Walter Kovacs yup

I played this game when I was young and the crazy inmates always scared me and their scary sounds too

I must've been 8 years old. this game scared the living shit out of me. But I loved it

Probably because they didn't take place in an asylum.

because it is a Asylum game #outlast

Oh ffs, it was tense but not that bad. Nothing compared to shit like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

Idk the first scarecrow fight scared 3 year old me death

@@TheDalekCaan_ well duh it's not meant to be. It's a T rated game that really pushed the boundaries of what a T rating could do. Can't say it's a T and just scared the shit out of children. It's was masterfully executed. "Not as scary as silent Hill or resident evil." No fucking shit Sherlock.

@@MichaelVickers2007 3 years old!? Dude I'm 22 and just replayed it yesterday, now it didn't scare me but man it's unnerving. I can't imagine what that would do to me at 3 😅

@@kennanblake1562 I don’t remember how old I was but I was young

It'd be funnier if he freaked out because joker called him "sharpie"

@@felipecosta-kv2fx Quincy wasn't the Sharpest tool in the shed.

@@felipecosta-kv2fx I think "Sharpie" is the likely name Joker used

It was definitely sharpie

It was a pun considering he was holding a knife to him

How's the graphic novel called?

@@londomollari1082 It's called 'Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth' by Grant Morrison. It's amazing, so worth getting - it's the game's main inspiration and it adapts it really loosely, so you won't at all be re-treading anything you experienced already from in the game. Oh and Ben Affleck's The Batman was going to take a lot of inspiration from it as well!

@@SCOLTON97Archive Thank you, I'll put it on my list.

Thanks man, I was wondering that myself. When was Amadeus and when was it sharpie.

Yeah I was confused for a bit because after hearing him tell the story of Mad Dog killing his family and then himself killing Mad Dog in return it sounds right, then he starts talking about Killer Croc and Joker, but Amadeus Arkham is long dead by the time they are inmates. I thought they rewrote Amadeus's backstory as Quincy's instead but then I came to the same conclusion you did, that it actually was Amadeus for the first 10 and perhaps from developing another personality he genuinely believed that he was Amadeus reincarnated or simply just continuing his legacy and narrated the first few as if it was himself before continuing with his new stories.

There was also something about a paranoid schizophrenic. Could be either Two Face or Scarecrow

Professor Nichols Scarecrow isn’t schizo

@@reillymcwriting I took a swing. Two Face then

If Sharp killed Joker, that would be a public service, not a crime. The thing that disturbs me is that some of the patients do legitimately need help and Sharp is murdering them.

Him being possessed by Armadeus’s ghost is actually Sharp being drugged by Strange

Final boss was trash

follow the damn train cj

Masterpiece!? I WAS *MOLIWOPED BY BANE WHEN I WAS ALREADY DEAD AND I SAW MY SELF GETTING ICONIC BANE-BACK-BREAKED* HELL YEA ITS A AWSOME GAME

@@SuperMandibleclaw that was a common complaint back when it came out. Venom Joker was very whack.

And all you had to do, was follow the riddlers clues C.J!!!!

Jak Dexter Good thing it wasn't really the spirit of Arkham. It was just Hugo Strange controlling Sharp and making him kill his patients.

Unpopular Opinions I absolutely hate that retcon this was so interesting and they ruined it

The whole book along with TAS influenced Arkham Asylum

Because there is nothing supernatural going on. It's just humans doing bad things to humans.

They aren’t even humans

@@iwalktoburgerkingandwalkba4800 The doctors are. And they are just as crazy as the patients.

He's reading the ameadus arkham work i think so its not him

​@@theskeletonfulthe first 10 or 11 are Amadeus, the rest are Warden Sharp.

We know that already

No, the 2nd last to last it just completely flips. It does not slowly change lmfao.

You think he possessed Quincy ?

Mauri GL bruh it’s for telling

That's one fuck of a voice actor.

RicardoHipper No the first parts were Amadeus and than Quincy continued it

First part was Amadeus and a reference to the excellent comic Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. Second part is exclusive to the game, his story "continued" by Quincy.

Joker Ministry It’s Amadeus story and Quincy is continuing it

@Apothicon Undead Dr. Edward Richtofen It's Amadeus' journal and then Quincy continues it and begins killing inmates.

@Apothicon Undead Dr. Edward Richtofen Sharp proclaims himself to be the spirit of Amadeus but he's really just obsessed and unknowingly developed a personality disorder

So it were Strange and Mad Hatter who made him like this and not how it was dexcribed in Arkham asylum? That's a shame it screws ip the character

as far as i know Mad Hatter and Strange only got Sharp to open Arkham City

You’re mistaken, Warden Sharp was a schizophrenic whose particular delusion made him believe that he was in fact the reincarnation of Amadeus Arkham. Hugo Strange was aware of his condition and his habits (drinking tea) and enlisted the help of the Mad Hatter to make Sharp more suggestible to Strange.

​@@wafflemanofficial3130 no. He was already a schizo and was doing terrible stuff. Strange merely gave a name to the persona doing it.

Facts, probably cause it felt more enclosed

Oh yeah it is

I would actually say that Quincy Sharp has become 2 spirit

@@maurigl7720 Sharp wasn't actually possessed by a spirit. Hugo Strange was manipulating Sharp through his medication.

I honestly feel the same too. It always feels like there’s something out there, waiting.

Yeah, honestly the outcome of this was disappointing for me because I genuinely wanted the location to be haunted, it would've been so unique for this series

The topic of Batman's villains reforming is a topic that's touched upon quite a few times. The problem isn't ranges from them not wanting to change to them wanting to change but can't help themselves or they are pushed back into a life of crime. Take Harvey Dent from the Dark Knight Returns comic. Harvey Dent in this story had surgery on his face that fixed his scarred half. For the first time in over a decade, both sides matched. After several therapeutic sessions, Harvey Dent was released from Arkham and everyone had the best hopes for the guy. Unfortunately, Harvey Dent was never actually cured. While yes, physically he was, but his mind was forever scarred. Instead of seeing himself as normal, he saw his face as both sides being scarred, and everyone was just pretending that he looked OK. He eventually fell back down to his old ways, threatened to blow up a building for money, though he actually planned on blowing it up anyway to commit suicide. Reform stories like this are meant to compare them with Batman, because Bruce also can't change who he is. He tried to in this story, retired for 10 years until 1 night he couldn't take it anymore and donned on the Cowl and Cape yet again.

Becoming Mayor no less lol

@@brookswilliams5239 he was considered a hero after Batman controlled the riot at the Asylum

@@docrofreborn7497 Sharp is no hero he only cared about himself and what HE wanted instead of thinking about all the innocent people in danger in Gotham City.

@@adamgoncalves1591 true, but he’s a politician. He probably spun the story around so he and Batman fought side by side to take down the Asylum inmates or something to get the people swaying for him. And that’s without the brainwashing done by Strange to make him even more charismatic.

My exact thought

I wouldn't mind a film or show about late 19th century Gotham with cool characters ripe for exploration like Solomon Wayne, Cyrus Pinkney, Richard Cobblepot and such. I think the best way to do it would be to have it start from either Cyrus' perspective or Solomon's (or both) and then as the series progresses Amadeus begins to take more of a center stage and eventually securing the funding from Cyrus to build Arkham Asylum. Then have the series focus on the Cobblepot's attempts to take over Gotham City (like Richard's son attempting to become mayor, building an arms manufacturing factory in the city, and more), Cyrus' growing fear of the situation, and Amadeus' slowly lapsing sanity caused by tragedies in his life. Then, by the end of the show it is just him . . . alone. Amadeus Arkham as the last remaining hero of Gotham (in this era at least) trying to help the insane and the mentally infirm. It would cover his attempts to help Mad Dog and the progress he makes, only to end in the abject failure to help him and resulting in the destruction of Amadeus' psyche as the series ends on him writhing and scrawling in his cell. Dark I know, but I think it's a cool idea since that particular time period of Gotham is so unexplored.

​@@austinkersey2445 I like this idea. It would scratch my itch of wanting a story in Gotham way before Batman, Joker, and everyone else we're accustomed to. Always wanted to see more of Gothams history.

I think it's what made Quincy do those things in the first place

@@andrewstovall2139 Nope, he was diagnosed as a schizophrenic years before he met either.

conyo985 and retconned to “it was just Strange messing with him”

@@redstreak9430 Yeah, really underwhelming imo.

Redstreak 94 and the mad hatter

Sharp and Strange should have been Arkham City's main villains.

Better yet, Sharp should've been the Arkham Knight.

I agree . I went through this part 9 times and I think it's perfect. The rest are on the same level. But they are not Asylum .

It only gets darker from Arkham asylum to knight

@@Jmaxtrian-qy4qs I dunno. Asylum has a special atmosphere that the other games just don't have imo.

@@splunkmastah4609 I agree, although the other games are darker and bigger, asylum isn’t just more scary than the others

@@splunkmastah4609agree the specific atmosphere from asylum was not present in city or knight. I wish it was there

Before anyone comments it, yes. I've just found out after writing this that he started seeing ghosts of Hugo Strange and hung himself. I still think this could have been a better idea then Jason Todd coming out of nowhere.

imagine a fat dude in a military like batsuit

Dunno how to tell you this, but after the events of Arkham city, he was sent to prison, saw ghosts of Hugo strange, and then hung himself and died

@@leshape192 And it was such a fucking cop out, too! What the hell was all that buildup about his connection to Amadeus for if it they were just gonna kill him off with no ceremony?!

Did it really? It was only assumed that Strange drugged Sharp so that it was easier for him to approve Arkham City. Unless I'm missing something.

@udonnauchegbu2018 Nope, it was all just mind control from strange. It was revealed in the arkham city story files when you scan certain riddles.

Yeah, quite likely so.

His Amadeus Arkham voice does give Peter O'Toole vibes. It had the quiet gravitas that suits Amadeus' character perfectly.

You should read the Arkham Asylum: a serious house on serious earth comic, it's where all of this comes from

That's been Bugging me as well

I'm late, but yes, that is Poison Ivy.

Knowing the timeline he's the original two face

Yeah I was a little disappointed that it was all just Hugo Strange manipulating him.

Sharp.

The warden sharp has a split personality and is the spirit of Arkham this is by far one of my favorite side missions in all of the Arkham games

Stirling Hancock That explains a lot.I liked it as well

Sharp and the spirit are the same person. BTW he mentions Killer Crock, Poison ivy, Scarecrow, Joker and Harley quinn

These were the hidden writings of Amadeus Arkham’s life that Quincy became obsessed with. At first it was Arkham speaking but it turned in to Sharp

"Scarabs frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread."

There once was a man named Amadeus Arkham. He was raised in Arkham Manor with his family. Unfortunately his Father had severe psychological issues and committed suicide. It scarred Amadeus but he went on to have a good life with a Wife and child. When his Mother became mentally ill he wanted to help her. So he transformed the Manor into an Asylum and named it after her. But she died and Amadeus wanted to honour her so he opened the Asylum for all Gotham. His first patient was someone named ‘Mad Dog.’ He escaped from the Asylum and murdered Amadeus’ Wife and Child. ‘Mad Dog’ was recaptured and Amadeus silently killed him while in his asylum. Unfortunately his mind snapped and he started writing down his mad thoughts in a notebook. His mind going more and more obsessed with ‘his great work’ of murdering, lobotomising and destroying all the evil that came into the asylum. He died in his cell. A long time after that in modern Gotham. A man named Quincy Sharp was appointed the New Director of Arkham. He believed in bettering Gotham by curing the Insane. Unfortunately his right hand was a man named Professor Hugo Strange. He was a ruthless cunning Mastermind who used the inmates of Arkham and Quincy for his own ends. He asked a brilliant man named Jervis Tetch A.K.A The Mad Hatter to help Hugo into manipulating Quincy to be under… a spell so to speak. Hugo found the old journal of Amadeus Arkham and had Quincy read it. Slowly he too became insane believing that he was possessed by Arkhams ghost. He became ‘The Spirit of Amadeus Arkham.’ And developed a split personality. Hugo wanted Quincy to begin silently murdering the vile villains of Gotham. Similar to how Amadeus did to ‘Mad Dog.’ Unfortunately The Joker threw a spammer in the works. Causing a ruckus at the Asylum making Hugo’s plan impossible. Causing him to come up with another idea he dubbed ‘Arkham City.’ He needed the Approval of the Mayors office so he had his pawn Quincy elect himself for Mayor. Because the public saw Quincy as a hero for stopping The Jokers attack on the Asylum (even though it was The Batman) he won. When he won the election and became Mayor he approved the plans for ‘Arkham City.’ Hugo concocted a new top secret plan with his Master Ra’s Al Ghul. A plan named ‘Protocol 10.’ Which was to rid the City of all its filthy evil. By killing all the villains like Penguin, Joker, Riddler etc. Causing Batman to be obsolete in Gotham and Join Ra’s Al Ghul in becoming his successor. That plan failed Hugo was murdered by Ra’s for failing him and Ra’s committed temporary suicide. Once the public found out about Quincy’s involvement with Hugo and how he was connected he was arrested. While in Prison Quincy snapped for real this time and started seeing visions of a Ghost Hugo Strange. Eventually all the mental strain took a toll on Quincy and he hung himself in his cell. Ending ‘The Spirit of Amadeus Arkham’ once and for all.

@@godofevil9468 thanks for responding you're the best!

@@godofevil9468 I did all the research already on the arkham wiki 2 years ago, but thx for the short recap.

@@godofevil9468 as I’m writing this now after 10 years I’ve been arsed too 100% the game this has made so much more sense thanks man

It is spooky, specifically because there is nothing supernatural in it: It's just humans doing unspeakably bad things to other humans.

This game IS spooky. Especially those inmates in the penitentiary.