The first stage is actually a stand-alone where Batman and a partner takes on a specific supervillain. Each adventure plays out like the cartoon. You play through each adventure in order, but after beating the game you can play the adventures in whatever order you want. The Brave and the Bold is actually four platformers in one. Do we actually have a streak of two high quality Batman games between this and Batman: Arkham Asylum, or has Wayforward streak of quality games come screeching to a halt? The big question, however, is if The Brave and the Bold manages to defy the odds and be one of those rarest of gems – a quality licensed platformer.

It’s truly a wonderful cartoon and well worth watching if you haven’t seen it yet.

In fact, Adam West plays Thomas Wayne, Julie Neumar plays Martha Wayne, Kevin Conroy plays The Phantom Stranger and The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, and Mark Hamill has voiced The Spectre. It’s light hearted and combines the best aspects of the Adam West campish 60’s era Batman, the Olan Soule voices Super Friends/Super Powers era and the DCAU Batman: The Animated Series era. For those of you unfamiliar with the cartoon, it’s basically a Batman team-up show, where the Dark Knight teams with a different super hero in each episode. Now it’s time to look at Wayforward’s latest release, Batman: The Brave and The Bold, which is a licensed platformer based off the hit cartoon bearing the same name. Our opinions on Justice League Heroes ranged from calling the game “good” to “poor,” depending on the system, their Contra 4 remake was excellent, and A Boy and His Blob won multiple awards from us in 2009 including Wii Game of the Year, Platformer of the Year, and Best All-Ages Game. Everyone on the planet seemed to love Shantae, and Sigma Star Saga won our awards for best traditional shooter and best GBA title of 2005. We’re pretty big fans of Wayforward here at Diehard GameFAN, as long as you ignore their older stuff like WWF Betrayal and Ping Pals.

Batman brave and the bold wii part 1