If I were to simply state that Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu (BRST) is a GBA side-scroller,
you would have a really good idea what the game is all about. This is because
there’s nothing really new or different or particularly good about BRST. It
covers the basics of the genre to the point where you could replace Batman with
another character while leaving the rest of the game unchanged and not notice
anything odd about it. The game could just have easily been Koala Bear: Rise of
SinTzu or Michael Jackson: Rise of Sin Tzu. This is platform jumping, mindless
enemy bashing, switch flipping gaming at its most generic.
As you are attacked by enemies whose numbers make up for their lack of
variety, you will push the B button to attack and invariably defeat them all.
There’s no need to really vary your strategy at all; just keep punching with B
and you’ll do fine. The game does add a little variety with its boss battles,
but there are only four of them in the game which is not enough to compensate
for all of the repetition in between. Defeating these bosses will award you with
a combo attack which can be unleashed once you charge up your combo meter by
repeatedly attacking bad guys in the conventional manner. Once your meter is
charged you can press and hold B to unleash the combo. The net effect of the
combo is to make your next attack more graphically appealing, but it doesn’t
really add much in the way of a more powerful and devastating attack. If you add
combos to a game you should at least make them worth using…
In addition to beating up baddies, you will need to jump over gaps, pull
yourself up ledges, and hop between moving platforms. You’ve probably done it a
million times before and it’s no different here. There’s no additional
challenge, no new element, and no imagination here, it is formulaic side-scroller
gameplay at its most generic.
I don’t like writing short reviews because they don’t really give you a good
picture of a game, which is important when you are deciding whether or not a
game is worth your money. However, in this case there’s not a whole lot more I
can say about BRST. Here’s the bottom line, if you’re fine with generic gameplay
and really like Batman, then check the game out since you know what you’re
getting into.
In The End, This Game Hath Been Rated:
60%. Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu is just yet another unimaginative and
generic side-scroller, and you’ll want to buy it only if you are looking to kill
some time with some very familiar gameplay.
