The Joker has united a crew of Gotham's most dangerous criminals and taken Robin hostage. Batman pursues them across four locations—a theater, a frozen office building, a graveyard, and an amusement park—battling henchmen and hopping platforms to reach a boss confrontation at each stage's end. He faces the Mad Hatter, Mr. Freeze, the Scarecrow, Harley Quinn, and ultimately the Joker himself. Batman fights with an unlimited batarang supply and limited-use weapon pickups, with instant respawns on lost lives, nine starting lives, infinite continues, and a password system for revisiting any previously cleared stage.