As you play through levels, you earn coins for your hard work, and you spend these in the batshop before levels. But unlockable and upgradable gadgets push this core action to another level. Your standard assortment of moves includes punches, finishers, blocks and rolls, and the responsive controls make it fun to just jump around the levels whaling on anyone who stands in your path. This game does a great job of making you feel like you're controlling Batman and his ragtag collection of sidekicks. Of course, all of the goodwill The Brave and the Bold created through its fine presentation would be for naught if the action wasn't up to snuff, but that's certainly not an issue here.
One notable scene toward the end of the game is a beautiful reenactment of a classic moment from the first Batman movie, and you'll be hard pressed to suppress a smile when you see this iconic situation played out with pixels. And there are the occasional jokes tossed in to help lighten the mood. All of the characters are nicely animated, which makes it satisfying to knock a robot out of the sky with Green Lantern's baseball bat or zap a gorilla with an electrified batarang.
Well-realized artistic design closely resembles the source material, and the wide variety of enemies you fight and worlds you travel to all look striking. The tongue-in-cheek mood that permeated the Wii version is not present here, but both games do employ a similarly pleasing art style. Each scenario is an individual story episode, complete with a unique setting, villain, and sidekick. There are eight story levels in The Brave and the Bold that can be tackled in any order (except for the last, which is only unlocked after you beat the first seven). The Brave and the Bold is a very good adaptation of the cartoon series, retaining the vibrant aesthetics while injecting solid action that is worthy of the Batman name.
The only downside to this stylish and charming beat-'em-up is how easy the story missions are, but even that fault is rectified by unlockable challenge levels that will certainly test your bat might. The Caped Crusader is accompanied by a different sidekick for each of the first seven story levels, and they come with their own assortment of moves to ensure your adventure stays varied and fresh throughout. But the fun doesn't stop at tossing batarangs and swinging a batsword. The portable iteration of The Brave and the Bold makes good use of Batman's impressive gadgetry to create a diverse brawler in which it's just as much fun to bash your enemies to smithereens as it is to navigate the obstacle-laden environments. He had to acquire his heroic abilities the old-fashioned way: by using the fortune he inherited from his dead parents to invent all sorts of nifty gadgets. Batman isn't lucky enough to get superpowers from the yellow sun or a special ring that lets him conjure objects out of thin air.
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