The details are what place all the Arkham games on another level. You can tell how much Rocksteady loves DC Comics. You find new things every play thru
I agree with you Arkham Knight graphically looks awesome but its story, writing, boss fights, dlc, and ending, and side missions, and batmobile sucked in my opinion and villains
The joker billboard thing also happens with most statue faces, and even the statue in the center of the city changes for a split second when lightning strikes
I haven't noticed that, but when I replayed it a few weeks ago one of the random thugs in the street I was fighting looked like Joker, and that was the first time I noticed that.
@@nortonman1178 Really? Checkout all the billboards towards the end of the game it's a majority. You have to go on foot really because when you move the camera away and the pictures turn back to normal. Maybe the quick flashes in the Batmobile are the point, though. To make you feel like you're losing it. I did the first time because it was quite an obscure one with some woman only haha Also, yeah I only ran down one random joker in the street towards the end. Other than that I only had jokers during story missions.
One of my favorite convos: "Hey man, what's the time?" "Seriously?" "What do you mean?" "We're posted on a rooftop opposite the biggest clock in gotham and you're asking me what time it is?"
This was a really great video! I appreciate you directing some people toward my video and giving really well articulated counters to a few of my views, and it was nice to hear that you also agreed with me on a lot of stuff too. This was well made and while I'm still not big on the game overall, you did put a few things into a new perspective that'll lead me to being a bit less harsh on it in the future. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video and I'm glad we're able to respectfully disagree regarding certain aspects of this game. You are awesome. Take care man!
One of Professeor Pygs victims in the "Perfect Crime" quest can also be found in the intro in the diner, sitting at a window-side seat. It's yet another great detail!
Hey man the fact that you made this video on a game that came out I think five(?) years ago which is not really super popular or on the internet's collective mind demonstrates to me that it's a video you really wanted to make. Kudos to you for putting in the effort not because you wanted a ton of views, but because you just wanted to do it. Good work!
Joker’s final line read of “I need you.” is so perfect!! At the end of the day, he’s so pathetic and co-dependent on Batman, which is why Batman can ignore him: he knows who his friends and family are.
@@Ncholasbloom And they did tease the Bat-mobile, which makes me think that Batman will show up without being mind-controlled. Funny how the Arkham game acknowledged the DCEU stuff outside of Gotham (Superman and Lex Luthor), but left enough space to explore that. I think Suicide Squad will take advantage of that so they can build a DCEU that's different from Arkham, THEN bring Batman in to connect it all.
38:44 This is the one plot point that people have a problem with that I love. Batman getting rid of his fear for joker by locking him away in his mind makes complete sense for the character. He’s trained his mind extensively to the point where he can control it like any other muscle, which was previously bogged down by the fear toxin and his fear of turning into the joker, but once he realises Joker’s worst fear is being forgotten, he realises he can just “forget” him. This may seem stupid at first but many things in life are like this. A small shift in perspective is sometimes able to cure the worst cases of anxiety or depression, though these shifts in perspective are extremely difficult to come by and aren’t simply a conscious act one can make. You need to develop a deep understanding of whatever is giving you said anxiety/depression, because once you understand something, it’s easier to manage. It’s suddenly not so “scary”. Hence Batman is able to overcome his greatest fear in the same manner. The perspective shift itself is quick, but getting there takes ages, deep reflection, and understanding. To support my stance, there’s a moment in a Batman comic where his mind is attacked and essentially paralysed, but he ends up being fine because he locked a portion of his mind away in a corner of his mind…? Essentially he created a backup of his consciousness within his subconscious. And he didn’t do this because of the attack, he had simply done it years prior just in case something like this happened, because he’s Batman! So to me I don’t think it’s far fetched to do the same thing with the Joker, considering that the Joker in this instance is a mental construction. I can’t remember the name of the comic so if you do please share!
Honestly, just went through one of these. It takes forever to learn what perspective shift you need to make, but then, after a while, it’s almost difficult to remember what got you so down in the first place (sometimes it makes sense from the outside, but once you’ve adapted…). I think it’s a case of folks not quite differentiating that from “oh my god my friend gave a speech? I no longer have depression!!” It’s still not like a switch, but in the case we’re talking about, the effort is put in *before* the realization, instead of after like usual
I think it's really cool that they went the extra mile in giving a canon reason as to why Batman's attacks are more heavy and brutal in Arkham knight than the previous games.
@@arthurcallahan295 in the story he was getting older and he knew that if he kept being as merciful with his attacks it would give the villains more opportunity to injure him and he wouldn't be able to recover from the injuries as fast.
I personally loved the detail of adding batman wearing the skins you had equipped during cutscenes because it really annoyed me when I was wearing a skin in return to Arkham city and it would switch back to the default skin just for a cutscene so I’m great full for the extra work put in the animate all the skins for the cutscenes in this game
All the cutscenes are in the game engine instead of pre rendered so it really didn't take them any extra work as they were simply moving your character model instead.
This game was incredible in 2015 and it literally looks like it could’ve been released yesterday. Incredible gameplay, graphics, detail, story. It’s better than Arkham City in a lot of ways. I don’t think it’s possible to make a better Batman game.
it was amazing, one thing i would add though is the option to make knightmare an option in new game +, as much hand-to-hand as there is batmobile combat, ans honestly, a good guide to the combat; im fairly new to the series so hand to hand is not easy to me by any means, its so easy to not even know what things are possible when fighting and even though i got by in the regular story, now i have to do it again in new game + with knightmare difficulty which you cant take off. there are just minor things that could be easily changed if rocksteady cared.
Arkham knight is literally the worst batman game in my opinion. I don't feel like arkham knight did anything better than arkham city except graphics and combat
"Sir, did you manage to capture the mass-murderer?" "Not yet Alfred, but I'm almost certain I might possibly be on the trail. Run a diagnostic on the freezer and send the Batwing with nuggies" "Will sir prefer dinosaur or smiley-face?" "As if that needs an answer" "Undoubtedly sir. Batwing enroute."
I played Arkham Knight and it's one of my favorite games of all time. One of few I would call a legitimate "masterpiece". I didn't know there were people who *didn't* like it
@@jonbodhi I never got the hate of the batmobile. I actually thought the tank combat was extremely engaging for how simple it is. My biggest problem with the game was how the boss fights were way too easy, but honestly I don't really consider that a fault because I wouldn't have even cared if they weren't in the game to begin with, so it's not like the game is any worse
I can tell u many reasons why I Hate this game. The story and gameplay isn't as good as arkham city for me. Arkham city is literally the best batman game ever made
@@ghostlegit Personally I like the gameplay in Knight the most, and while City's ending is one of the best in storytelling history, I think Knights plot is better overall
almost all the situations in which you are in first person are, like the before-mentioned cutscene in which you are walking around in panessa as gordon and batman just pops up outta nowhere. i always thought that was funny in movies and now i know how gordon feels lol
The tank fight was fine but was too short Honestly what shouldve happened was after the tank fight when deathstrokes jumps out of the tank, he grabs batman and grapples onto the roof to have a combat fight like they did in origins except waay more trickier and maybe some fight scene transitions
I personally like the Batmobile in this game, but I can understand why people don’t like it. When people talk about it however, they only mention the tank battles. Nobody talks about how good the normal batmobile is. One of my favorite missions was hunting down the militia APCs using the normal batmobile because it was much more fast paced than the tank. I wish they used that a bit more over the tanks but the tank battles were still fun.
The Batmobile itself is fine. The tank battles *would* be fine but there are TOO much, and they aren’t good enough to take up the amount of time it did IMO
@@gamergeeks.9499 He gets good character development though. He falls in love with Raven, becomes less violent, and shows that he does care for his father.
@@leonpaelinck those enemies are not really meant for stealth tho because they can easily be taken down silently they're mostly meant for combat because they can revive someone while you're beating the crap outta someone else
@@jeffrey1445 fr like a lot of the controls were brand new compared to the other games and sometimes controls are just plain bad for example if I want to do the hang sneak attack it just makes me jump down and do a silent attack or fear take down which gets me spotted which is not what I wanted from the control I am so used to doing in the other games
38:35 He didn't cure himself of the Joker virus outta nowhere, he used the fear toxin in his bloodstream to his advantage. Joker even says, "You and your fear toxin!" This is a much more potent concoction. He used his mental fortitude to reroute the toxin from himself to counter the Joker virus. The "Joker" was never scared of anything when he was alive. He only understood the concept of fear after being dead and forgotten by Gotham. He used fear to fight his own fear. It's such a Batman thing to do lol
I went into this game expecting to be disappointed due to all the reviews, but it ended up being my favorite Arkham game! The combat was the best it’s ever been, the stealth and AI was perfect, the story apart from the Arkham Knight himself was an awesome closure to Batman and his inner battle with the Joker. The Bat-mobile was awesome and never got boring, IMO. This game really felt like Rocksteady learned and took everything they had across all the games and made the perfect Batman game. P.S. the Scarecrow sequence at the end of the game, is one of the coolest moments in Batman media I’ve ever experienced.
@@RunAboutScout It got pretty boring to me because, unlike the predator and combat missions, it was all the same and there was no new kind of tank to change the fights. It got boring doing what was essentially the same battle over and over again
One thing about the manbat, it's introduction was terrifying I was just cruising along swinging from roof to roof listening to music, but then his head popped out with a horrifying scream and I swear I almost had a heart attack.
sappie i know, I was doing the same thing then I grappled to a building. And I saw that Batman was slowing down instead of speeding up and I was like what’s going on then manbat pops out and I was like WHAT THE FUCK. He then flew away and I was standing there with my heart beating.
Lmao I was just putting my headset on after getting stoned...this "dude" pops up no more than 5-10 seconds later as I start moving from rooftop to rooftop...goddamn I jumped. Loved it when thinking of it after the fact 🤣 👌
I think there are too many tank boss fights , and to be fair the tank mechanics are well designed and whilst there are a lot in the game they don't take long to complete and aren't too hard. People greatly exaggerate the amount of batmobile in the game and the game never forces its use in free roam either
@@anotherhappylanding4746 yeah I'm replaying it right now and I'm not finding it as annoying as I did the first time around. Killing drones is kinda boring and probably the worst part of the Batmobile for me. Chasing Firefly or the trucks is not that bad. I found out that the Batmobile can drive on tunnel walls because I was in a chase mission. Not super fun missions but they do have a sense of Batman chase scenes, and the map is so well designed that you can take so many routes and keep up with your target. I used to hate using the batmobile and just flew around but now I kinda enjoy drifting around and launching batman out. The puzzles are actually not that bad either, using the batmobile to either pull stuff or power it up edit: actually the worst part isnt the drones, its the Deathstroke boss fight. Its extra bad if you played Origins where the boss fight there was amazing.
In regards to how Batman cured himself of the joker virus by locking him away, it's definitely stupid, but it kinda works in this franchise. They've always written Batman as something almost supernatural, barely human. Not only is he always an insanely competent badass, they've always made a point of his mental fortitude. In the first game he was given enough fear toxin to drive ten men insane and was relatively fine. Same goes for this game, he's given absolutely insane amounts of the stuff and always maintains his sanity. In knight it seems like the fear toxin actively makes joker more present and in control as Batman slips. However, in the end Batman always comes out on top, always prevails even in the face of unbridled madness, because he is sheer will power personified into a man. Rocksteady has known since the beginning Batman is more than a man, a myth, legend, he's the goddamn Batman. I know it's cliche, but I feel like they're the only ones that can really pull off a "because I'm Batman" and it actually work for me. "I am the knight, I am vengeance, I am BATMAN." Just sounds so right from Kevin Conroy.
Well what would've happened is Batman slowly becoming Joker himself, rather than an alternate personality. The fear toxin however, makes Batmans now greatest fear come true, that being becoming Joker while being unable to stop himself from killing his friends, that's why it makes Joker an alternate personality.
im a fan of the theory that the demons blood almost completely cures him, and the jokers manifestation is purely fear toxin induced, we can see that it lasts a while and batman takes several doses, hes gonna be seeing things, as for the physical manifestations like the eye color change, i have no idea
I think something else that is really cool at the end of the story is that, batman is strapped up on the same table as joker was in the beginning of Arkham Asylum.
Honestly, the thing I enjoyed most was Scarecrow's character. He felt underwhelming in the first games, but in this one he dialed the spook levels up to a solid 15 out of 10.
@@shizochaos Literally killed the Batman in ways that the other villains could only hope to come close to, threatened the entire east coast of the US (and was seconds away from succeeding), outplays Batman for most of the game, manages a full force city-wide occupation as well as keeping the entire city hostage to make sure that the Justice League (which is proven to exist in this game and City) wouldn't intervene. He wasn't lame, you just focus on negatives.
I said a while ago, around when the game came out and everyone was pissed off, that the Arkham Knight should’ve been Damien Wayne. If you wanted to bring in Jason, sure, Gotham’s gone to shit and could use some Red Hood sequences to do some dirty work that Batman wouldn’t. But as bratty, pissed off and high strung as the Knight is, as skilled as he’s supposed to be, his age, and his sudden appearance could have made a great Damien intro (an older Damien but still, this game is a few years after City and who knows when Bruce and Talia hooked up, it was hinted that they had already done their thing during City). So he comes looking for the Bat to avenge his mother from the events of City, it escapes my mind now how exactly she dies but I remember thinking Batman could’ve been blamed or seen as her killer. Give him swords instead of guns, give him an awesome adaptive final boss fight like Mr Freeze like you were saying, sprinkle in the Jason Todd flashbacks to throw people off and have that Red Herring (no pun intended) but then suddenly during one of the side quests you’re tracking a vigilante killing criminals and it’s Red Hood, who fights you in his own boss fight and later you find out his identity and he comes back later to help out. Then at the end you have the big reveal of Damien and Bruce’s shock he had a son with Talia. They sort of come to terms since Scarecrow wants to kill his father and when Bruce dies Damien takes up the Cowl and becomes that terrifying version of Batman at the end.
Now just imagine if the next Batman game that is coming out for PS5 is about “The Robin War” from the comics. It took place after Batman supposedly died while fighting the Joker one on one under Gotham City, and Batman basically told the Joker that no one is going back up to the surface, If it takes my death to stop you then so be it. It was a crazy awesome story arc too, Duke’s parents lost their minds and went insane because of Joker’s nasty New and Improved “Joker Toxin” as Joker unleashed it and spread it all throughout Gotham City. It’s hard to explain the entire story here in this comment section, but that story arc was awesome and it led to an even greater story arc with the “Robin War”. All the Robins and members of the Bat Family were dealing with the loss of Batman/Bruce Wayne, and what their plan was going to be going forward to protect Gotham City. That basically meant that all the Robins ended up challenging each other on who was the best choice to take up the mantle of “Batman” in the wake of Bruce’s death/disappearance. They also had to still deal with some of the Villains throughout the story arc too, it’s just a damn good story. I suggest that Batman fans check it out, or first timers that are learning more and more about Batman, Gotham City or the villains. Everyone will enjoy that comic story.
@@aaronjones5742 true however my only complaint is that the main story seemed way shorter than the previous 2 games in the trilogy and that’s without doing the Side quests.
All I remember is getting all hyped and preordering it in middle school. I played it launch day and I batmobile glitched tf out and got invisibled in one of the first missions so I stopped playing lol.
Literally every question about the supposed realism of Arkham Knight is explained in story: 1) They're drones rather than manned because Arkham Knight doesn't want Batman to hold back. 2) The military/Superman CAN'T intervene because the Arkham Knight placed a bunch mines around the city which he would detonate upon the slightest hint of outside intervention. That's like asking why the military didn't invade Gotham and take Bane's men down in The Dark Knight Rises. It's literally explained, because BANE HAS A NUKE.
I think the best indicator of how I feel about the Arkham series is my playtime according to Steam: Arkham Asylum = 20.2 hours Arkham City = 86.3 hours Arkham Origins = 28.9 hours Arkham Knight = 255.7 hours
Arkham Knight probably has the greatest gameplay loop I've ever played in any game, followed by MGSV, Vice City & MW2. I never get bored. It's so fluid, responsive and detailed that it's astounding.
@@jessya775 well I’m city he was scared the city would die of poisoning unless he made a cure but he acted the same. I just thought it was weird he was more creepy than any of the forger games
@@sandboxsawyer332 because this is worse. Here, he is afraid of turning into the Joker, the thing he wants to never be. And if he becomes that, imagine what he will do to Arkham?
The Perfect Crime side mission is one of the best side missions I’ve ever played through in a video game. Everything about it was perfect. It fit right in to the games theme and incorporated some of the best parts of the Arkham verse. Not to mention that Professor Pig is a very unique and cool villain. It was a side mission that wasn’t too long and wasn’t too short and as you kept investigating the bodies around Gotham you kept wanting to know more. As you play through it you want to know more and more to find the conclusion of who is behind the killings. It was in my opinion the perfect side mission.
I still stand by my opinion that the Arkham Knight should have been Damien Wayne. His motivation would've been to avenge his mother, because He believes it was Batman's fault. Be chooses the Arkham Knight persona because he wants to prey on Batman's feelings of failure in Arkham City. It is possible that Damien would exist because in the comics his growth is accelerated and we know already that Batman and Talia had that "night shared in Metropolis". It would've been an interesting dynamic of Batman facing his failures and fighting with his own family
Couple holes in that: For starters, Batman has only existed for about 12 years in this continuity; at the most, Damian would be 10. 7 at the very least. The Arkham Knight is in his 20s... You see how that doesn't add up? Then there's the Red Hood...why would Jason just murder Damian out of nowhere? I can understand why he'd try to kill him if they interacted beforehand...but if they never knew each other in this continuity...it makes ZERO sense for Jason to murder Damian
@@Devils_Lair_Comics addressing your point that I brought to the table, in the comics Damien's aging is already dramatically sped up, so speeding it up to where he is 20ish within 4 years or so is too much of a stretch and it would explain the Arkham Knight's childish and irratic behavior
NightwingPlaysGamez I get what your saying and I like the idea but it’s still too unrealistic for Damien to be Arkham Knight, even with the sped up growth. If anything Damien would be good as a side mission, where he wants revenge.
I wholly disagree with folks who say that the batmobile is overused. There is a large amount of Batmobile segments yes, but there's also an insanely HUGE amount of non-Batmobile stuff to do as well: the majority of side missions have little to no Batmobile involvement besides driving the villain back to GCPD. Rocksteady developed an entirely new gameplay style for Arkham Knight, of course they were going to try to use it to its fullest potential
@@gh05tnoh24 the poor story and whatever is their fault,maybe they were rushed we don't know Even though to me everything felt great and it's not like Arkham hasn't had a bad thing or two about it's story The batmobile for example felt pretty good when I played it,but it being forced down our throats are our fault for asking to much Basically they kinda trolled us with to much of it
@@phoenixanimationz They still should've been able to find a balance. We aren't responsible. And the story had 4 years to be written. Shorter than Arkham City. Paul Dini didn't return to write the story.
I'd like to say, since you pointed out that this one has some horror elements. I had heard of Pyg, but I no doubt expected him in this game. So when I went into that salon and heard that classical music, not knowing what I was walking into, I felt genuine anxiety and fear. And when I couldn't combo knock the painless gremlins out, I also started to freak out until what I actually knew what to do. Even knowing you could respawn at death, I genuinely did not want to die at this part.
6 years later, still one of the greatest games on the PlayStation. If they released a game with knights graphics gameplay or story today, it would be amazing.
The batmobile only brings this game down a small bit, that and the knights reveal. Still an amazing game, I love replaying it. Just 100%ed it on steam a couple months ago.
tim tale some of the side missions were amazing especially the professor pyg one scarecrow was definitely not wasted in this game but I do agree with you with the boss fights
I know you pointed out the billboards being joker-fied, but it seems to me you might not have noticed the statues. It's the same thing essentially, there is a random chance for all of the gargoyles and statues throughout the game to be joker-fied as well. Keep an eye on them next time you play. Some of them even seem to only happen during lightning flashes too, but many just happen as you're gliding by. Even creepier than the billboards imo.
one of the parts of the story that really made me think was at the beginning after saving Ivy. That huge Batmobile, the "we're going to war" line, and his basically Iron Man armor. It felt like he was a different character, and he was too extreme. Then I realized, it's because his career is ending. Not because he's dying, or overwhelmed, or just too old like most fallen heroes. Instead, it's because he knows his methods aren't extreme enough anymore, and the Batman that was defending Gotham no longer has what it takes to defend the city. Which is the exact point he makes after saving cat woman.
@Matt Mercer's Stunt Double technically you did that, batman didn't seeing as you had control of him and its only during the game play and no cutscene, its like in the other games when you can hit people off of buildings it wasnt intended but people playing the game still did it
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 naw not really, the cutscenes are the things that actually happen and the actual story missions but everything inbetween those cutscene and story missions arent "canon" that's all what you want to do and even in story missions the only things that are 100% Canon is that you completed that story mission cause that's the only thing that corresponds between everyone's Games since everyone usually does things differently and gets the mission done somewhat different its only the fact that you completed that is "Canon"
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 See you are arguing something entirely different what I am saying is Everything in game play is not Canon since people all play and approach things differently so using certain uses of game play mechanics for example hitting someone with the batmobile can't be used against batman since someone else probably didn't hit that person so it's non Canon If it's in a cutscense than it's Canon, like when batman picked up the Gun, simple enough?
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Also the whole excuse against batman dying to being hit by a car and dying vs a thug for 1. Doesn't matter as I said It's different for everyone I'm sure someone out there never hit anyone with a car and someone hit everyone so it's non Canon since it's free to the player just cause it's an option doesn't mean batman did it in Canon, for example In the Arkham games it assumes you always 100% complete the pervious cause that's the Canon ending which is why the villains like riddler are always captured in the next game even if you didn't catch him cause the game assumes you did, Same thing is happening here you see? And 2. If you want an in Canon reason it's cause batman car is outlined with a Electric field thing so anyone that gets close doesn't get hit by the actual car they get Tazed out of the way so batman doesn't hit anyone with the actual car while Batman does get hit by cars the thugs technically don't and are just shoved aside
As some one who really enjoyed Arkham Knight, thank you for this video. The game has it's issues, but it does stand tall with it's other Arkham brothers.
@@arthurvale5147 Couldn’t agree more. Just pure rage on how it wasn’t what he wanted. Nothing on the phenomenal terrifying gameplay , soundtrack , visuals or attempting to create a good narrative.
i mean i liked hushes quest. not necessarily for the lack of a boss, but because hush is the first of batmans rogues gallery to know batman is bruce wayne. if you completed the quest before beating the game, that is. thus bruce is forced to lock tommy in the wayne tower vault until morning. but, by then, the world knows. including hush. also deathstroke can be handwaved with the fact that in origins, batman was a novice still learning the ropes. in knight though, he is far, far more dangerous. it's not that deathstroke got weaker, it's that batman got stronger.
Doesn't mean we couldn't have gotten a less equal boss fight, it didn't have to be a "damn barely won" fight, but it should have been a boss fight anyway.
Actually Hugo Strange and Ras Al Guhl are the first of the rogue's gallery to know his identity in game. It's kinda essential to the plot of Arkham City.
something I like about the mini gunner is also that you can't sabotage it to explode. adds a nice challenge to the mini gunner and it also references batman's no kill rule
I love how Angry Joe is harping on the Riddler trophies in Arkham Knight when Arkham City has almost double the amount. Kinda makes me think hes not a real Arkham fan. Also love how he just assumes trophies are locked in story missions. So many games do this but Rocksteady seemed careful about that. They deliberately put none in Ace Chemical knowing it would be destroyed and inaccessible. Very smart by them.
Despite double the amount, arkham city is not that big compared to Gotham in Knight, so collecting trophies took arguably same amount of time, but was way less interesting. Though Arkham City looked like Riddler City with those green question marks all around.
It's an odd thing. Because of the size of the Arkham City map I've been able to commit to memory almost every single Riddler Trophy over the past 10 years in that game with a handful of exceptions and almost all of Catwoman's. Arkham Knight's riddler trophies I cannot remember for the life of me because there seems like there is so much busy work to get to them. Perhaps that part of the problem in that it takes a lot longer to obtain just one trophy in Knight than it does one in City that it makes it both demoralising to actually go for all of them and difficult to remember
interesting haven't played knight yet but i have seen the riddler boss fight i think getting to see the bat and the cat team up against him is a good pay off for the riddler trophies
I love arkham knight I think if it had like another year to polish the sorry and polish some of the annoying boss fights and especially make some of the riddler races less annoying and give us a better deathstroke fight it would be pretty much perfect
This game had the greatest intro to a game over ever seen. Before you say city or asylum hear me out. Why was asylum a great intro? It was cinematic. Why was city a great intro? It throws you right in the game. Now why is knight a good intro? It does all of that + it has many layers of symbolism. Imma go part for part in the intro and explain how amazing it is 1. Burning joker. When you play the first time it's very creepy and sets the mood. It's a dead joker and you get to see him burn. Very unsettling. Now after you finish the game you notice how many layers this has. First of all "I got you under my skin" by frank Sinatra is playing. A PERFECT song for this game, but also the light hearted jazz contrasts so well with the creepy atmosphere. After you burn joker it cuts to a burning bat symbol. This ties with the song and the game where joker is inside batman. Joker being burned is also batman being burned. To end it all Gordon says "this is how the Batman died" after you burn joker. Do you see the symbolism in the first minute? Also deep foreshadowing. 2. The Diner. This is the cinematic part that makes these games amazing. But also that diner (like other cinematics in Arkham games) gets better on replays. On the fridge there's a picture of Henry Adams as a missing person. The other people batman kidnapped are on the newspapers but they are together while he is by himself bc he's the only one of them that truly became the joker. Up on the fridge there's a jack-o'-lantern, the symbol is scarecrow. Mind you there's one of two so it can't be coincidence. The other jack-o'-lantern is next to the guy that sprays the fear toxin. He also has the anarchy symbol which could be the Arkham knights. There's also a scarecrow, with 6 bats, and 2 ghosts revolving around 2 sources of lights. Scarecrow is obvious, 6 bats are the bat family, 2 ghosts are the 2 characters we think died. The 2 sources of light can be the 2 major instances where you have to stop the fear gas. There's also a vine entangled which could be poison ivy. This is foreshadowing inside foreshadowing 3. The scarecrow scene explains the premise of the game, clearly being fear, shows you some bad guys you'll be catching, the camera pans out then Batman is revealed on top of a anarchy ruled Gotham city and that's it! You're thrown right into the game! This game had the perfect intro. Sets up the story, introduces important elements of the story, including the main theme and has soooo many details that you only catch on replays. From the music chosen, to the actual details of the scenery this game did it all and applied both forms of intros, that we saw in the other Arkham games. Literally doesn't get better than that
@@aliwahab1255 I know those big bronze statues (I think on founders island) will have joker heads on them at certain points. But it's hard to catch because you typically fly by them when you notice and then turn around to see them normal again.
This is my favorite Arkham game. Arkham Asylum had the best atmosphere and felt like the most "traditional" type of Batman story which is great for a first outing. Arkham City had the best story and upped the stakes appropriately, plus that third act is amazing. I admittedly have not played Origins myself but I've seen a lot of gameplay and the boss fights definitely look great and the story is interesting. But Knight in my opinion had it all: most refined gameplay, great exploration with a lot of detail, great character interactions and great acting, and the story, while not as good as City I actually think is pretty well done and I think it mostly makes sense and I was invested the whole time.
If arkham was the length of city I'd agree.. I finished asylum and city 100% many times but knight.. 5 years in and I still haven't bothered with all the riddler trophies, but I prefer the story and mechanics of knight over the other games
I always felt like a crazy person for absolutely loving this game. I love how dark the story is, I love the free flow combat and predator sections, I love the way Gotham City looks. Sure the boss battles and Batmobile aren’t the greatest and the side missions are somewhat hit or miss but those complaints don’t ruin the game for me. It’s an overall near perfect game and finale.
In My Unpopular Opinion: I actually really liked the *"Vehicle/Tank Combat"* sections in Batman: Arkham Knight, that kind of Gameplay would be awesome for a Vehicler Combat style game like *"Twisted Metal."*
@@Arkhamman2023 I agree. What I would eventually want to see is Batman chasing down the Penguin or the Joker in a chase, it would give me Anitmated Series vibes
My favorite in the series as well. I’m also in the top rankings on the leaderboards in the Arkham Challenges but didn’t realize it for a long time til I glanced over the stats cuz I would put so much time into this masterpiece. As a die hard fan of the Bat I feel as this is a love letter to us devoted fans. Thank You Rocksteady
I recently played it for the first time: So I didnt soak in the hype and trailers leading up to the release. To me, this was the best Arkham Game of them all. I think the negative response came from incredibly high expectations. People thought it would feature all of Gotham, including the districts of the previous games. People thought it would have all villains ever seen. But honestly. Some had already too much action. I am glad that Bane left Gotham after city. I also heard that the game had too much of the Bat Mobile, but it seemed well balanced and very simple after all. So I guess it was mostly expectations built up before release.
Pizza_Eating_Pug You expected another Arkham game, got another Arkham game... and were disappointed? I don’t understand the hate for this game in the slightest. Didn’t even realize there was hate for it until seeing this video, lmao. I know you didn’t say you hated it but many people have and it makes no sense to me. I played it the first time several years ago, having not played the previous games and having not seen any marketing material. I had zero expectations and absolutely adored it! Going back and playing the first few games after playing it, I realized how superior Knight is in comparison. Asylum and City are fantastic games, but not nearly on the scale of Knight. Knight was a great farewell to the series, in my opinion.
The Almighty Bean I did not get another Arkham game. I got a poorly put together story and where I spent an absurd amount of time in a tank. Also Kevin conroy (Who is great) sounded really...off in the game as well. Like there was no emotion in his voice.
Pizza_Eating_Pug How tf was the story poorly put together? The only complaint I've seen people have is that it was too predictable Jasson was The arkham knight but you gotta understand if they didn't show the backstory of him then a lot of people wouldn't know who he was.
Svens Prāve they also lied about it being Jason. It’s all so ugh. Especially the Joker plot which makes no sense. He was just a normal human with fucked up skin pigment and hair color. A normal humans blood wouldn’t transform someone to them. It doesn’t make sense
@@STEELGMBL nah in terms of a robin he probably the worst but as a character he second best , dick Grayson is flat out the best robin in almost all ways but Tim drake is the most talented
jason is my favourite personally, but tim drake is the most skilled in regard to the 'detective' aspect of being robin. otherwise i'd say dick grayson is the fan favourite
A fun detail is that in the hallucinations you can see that Joker has Jason in Arkham Asylum and has drawn Dr. Arkham’s enchantments around Jason implying that there is an element of occult magic going on with the torture and ties Jason thematically to Dr. Arkham even more strongly than that both went over the edge and killed their tormentors.
I hate loner Batman, the teamwork between Batman and his bat family has always been more compelling to me. As a kid I loved it when robin appeared to help Batman, I specifically bought Arkham city because I saw robin being in it on TH-cam.
No. A masterpiece means that something is absolutely flawless; there's nothing more to add, nor take away. It's a perfected work of art. A great example of an ACTUAL masterpiece is The Dark Knight. As godlike as this depiction of Batman is, you can't call Arkham Knight a masterpiece due to issues and flaws.
Cool fact when you depending when you do the hush mission if you do as soon as you get it batman will put him in his personal cell so he can't tell people he is Bruce Wayne but if you do it after scarecrow reveals your identity batman says it doesn't matter where i put him everyone knows my identity
THANK YOU!! Arkham Knight has been my absolute favourite in the series since it came out (City is an extremely close second) and it’s pained me to see the hate and flack it’s gotten 😞
Their was many flaws with the game itself for me it's the story and the tank that why asyulm is my favourite but it's good that it's Ur favourite the problem is that it's just plain disappointing
I think half the game is amazing, and half feels like it was made by people who didn’t want to be there (the Hush ‘side quest being a major example. I also found the Cloudburst fight and Batman vs the Earth drill to be some of the least enjoyable moments I’ve ever had in a game.
atmosphere is incredible in this game, combination of comic book stylisation, 1920s retro-futurism , and militaristic science fiction. almost blade runner esque at times with the all the rain, gloom and neon lights.
Quick Theory: The whole job of being Batman combined with Joker Toxin is blurring his line between lethal and non-lethal. So if you defeat an enemy brutally, Batman *thinks* he's knocking them out, but in reality he's killing them.
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Which is why I kinda like playing Red Hood even more. Knowing that you are killing them makes it more satisfying to play him because its the only character you can kill with
Arkham Knight has set a high bar for the visual representation of Gotham City in a game. The combination of gothic style and neon lights is just a thing of beauty.
Bro, you worked for hours and hours to make such an amazing video, even the most famous youtubers don't do that, every video you make is almost an hour full of content, research and analysis which throughly explains the game you are reviewing, you deserve more than this.
I'm currently doing my first New Game+ playthrough of the game and it's still such a fun game. I love the story and my only real critique is the lack of good boss battles, but it's not like the city boss battles of jumping over shockwaves on the ground are a particularly novel thing. Tank battles and car chases are actually a fun change of pace.
Probably my favorite things about this game. 1. The combat system and how I find so satisfying, fun, and simple. 2. The amazing amount of small details in the map referencing older games, comics, or movies. Ex: When I was playing, I noticed that the woman who serves you at the bar in the opening scene can be found in Ghoul's hideout dead in a freezer. 3. The Graphics and gliding.
The throw counter happens when you push your directional stick in any direction and press the counter. Also you can pick thugs off the ground to keep your combo going by pressing (R2+O) or (RT+B). This move also allows you to preform a stun takedown on said thug.
That woman who serves you at the bar in the opening scene can be found in Ghoul's hideout dead in a freezer. This is pretty amazing detail
I never knew that. You just gave me another excuse to go back and play. Thank you
@@liemeenglish7894 Its in the room where the water is electrified
The details are what place all the Arkham games on another level. You can tell how much Rocksteady loves DC Comics. You find new things every play thru
Why ras killed her?
[ BEEZLABUB ] You can see other people from the diner in the morgue too. Also I think Talia’s corpse is in there too.
bro arkham knight has to be one of the best looking games I've ever played
I completely agree with ya on that, still looks amazing to this day
Looks better than the avengers game.
I agree with you Arkham Knight graphically looks awesome but its story, writing, boss fights, dlc, and ending, and side missions, and batmobile sucked in my opinion and villains
Worst story out of the 4
In fact it the best looking game imo
The joker billboard thing also happens with most statue faces, and even the statue in the center of the city changes for a split second when lightning strikes
He shows that in the video
That was one of my favourite things. I wanted them to go more down that route.
i didnt know about the lighting strikes
I haven't noticed that, but when I replayed it a few weeks ago one of the random thugs in the street I was fighting looked like Joker, and that was the first time I noticed that.
@@nortonman1178 Really? Checkout all the billboards towards the end of the game it's a majority. You have to go on foot really because when you move the camera away and the pictures turn back to normal. Maybe the quick flashes in the Batmobile are the point, though. To make you feel like you're losing it. I did the first time because it was quite an obscure one with some woman only haha Also, yeah I only ran down one random joker in the street towards the end. Other than that I only had jokers during story missions.
RIP Kevin Conroy. You'll forever be the voice of Batman.
Here here
The best Batman. The Batman.
It doesn’t feel real, man.
He was the knight🙋(imagine that's a salute couldn't find anything else)
@@ChargedGoose922currently rewatching Justice League Animated Series his voice never gets old RIP
The most slept on thing about the entire game is the convos,discussions/theory’s between militia and thugs
That applies to every arkham game, it's more slept on thing about the entire series than just this game.
It’s the freaking bat!
One of my favorite convos:
"Hey man, what's the time?"
"Seriously?"
"What do you mean?"
"We're posted on a rooftop opposite the biggest clock in gotham and you're asking me what time it is?"
Every single time I hear that thug say “remind me to go rob a toy store, I told my kid I would get him a gift” I always don’t want to beat them up
@@kistertheartist that was hilarious and helped me find that watchtower 😂
Did anyone else actually like how joker would have little puns and jokes and than kinda felt sad after you destroyed/cleansed him of your mind
I liked how Batman refuses to acknowledge him.
Me too o wish you could reactivate the Joker after the story like a £1.00 dlc or something like that
I miss him 😭😂
yeah, the world feels a lot emptier without him buzzing around.
@@drakebloodknight7981 there is 1 tiny instance where he gives Joker a little look. If i find it I'll link it.
This was a really great video! I appreciate you directing some people toward my video and giving really well articulated counters to a few of my views, and it was nice to hear that you also agreed with me on a lot of stuff too. This was well made and while I'm still not big on the game overall, you did put a few things into a new perspective that'll lead me to being a bit less harsh on it in the future. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video and I'm glad we're able to respectfully disagree regarding certain aspects of this game. You are awesome. Take care man!
@@ThatBoyAqua
Get a room
two great youtubers in the same room, hell yeah
This is the good ending
hi godzilla mendoza
One of Professeor Pygs victims in the "Perfect Crime" quest can also be found in the intro in the diner, sitting at a window-side seat. It's yet another great detail!
I never noticed that.
Also I think they disappear after a while in prison
*Beats Scarecrow expecting the game to end*
*Every single Riddler Challenge I had no interest in completing:* “Allow us to introduce ourselves”
those neon question marks won't leave us alone
You should try get the plat riddler trophies aren't even the hard part 💀
I’m the guy that has to finish all side missions before I beat the main game lol
@@kjeezy2990 Same just feels right
@@qhamzagaming I gave up trying to plat the game, finished all the collectibles but the other trophies though...
Hey man the fact that you made this video on a game that came out I think five(?) years ago which is not really super popular or on the internet's collective mind demonstrates to me that it's a video you really wanted to make. Kudos to you for putting in the effort not because you wanted a ton of views, but because you just wanted to do it. Good work!
Thanks man! I’m glad you enjoyed it
Omg this game came out 5 years ago? Wow the graphics were insaneeee
That Boy Aqua wait one question am i the only one when i beat some people as batman they actually get damage like blood or cuts
That Boy Aqua wait am i the only one that thought the guy that was smoking was anarchy cause the A that was carved looks like it might be
As far as I’m aware most fans of the game still like it mostly. I do.
This Guy: The Objects in the diner represent The batfamily and the villains
Developers: We just wanted to make it look like halloween
No they would go "yes that totally what we intended." while roling their eyes hoping we believe them.
antisocialite that’s not an issue but when someone tries to make a moment seem deeper than the devs attempted to make it then it’s an issue.
I thought it was a long Halloween Easter egg?
except this was definitely intentional
Actually as you walk into the diner the guy who walks out on your right is one of the writers for the games
Joker’s final line read of “I need you.” is so perfect!! At the end of the day, he’s so pathetic and co-dependent on Batman, which is why Batman can ignore him: he knows who his friends and family are.
yeah it ends there story on a highnote but im curious when that suicide squad game takes place since rocksteady even said its part of the arkhamverse
@@Ncholasbloom And they did tease the Bat-mobile, which makes me think that Batman will show up without being mind-controlled.
Funny how the Arkham game acknowledged the DCEU stuff outside of Gotham (Superman and Lex Luthor), but left enough space to explore that. I think Suicide Squad will take advantage of that so they can build a DCEU that's different from Arkham, THEN bring Batman in to connect it all.
@@withalittlehelpfrom3 so you think its after arkham knight
@@withalittlehelpfrom3 but bruce faked his death in knight just like in tdkr i think that meant his story was done
@@Ncholasbloom it definitely is, considering the Arkham Knight batsuit was shown in the trailer as a part of the Justice League statue
I truly believe the Arkham trilogy is a love letter to batman fans.
Agreed
69 likes. Mmmm
Unless of course they're Batman fans who like Cassandra Cain. She presumably doesn't get love letters because she can barely read.
@@sebastianmolina5606 i bet there's a couple of womans in the development team, your good
Although it was a bit less memorable, I liked Origins, too. I'd probably play it again before Arkham Knight.
Sorry but the part about Harley Quinn’s dump truck made me die lmao
Can we underline that there was Robin in the lot too :'DDD
Harley out here double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon.
No one ever be talking bout ivy 😞
@@fugit1vegaming397 green booty is eh
I love that he actually made the decision to include that observation in this analysis 💀
I got sad after I completed the main storyline and stopped seeing the joker everywhere I went. he kept me company 🥺
Same it he made me wake up otta fear when he laugh and he's voice woke me on late night plays
He's on of the best parts of the game
It's so lonely without him
Dylan Collins games*
@@ravencollins5638 the best part of the game*
38:44 This is the one plot point that people have a problem with that I love. Batman getting rid of his fear for joker by locking him away in his mind makes complete sense for the character. He’s trained his mind extensively to the point where he can control it like any other muscle, which was previously bogged down by the fear toxin and his fear of turning into the joker, but once he realises Joker’s worst fear is being forgotten, he realises he can just “forget” him. This may seem stupid at first but many things in life are like this. A small shift in perspective is sometimes able to cure the worst cases of anxiety or depression, though these shifts in perspective are extremely difficult to come by and aren’t simply a conscious act one can make. You need to develop a deep understanding of whatever is giving you said anxiety/depression, because once you understand something, it’s easier to manage. It’s suddenly not so “scary”. Hence Batman is able to overcome his greatest fear in the same manner. The perspective shift itself is quick, but getting there takes ages, deep reflection, and understanding.
To support my stance, there’s a moment in a Batman comic where his mind is attacked and essentially paralysed, but he ends up being fine because he locked a portion of his mind away in a corner of his mind…? Essentially he created a backup of his consciousness within his subconscious. And he didn’t do this because of the attack, he had simply done it years prior just in case something like this happened, because he’s Batman! So to me I don’t think it’s far fetched to do the same thing with the Joker, considering that the Joker in this instance is a mental construction. I can’t remember the name of the comic so if you do please share!
Honestly, just went through one of these. It takes forever to learn what perspective shift you need to make, but then, after a while, it’s almost difficult to remember what got you so down in the first place (sometimes it makes sense from the outside, but once you’ve adapted…).
I think it’s a case of folks not quite differentiating that from “oh my god my friend gave a speech? I no longer have depression!!” It’s still not like a switch, but in the case we’re talking about, the effort is put in *before* the realization, instead of after like usual
I think it's really cool that they went the extra mile in giving a canon reason as to why Batman's attacks are more heavy and brutal in Arkham knight than the previous games.
Did you read this in one of the stories you unlock through riddler trophies? Been looking for this because I remember reading it somewhere.
@@miguelangellicea2702 I don't remember where I read it exactly, if it wasnt a riddler trophy then it may have been from something in the clock tower
Why did Batman start to get more brutal?
@@arthurcallahan295 in the story he was getting older and he knew that if he kept being as merciful with his attacks it would give the villains more opportunity to injure him and he wouldn't be able to recover from the injuries as fast.
@@blessed-sergeant5538 Ah I see. Thanks
I never had a problem with Knight. Red Hood makes for an interesting villain, the Batmobile feels fucking great, and its an Arkham game at its core.
whenever i drive the batmobile i find it funny how it has guns on it.
I didn't know an Arkham game had to be 80% tank battles
@@frogglen6350 its 30% at most. The amount of time spent fighting in the Batmobile is extremely exaggerated.
@@thebat5598 I think it's a bad thing that's it's only 19% but feels so much more, time flies when having fun
My favourite batman game in the series is Batman Arkham Knight
I personally loved the detail of adding batman wearing the skins you had equipped during cutscenes because it really annoyed me when I was wearing a skin in return to Arkham city and it would switch back to the default skin just for a cutscene so I’m great full for the extra work put in the animate all the skins for the cutscenes in this game
All the cutscenes are in the game engine instead of pre rendered so it really didn't take them any extra work as they were simply moving your character model instead.
@@randompoet9997 oh ok thanks for telling me, I’m still glad they did that tho
@@bigyin_apricothd6978 agreed
@@bigyin_apricothd6978 if you use the arkham knight skin in the red hood dlc it has the same problem as city and goes to the default skin.
@@jplegend98 well lucky that dlc is only like 15 minutes long
This game was incredible in 2015 and it literally looks like it could’ve been released yesterday. Incredible gameplay, graphics, detail, story. It’s better than Arkham City in a lot of ways. I don’t think it’s possible to make a better Batman game.
it was amazing, one thing i would add though is the option to make knightmare an option in new game +, as much hand-to-hand as there is batmobile combat, ans honestly, a good guide to the combat; im fairly new to the series so hand to hand is not easy to me by any means, its so easy to not even know what things are possible when fighting and even though i got by in the regular story, now i have to do it again in new game + with knightmare difficulty which you cant take off. there are just minor things that could be easily changed if rocksteady cared.
this game looks like it came out after cyberpunk 2077 if you compare the 2 games
Arkham knight is literally the worst batman game in my opinion. I don't feel like arkham knight did anything better than arkham city except graphics and combat
@@ghostlegit well, those things are pretty important in a batman game, yeah?
@@corbandotson4295 no because the story and game was dogshit
"Better than I remember"? I remember it as my favourite videogame, buddy.
but its better
It's better than that
cloudykai you made criticism about a game into a way to complain about people having more money because they worked harder than you lmao
@cloudykai The game overused the batmobile, but other than that, I love this game
@@namegoeshere8564 they should have just left it to driving and puzzles
"Sir, did you manage to capture the mass-murderer?"
"Not yet Alfred, but I'm almost certain I might possibly be on the trail. Run a diagnostic on the freezer and send the Batwing with nuggies"
"Will sir prefer dinosaur or smiley-face?"
"As if that needs an answer"
"Undoubtedly sir. Batwing enroute."
this was good enough to have me think this was an actual line from the game lol
Ha
this is the best comment i think ive ever seen
*This Comment Needs The Praise It Deserves.*
When was this I beat every boss but riddler. Idk if it’s a line in story cos I have beat that months ago
I usually don’t like ads in the middle of videos but that transition regarding him getting hacked was very smooth, respect
It’s definitely overused putting it in what almost feels like every second mission and in puzzles and boss fights and stealth sections is a bit much
@@keaney624 Wrong thread
@@DoctorPhileasFragg I swear I put this in the right thread youtube is violating me
I played Arkham Knight and it's one of my favorite games of all time. One of few I would call a legitimate "masterpiece". I didn't know there were people who *didn't* like it
Its just the bat mobile fights get annoying
Half the game is amazing, but there are plot elements that drive me to distraction. Then there’s that damn tank!
@@jonbodhi I never got the hate of the batmobile. I actually thought the tank combat was extremely engaging for how simple it is. My biggest problem with the game was how the boss fights were way too easy, but honestly I don't really consider that a fault because I wouldn't have even cared if they weren't in the game to begin with, so it's not like the game is any worse
I can tell u many reasons why I Hate this game. The story and gameplay isn't as good as arkham city for me. Arkham city is literally the best batman game ever made
@@ghostlegit Personally I like the gameplay in Knight the most, and while City's ending is one of the best in storytelling history, I think Knights plot is better overall
“While the Batman Arkham games have never been horrifying”
BRO HAVE YOU PLAYED ASYLUM? THAT SHIT SCARED ME 💀
Bruh, it gave me PTSD
Idc what anyone says but the scarecrow level scared me so hard as a kid that I had to play it with audio muted
@@BlasterJunos For me it was the insane people. Sometimes you couldn’t see them until it was too late and they jumped on you. Terrifying
@@BlasterJunos that killer croc part had me scared shitless 😅😅
The sewer boss fight is scary asf
The first person joker scene was actually terrifying
it almost looked like a revamped version of the jokers death. he just has that iconic smile that I always love
Imagine it in VR
I’d love a horror game from a criminal’s perspective and the horror is Batman!
almost all the situations in which you are in first person are, like the before-mentioned cutscene in which you are walking around in panessa as gordon and batman just pops up outta nowhere. i always thought that was funny in movies and now i know how gordon feels lol
@@DARKENINGTIMES lmao same. Replayed it this week and had completely forgot about that scene. I got so scared 😭
Can we just agree that Deathstroke's boss fight is not as good as Origins
it was wildly disappointing
From a highly trained marksman/soldier to coward who fights his battles using a tank
The tank fight was fine but was too short
Honestly what shouldve happened was after the tank fight when deathstrokes jumps out of the tank, he grabs batman and grapples onto the roof to have a combat fight like they did in origins except waay more trickier and maybe some fight scene transitions
@@JuicyPolarBear the fight scence was just a re-used boss fight
Urghhh bro I was so disappointed the Deathstroke boss fight in origins was one of the most memorable parts of the game
I personally like the Batmobile in this game, but I can understand why people don’t like it. When people talk about it however, they only mention the tank battles. Nobody talks about how good the normal batmobile is. One of my favorite missions was hunting down the militia APCs using the normal batmobile because it was much more fast paced than the tank. I wish they used that a bit more over the tanks but the tank battles were still fun.
I feel this so hard. The APC missions were so addictive to me
The Batmobile itself is fine. The tank battles *would* be fine but there are TOO much, and they aren’t good enough to take up the amount of time it did IMO
@@myyoutubeaccount4167Tank stealth is definitely a big issue
I like it because it’s got a low skill floor and a high skill ceiling, yeah it can be unwieldy at first but once you get it omfg it’s perfection
Todd being impatient is pretty much Todd being Todd. That's what got him killed in the comics
Its his character
Dick is a wiseass
Todd is impatient
Tim is a man who wants to carve a legacy
and Damien is the one who wants to impress his dad
@@HopeAuq damians usually the one who just loves violence, well, in new 52 films he is
@@gamergeeks.9499 He gets good character development though. He falls in love with Raven, becomes less violent, and shows that he does care for his father.
@@DeathLore with raven?! Isn’t robin meant to love Star fire?
@@bdulrahmanarzani27 different robin
The sabotaging gun was a really nice addition, seeing the medics getting shocked when they try reviving others is funny
It was but it also made those enemies useless in stealth.
I’m going to replay and challenge myself to not use disruptor on the medic equipment
@@leonpaelinck those enemies are not really meant for stealth tho because they can easily be taken down silently they're mostly meant for combat because they can revive someone while you're beating the crap outta someone else
Batman:
"I can take down my opponents with quick thinking and the element of surprise"
*brings a tank*
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 eh ive seen u b4 commenting shit about this game, well too bad for u that ur taste is bad lol
I mean, if I found out that some man-bat hybrid that beats up crooks for fun also has a fucking tank, I would be pretty surprised.
@@jeffrey1445 fr like a lot of the controls were brand new compared to the other games and sometimes controls are just plain bad for example if I want to do the hang sneak attack it just makes me jump down and do a silent attack or fear take down which gets me spotted which is not what I wanted from the control I am so used to doing in the other games
@@waves8516 that's cus you gotta hang for the hanging sneak attack
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 you shut your goddamn mouth
38:35 He didn't cure himself of the Joker virus outta nowhere, he used the fear toxin in his bloodstream to his advantage. Joker even says, "You and your fear toxin!"
This is a much more potent concoction. He used his mental fortitude to reroute the toxin from himself to counter the Joker virus. The "Joker" was never scared of anything when he was alive. He only understood the concept of fear after being dead and forgotten by Gotham. He used fear to fight his own fear.
It's such a Batman thing to do lol
I went into this game expecting to be disappointed due to all the reviews, but it ended up being my favorite Arkham game! The combat was the best it’s ever been, the stealth and AI was perfect, the story apart from the Arkham Knight himself was an awesome closure to Batman and his inner battle with the Joker. The Bat-mobile was awesome and never got boring, IMO. This game really felt like Rocksteady learned and took everything they had across all the games and made the perfect Batman game. P.S. the Scarecrow sequence at the end of the game, is one of the coolest moments in Batman media I’ve ever experienced.
People constantly overlook the batmobile, but I loved it as well as the overall game!!
Dude this is my favorite Arkham game too
I just wanted good boss fights like the ones from arkham city and origins
@@RunAboutScout It got pretty boring to me because, unlike the predator and combat missions, it was all the same and there was no new kind of tank to change the fights. It got boring doing what was essentially the same battle over and over again
@@antennahead4978 fair enough, we all have our own opinions
One thing about the manbat, it's introduction was terrifying I was just cruising along swinging from roof to roof listening to music, but then his head popped out with a horrifying scream and I swear I almost had a heart attack.
And then joker later imitated him.
Same dude and then the joker does it again ffs
sappie i know, I was doing the same thing then I grappled to a building. And I saw that Batman was slowing down instead of speeding up and I was like what’s going on then manbat pops out and I was like WHAT THE FUCK. He then flew away and I was standing there with my heart beating.
I replayed the game and I knew that part was coming and it still scared me.
Lmao I was just putting my headset on after getting stoned...this "dude" pops up no more than 5-10 seconds later as I start moving from rooftop to rooftop...goddamn I jumped. Loved it when thinking of it after the fact 🤣 👌
I find it hilariously ironic that people begged for the Batmobile, and when Rocksteady gave it to us, nearly everyone complained.
In defense, you mostly used the batmobile in a way that Batman has not. It was constant drone stuff. When has the batmobile ever been used like that?
Fair point. I imagine Rocksteady was trying to give people as much Batmobile fantasy as possible. Batmobile combat was their answer.
@@Danbo22987 in the dark night returns the bat mobile is like a tank
I think there are too many tank boss fights , and to be fair the tank mechanics are well designed and whilst there are a lot in the game they don't take long to complete and aren't too hard. People greatly exaggerate the amount of batmobile in the game and the game never forces its use in free roam either
@@anotherhappylanding4746 yeah I'm replaying it right now and I'm not finding it as annoying as I did the first time around.
Killing drones is kinda boring and probably the worst part of the Batmobile for me.
Chasing Firefly or the trucks is not that bad. I found out that the Batmobile can drive on tunnel walls because I was in a chase mission. Not super fun missions but they do have a sense of Batman chase scenes, and the map is so well designed that you can take so many routes and keep up with your target.
I used to hate using the batmobile and just flew around but now I kinda enjoy drifting around and launching batman out.
The puzzles are actually not that bad either, using the batmobile to either pull stuff or power it up
edit: actually the worst part isnt the drones, its the Deathstroke boss fight. Its extra bad if you played Origins where the boss fight there was amazing.
In regards to how Batman cured himself of the joker virus by locking him away, it's definitely stupid, but it kinda works in this franchise. They've always written Batman as something almost supernatural, barely human. Not only is he always an insanely competent badass, they've always made a point of his mental fortitude. In the first game he was given enough fear toxin to drive ten men insane and was relatively fine. Same goes for this game, he's given absolutely insane amounts of the stuff and always maintains his sanity. In knight it seems like the fear toxin actively makes joker more present and in control as Batman slips. However, in the end Batman always comes out on top, always prevails even in the face of unbridled madness, because he is sheer will power personified into a man. Rocksteady has known since the beginning Batman is more than a man, a myth, legend, he's the goddamn Batman. I know it's cliche, but I feel like they're the only ones that can really pull off a "because I'm Batman" and it actually work for me. "I am the knight, I am vengeance, I am BATMAN." Just sounds so right from Kevin Conroy.
Well Bruce’s mind is already broken so I think it makes sense that Batman locking joker away/immune to the toxin works
If this is basically quincefeld yakob disease, which can be cured with will power so it makes perfect sense to me
@@existing5442 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can't be cured, is that what you're talking about? I don't know what else you could be referring to
Well what would've happened is Batman slowly becoming Joker himself, rather than an alternate personality. The fear toxin however, makes Batmans now greatest fear come true, that being becoming Joker while being unable to stop himself from killing his friends, that's why it makes Joker an alternate personality.
im a fan of the theory that the demons blood almost completely cures him, and the jokers manifestation is purely fear toxin induced, we can see that it lasts a while and batman takes several doses, hes gonna be seeing things, as for the physical manifestations like the eye color change, i have no idea
I think something else that is really cool at the end of the story is that, batman is strapped up on the same table as joker was in the beginning of Arkham Asylum.
Batman takes the place of joker in Asylum showing that Joker won the mental battle
Honestly, the thing I enjoyed most was Scarecrow's character. He felt underwhelming in the first games, but in this one he dialed the spook levels up to a solid 15 out of 10.
I also love scarecrow’s design in this game
Scarecrow seems to have a tendency to get awesome redesigns like in TNBA and Injustice 2.
He just seemed like a different character though. Different voice, costume and M.O. It was like someone claiming to be the previous guy.
@@guanoguy4800 yeah that's always bothered me, it doesn't feel like the same scarecrow from asylum at all
@@guanoguy4800 I agree, hes a completely different character
5:17 Scarier jump scare than Manbat in my opinion.
Agreed.
I disagree. I felt a jumpscare was coming there. I wasn't expecting to see Man-Bat on a roof screaming in my face. That scared the crap out of me.
This game made Scarecrow my favourite Batman villain. Guy’s so damn cool.
nah, he was lame
@@shizochaos Literally killed the Batman in ways that the other villains could only hope to come close to, threatened the entire east coast of the US (and was seconds away from succeeding), outplays Batman for most of the game, manages a full force city-wide occupation as well as keeping the entire city hostage to make sure that the Justice League (which is proven to exist in this game and City) wouldn't intervene.
He wasn't lame, you just focus on negatives.
I said a while ago, around when the game came out and everyone was pissed off, that the Arkham Knight should’ve been Damien Wayne. If you wanted to bring in Jason, sure, Gotham’s gone to shit and could use some Red Hood sequences to do some dirty work that Batman wouldn’t.
But as bratty, pissed off and high strung as the Knight is, as skilled as he’s supposed to be, his age, and his sudden appearance could have made a great Damien intro (an older Damien but still, this game is a few years after City and who knows when Bruce and Talia hooked up, it was hinted that they had already done their thing during City).
So he comes looking for the Bat to avenge his mother from the events of City, it escapes my mind now how exactly she dies but I remember thinking Batman could’ve been blamed or seen as her killer.
Give him swords instead of guns, give him an awesome adaptive final boss fight like Mr Freeze like you were saying, sprinkle in the Jason Todd flashbacks to throw people off and have that Red Herring (no pun intended) but then suddenly during one of the side quests you’re tracking a vigilante killing criminals and it’s Red Hood, who fights you in his own boss fight and later you find out his identity and he comes back later to help out.
Then at the end you have the big reveal of Damien and Bruce’s shock he had a son with Talia. They sort of come to terms since Scarecrow wants to kill his father and when Bruce dies Damien takes up the Cowl and becomes that terrifying version of Batman at the end.
Goddamn! I want this so much. A Damien revenge story would have been great.
Arkham Knight is 8 months after Arkham City. I like the idea to bring in Damien but no. The Arkham Knight was perfect for Jason
Now just imagine if the next Batman game that is coming out for PS5 is about “The Robin War” from the comics. It took place after Batman supposedly died while fighting the Joker one on one under Gotham City, and Batman basically told the Joker that no one is going back up to the surface, If it takes my death to stop you then so be it. It was a crazy awesome story arc too, Duke’s parents lost their minds and went insane because of Joker’s nasty New and Improved “Joker Toxin” as Joker unleashed it and spread it all throughout Gotham City. It’s hard to explain the entire story here in this comment section, but that story arc was awesome and it led to an even greater story arc with the “Robin War”. All the Robins and members of the Bat Family were dealing with the loss of Batman/Bruce Wayne, and what their plan was going to be going forward to protect Gotham City. That basically meant that all the Robins ended up challenging each other on who was the best choice to take up the mantle of “Batman” in the wake of Bruce’s death/disappearance. They also had to still deal with some of the Villains throughout the story arc too, it’s just a damn good story. I suggest that Batman fans check it out, or first timers that are learning more and more about Batman, Gotham City or the villains. Everyone will enjoy that comic story.
Bruce Wayne is only in his 12th year of being batman in this game, so that would be impossible
It does a lot more justice to BOTH characters. Plus it’s just much more badass. Thanks bro!
“Arkham Knight is better than you remember“
I don’t think it can get better than perfection
Honestly, it was a fun game to play, but the story really wasn’t up to par when compared to the original two. Not counting origins.
@@aaronjones5742 true however my only complaint is that the main story seemed way shorter than the previous 2 games in the trilogy and that’s without doing the Side quests.
lol "perfection"
Yeah!
All I remember is getting all hyped and preordering it in middle school. I played it launch day and I batmobile glitched tf out and got invisibled in one of the first missions so I stopped playing lol.
When they talked about Harley’s butt, at that very moment, somebody walked in on me. And I had the volume all the way up.
Lol out loud 😅
@@volvob1884 you have sinned in about 3 ways and I want to grab a cross and Christ you outta here.
f
Murphy’s Law.
Literally every question about the supposed realism of Arkham Knight is explained in story:
1) They're drones rather than manned because Arkham Knight doesn't want Batman to hold back.
2) The military/Superman CAN'T intervene because the Arkham Knight placed a bunch mines around the city which he would detonate upon the slightest hint of outside intervention. That's like asking why the military didn't invade Gotham and take Bane's men down in The Dark Knight Rises. It's literally explained, because BANE HAS A NUKE.
I think the best indicator of how I feel about the Arkham series is my playtime according to Steam:
Arkham Asylum = 20.2 hours
Arkham City = 86.3 hours
Arkham Origins = 28.9 hours
Arkham Knight = 255.7 hours
Bro I’ve easily put in 600 hours into Arkham knight. Still play it today 😂😂 at least 1000 hours in the series id say….big Batman fan lmao
@@landon-7316 I’m currently spending all my time doing riddler trophies. I finished the campaign, and I still got 200 trophies to go…..fml
@@zainasif3485 😂 feels good once you get them all though
@@landon-7316 Bro i’m struggling with the riddler trophies😂😂😂
What the fuck!
Arkham Knight probably has the greatest gameplay loop I've ever played in any game, followed by MGSV, Vice City & MW2. I never get bored. It's so fluid, responsive and detailed that it's astounding.
In Arkham night I feel like Batman feels different he seems more serious and depressed
that’s fitting considering the end of City and the events that take place in Knight
Makes sense since he is scared of turning into the goddamn joker so he is sheltering himself and builds a bat-tank, he is not himself
@@jessya775 well I’m city he was scared the city would die of poisoning unless he made a cure but he acted the same. I just thought it was weird he was more creepy than any of the forger games
@@sandboxsawyer332 because this is worse.
Here, he is afraid of turning into the Joker, the thing he wants to never be.
And if he becomes that, imagine what he will do to Arkham?
@@spider-man500 Gotham*
The Perfect Crime side mission is one of the best side missions I’ve ever played through in a video game. Everything about it was perfect. It fit right in to the games theme and incorporated some of the best parts of the Arkham verse. Not to mention that Professor Pig is a very unique and cool villain. It was a side mission that wasn’t too long and wasn’t too short and as you kept investigating the bodies around Gotham you kept wanting to know more. As you play through it you want to know more and more to find the conclusion of who is behind the killings. It was in my opinion the perfect side mission.
8:09 had me fuckin rooooolllling
This game needs no defense, it's flat out amazing. All of the Arkham games are 10/10 in my book.
And oh my god the graphics are so beautiful for 2015
Facts there amizing
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 really bro
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 okay?
A hypocrite at it's finest form *smokes cigar*
I still stand by my opinion that the Arkham Knight should have been Damien Wayne. His motivation would've been to avenge his mother, because He believes it was Batman's fault. Be chooses the Arkham Knight persona because he wants to prey on Batman's feelings of failure in Arkham City. It is possible that Damien would exist because in the comics his growth is accelerated and we know already that Batman and Talia had that "night shared in Metropolis". It would've been an interesting dynamic of Batman facing his failures and fighting with his own family
Couple holes in that:
For starters, Batman has only existed for about 12 years in this continuity; at the most, Damian would be 10. 7 at the very least. The Arkham Knight is in his 20s... You see how that doesn't add up?
Then there's the Red Hood...why would Jason just murder Damian out of nowhere? I can understand why he'd try to kill him if they interacted beforehand...but if they never knew each other in this continuity...it makes ZERO sense for Jason to murder Damian
@@Devils_Lair_Comics addressing your point that I brought to the table, in the comics Damien's aging is already dramatically sped up, so speeding it up to where he is 20ish within 4 years or so is too much of a stretch and it would explain the Arkham Knight's childish and irratic behavior
NightwingPlaysGamez I get what your saying and I like the idea but it’s still too unrealistic for Damien to be Arkham Knight, even with the sped up growth. If anything Damien would be good as a side mission, where he wants revenge.
@@Devils_Lair_Comics No he didnt originally That Was retconned after Origins
@@Devils_Lair_Comics Damian couldve been genetically aged up
I wholly disagree with folks who say that the batmobile is overused. There is a large amount of Batmobile segments yes, but there's also an insanely HUGE amount of non-Batmobile stuff to do as well: the majority of side missions have little to no Batmobile involvement besides driving the villain back to GCPD. Rocksteady developed an entirely new gameplay style for Arkham Knight, of course they were going to try to use it to its fullest potential
I'm gonna defend this game by saying on simple thing
"We asked for the damn car"
You wanted it? Here ya go!
Blame yourself for it
He's not wrong
Yep
Sure a lot of people asked for it but we are not responsible for any poor implementation. We aren’t the devs so it being poorly done is not our fault.
@@gh05tnoh24 the poor story and whatever is their fault,maybe they were rushed we don't know
Even though to me everything felt great and it's not like Arkham hasn't had a bad thing or two about it's story
The batmobile for example felt pretty good when I played it,but it being forced down our throats are our fault for asking to much
Basically they kinda trolled us with to much of it
@@phoenixanimationz They still should've been able to find a balance. We aren't responsible. And the story had 4 years to be written. Shorter than Arkham City. Paul Dini didn't return to write the story.
That transition into the sponser was one of the best I have ever seen
I was like: _"wow, sneaky!"_ **Skips**
Wrecker DeeZ lol
I'd like to say, since you pointed out that this one has some horror elements. I had heard of Pyg, but I no doubt expected him in this game. So when I went into that salon and heard that classical music, not knowing what I was walking into, I felt genuine anxiety and fear. And when I couldn't combo knock the painless gremlins out, I also started to freak out until what I actually knew what to do. Even knowing you could respawn at death, I genuinely did not want to die at this part.
6 years later, still one of the greatest games on the PlayStation. If they released a game with knights graphics gameplay or story today, it would be amazing.
The ninja type enemy’s don’t deserve Batman’s no kill rule
Agreed
Finishing the game on knightmare was not fun for me with them in the game.
The batmobile only brings this game down a small bit, that and the knights reveal. Still an amazing game, I love replaying it. Just 100%ed it on steam a couple months ago.
I just mod it with infinite missiles, emp to get through those parts quickly. They are terrible.
-The side missions
-Awful boss fights
-Boring story focused too much on stagg/milita
-Wasted scarecrow
tim tale some of the side missions were amazing especially the professor pyg one scarecrow was definitely not wasted in this game but I do agree with you with the boss fights
@@timtale2404 Nailed it
The batmobile isn't terrible it is just the cobra tank Battles were boring but I loved driving around in it
I know you pointed out the billboards being joker-fied, but it seems to me you might not have noticed the statues. It's the same thing essentially, there is a random chance for all of the gargoyles and statues throughout the game to be joker-fied as well. Keep an eye on them next time you play. Some of them even seem to only happen during lightning flashes too, but many just happen as you're gliding by. Even creepier than the billboards imo.
I have absolutely no quarrel with the BatTank. I loved it, and got all emotional when the digging machine scrapped it. I loved that car
one of the parts of the story that really made me think was at the beginning after saving Ivy. That huge Batmobile, the "we're going to war" line, and his basically Iron Man armor. It felt like he was a different character, and he was too extreme. Then I realized, it's because his career is ending. Not because he's dying, or overwhelmed, or just too old like most fallen heroes. Instead, it's because he knows his methods aren't extreme enough anymore, and the Batman that was defending Gotham no longer has what it takes to defend the city. Which is the exact point he makes after saving cat woman.
"Gotham needs something *worse*"
@Matt Mercer's Stunt Double technically you did that, batman didn't seeing as you had control of him and its only during the game play and no cutscene, its like in the other games when you can hit people off of buildings it wasnt intended but people playing the game still did it
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 naw not really, the cutscenes are the things that actually happen and the actual story missions but everything inbetween those cutscene and story missions arent "canon" that's all what you want to do and even in story missions the only things that are 100% Canon is that you completed that story mission cause that's the only thing that corresponds between everyone's Games since everyone usually does things differently and gets the mission done somewhat different its only the fact that you completed that is "Canon"
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 See you are arguing something entirely different what I am saying is Everything in game play is not Canon since people all play and approach things differently so using certain uses of game play mechanics for example hitting someone with the batmobile can't be used against batman since someone else probably didn't hit that person so it's non Canon If it's in a cutscense than it's Canon, like when batman picked up the Gun, simple enough?
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Also the whole excuse against batman dying to being hit by a car and dying vs a thug for 1. Doesn't matter as I said It's different for everyone I'm sure someone out there never hit anyone with a car and someone hit everyone so it's non Canon since it's free to the player just cause it's an option doesn't mean batman did it in Canon, for example In the Arkham games it assumes you always 100% complete the pervious cause that's the Canon ending which is why the villains like riddler are always captured in the next game even if you didn't catch him cause the game assumes you did, Same thing is happening here you see? And 2. If you want an in Canon reason it's cause batman car is outlined with a Electric field thing so anyone that gets close doesn't get hit by the actual car they get Tazed out of the way so batman doesn't hit anyone with the actual car while Batman does get hit by cars the thugs technically don't and are just shoved aside
As some one who really enjoyed Arkham Knight, thank you for this video. The game has it's issues, but it does stand tall with it's other Arkham brothers.
I think that crazy old guy is deacon blackfire
But he gets jailed so I call him deacon backfire
Top tier comment
I don’t like how everyone complains about the bat mobile at least it is in a game
I’m not surprised Angry Joe made up criticisms that didn’t exist, he’s good at that
@@shadowbonnie2763 probably
@@shadowbonnie2763 angry joe mama
@Bobby Papoutsis he barely talked about the game itself
It was just him rating about how he didn’t like the story because of Joel’s death
@@arthurvale5147
Couldn’t agree more. Just pure rage on how it wasn’t what he wanted.
Nothing on the phenomenal terrifying gameplay , soundtrack , visuals or attempting to create a good narrative.
Arthur vale- ya watch the actual video then
i mean i liked hushes quest. not necessarily for the lack of a boss, but because hush is the first of batmans rogues gallery to know batman is bruce wayne. if you completed the quest before beating the game, that is. thus bruce is forced to lock tommy in the wayne tower vault until morning. but, by then, the world knows. including hush.
also deathstroke can be handwaved with the fact that in origins, batman was a novice still learning the ropes. in knight though, he is far, far more dangerous. it's not that deathstroke got weaker, it's that batman got stronger.
Doesn't mean we couldn't have gotten a less equal boss fight, it didn't have to be a "damn barely won" fight, but it should have been a boss fight anyway.
Death stoke still should have been a boss you can’t argue otherwise plus who’s to say death stoke didn’t also get stronger
Actually Hugo Strange and Ras Al Guhl are the first of the rogue's gallery to know his identity in game. It's kinda essential to the plot of Arkham City.
@@angrytheclown801 should have said "in the game."
Angry the Clown didn’t bane know in Arkham origins?
“That’s what you taught me. Do the right thing. That’s all that matters”
And this game got me
something I like about the mini gunner is also that you can't sabotage it to explode. adds a nice challenge to the mini gunner and it also references batman's no kill rule
I love how Angry Joe is harping on the Riddler trophies in Arkham Knight when Arkham City has almost double the amount. Kinda makes me think hes not a real Arkham fan. Also love how he just assumes trophies are locked in story missions. So many games do this but Rocksteady seemed careful about that. They deliberately put none in Ace Chemical knowing it would be destroyed and inaccessible. Very smart by them.
I got all the riddler trophies in arkham city and didn't have it in me to do the combat challenges after, it took so long
Despite double the amount, arkham city is not that big compared to Gotham in Knight, so collecting trophies took arguably same amount of time, but was way less interesting. Though Arkham City looked like Riddler City with those green question marks all around.
The issue is the riddler trophies are not designed to be fun it doesn't matter if it's halfed less evil doesn't make it good
It's an odd thing.
Because of the size of the Arkham City map I've been able to commit to memory almost every single Riddler Trophy over the past 10 years in that game with a handful of exceptions and almost all of Catwoman's.
Arkham Knight's riddler trophies I cannot remember for the life of me because there seems like there is so much busy work to get to them. Perhaps that part of the problem in that it takes a lot longer to obtain just one trophy in Knight than it does one in City that it makes it both demoralising to actually go for all of them and difficult to remember
interesting haven't played knight yet but i have seen the riddler boss fight i think getting to see the bat and the cat team up against him is a good pay off for the riddler trophies
Kevin Conroy said himself Arkham knight is his favorite of the Arkham series
He obviously doesn't actually play games
@@geert574 what's that supposed to mean?
@@geert574 stop being a goof bro
I love arkham knight I think if it had like another year to polish the sorry and polish some of the annoying boss fights and especially make some of the riddler races less annoying and give us a better deathstroke fight it would be pretty much perfect
It was probably the most fun to voice act
I only complain about one thing and that is
When someone ruins ur high combo
Lol i swear especially in the training rooms
Me: About to hit a thug
That one Milttia guy who is near the thug I'm about to hit: hErE lEt Me ChArGe YoU
Also those red attacks that cannot ge countered
Fucking shields man xD
Hitting the shock baton guy instead of the normal goon you aimed for.
This game had the greatest intro to a game over ever seen. Before you say city or asylum hear me out. Why was asylum a great intro? It was cinematic. Why was city a great intro? It throws you right in the game. Now why is knight a good intro? It does all of that + it has many layers of symbolism. Imma go part for part in the intro and explain how amazing it is
1. Burning joker. When you play the first time it's very creepy and sets the mood. It's a dead joker and you get to see him burn. Very unsettling. Now after you finish the game you notice how many layers this has. First of all "I got you under my skin" by frank Sinatra is playing. A PERFECT song for this game, but also the light hearted jazz contrasts so well with the creepy atmosphere. After you burn joker it cuts to a burning bat symbol. This ties with the song and the game where joker is inside batman. Joker being burned is also batman being burned. To end it all Gordon says "this is how the Batman died" after you burn joker. Do you see the symbolism in the first minute? Also deep foreshadowing.
2. The Diner. This is the cinematic part that makes these games amazing. But also that diner (like other cinematics in Arkham games) gets better on replays. On the fridge there's a picture of Henry Adams as a missing person. The other people batman kidnapped are on the newspapers but they are together while he is by himself bc he's the only one of them that truly became the joker. Up on the fridge there's a jack-o'-lantern, the symbol is scarecrow. Mind you there's one of two so it can't be coincidence. The other jack-o'-lantern is next to the guy that sprays the fear toxin. He also has the anarchy symbol which could be the Arkham knights. There's also a scarecrow, with 6 bats, and 2 ghosts revolving around 2 sources of lights. Scarecrow is obvious, 6 bats are the bat family, 2 ghosts are the 2 characters we think died. The 2 sources of light can be the 2 major instances where you have to stop the fear gas. There's also a vine entangled which could be poison ivy. This is foreshadowing inside foreshadowing
3. The scarecrow scene explains the premise of the game, clearly being fear, shows you some bad guys you'll be catching, the camera pans out then Batman is revealed on top of a anarchy ruled Gotham city and that's it! You're thrown right into the game!
This game had the perfect intro. Sets up the story, introduces important elements of the story, including the main theme and has soooo many details that you only catch on replays. From the music chosen, to the actual details of the scenery this game did it all and applied both forms of intros, that we saw in the other Arkham games. Literally doesn't get better than that
This is one of my favorite games. People hate on it just because it uses the batmobile to much. I didn't have a problem with it.
Yea too many critics have claimed the batmobile is responsible for 90% of the game
I really think this game could have been a lot better if they didn’t focus on the bat mobile so much
Yeah the Batmobile was used wayy to much in the game instead they could've worked on different villains we haven't seen
@Zyzics batmobile stealth? You telling me you didn't fight 2000 tanks with the batmobile. U know what stealth is 😂
@@vegitoson1268 i think he referring Cobra tank mission
Fun fact it's not just signs that get jokerfied but statues too
Really? Which ones?
@@aliwahab1255 I know those big bronze statues (I think on founders island) will have joker heads on them at certain points. But it's hard to catch because you typically fly by them when you notice and then turn around to see them normal again.
Yeah you can see it at 4:40
@@therealjoker6706 theres statues on miagami island too
Sometimes thugs too!!! Rare, but it happens!
This is my favorite Arkham game. Arkham Asylum had the best atmosphere and felt like the most "traditional" type of Batman story which is great for a first outing. Arkham City had the best story and upped the stakes appropriately, plus that third act is amazing. I admittedly have not played Origins myself but I've seen a lot of gameplay and the boss fights definitely look great and the story is interesting. But Knight in my opinion had it all: most refined gameplay, great exploration with a lot of detail, great character interactions and great acting, and the story, while not as good as City I actually think is pretty well done and I think it mostly makes sense and I was invested the whole time.
If arkham was the length of city I'd agree.. I finished asylum and city 100% many times but knight.. 5 years in and I still haven't bothered with all the riddler trophies, but I prefer the story and mechanics of knight over the other games
Knight lacks proper boss fights, that's the most annoying thing to me.
@@dantederi5062 There's a few Boss fights that were pretty solid. Killer Croc, Professor Pyg, and Arkham Knight himself.
@@mullaoslo City has more trophies than Knight
@@softwarelivre2389 riddler trophies? Like hell it does.. It's been years but I think they upped it from around 100 in city to 2 or 300 i knight
I always felt like a crazy person for absolutely loving this game. I love how dark the story is, I love the free flow combat and predator sections, I love the way Gotham City looks. Sure the boss battles and Batmobile aren’t the greatest and the side missions are somewhat hit or miss but those complaints don’t ruin the game for me. It’s an overall near perfect game and finale.
this game is fucking awesome, and it came out in 2015.
That mad hatter side mission is so cool
That horndog character model joke made me lose it completely. I laughed so hard I was crying
In My Unpopular Opinion: I actually really liked the *"Vehicle/Tank Combat"* sections in Batman: Arkham Knight, that kind of Gameplay would be awesome for a Vehicler Combat style game like *"Twisted Metal."*
Same. Really enjoyed the batmobile segments
@Oswald Jacobs Exactley my thoughts, The batmobile should of just been used for pursuit chases. But overall, I love the game
It would be good for a game like twisted metal but it isn’t good for a Batman game.
@@Arkhamman2023 I agree. What I would eventually want to see is Batman chasing down the Penguin or the Joker in a chase, it would give me Anitmated Series vibes
Same
February 2021 was the first time I ever played the Arkham games. Absolute masterpieces, they are.
Completely unrelated but your name and pfp are cursed.
To me was January 29th 2021, first origins,then two months later,city.
I knew about asylum in 08. I waited for nearly a year just watching gameplay videos to be able to get my hands on it.
Have you played Origins? I place it number two out of the four games. I think it’s available on X-Box
@@jonbodhi I have not. I have a PS4, Switch, and PC lol. That sounds like my luck
My favorite in the series as well. I’m also in the top rankings on the leaderboards in the Arkham Challenges but didn’t realize it for a long time til I glanced over the stats cuz I would put so much time into this masterpiece. As a die hard fan of the Bat I feel as this is a love letter to us devoted fans. Thank You Rocksteady
I recently played it for the first time: So I didnt soak in the hype and trailers leading up to the release. To me, this was the best Arkham Game of them all. I think the negative response came from incredibly high expectations. People thought it would feature all of Gotham, including the districts of the previous games. People thought it would have all villains ever seen. But honestly. Some had already too much action. I am glad that Bane left Gotham after city. I also heard that the game had too much of the Bat Mobile, but it seemed well balanced and very simple after all.
So I guess it was mostly expectations built up before release.
I didn’t expect any of those things from the game at all. I just expected another Arkham game and it disappointed me.
Pizza_Eating_Pug You expected another Arkham game, got another Arkham game... and were disappointed? I don’t understand the hate for this game in the slightest. Didn’t even realize there was hate for it until seeing this video, lmao. I know you didn’t say you hated it but many people have and it makes no sense to me. I played it the first time several years ago, having not played the previous games and having not seen any marketing material. I had zero expectations and absolutely adored it! Going back and playing the first few games after playing it, I realized how superior Knight is in comparison. Asylum and City are fantastic games, but not nearly on the scale of Knight. Knight was a great farewell to the series, in my opinion.
The Almighty Bean I did not get another Arkham game. I got a poorly put together story and where I spent an absurd amount of time in a tank. Also Kevin conroy (Who is great) sounded really...off in the game as well. Like there was no emotion in his voice.
Pizza_Eating_Pug How tf was the story poorly put together? The only complaint I've seen people have is that it was too predictable Jasson was The arkham knight but you gotta understand if they didn't show the backstory of him then a lot of people wouldn't know who he was.
Svens Prāve they also lied about it being Jason. It’s all so ugh. Especially the Joker plot which makes no sense. He was just a normal human with fucked up skin pigment and hair color. A normal humans blood wouldn’t transform someone to them. It doesn’t make sense
This game really gave me the idea that Jason was “the smart Robin” in the Arkhamverse and his story was horrifying in all the right ways
Jason is the best all around sidekick in my opinion
@@STEELGMBL nah in terms of a robin he probably the worst but as a character he second best , dick Grayson is flat out the best robin in almost all ways but Tim drake is the most talented
jason is my favourite personally, but tim drake is the most skilled in regard to the 'detective' aspect of being robin. otherwise i'd say dick grayson is the fan favourite
@@STEELGMBL How Dare You Call Me A "Side kick"
A fun detail is that in the hallucinations you can see that Joker has Jason in Arkham Asylum and has drawn Dr. Arkham’s enchantments around Jason implying that there is an element of occult magic going on with the torture and ties Jason thematically to Dr. Arkham even more strongly than that both went over the edge and killed their tormentors.
The depiction of Batman alone is enough to make it a masterpiece. It is one of the best in any media.
I hate loner Batman, the teamwork between Batman and his bat family has always been more compelling to me. As a kid I loved it when robin appeared to help Batman, I specifically bought Arkham city because I saw robin being in it on TH-cam.
@@indepth9930 the Gotham knight would be an absolute dream for you
Except Batman won't be there
@@aarxv_s1042 Yeah, im gonna buy it on my xbox one since I cant get a ps5.
@@NoCluYT damien is a piece of shit. Acts entitled and thinks he's better than everyone. Perhaps the worst Robin ever
No. A masterpiece means that something is absolutely flawless; there's nothing more to add, nor take away. It's a perfected work of art. A great example of an ACTUAL masterpiece is The Dark Knight.
As godlike as this depiction of Batman is, you can't call Arkham Knight a masterpiece due to issues and flaws.
I recently replayed the game and collected all of the riddler trophies. I really got a new appreciation for the detail of the game.
Cool fact when you depending when you do the hush mission if you do as soon as you get it batman will put him in his personal cell so he can't tell people he is Bruce Wayne but if you do it after scarecrow reveals your identity batman says it doesn't matter where i put him everyone knows my identity
You can do the hush mission after you finish the game? that’s weird
@@aurelien5747 Every side missions can be postponed anytime
I wish if u finish the game u could take hush to the gcpd
Jesus christ spoiler alert lmao
@@aurelien5747 i mean, the hush mission is pretty easy, you show up to wayne tower, and then you finish it. it sorta sucked
THANK YOU!! Arkham Knight has been my absolute favourite in the series since it came out (City is an extremely close second) and it’s pained me to see the hate and flack it’s gotten 😞
Their was many flaws with the game itself for me it's the story and the tank that why asyulm is my favourite but it's good that it's Ur favourite the problem is that it's just plain disappointing
Nah the story was meh, the batmobile was overused, and the boss battles were mostly shit
I think half the game is amazing, and half feels like it was made by people who didn’t want to be there (the Hush ‘side quest being a major example.
I also found the Cloudburst fight and Batman vs the Earth drill to be some of the least enjoyable moments I’ve ever had in a game.
I've played through this game 4 times and never noticed the joker bill boards
wtf me too :D
The statues as well
atmosphere is incredible in this game, combination of comic book stylisation, 1920s retro-futurism , and militaristic science fiction. almost blade runner esque at times with the all the rain, gloom and neon lights.
Hugo actually explains how he discovered Batman’s alter ego in a interview with riddler
Quick Theory: The whole job of being Batman combined with Joker Toxin is blurring his line between lethal and non-lethal. So if you defeat an enemy brutally, Batman *thinks* he's knocking them out, but in reality he's killing them.
@Matt Mercer's Stunt Double we get it you dont like the game news flash we dont care let people play games that they like
in knight fall protocol I had to complete 9 side missions and I am playing on PS4 slim.
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 when you beat people as red hood it counts them as being killed not knocked out
@@eziospaghettiauditore8369 Which is why I kinda like playing Red Hood even more. Knowing that you are killing them makes it more satisfying to play him because its the only character you can kill with
Thats a good theory but wouldn't his detective mode give it away to him like immediately...
Holy shit I’m not even annoyed about the sponcer in middle of the vid that was the smoothest slide into a advertisement ever
Arkham Knight has set a high bar for the visual representation of Gotham City in a game. The combination of gothic style and neon lights is just a thing of beauty.
Bro, you worked for hours and hours to make such an amazing video, even the most famous youtubers don't do that, every video you make is almost an hour full of content, research and analysis which throughly explains the game you are reviewing, you deserve more than this.
I’m glad you enjoyed! Much love from Canada ❤️❤️
Most of the best TH-camrs don’t spend hours working on a video? Huh? Lmao
I'm currently doing my first New Game+ playthrough of the game and it's still such a fun game. I love the story and my only real critique is the lack of good boss battles, but it's not like the city boss battles of jumping over shockwaves on the ground are a particularly novel thing. Tank battles and car chases are actually a fun change of pace.
32:36 easily the best use of tyler's clip ever
The Jason Todd Joker flashback, Bruce knows it because it's from a video Joker sent him. "But you were dead, I saw the video"
Props to you for that very smooth transition to the ad that I actually looked into nord vpn.
dawg honestly....You made me love the game even more then I already did
Me to!!!
Probably my favorite things about this game.
1. The combat system and how I find so satisfying, fun, and simple.
2. The amazing amount of small details in the map referencing older games, comics, or movies. Ex: When I was playing, I noticed that the woman who serves you at the bar in the opening scene can be found in Ghoul's hideout dead in a freezer.
3. The Graphics and gliding.
The throw counter happens when you push your directional stick in any direction and press the counter. Also you can pick thugs off the ground to keep your combo going by pressing (R2+O) or (RT+B). This move also allows you to preform a stun takedown on said thug.