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Completed

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Days in Journal

2 days

Last played

January 31, 2023

First played

January 29, 2023

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DISPLAY


Batman: Arkaham Asylum is not all people make it out to be. Starting with the positives, the story is great and makes you feel like you're inside your own little Batman movie. There's a lot of fun boss battles and everything with the Scarecrow is a blast I really found myself "feeling" like Batman in these sections. With the positives highlighted, I move forward to the bulk of the game. The combat is boring and repetitive outside of boss fights, with the game throwing an obnoxious amount of enemies at you. There's a couple sections where you're met with large more powerful enemies, but their patterns become super repetitive and easy to maneuver and when that isn't enough they just throw in a ass tone of more enemies to make things "harder". I didn't struggle with the combat sections of this game, but I found them extremally tedious and boring to play. The stealth sections start off pretty fun and they leave room for mistakes/creativity, but the further you go on the more frustrating they become. Enemies travel in pairs, thugs with guns deal a large amount of health per hit and the environments get stale and un-fun to maneuver. Most the boss fights end up being pretty enjoyable, but there are a few that really just feel lackluster. Killer Croc's "boss" fight is just you slowly walking around and gathering samples of plants with the occasional batarang throw to stop Croc from getting you. Poison Ivy's fight is repetitive and serves next to no challenge and sticks you in a horrible camera angle for this style of game. The most disappointing however ends up being the final fight. You don't even fight the final boss. That's right, you never fight them. They jump down, swing around, jump up to a platform and send generic enemies down to fight you. You beat the enemies, they jump back down, you hit them once, rinse and repeat. For a game that had already shown me it could have exciting and interesting boss fights, this is what the end with? Overall my experience with this game wasn't very enjoyable and if it wasn't for the story and the actually good boss fights; this game with be rated much much lower.