Batman 'rerun' continues. Pretty interesting playing through the games chronologically this time, especially after finishing origins a few days ago, which while city is a much less buggy and unpolished game, the story is god awful! I remember it not being remarkable when I played it originally, but this is definitely much worse than I remembered. Basically just batman doing fetch quests for every villain with generally some sort of hokey reasoning to drag you to the next/previous locale. Like what was even the point of the freeze fight here? Why is Bruce such a dick to everyone? Alfred, Tim, Oracle etc.
Boss fights are still kinda sketchy, as with all the rocksteady batmen. I think a main problem is that batman's dodge is just weirdly hokey animation wise and also has a bit more hitbox than you'd think. Never feels that good.
Catwoman stuff is also weird in terms of when it happens? I recall this was a preorder bonus or something, that final mission against 2 face might have been the hardest encounter in this game for me, mostly because you never really do any stealth with her before. Won at the end out of pure luck.
And speaking of women... I know fanservice in games was and still is a thing... but this game feels like its a step above that. Every animation catwoman has is like bayonetta but more ridiculous. That slide! The camera focusing on talia's gyrating ass when you are walking and talking. And they really do enjoy using the word 'bitch' a lot.
Game also seems to drag you along the main story really quick, to the point where I've somehow saw credits before I've finished up a lot of side missions like with bane or deadshot. A bit hard to be motivated to do these afterwards... (Did do the harley dlc... which was fine, and robin is fun to play as... but ppl paid extra money for this?)
On a more positive note, they really did go all out on physx in this game. Like there is stuff everywhere! It's hilarious and pretty entertaining for the most part and unlike origins, doesn't hurt the fps. Had a memorable moment of flow combating with a carpet wrapped around batman.
So while I might come off a bit negative, I still had a good time, enough to basically breeze through it in 2 days. Something about these games are just comfort food equivalent for me to be able to marathon without fatigue, which is rare these days? Having no damage numbers/rpg systems helps. A bit iffy on how gotham knights will end up.
Also fuck these AR flying missions. Impossible (for me).
Boss fights are still kinda sketchy, as with all the rocksteady batmen. I think a main problem is that batman's dodge is just weirdly hokey animation wise and also has a bit more hitbox than you'd think. Never feels that good.
Catwoman stuff is also weird in terms of when it happens? I recall this was a preorder bonus or something, that final mission against 2 face might have been the hardest encounter in this game for me, mostly because you never really do any stealth with her before. Won at the end out of pure luck.
And speaking of women... I know fanservice in games was and still is a thing... but this game feels like its a step above that. Every animation catwoman has is like bayonetta but more ridiculous. That slide! The camera focusing on talia's gyrating ass when you are walking and talking. And they really do enjoy using the word 'bitch' a lot.
Game also seems to drag you along the main story really quick, to the point where I've somehow saw credits before I've finished up a lot of side missions like with bane or deadshot. A bit hard to be motivated to do these afterwards... (Did do the harley dlc... which was fine, and robin is fun to play as... but ppl paid extra money for this?)
On a more positive note, they really did go all out on physx in this game. Like there is stuff everywhere! It's hilarious and pretty entertaining for the most part and unlike origins, doesn't hurt the fps. Had a memorable moment of flow combating with a carpet wrapped around batman.
So while I might come off a bit negative, I still had a good time, enough to basically breeze through it in 2 days. Something about these games are just comfort food equivalent for me to be able to marathon without fatigue, which is rare these days? Having no damage numbers/rpg systems helps. A bit iffy on how gotham knights will end up.
Also fuck these AR flying missions. Impossible (for me).
