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Bat Boy
A Sentai sports hero 8-bit action adventure! Bat Boy and his fellow sports-star friends secretly battle against the evil invading forces of Lord Vicious, hell-bent on hosting sinister athletic events for his own amusement!
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Bat Boy is a great action platforming game that has everything we loved about these games in the past, from catchy music to great visuals and controls. It’s fun to see a game influenced by sports that aren’t actually a sports game!
Bat Boy is sports-themed action platformer with a fantastic 8-bit aesthetic and a wonderful soundtrack. While featuring some interesting mechanics and characters, Bat Boy fails at a technical level due to a slew of game breaking bugs and frustrating level design.
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That's a better representation of the flow of time and influence through the gaming industry than Bit Boy presents, as no company would have ever kept a franchise so locked down to the restrictions of the original Atari 2600 design all the way through three subsequent decades' worth of sequels. Had Super Bit Boy, Bit Boy 3D or the Bit Boy 64 stages completely altered the gameplay and offered something wholly unique, this overall WiiWare package would have better realized its initial potential. But it didn't, so it doesn't.
While Bat Boy can often strike out with a few issues and some frustrating performance woes, it is nonetheless a fun action-packed take on a proven formula.