The Death and Return of Superman | MD & SNES | Comparison - Dual Longplay

0:00 Intros
3:25 Level 1 Siege of the Underworlders
8:40 Boss - Clawster
10:38 Level 2 Doomsday in Metropolis
12:38 Doomsday Round 1
16:34 Doomsday Round 2
19:25 Level 3 Cyborg's Attack on Cadmus
28:21 Level 4 The Last Son of Krypton
33:18 Eradicator meets the Man of Steel
35:12 Level 5 Ambush at Coast City
38:54 Cyborg Vs The Eradicator
40:04 Level 6 The Metropolis Kid
43:14 Superboy in Coast City
47:52 Superboy Escape
50:23 Level 7 Steel Reign
55:27 Level 8 Metropolis Ground Zero
57:34 Level 9 The Engine's Core
1:01:30 Level 10 The Return of Superman
1:03:50 Final Boss - Cyborg
1:04:24 Final Boss Final Hit and Ending

Individual longplays:
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Why another video about The Death and Return of Superman, there must be at least 6 comparisons, and 20 longplays, in 2160p nonetheless. This is intended to fix the older one (   • The Death and Return of Superman | Mega Dr...  ) with hopefully tighter gameplay and better sync, and simply because I have a lot of affection for this game. Though not without flaws as it tends to be quite repetitive, it is easily one of the better Superman titles and stylistically resembles Batman Returns for SNES (something pointed out by the GamePro review, issue 61, August 1994). Also, it's one of those games I really played to death as a child. Pure nostalgia.

The two versions are pretty much the same game with the expected differences in resolution and colour palette (except the story screens, for some reason the MD has the same 256x224 aspect with SNES) but the biggest difference is the soundtrack. The MD version was released almost half a year later after SNES (Sept 1994 - Jan 1995) and for some reason it didn't feature re-arranged versions of the original tracks, but completely new music. Which version sounds better is subjective, but I think the music of the SNES is more fitting and atmospheric.

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Vintage Magazines
GamePro # 61 (1994-08) https://archive.org/details/GamePro_I...
Video Games (1994-09) https://archive.org/details/video-gam...