Batman must survive the night and stop the reign of terror that the assassins have decided to unleash on Gotham to lure him out and kill him. In response to this, Black Mask puts a bounty on Batman’s head attracting the attention of nine assassins. Batman has only been active for two years and has already upset the criminal element in the city. The game is set on Christmas Eve five years before the events in Arkham Asylum. Strip away all of the trappings and you have a game that is trying desperately to copy and ride on the coat tails of one of the best entries in the Batman: Arkham games: (and in my eyes one of the best comic book video games ever made) Batman: Arkham City. I look forward to what WB Games Montreal has in store with Gotham Knights!īatman Arkham Origins is a good Batman game, but a terrible Batman: Arkham game. It's no Arkham City, but I've always found so much enjoyment out of this game. With all jokes aside, I do really love this game a lot. Freeze boss fight in Arkham City look like you're having a fistfight with a baby. Obviously there's the well-praised Deathstroke battle, which the character was later done abysmally in Arkham Knight but there's also the 2 intense Bane fights that are a lot more strategical and anxiety-inducing than the bland titan copy & paste in Arkham Asylum, the on your toes battle with Killer Croc, the beautiful anarchy that is the Firefly encounter, the rightful sneak filled takedown with Deadshot, and who can forget the painfully aggravating match with the Electrocutioner that makes the Mr.
The boss fights as well, I feel like WB Montreal really outperformed Rocksteady on some of these characters. I mean, for fucks sake the guy drops a random criminal into a Christmas tree! Even the in-game action moves are brutal as all hell, some of these perps should be dead by the time the Bats done with em, it's absolutely insane and I love it. With the introduction of a young Batman, he's a lot more rage-filled and it shows very well in this game.
On another note, I think this is probably the most brutal game out of the four. That a poor lonely psychiatrist could fall so low because she's so desperate to be loved that when Joker's using vague language about Batman he's able to encapsulate her into a 1 sided love.
They even go the step forwards to show the Joker's relationship with Harley and how saddening it is. Obsessed with the no-kill rule, trying to figure out how Batman could possibly not see the correlation in the two and never being able to get an answer is fansinating. He just never really impressed me enough for me to care about him, but I'm a basic bitch with my love for the Joker character, so having him around is something I'll never complain about, and this game proves it's worth having the Joker around with its outlook on the origins of his relationship with the Batman. The Black Mask twist never bothered me as it did for other people and that's probably from Black Mask not being that much of an important character in the Batman lore for me personally. Speaking of Batman and Joker, let's get into that a bit. I especially feel like Troy Baker took his performance and gave it his own spin, making his voice unique enough that you can recognize it. Like many of this game's defenders, I agree that Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker as a younger Batman and Joker are amazing. But besides all that, I always had a lot of fun with this game. Not made by Rocksteady, not featuring Mark Hamill or Kevin Conroy, having a sort of dull Gotham, and even down to the big twist reveal of Joker being Black Mask upsetting people.
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Batman: Arkham Origins is the red-headed step-black sheep of the Arkham series for many reasons.