Played as part of the Return to Arkham collection

I'm a stealth game hater, I find stealth incredibly boring and frustrating. Luckily for me, Batman Arkham Asylum didn't have too much stealth, just enough that it definitely left me mad a couple times. However the rest of the combat is very fun and visually satisying, if not quite easy.

Without spoilers, the context of the game itself is fun, especially as it puts you in the perfect position to see a ton of your favourite Batman villains, and fight half of them at that.

I think one of my main qualms of the game is that you need to use detective mode pretty much all the time, which hurts the game visually. I found myself switching out of detective mode at times just to remember how the game is meant to look.

I had a good time overall, but can't help but hope that the sequels are a bit better. A must play for Batman fans

Batman: Arkham Asylum iyi bir oyun. Arkham serisinin ilk oyunu olması dolayısıyla belirli bir şöhrete sahip olsa da Arkham Asylum tek başına ele alındığı takdirde de hiç fena sayılmaz. Arkham serisinin diğer oyunlarında geliştirilerek kullanılmaya devam edilen ve diğer birçok oyunda kopyalanmaya çalışan o akıcı ve bir o kadar keyifli dövüş mekaniklerinin çıkış noktasının bu oyun olması da oyunun başka bir güzel tarafı. Öte yandan bu oyunun Arkham serisinin en zayıf halkası olduğunu düşünmemin de nedenleri var. Oyunun PC sürümündeki optimizasyon problemleri, bölüm sonu canavarı dövüşlerinin niteliksiz ve birbirinin kopyası olması ve oyunun bir noktadan sonra kendini çok fazla tekrar etmesi bu oyunun Arkham serisindeki en zayıf halka olmasının başlıca sebepleri.


Batman: Arkham Asylum bu hâliyle de iyi bir oyun olsa da kendini çok tekrar etmesi gibi sebeplerden dolayı daha iyi olma potansiyelini değerlendirememiş.

This game is probably almost as significant to the trajectory of video games as Super Mario 64 is. At least as influential as the original Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

What's so striking replaying through it now (via the remasters on Series X) is how much started here. That two-ish button melee/counter combat system? Here. Gadget-heavy superhero games? Here. Moody AAA game storytelling? This is probably one of the 4-5 games that made that a thing for 15 years.

The other striking thing is that it is the antithesis for how games -- ESPECIALLY WARNER BROS. GAMES -- are structured now. Bruh, Arkham Asylum is like a cute 8-9 hours long, stripped back Metroid Prime in the form of a third-person action adventure game.

It's all so compact, with no fat to speak of. No filler at all. Some bonus challenges and maybe a bit of DLC if you look really hard for it, but that's it. I would pay $70 for titles like this if it saved the video game industry from implosion.

The downside to playing a game as influential as this is that you have probably played games -- maybe in this series -- that that bring these mechanics to their natural (ultimately superior) conclusion. I love the PlayStation Spider-Mans, but those are straight up Arkham games with a lot more money pumped into them.

So does the combat get a bit repetitive as a result? Sure. Is the Metroid a bit underutilized? Of course. Does it need a few more interesting boss encounters? Maybe. But if you want to enjoy a piece of gaming history that stands alongside Super Mario 64, Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, and the original Modern Warfare? Arkham Asylum is required reading.

BTW, I've only ever played Asylum/Knight so I'm excited to dig into City and Origins after this.

Very hard to go back to in 2024

Let's face it this game is extremely dated. After playing through city, origins, and knight we were spoiled with some of the best combat, stealth and traversal ever and going back to this game feels so primitive. It's like going from nuclear bombs to medieval gunpowder explosions, yeah the ideas still there, and without the gunpowder we would never have the nukes, but I'm never using the gunpowder again. It also doesn't help that this game kinda shits the bed at the end.