While I feel like it still has a lot of potential, particularly the merge of 3D platformer and soulslike could have been explored a bit more (the last level was particularly great and the rest of the game doenst quite reach that), this game is great. The writing and commentary is as witty and hilarious as in Going Under, and it tackles its themes with surprising nuance and maturity for a silly crab game.

The gameplay is really fun, while it doesnt reach the heights of other recent soulslikes like Lies of P, it holds its own and has its own unique spin that works well. Just really lovable game and lovable studio, I cant wait to see what they do next.

I have to mention though, Chitan was a complete dogshit boss and they need to nerf him or something cause genuinely some of the least fun ive had fighting a boss in years. Other than that its great

Complex thoughts on this one, while gameplay wise it improves on asylum in every single way, the atmosphere and creativity that made asylum so cool is severely downgraded here. This might be because they wanted a new art direction more inspired by the Nolan movies, and I dont like those movies so makes sense im not as into it.

To add to this, I didnt do any of the side content, imagine its high quality and pushes the game further than the main story, but I just wasnt invested enough to try them. I think the core problem is that I just dont really care about batman, this game bleeds love for batman, and assumes the player has it to, if you dont, I think a lot of the game doesnt hit like it wants to.

Lastly, maybe its in the side-content, but there are not a lot of memorable moments in the game, wonder city and the bossfight with Ras were amazing, and I wish it had more stuff like that. The ending and a lot of other missions felt underwhelming. For as underbaked a lot of asylums gameplay was, memorable moments were NOT missing.

All this being said, a 7/10 is the lowest score I can give, the game is really good, just doesnt do much for me personally. Im sure if I played the side-content (and gave any level of fucks about batman) it wouldhve been an 8 or 9