I finished Batman Returns (SNES). I am not playing Hard to get the complete ending. Fuck that shit. It's a decent Final Fight clone that's better than FFi2, Rushing Beat 1, and Sonic Blastman I, but there are better brawlers on the SNES than BR.
Speaking Sonic Blastman, I played both games after not touching them in a long time. Sonic Blastman (SNES) is loosely based off an arcade minigame expanded into brawler, with the mini games as bonus stages. It's a single player brawler that has interesting mechanics and contextual finishers a la Battletoads. Based on whether an enemy is stunned or not. There's a unique directional inputs, but once you know the proper ones to dizzy an enemy for a grab to do more damage, you'll be sticking with that move for 95% of the time. The games is slow too, but at least you're fighting completely new enemies each stage. The game is entertaining enough, but once you beat it, you'll rarely want to revisit again.
SB II is a much better game with three playable characters, co-op, an expanded move list, and unlimited continues. You have dash attacks that change based on directional inputs, regular attacks changing depending on directional inputs or keeping your position in neutral, different grab attacks based on directional input, two different super attacks, and a dodge roll. The dodge roll is useful and learning to when time it useful or when trying to close the gap. There is not as much enemy variety compared to the first game, there is a much better mix up of enemy combinations. There's only 5 levels, but you get unlimited continues and proper checkpoints, if you reach a new section of the stage before dying. I hate the last stage, because you fight what you think is the final boss, but not and the game tries to pull a gotcha moment. So you need to one more section is where you fight all of the annoying bosses and sub bosses again, and then to the true final boss. That section should've been cut, because it adds nothing. Still a good game, and I give it a strong 7/10.
