It's a bummer all around in my books.
The batmobile fucking sucks. This'd be fine if it was just used to get around, but you need to use it constantly. Platforming batmobile sections, batmobile races, batmobile dealing with the million drone tanks everywhere in the city. You can't just glide around like you could in City/Origins, now you need to fight your way everywhere in this stupid fucking tank thing. Rather then make new gadgets for Batman ( the best part of the old games ), they just made everything have a batmobile shaped lock, and you need to figure out how to get your batmobile from point a to b.
They removed the Riddler stuff ( always the best! ), and added in......BATMOBILE STUFF! Don't worry, the Riddler saw you were getting a fancy new car, and set up some Need For Speed style car areas for you to race in. Riddles? What the fuck are those, he's the RACEDADDY. Oh, and since we all know platforming with unwieldy things is the best part of videogames, he made them PLATFORMERS! as well.
The City DLC had us watch Harley as she sat in her room crying over her miscarriage, desperately trying test after test to get another positive. Since then, the treatment of women has just gotten worse. Catwoman somehow got easily taken down by the Riddler, Poison Ivy decides to join Batman, only to get taken out in the first 5 seconds. Harley Quinn has become a stripper. Just like City, it's aggressively sexist. If a character is female, expect her to get raped/captured/beaten sometime after you first see her.
The combat is far worse. Asylum had large groups of basic enemies, so you basically played the counter game. City jumped to smaller groups of specialized enemies, so you had to play a bit more cautiously, but it never felt overwhelming. Origins went back to spamming basic enemies, which I can understand why some people didn't like that. Knight just spams specialized enemies at you, forcing you to play some asshole hit and run Batman, because fuck fighting 30 zapper/shield/gun enemies in a small enclosed area with nothing else going on. It feels like they forgot to add basic guys for you to build up a combo on so you could use your special abilities on the special enemies.
The VA and the story is -terrible-. It starts out with some ok things, but they ruin it all with the ending, which is almost Mass Effect 3 levels of stupid. I felt insulted after watching the end video. I'm not going to spoil it, but basically they did everything wrong with the plot they started to set up.
As someone who loved Asylum/Origins for being Batman games, and loved City for it's mechanical underlay, this game is a disaster. It fails as a Batman game due to it's awful story/mistreatment of major characters, and it fails as a mechanical game due to it's worse combat/focus on graphics that make it harder to see what you are doing.
I got this for $15, and I feel like I wasted that $15.
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