Batman Returns (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete

[@elwoodjacobs4353]

This wins my award for World's Gloomiest Batman game. The graphics are dark, the music is dark, the tone is dark, everything is dreary in this game, which does match the mood of the movie, but even still, the Nintendo versions were cheerier than this. Not a bad game though, just really hard.

[@loringbush1455]

Yes I still remember playing this on my Sega Genesis! Very dark and it reminded me of the Gargoyles animated series!

[@GBGxBlockGod]

By far one of the hardest Batman games I’ve ever played in my life!!! Music was dope though I could never get past the first stage but my brother damn near beat this until our sega got to hot 😂

[@mjh3881]

This game was so hard that my Mom threw it out because I would CRY

[@BBrolic]

Good times 😂

[@Darkshark201]

I know the feeling but again like i wrote before it’s a Japanese port lol it was known to be harder

[@DarkFortressPictures_Official]

Really? I thought it was fairly easy.

[@Bloodreign1]

@@Darkshark201 This wasn't a Japanese made game, it was western developed, and in those days western devs didn't believe in difficulty curves, instead opting for strange difficulty spikes in their games. A majority of Japanese made games tended to be fairer on difficulty, introducing something new to you over time, and expecting you to learn it until the game teaches you something else, and the cycle would begin anew.

[@byrongrimsley500]

I think this game has one of the greatest soundtracks ever I love the songs that play during each map and then the boss song Batman walking with a pep in his step like he's Mr Big badass

[@clkgtr12]

it does man

[@josechavez7530]

So many years I would have little glimpse of memories of this game! The music and gameplay was perfect! Out of all the games I played as a child, this one was my favorite

[@marcusdupree8209]

Imagine, this was the very first video game I remember playing, at 3 years old.

[@KevTheGalaxybender]

My favorite part is the opening when the princess dies and he jumps down. The music is very fitting and sad

[@toddlindsay8846]

He didn’t jump down, he glides down. Also this game is the cartridge part for Sega CD. The rest is driving games

[@NintendoComplete]

Sega's take on Batman Returns, while not quite as awesome of a game as the SNES version was, is still a really high quality platformer with some great music and some incredibly tough game play.

[@Dorian_Scott]

NintendoComplete, I think you should play Earthbound (or Mother 2: Giygas Strikes Back Subbed Play through) What do you think?🙂

[@pab1381]

I loved the Sega ones. This game and Batman Forever were my favorites. Same with the old Sega genesis Power Rangers game.

[@Vectormantudeoz]

Dile eso a Sega lord X jajaj

[@darksidebluez5966]

Sega's was way better

[@someonejust5062]

Did you know in 20:17 while being chase with that giant ball you can jump and use the grappling hook 🪝 on the ceiling and hang just for 1 second so the ball can land first instead of being chase from it

[@bmorebread8993]

My favorite video game soundtrack of all time!!

[@pab1381]

God I miss the Sega genesis games. They were great. This game, Batman Forever, Jurassic Park, and Power Rangers were the only games I played on it.

[@Slavik07]

Jurassic Park was a fun game. I remember there was great soundtrack there too.

[@Sandlot1992]

I remember playing this game at a certain age, but it was hard!

[@Nyfancam01]

That intro is soooo sick!!!! Loved this game as a kid (I was born in 89) my brother was good at it! Fun stuff

[@chrispeplinski7306]

I loved this game as a kid

[@grongy6122]

Like Home Alone 2, Batman Returns for Sega Genesis looks like it was made for Master System because of strange color scheme. Actually MS got its own version of Batman Returns, pretty good platformer with music by Yuzo Koshiro. Game Gear version is almost the same, but with drawn cutscenes and ability to choose a weapon.

[@GameN3rdz]

MS? 🤔

[@camulodunon]

Honestly this has better color depth than most master system games.

[@camulodunon]

@@GameN3rdz master system.

[@subteeninhumansamuraiamphi5019]

This looks and definitely sounds a lot like the X-men game for sega

[@KevTheGalaxybender]

Yep. Same sounds effects. Enemy death dead giveaway

[@homejonny9326]

Thanks for the info...I was about to search for sega genesis titles with similar atmosphere as Batman Returns

[@kyokitagawa7977]

Absolutely!

[@solarflare9078]

They both used GEMS

[@MrDtae33]

Realizing I never made it last act 2 as a child 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@damin9913]

I still enjoy batman returns for the Sega genesis!

[@someonejust5062]

Till this day I can beat this game 3 times in one sitting am I the only person that knows in the mall when Penguin drop that ball chasing you down the escalator you can easily avoid it by using the grapling hook on the ceiling as soon as you drop down the first hole

[@akashthadani22]

0:45 banger, when i was a kid i was always fixed on how the walking animation matched the music

[@SG-cm7zq]

Personally here 8:54 is where I thought the walking animation matched the music. Clearly at some parts where you walked uninterrupted for some time.

[@CarozQH]

...Why is the sound effect for defeating enemies a guitar twang?!?!

[@A.Tips.306]

LMFAO

[@ggary04]

Because it’s a classic genesis sound effect🤣

[@DJeimaXe]

It is a budget sound driver. There is not enough ROM storage for imimenting better sounds to make the cartridge cheaper for publish. And that it was the programmers bad choice of sound. The same developers from the X-Men Genesis. This Batman game has never made it over to the east coast in the 90's.

[@DJeimaXe]

They don't have enough money to mass production this game cartridge for sale.

[@somethingoriginal1707]

Typical GEMS driver nonsense

[@OswaldMiyake35]

Good Work of Sega by doing this Movie Tie-In.

[@dunndolo]

I found this game a little too difficult so I never was able to beat it. I loved the first stage music so restarting didn’t bother me too much. 😂

[@3424-u6q]

I didnt know how to beat the final boss as a kid. Now I know that I have to destroy the air conditioner after “killing” the penguin.

[@Zzzzz_Zzzzzz______]

I like the laugh what the clowns do before they jump out the mirrors at you lol.

[@TheBruise25]

14:06 I'm getting serious "30 Seconds to Mars" vibes. lol

[@ihsyed786]

Such a great game for its time. The intro is very soothing even though you see the girl die in the intro

[@GPWT-video]

the music in this game is very cool

[@youngbull2503]

I remember beating this game along time ago it was fun

[@DUARTE99]

I’m back from 2024. And this still kicks ass!

[@Deathlikesensation]

This was by far the best Batman Game in the retro era. It was so dark and grim, and the music was amazing. Difficulty was insane! I did manage to beat it ONCE though.

[@bmorebread8993]

Yea catwoman used to kick my ass somethin serious lol bomb ass music tho

[@tristanwolske8201]

Everything about this game is both haunting and beautiful!!

[@biged3561]

Really digging the music in this game

[@virtrue.]

WEEKS of my life spent playing this game and it turns out it can be beat in 35 minutes. What the FUCK was 4 year old me doing?!

[@SamuelBlack84]

Oh, the memories! My family used to go to car boot sales on Sundays and if I was lucky I came home with one or two Mega Drive games I would play after school

[@3rd-Wave_Rebel]

Back in the old days when Nintendo and Sega produced a license property of the same game but with different gaming mechanics! Gamers who owned two consoles can buy the same game and to enjoy the different gaming experience at the same time! Nowadays, the same game released by different gaming console share the exact same version of that game.

[@mauriziopuddu4734]

Good graphic, but in the box, with multiple languages, including Italian, there is the phrase "hit your enemies with the Batmobile". But in the Sega Genesis version there's no stage with the Batmobile.

[@bgasman]

I like this game, but it was hard to play this game!

[@tonyse18]

I remember how hard this game was when I was a little kid. Beating it was a huge achievement.

[@Zzzzz_Zzzzzz______]

The clown in the mirror creeped me out as a kid lol.

[@vgaoct91]

Looks I need more practice w/the platforming parts when I play the SCD version of this game.

[@elkantheheroguy]

I'm watching this to see how Batman games were and there were better than most of the new ones

[@NintendoComplete]

The Sunsoft and Konami ones were definitely the best.

[@Nbjk01]

so who else remembers cat woman getting eaten by stray cats in the end??? cause that's what it looked like lol

[@jokerswank6082]

That was the only inaccuracy since Catwoman doesn't die in the movie and the stray cat thing of course happened much earlier after being knocked out of the window by schreck which basically turned her into Catwoman

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

This is no SNES version of Batman Returns (The one I grew up with, thank God), but I like this one too, anyway! Looks pretty nice, albeit the graphics look a bit too dark.

[@3424-u6q]

Tim burton Batman is Dark.

[@DeitrichDavis]

There is an snes version lol

[@mylovemachine]

@@DeitrichDavis It was different though. Its a side scrolling beat em up. Decent game.

[@camulodunon]

Call me crazy but I prefer this over the SNES game. That game is honestly a bit monotonous imo.

[@ryandiggs750]

I definitely enjoyed the SNES version and also the soundtrack on it

[@bsaintnyc]

this game was hard af in the 90s

[@capatthis]

i beat the first stage when i was a kid but i was stuck on the second stage lol

[@MartianBuddy]

I could never get passed 13:06 when I was 5

[@Altegore]

Same, lol, it was so frustrating...

[@kate_cooper]

Took me a few years of on and off playing to get past that part. But once I finally figured it out it was easy. Never got past the sewer level though, I always lost too many lives in the circus.

[@thehumbleone1983]

I love and enjoyed playing as a kid back in the days but it was hard for me than but none the less I still like it 👍

[@Greg_Games]

This game is so.... Purple 💜

[@izhasanzi527]

on my god my memory

[@mikedski9698]

Gotham City's Greatest Hero Is At It Again! BATMAN RETURNS! On Sega Genesis!

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

This game reminds me a lot of the first Castlevania on the NES. Its really dark, its really grimy, and it can be really cheap at times, but theres just something about it lol

[@Nirv_99]

Snes version is way better has that dark music feeling too when you play.

[@Sean-me4fv]

How the heck do you know where to jump to when you can't see where you are going to land?

[@SevenTailedWolf72]

I always liked the intro.

[@m.k.b.3880]

Developed by Acme interactive, Sega CD version= Malibu

[@izhasanzi527]

batman returns

[@Wolfdragon92584]

This was included in a bundle of games I got back in the day (sellers in the Penny Saver would sell them in that format). It's not a bad game, but it has so many cheap hits, and the collision detection is suspect. The music ranges between fairly good and abrasive, and the sound effects are on the lower end of quality. The stages and gadgets are the best aspects of the game.

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

17:09 Wow!

[@davidpaulson6005]

Trust me this game was not easy to be beat but I beat it at least I mean at least 10 or 15 times in my childhood when I stay at my uncle's house playing it that's when I was like 6 or 7 years old

[@northernstar5941]

the ending where the cats eat catwoman is creepy as fuck

[@ObiWanShinobi85]

I got to the penguin fight at the end and never completed it

[@LEXRAPS]

This game was insanely difficult

[@GPWT-video]

I am also trying to pass this game now)))

[@Darkshark201]

If I am correct, check the details this is a Japanese port and it’s known between this and adventures of Batman and robin sega as the hardest games in Batman series

[@chrissawyer1484]

I have been spoiled by the Sega CD music.

[@ecapone9223]

Good game

[@RocMegamanX]

If it wasn't for the fact that this was supposed to be dark, 32:10-32:20 would freak people out.

[@eugenehills8371]

Batman be careful don't move

[@dwyurr]

this game was hard as shit as a child

[@ahmed_ragab451ragab5]

Sega version is more dark than snes version

[@ryandiggs750]

Yeah this version is more an platformer and the SNES version is an beat em up game

[@eugenehill7165]

28:50 kitty 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 meow catwoman defeated

[@Jac2Mac]

To me, Batman Returns for the Genesis would have worked better if it was made by Sega of Japan in the style of Golden Axe or even developed by Wolf Team in the style of El Viento.

[@marcusredwine9918]

😂 how do we go down a staircase Batman? I’m pretty sure it’s not going butt first in a slide.

[@JosephJoestar8-sl9tg]

You didn't use the bat swarm attack a single time. Pity

[@songoku9348]

My god the SNES version shits all over the genesis version.

[@sov3cd]

The end of this game always bothered me. Why did they have it that Batman killed catwoman? As a kid watching the movie, I thought they loved each other but were on different sides of the law (even tho Batman actively kills “bad” people in this continuity as well) preventing them from being together. The end felt out of place & dark for the sake of being dark. & if she beats Batman, does Batman die? Too many questions but no answers

[@dereklarner6298]

What happens at the end if you let Catwoman beat you?

[@W4lmartbag]

That gems music ruined everything

[@rahmspinat]

Game was creepy af

[@carlosguerrero1956]

I remember the intro song being different

[@MetalReaper7]

You might be thinking of the SNES version

[@alexanderdahoola8188]

How come they made Catwoman in this game a villain whereas in the movie she was an anti-heroine, and how come here Batman confronts and kills her but in the movie, he risks his life to save her, despite her misdeeds?

[@JaykansherGG]

She was part in penguin murdering the snow princess she blew up a department store… kidnapping and murder at the end yeah… It’s safe today this cat woman was a villain…

[@jokerswank6082]

The end was probably the biggest inaccuracy here. Not to mention the stray cat thing actually revitalized her and happened when Schreck knocked her out of a window

[@byrongrimsley500]

I used to love this game but it was hard as shit and I couldn't beat it until 20 years later when I got it on my computer with cheats🤡🤡🤡🤣😂

[@WorldIsOnReanimatedSWV]

What If Sega CD Verison?

[@chumline577]

I never got very far in this game

[@b.a.p.2731]

I used to play this but never beat it, does it really end like this? What a depressing end. Falls to her death, sad music plays, the end? Not very satisfying for the amount of hours you put in. At least give me a couple still frames like MK

[@ImAllOuttaBubblegum]

Anyone else get stupid RAID Shadow Legends commercials before EVERY SINGLE KZbin VIDEO?!?!

[@KevTheGalaxybender]

I use ad blockers good sir

[@mikemcgannvoiceover]

I always thought it was interesting that the Genesis game for the first movie looked and sounded better than this one. Different studios, but it almost seems like a step backward though it came out after.

[@RalphWiggum.1]

This compared to the SNES version lmao!

[@Bloodreign1]

The lack of colors really hurts this game, but by no means is it the worst Batman game ever created. That (dis)honor goes to Batman Forever, which is an atrocious game. That one makes this one seem like a masterpiece.

[@homejonny9326]

In my case i did like the dark atmosphere color pallete of this game, though If you wish you can increase tv brightness a bit

[@Silanda]

Yeah. I appreciate the atmospheric tone they were going for but the colours just don't blend well enough with the limited palette available. Everything ends up looking grainy.

[@DarKKnightt07]

The only Batman game where Batman wore a purple suit lol

[@LukeCaulfield-u4g]

You’re forgetting the NES game based on the 89 movie

[@jgrillo638]

SNES version is 100% superior

[@marcotauil1616]

Batman 🦇 kkkkkkkkkl

[@Avrelivs_Gold]

I f-cking hated this After the amazing first game, this looked (but mostly sounded) like a joke 8:11 is peak genesis sound

[@haroldkennedy3233]

Snes was better

[@W4lmartbag]

Gems music always sucked

[@mihodv129]

go FULL HD!!!, это гавно качество

[@sobesons]

Worst Batman game ever?

[@Bloodreign1]

No, that honor goes to Batman Forever.

[@3424-u6q]

De los mejores. Batman, batman returns y el de batman y robin de la serie animada, todos eran buenos en sega y nintendo. El único malo fue batman forever para mega drive y snes.

[@TZER0]

@@Bloodreign1 Batman Forever is not even close. Batman and Robin on PS1. Look it up. It’s terrible.

[@JaykansherGG]

@@TZER0 yeah both of those was pains takenly bad lmao

[@arianimalrightsireland339]

Did anyone play or see Batman capedcrusader on C-64 brilliant retro classic

[@alfonzoloyagonzalez]

Harlequins? Gargoyles attacking you? Cathedrals? Batman in purple suit? Is this game really based on the movie Batman Returns? I do not think so. In the movie there are no big-headed Bozo-style clowns or statues that attack you with gears. This game with its monstrous script changes sucks, as well as boring and pointless.

[@3424-u6q]

Pues claro que está basado en Batman Returns de Tim burton con algunos añadidos, como es normal... hay que ser bastante poco inteligente para decir lo que dices. El juego era muy bueno en su época. Un verdadero reto que te enganchaba.

[@JaykansherGG]

@@3424-u6q hermano usa el traductor de google…

[@kate_cooper]

The gear statues are actually in the film, but they’re just statues, they don’t do anything.

[@algo2957]

lol this is wack compared to the snes version tbh. all those fart sounds too lmfao

[@tiny2gunz927]

Never understood why people said Sega was better MK1 and 2 look way better on SNES then on Genesis i have this game on SNES looks cleaner 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@algo2957]

@tiny2gunz927 it was game dependent. Some Sega ports were better, some snes ports were better. It depended on how the games played to the consoles' strengths. Like Sega was generally better for fast arcade games because it had a better cpu, whereas snes was usually better for visuals. Of course it also boils down to developers too and the game they make. Like batman returns on snes and genesis were actually different games which shared the same name rather than ports of each other. In this case Konami made a much better game on the snes.