.

>>11809198
That's usually what everyone knows to do but for fun I let him go, that motherfucker is genuinely fast. I imagine you can learn the timing and punch him mid strike or just throw batarangs

>>11809168
I never noticed about the cigarette
But I love how you it's a unique enemy only to be seen once

>>11809168
>>11809221
This is one of those games like Castlevania that's more about careful planning than pure action, since you aren't fast, there is a delay to your jump and even cycling through the weapons can fuck you over. Most enemies are faster than you and will fuck you up if you're unprepared. Like those big jumping mutants, if you let them have their way and don't shoot them when they're at the edge of the screen there's a high chance you're fucked.

>>11805470 (OP)
It's a 40 year old toy for children developed cynically to make money with the lowest possible effort. Not some modern 2025 indie "passion project". Are you people here fucking dumb or something? Wasting your time on this shit.go outside and talk to someone. Have sex for fuck sake.

>>11805470 (OP)
>a completely unrelated game with the Batman IP slapped onto it
Didn't they do this kind of thing with a few games?

I know Yo Noid was a totally different game that they decided to put a pizza mascot in front when bringing it to North America.

>>11810234
Miserable faggot

>>11810234
>Have sex
I tried it but it's like they took something that was intended for procreation and propagate the human species and they turned it into a cynical validation exercise for superficial adults.

>>11812556
he's being needlessly hostile but he's not wrong. this game wasn't made by batman nerds to be some wet dream of comic or movie accuracy, its literally just random japanese guys making a typical game then some big dicked american in a suit said "we can sell this if you make it batman"

>>11812734
Wrong, the American in the suit had a small dick.

>>11810334
Yeah, all the time