However, anyone can make it through most levels by mashing the A button and throwing an occasional Batarang. WayForward makes good use of the Wii's control capabilities to allow for some combat variety if so desired, and occasionally Batman must use one of his special tools to open a door.
Platforming is generally light and somewhat floaty, and the fighting is fairly simple. Part of the problem is that The Brave and the Bold has a fairly limited palette of actions. Unfortunately, the game doesn't sustain the show's snappy pace. The animation connection is supported by WayForward's hand-drawn art style, which sparkles here even more than it did in A Boy and His Blob. The Brave and the Bold even keeps the series's title sequence and jazz theme music. The game is divided into episodes that follow the general scheme of the show: a short battle against a minor villain to start followed by a more involved story. The villains are also an unfamiliar crew, with principal antagonists that include Grodd, Starro, Gentleman Ghost, and Cat man. Using a special attack, players can summon even more denizens of the DC B-list. In keeping with this concept, The Brave and the Bold is a co-op 2D beat-'em-up offering players the opportunity to team up with Robin, Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes, Hawkman, and erstwhile Green Lantern Guy Gardner. Each episode of the TV series partners Batman with one of the DC Universe's lesser-known heroes, usually in combat against one of its more obscure villains. The game of the same name captures that spirit almost perfectly.īatman: The Brave and the Bold is derived in name and concept from a long-running series of superhero team-up comics from DC. Airing on Cartoon Network in recent years, Batman: The Brave and the Bold leaves grim and gritty behind and imagines the character as an irritable, sharp-tongued, but fundamentally good-natured fellow. The campy but extremely memorable live-action TV series has perhaps given this take a bad reputation in recent times, but Batman's darker interpretation has its own excesses (notably Miller's own All-Star Batman & Robin). In the wake of Frank Miller's seminal work, popular portrayals of Batman have focused on the brooding badass interpretation almost to the exclusion of all others, but this ignores a fairly rich history depicting Batman as a lighter, funnier character. One could almost say that The Dark Knight Returns was too good. WTF Cat man? Clock King? Every time I think I've seen the weirdest Batman villain… LOW Episodes that hang around long after they've stopped being interesting. HIGH Watching what looks like a separately animated scene reveal itself as part of a level.
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