This review contains spoilers
Arkham Knight such a mixed bag for me. When it's great it's great. But the things I don't like I really can't stand.
Likes:
- Story. I think overall the story is good. There are definitely aspects that I just cannot stand or appreciate but for the most part, Scarecrow was an interesting main villain.
- The combat. Oh, sweet baby Jesus the combat in this game is so smooth and fantastic. Just the smoothest most streamlined Arkham combat in the entire series.
- New stealth mechanics.
- New gadgets
- Team up missions with Robin and Nightwing. Love me some Bat-Family antics.
- Movement around the map. The use of the Batmobile and very fast grappling/grapple launch makes for incredible map traversal.
- Villain side missions. Added on the side mission aspect of City but on a bigger scale with new and returning villains to go after. Not to mention more DLC missions with even more returning villains.
Dislikes
- Batmobile. I enjoy the Batmobile combat and using it to get around the map. I don't however enjoy just how much they make you use the Batmobile. There's just so much Batmobile content that it starts to get old pretty fast. The sheer amount of Batmobile gameplay really brings down the score for me.
- Arkham Knight tank boss fight. I just hate this boss fight. It's just a colossal pain and I dread every time I get to that part when I replay the game. Honestly, if this wasn't in the game it would easily go up half a star.
- Arkham Knight. I really just hate the way they characterized Jason here. Under the Red Hood is one of my favorite animated movies and I just hated everything they did with him here. He's just the worst and I can't stand him. There are just so many issues I have with this version of Jason in particular but I'm not going to get into that.
- Deathstroke getting shafted. Deathstroke is one of Batman's coolest adversaries and he gets a pretty good boss fight in Arkham Origins. But unfortunately, he gets shafted pretty hard here and the master assassin/mercenary turns into an incredibly lame and uneventful tank boss fight side mission. Such wasted potential. What could have been one of the coolest boss fights ended up being just a massive joke.
- The Riddler trophies become somehow even worse than in City by adding stupid Batmobile time trials. Just awful.
I really enjoy Arkham Knight. There are things I definitely wish were different and things I can't stand to deal with. But thanks to the innovation and improvements they made here the game is still incredibly fun to play.
Likes:
- Story. I think overall the story is good. There are definitely aspects that I just cannot stand or appreciate but for the most part, Scarecrow was an interesting main villain.
- The combat. Oh, sweet baby Jesus the combat in this game is so smooth and fantastic. Just the smoothest most streamlined Arkham combat in the entire series.
- New stealth mechanics.
- New gadgets
- Team up missions with Robin and Nightwing. Love me some Bat-Family antics.
- Movement around the map. The use of the Batmobile and very fast grappling/grapple launch makes for incredible map traversal.
- Villain side missions. Added on the side mission aspect of City but on a bigger scale with new and returning villains to go after. Not to mention more DLC missions with even more returning villains.
Dislikes
- Batmobile. I enjoy the Batmobile combat and using it to get around the map. I don't however enjoy just how much they make you use the Batmobile. There's just so much Batmobile content that it starts to get old pretty fast. The sheer amount of Batmobile gameplay really brings down the score for me.
- Arkham Knight tank boss fight. I just hate this boss fight. It's just a colossal pain and I dread every time I get to that part when I replay the game. Honestly, if this wasn't in the game it would easily go up half a star.
- Arkham Knight. I really just hate the way they characterized Jason here. Under the Red Hood is one of my favorite animated movies and I just hated everything they did with him here. He's just the worst and I can't stand him. There are just so many issues I have with this version of Jason in particular but I'm not going to get into that.
- Deathstroke getting shafted. Deathstroke is one of Batman's coolest adversaries and he gets a pretty good boss fight in Arkham Origins. But unfortunately, he gets shafted pretty hard here and the master assassin/mercenary turns into an incredibly lame and uneventful tank boss fight side mission. Such wasted potential. What could have been one of the coolest boss fights ended up being just a massive joke.
- The Riddler trophies become somehow even worse than in City by adding stupid Batmobile time trials. Just awful.
I really enjoy Arkham Knight. There are things I definitely wish were different and things I can't stand to deal with. But thanks to the innovation and improvements they made here the game is still incredibly fun to play.