I was just thinking Larry do we all watch the same KZfaqrs lol

I like your video few days ago by the way

@@segamatthews5023 Aw, thanks bud, muchly appreciated!!! :)

It is amazing this game gameplay and difficulty predates Cuphead.

At least in terms of graphics, I saw the potential in Batman Returns. The gameplay wasn't anything special, but you could tell the devs had a good handle on the Genesis hardware

This game is truly tough. Props to you

I played for 3 minutes and quit lol it sucks. Pretty good art though.

Damn, was it hard. Gitgud doesn’t help either)

amen, well said 👍🎉

I totally agree with most of what you've said. But man, this game was freaking hard!! Lol. I'm talking NES, Ninja Gaiden level 5 hard. But what many don't realize is that you can actually make it to the last level in this game, but it will take time, practice and skill. I never beat this one but I did make it to level 5. As far as the special fx goes, this game has arguably the greatest special FX ever seen on the Genesis with maybe only 4 other titles on the system in it's league. Everything about this game is amazing. Seeing The Adv of Batman & Robin makes you wonder why Sega even bothered with releasing the 32x.

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Reminds me of Maximum Carnage's OST 🤷‍♂️

some of the sections are wayyy too long and boring

I love the soundtrack, but I don’t think it fits this game at all… and it sounds too similar to Red Zone and Subterranea by the same composer. Something closer to the TV Show music would have been a better choice.

@@ynotwalk7391 ...that's what she said? 🤔😏

Yes and I think this game is supposed be played as Batman and robin 2 player because that’s when you find more rewards for taking out enemies fast

Not really it would probably be the same game on both the Xbox and PlayStation but the switch version would obviously be the weaker version you know due to the hardware being weaker but I would reckon the switch version would be one of those impossible ports.

Yeah, I mean, it's the only proper way to kill the robot-cat boss, just kick the nose of the poor thing untill it rings in his ears) It's also a great way to deal with the big burglar boys in the first levels. Feels so good to jump down on them with hard sounding boom-boom-boom))

How cool would it have been had SEGA, a la Batman Returns CD, made a SEGA CD version of Batman & Robin that had the side-scrolling run & gun sections of the base/cartridge game PLUS the super-scaler driving combat we got in the SEGA CD version? Add in a couple extra levels & villains (The Riddler, Clayface & The Penguin, maybe?) & replace the soundtrack w/a more Animated Series appropriate redbook audio & you'd arguably have one of the top ten games of that generation.

yeah the music was pretty good, I'd say it's almost as good as the BJ Theme

I miss Classic Game Room and Mark Bussler, he was always fun to watch.

@@PaperBanjo64 for sure, the channel that started it all about internet game reviews

Mark dancing with the GameBoy in the GameBoy Micro review was hilarious.

Past sorcery and also part what the Mega Drive is capable of with a talented developer.

British Amiga devs these guys were weren't they?

well said.

1. Thanks for sharing this trivia 2. Thanks for all the amazing Genesis music you've made

Lemme guess, it meant that they'd deal with far worse time constraints? Seriously, just look how little of a crap a lot of game publishers over here gave back in the late 90s.

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May not be a fitting soundtrack for a Batman game, on the surface. Once you started playing, though, damn did it fit. What a technical achievement in graphics and pushing the sound chip.

I agree, i had the same effect on my first playthrough in sor2

Aside from the high skill ceiling, I think that's a big reason it holds up so well. Jesper was on fire. 👍

Jesper Kyd, the composer who would go on to compose for the early Assassin's Creed games, and Borderlands. I think this was his first or second game. 20+ years later and that first boss theme is still ingrained in my being. Jesper is just on another level.

Listen to the 9 (!) minute long main theme. It's like some electro prog, just amazing.

Also, those excerpts from the soundtrack that were played in this video sounded thumpin'!

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@@wonderfulwardy Thank you Sir!

and unlike the snes version this version at least was true to the title's name which is the adventures of batman and Robin which means 1 or 2 players unlikely the other versions of the same title

props. for beating it. i only was able to beat the snes version and the snes version is amazing for its time

@@IzacBris props back. I remember having a hard time with the Riddler boss fight on snes. I did make it to the next level but never beat it.

@@PULRN it happens. classic games were brutal back then. but in a good way to remember the good times

My friend might beat it.he say the same thing u have to do a pattern.crazy lol.old games our hard to beat

It certainly has Lynx's library beat, and arguably Neo Geo Pocket Color's. It might even match Game Boy Color's library, but that's pushing it.

It wasn't, it just failed at being a portable, that thing chuged on 6 AA batteries in less than 3 hours.

@@joseluki Not only did it eat batteries, but it was just too big to lug around for a "portable." The original Game Boy was big, but it wasn't anywhere near THAT big.

@@zanegandini5350 Size was not the problem, it was the battery consumption, even with the added battely pak it was ridiculous, because it was a portable master system.

@@joseluki my friend and I each had one. I always used crap ton of batteries but he just had the adapter to plug into the wall.

ehhhhh more an awesome tech demo that should be cheated

It’s not a platformer… it’s a run ‘n’ gun.

@@happyspaceinvader508 platforming run and gun. gees

@@ynotwalk7391 ehh just admit you suck and move on.

I beated the game with a game genie code last Week. I used the always max level for weapons.. it changed the game completly! I remember renting this game again and again on blockbuster with my brother . But the mad hatter level is insane and the boss is too hard, we could never beat it.. Also the game difficult is ridiculous hard, only 6continues with 2lives, p2 can’t join a boss battle if out of lifes, no easy or normal mode… but the ost and the game give me lots of fun

Yes one of the best looking games on the Sega genesis but the game is just OK. It could have been much more but it is just a shooter with great graphics and special effects. The music is also amazing!!! Too bad the game is just OK!!!

He did about 5 osts on the Genesis. All of them are good. Batman & Robin, Red Zone (Hitman Contracts remixed some of the songs from Red Zone.), Sub-Terrania, Pro-Moves Soccer and 1 other game but I never played it so I don't remember.

It's an awesome soundtrack, but the overall sound driver was less impressive than what the Japanese like Koshiro and Sakimoto were able to achieve. Jesper used all 6 FM (1 optional sample channel included) for the music, leaving the sound effects for the PSG channels, resulting in excellent music, but very primitive sound effects. The Japanese drivers combined FM and PSG channels and used the latter to enhance the music, leaving some FM/sample channels for the sound effects. This is why games like Streets of Rage 2 have both excellent music and sound effects.

This was worth playing. I killed this game every single day back then

Repetition and memorization shouldn't be required to do well. That's not difficult, it's time consuming.

@@Vulpas what games do you play that don't require any kind of repetition and memorization?

@@Vulpas That's weird because even old school Nintendo games were about memorization. That's where the term 'NintendoHard' came from. It's why I can't get into the modern Mario games, they're nowhere near as challenging as the NES trilogy.

@@Vulpas lol i imagine you have a hard time punching your moms credit card into ur switch

@@mickeycortes6649 Nintendo, mostly (Zelda, Donkey Kong, Mario, Yoshi, Star Fox, Kirby, Pokemon, etc). Also, my favorite genres don't have much of that (RPGs, puzzle, adventure, and fighting games). A well balanced masterpiece like Donkey Kong Country 2 or Suoer Mario Bros 3 is fair but. challenging your first time through, and every death is your fault, never any b.s.

Thank you. ⚙️🐢

There's a famous hack of this game called "Bat-advantage", which essentially has your weapon on fully charged mode for the entire time (not just when you grab the power-up for it). It easens the difficulty a bit and I've seen multiple people who had difficulties with this game back in the day praising it.

To quote Metallica, "...sad, but true."

@@Aragorn7884 correction: "sad, but your opinion". In my opinion the game is awesome, it's hard sure but fare. When you learn the enemy patterns after a few tries the game becomes totally manageable.

@@mickeycortes6649 Yeah I just play it like Gunstar heroes and jump kick everything. I only shoot to whittle down the hordes but I use melee attacks for the kills. I play a similar way in Gunstar heroes, except I throw enemies at crowds instead.

Disagreed, but to each their own, i guess...

get dave back, shits weak without him. you're playing the game wrong if you think the weapons are noodles.

Renting games were the Days!! and Fun

Good idea to “work out” with our closest friends with this soundtrack, ie get intimate with our close friends, it would be hot

@@JamesChessman where'd my chess pi... Nevermind

^^^ dude just had to make it weird. I know it’s just a joke, but it seems no matter what you comment on, you can ALWAYS count on trolls to emerge from beneath their bridges. You could say sh!t that isn’t even remotely controversial, yet someone out there will find something to complain or argue about or turn it into something totally irrelevant like politics 😆 Or they’ll just try to clown on the OP for no reason. To reiterate, the dude who left the first reply, I know it was just a joke, so I’m not exactly referring to you.. your comment was mild compared to A LOT of the sh!t I see.. I’m more so referring to the real toxic, argumentative, insulting sh!t that trolls constantly say, unprovoked. Your comment may have been meant as just a lighthearted joke..but it just kinda made me think of how common trolling has become. There’s like a whole society of trolls 😆 I am curious, why even reply with such a comment, insinuating that the dude is making sweet love to his workout partner to the Batman music? Lol it’s funny, but uncalled for, and it just makes me want to know what provokes one to leave such a comment to a dude who was simply sharing his thoughts.

you think the first level hard try two face level Lol

very inspiring comment