Batman - Return of the Joker
Batman
is an iconic superhero and my favorite out of all of the superheros. I'm a big fan. I like THE JOKER a lot also. A game based off of Batman and THE JOKER is a good idea and this quickly became an NES classic when released. With Return of the
Joker, they seem to have tried something different from the first Batman game (released as a movie adaptation) with Batman
only using a laser gun, it's really strange to see Batman shooting
people rather using his normal methods and his apparent "no gun rule". Anyway, a great game!

GRAPHICS - 7

The
graphics are fantastic, and the animation is very fluid. Everything
looks dark and edgy, and it looks great (for 8-bit of course). The game
also brags about it's superior 16-bit look on the back of the box.

SOUND - 9

The
sound is amazing, fast paced, catchy, and never gets boring! The sound
effects are all good, from the explosions to the gunfire, everything
sounds great.

ADDICTIVENESS - 7

I
only really play this game whenever i'm bored and bump into it. But
it's always fun to replay. No matter how many times i play the game it
hardly ever gets old.

STORY - 4

There
isn't too much of a story since this game doesn't use cut-scenes or
text to tell you what's going on. But from what i can understand: Joker
has escaped from the Arkham Asylum i guess, and is letting loose all the
other criminals to do his evil deeds for him. And Batman has to stop
them and catch the Joker so Batman can lock him up and let him escape
all over again and the cycle continues!

DEPTH - 5

This
game is not all that big, there are only about 12 levels (i could be
wrong) and there's nothing to do besides getting through level after
level battling boss after boss, it's pretty linear. But it does offer a
big selection of upgrades for the Bat's laser gun that are represented
as single letters inside circles. You get the weapons from breaking
boxes and defeating certain enemies, and you can shoot the upgrades to
make them turn into differant upgrades. The upgrades consist of, the B
weapon; a rapid-fire gun that locks on to all enemies on screen. The N
weapon; a gun that fires a wave-like spray of lasers to cut through
enemies. The S weapon; a hard to explain gun that fires straight,
North-East and up, all at the same time. The normal weapon; you start
with this weapon and all it does is fire straight... hooray. And the C
weapon; it fires one big laser that can destroy almost any enemy in one
hit, it's not very useful during boss fights since you can only fire 1
laser at a time, unlike all the other upgrades in the game. And then
there's the blank item, it just looks like an empty circle and you get
these items from defeating special enemies. If you collect about 8 of
these blank circle things then Batman turns into a golden, invincible
behemoth that never stops firing his gun. And it lasts about 7 seconds
and once that's over, you have to collect 8 more blank things to do it
again. I don't really know how to go into more detail about the game.

DIFFICULTY - 9

This
game is pretty hard. (Not nearly as hard as the other NES Batman game
also made by Sunsoft, simply called Batman) Most of the time, you die
normally, but other times you get killed because you got hit by some
enemy laser and you get launched and fly into a bottomless pit. Other
than that, most of your deaths will be cause just by level design and
jumping/falling into a spike trap. But really, this game can be
frustrating, but it's a good challenge.

OVERALL - 8

Batman
- Return of the Joker is a underrated NES game that i will always love to play. Every time i play it, is very fun and challenging. The
sound effects are fun, and the graphics and game play are top notch.
Although it's not very long, and it can be really frustrating, but it is a
stellar game. PLAY THIS NOW!

punkrock85 : Decent review but what up with your big spacing. It makes the review pretty hard to read with the Spacing between the and everything. Anyways good work keep it up

Well this is a great review and i think i played this game once  , it was a while back when i was like 10 but its a great game .

punkrock85 : Another stolen review.

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=45062

This is going to get you a temporary ban. If you don't stop doing this, the ban won't be so lenient next time. I've warned you several times, and I'm tired of seeing you do this already.