Tag: Batman

Completed Arkham Knight.
There’s an interesting episode inside Joker’s head, which starts as a TPS, then becomes FPS. A welcome change of pace.
I was about to compliment the game for letting me finish it without the need to farm boring sidemissions… but no. You need to complete enough sidemissions to get to the true ending. At first I was almost ready to do it, although it would be quite boring. But then it turned out that the sidemissions aren’t highlighted on the map.
There are some bonus missions where you get to fight Killer Croc, Mad Hatter and some others. But those aren’t counted to the Knightfall Protocol progression 🤷‍♂️

The boss fight with Arkham Knight is… a set of races. Not kidding. You need to race and excavator through tunnel obstacles three times. Luckily, it isn’t very hard, otherwise I’d be mad.

Oh, and that’s after you beat him in… a sneak tank battle. Yes, you need to sneak on his megatank multiple times 🤷‍♂️

There is literally a teary episode where Batmobile is torn by an excavator. Which is not issue, we get a spare half an hour later, just in different color.

Then there’s a second phase, where Knight tries to snipe you, while you sneak up to him. Four times, no less.

There are tons of minigames, most of them annoying. I already mentioned tank battles. There’s a variation where you need to hold off waves of enemy tanks. There are also car chases, where you need to shoot or ram jeeps and APCs. There are circuit races, where you need to ride on the walls and you can switch obstacles.
In this version, Jason Todd, the less successful Robin, is shot by Joker, not beaten to death. Doesn’t make much difference, really. And Joker is unreliable narrator anyway.
Speaking of unreliable narrators, one of the main themes is that Batman is constantly lying to everyone. When Barbara / Oracle gets kidnapped, he lies to Robin, who’s her boyfriend, about that. Then when Scarecrow forces her to commit suicide, he hides this from Robin as well. Finally, after all the Joker-pretenders get killed by Old-Man-pretender, he tricks Robin into a cell.

Slightly annoying that often there’s no indication what you need in order to start a mission. Some of the Riddler’s missions are available before you can bring the Batmobile to the island, for example.d

The game still crashes frequently, 7 years after the release. The only solution is to disable nVidia GameWorks completely.

I couldn’t understand why I have a feeling of dejavu from playing Arkham Knight. Did I already play it once? Then I remembered there was the Arkham Origins that I actually played, which was simply too boring.
The batmobile is a total car porn. Interesting that they added guidelines, like in many racing games nowadays. Jumping from roof to roof in a car is not my cup of tea, though.
“I need more tanks in my Batman game!” said no one ever. But still, here we are, with endless “tank” battles.

At first I thought it’s called “Arkham Knight” because Batman gets a new, armor-like suit. But turns out there’s also a villain that calls himself Arkham Knight. To add to the confusion, he also looks like a futuristic version of Batman.

Joker is back.

But not exactly. Although he died in the previous game, now he lives rent-free in Batman’s head. Something to do with Jokers blood turning others into Jokers, and Batman infected. And I’m not joking about that.

One interesting bit is that they recreate Joker shooting Oracle from “Killing Joke” comics.