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Knight was fucking awful goddamm what a clusterfuck

Let's start with gameplay. All previous Arkham games allowed real-time gadget switching. But in Knight switching gadgets completely pauses the combat to put you into a screen covering selection screen. Combo hotkeys doesn't make up for this when there's 70,000 gadgets in the game, some of dubious value

Which jumps to the game's general bloat. City already pretty much perfected the gameplay of Arkham. The game was a masterpiece. Thus, for Knight to top City, it needed great level design and enemy interaction. It does the opposite. The only memorable levels in Knight are due to the characters involved, not any actual smart layout. It completely pales to City.

Predator Rooms are awful. There's a shitton of unnecessary enemy weapons and traps like drones that end up being worthless if the player has half a brain. And Batman now has so much shit that he can just hack every enemy into uselessness and Fear take-down five people. There is very little intelligence or real predatory stalking involved. It's a complete letdown.

Similarly, brawling was already great in City and Origins. It's perhaps smoother since its on next gen consoles, but stuff like Medics are just sort of there. After three other games, it's stale, and Knight does not successfully spice things up enough.

And of course, the Batmobile. Leaving aside that Max Cape is probably faster due to not worrying about buildings, they force it way too hard. The issue is not the driving itself but the Bat Tank. It is a completely unnecessary addition that seriously drags the game down by telling the pacing to fuck off all the time.

Side Mission structure is also godawful. Instead of actually creating decent quests, they just made a dart board of villains and gave each villain exactly one gameplay type to preside over. It's stupid. You wanna see what Two Face is up to? *200 missions of bank robbery predator rooms intensifies*

The main story is also totally wasted. They built up Scarecrow in Asylum and City, and finally cast him as a terrifying villain worthy of succeeding Joker as the main antagonist. And they throw it away. Not that I don't like Joker's scenes, which are pretty good and why the game is an any way memorable, but come on. There is one great playable cutscene at the start of the game to set up his fear toxin scenario and then after that he's a meme that just enables Joker.

Dumb cop-out ending is dumb. Although the general ending to the main mission is super good and the highlight of the game. Doesn't save the rest of the game being bad tho

Lol and I completely forgot about Arkham Knight himself because he is legitimately THAT bad. Goddamn.
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