This review contains spoilers
(A bit of Arkham Knight's side missions spoilers too)
I'm... Surprised, of myself...
I've beat the secondary missions now, I've only got to do the Riddler's one to finish this game before the NG+. And I played like, two hours.
Something I'm thinking after this is that, if this game feels aged, it's because of the secondary missions. Badly designed is an understatement. Of course, I love how much they deepen Arkham City's lore, talking about not only the villains, but the undercover cops and the political prisoners. It's amazing to see how these villains go rampant in this PRISON as if they were kids at Kidzania; with turf wars, dominating districts, etc. As Batman is around.
I love to see Deadshot fulfilling his role as Strange's hitman, or Zsasz killing other criminals via telephone, or Hush's murders, and so on with the rest of them.
But, I mean, these missions are way too random to be continued in an organic way, or they simply don't work in a satisfying way if you don't attend them in the moment they appear; like Zsasz's for example; or Azrael's (specifically this one, since you either have to know where he is, or be looking around exhaustively with detective mode around the city, or simply encounter him by pure luck; Hush's mission is kind of the same thing), and don't get me started on the excessive amount of riddles there are on the city, they are way too much.
For what I can remember, that is mostly fixed on Arkham Knight, where the clues are more easily seen but not given to you on a silver tray; like Azrael's burning bat symbol, or Pyg's ominuous opera music.
Being this about my fourth time playing Arkham City, I get an idea of where to find the next clues for the side missions, but it still is a bit hard. I spent about half an hour running around alleys to find Hush's victims with no use (in that case, and Azrael's, I recommend getting on high spots and looking around with detective mode, looking for bodies laying around or a guy just standing there respectively if you don't want to use any guides).
Once again, the stories on these missions are way too good to be spoiled by these bad design choices, but I still find it a bit frustrating to play for moments (RIDDLER). But that's mostly my main complaint about this game otherwise it is PERFECT.
I'm... Surprised, of myself...
I've beat the secondary missions now, I've only got to do the Riddler's one to finish this game before the NG+. And I played like, two hours.
Something I'm thinking after this is that, if this game feels aged, it's because of the secondary missions. Badly designed is an understatement. Of course, I love how much they deepen Arkham City's lore, talking about not only the villains, but the undercover cops and the political prisoners. It's amazing to see how these villains go rampant in this PRISON as if they were kids at Kidzania; with turf wars, dominating districts, etc. As Batman is around.
I love to see Deadshot fulfilling his role as Strange's hitman, or Zsasz killing other criminals via telephone, or Hush's murders, and so on with the rest of them.
But, I mean, these missions are way too random to be continued in an organic way, or they simply don't work in a satisfying way if you don't attend them in the moment they appear; like Zsasz's for example; or Azrael's (specifically this one, since you either have to know where he is, or be looking around exhaustively with detective mode around the city, or simply encounter him by pure luck; Hush's mission is kind of the same thing), and don't get me started on the excessive amount of riddles there are on the city, they are way too much.
For what I can remember, that is mostly fixed on Arkham Knight, where the clues are more easily seen but not given to you on a silver tray; like Azrael's burning bat symbol, or Pyg's ominuous opera music.
Being this about my fourth time playing Arkham City, I get an idea of where to find the next clues for the side missions, but it still is a bit hard. I spent about half an hour running around alleys to find Hush's victims with no use (in that case, and Azrael's, I recommend getting on high spots and looking around with detective mode, looking for bodies laying around or a guy just standing there respectively if you don't want to use any guides).
Once again, the stories on these missions are way too good to be spoiled by these bad design choices, but I still find it a bit frustrating to play for moments (RIDDLER). But that's mostly my main complaint about this game otherwise it is PERFECT.