Batman Forever (snes)

Batman is undeniably one of the greatest super heroes of all time, and it seems right to give him his own games.  His best video games are probably Arkham series.  However, for every good game, there's a bad game, enter Batman Forever for the snes.  Like Dennis the Menace, I liked this game as a kid, but as a I got older, I realized there's a lot of flaws.  So let's dive right into this mess.

The story loosely follows the plot of the movie of the same name.  Batman must stop the Riddler and Two Face, and also Robin joins Batman in his fight against evil.  That's basically the game in a nutshell.

There's only one positive I can think of about this game.  The controls are like Mortal Kombat, in fact it was made by Acclaim, the same people who ported Mortal Kombat to the snes.  So anyone used to fighting games will follow the controls well.

The negatives, on the other hand, are easy to find:  First off, when you start the game, you get to choose what weapons you want to bring with you.  This sounds cool, however you have to do ridiculous button and D-pad combos in order to use any gadget, even a simple batarang requires some dumb combo.  Your grapple is needed for many parts of the game, but you have to do a weird combo to get it to shoot upwards.  Enemies have a lot of health, so you will need to do a lot of punches and kicks, and gadgets, if you've figured out any button combo to use one.  Even going down to another floor requires you to do a button combo.  There's no set button for doing a simple task, you have to all these complicated combos for one easy task.  There's riddles left for you to find, but they aren't that important, all they do is tell you about what's going to happen next.  I can keep going on the negatives, but that would kill time, so I'm going to wrap it up now.

Overall, Batman Forever is a clunky game with complicated button combos needed for simple tasks.  I don't recommend this game to anyone, it's terrible.  At least Dennis the Menace had a catchy soundtrack, and was fun to use as prank to a friend who didn't know about Mr. Wilson.  This game is just bad.  Thanks for reading, and remember to keep ranting n' raving.