Well to be perfectly honest,in my humble opinion,of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view,but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemned of one’s view and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every ones valid opinion,I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.

honestly one of my biggest problems with Jason is how throughout the press and interviews before the game was released the whole team was just "nope, not Jason Todd, totally new character, definitelyyy not Jason, nope"

I REALLY wish this game had more of Scarecrow. He lost half his face, half his sight, and has a permanent limp. He should have way more hatred to Batman and be much more of an active threat considering how he puts all this into motion to get back at Batman but we really don’t get much other than his monologue scenes. I just wish the game did more with him instead of just Joker.

30:48 Actually, Jason IS mentioned 1 other time in the Arkham saga to my knowledge. In Arkham Asylum, when you're going to rescue Gordon from Harley, Joker says this: "Hell, I might even give you Harley! Something tells me that you might need a new sidekick soon." This is obviously Joker telling Batman "Hey, I killed Jason by the way".

One thing I’ll say about scarecrow manipulating Batman into seeing Oracles death. Scarecrow perfectly knew how to manipulate the situation because he had already done it inadvertently in Arkham Asylum when he makes Batman think Gordon had died. I’ve always seen it as scarecrow taking his notes from that experience to make him think oracles dead and I guess that’s why I’ve never had a confusion with the twist she’s not dead.

Hear me out, this is how to fix Arkham Knight’s Deathstroke fight: Have the 1st phase be the tank and the 2nd be like his fight in Origins, having him EMP the Batmobile so you can’t use it in the 2nd phase.

Woah, really appreciate the nod in this video! I liked your points about the Jason a lot and feel it would have worked better than what we got. Keep doing your thing man, love seeing your passion for Arkham ✌️

You know what I thought would've been better for the Jason reveal? Create an optional side quest to figure out who the Arkham knight is. Taking out the Jason scenes and putting them in there, more subtly this time to not spoil shit, and have two different cutscenes. One where Batman doesn't find out and is surprised it's Jason, or have batman put two and two together and to have him actually call him out on it.

I think I'm starting to understand why so many people think you're forced into the Batmobile for so much longer than you actually are. Because you spent basically all the time you're in it doing the same thing, fighting the exact same repetitive enemies with combat that doesn't have nearly enough depth to justify how much you use it, it really does kinda gives the impression you're using it for a lot longer than you actually are, the tanks are basically the main enemy type and fighting them starts feeling like a chore after a while, because they're so easy to deal with it's basically impossible to fail and like you said, the tank combat is just shallow, no matter how good it controls. It's just explosions after explosions after explosions and that's basically all you remember from it, making it feel like there was a lot more of it than there actually was.

Your idea of reworking Jason is masterful storytelling. I'm sure there's an alternate universe where they did just that. As soon as I perfect my slider abilities I'll find that universe and bring that version of Arkham Knight back for all of us.

The thing that really gets me about the sub-par bosses in Knight is how many times this game was pushed back because they wanted to make sure they released the game they really had in mind for fans. And it's clearly a labor of love (although, I absolutely never asked for an "end" to the Arkham series or Batman). After what City and Origins gave us, Knight's bosses were a serious letdown. I don't know what it is that you like about Man-Bat's inclusion as a boss. It's barely even interactive and takes absolutely no skill on any of the three occasions you'll have to take him down. Hush was the biggest letdown because of how much City built his arc up to begin with, and rumor is that the story Dini had suggested for Knight would've had Hush as a primary antagonist. Everyone else gets repetitious FAST, and it doesn't help that two of the guys you'll spend time putting away are Simon Stagg and the fire chief. Must be a good two-dozen actual Batman villains they could've given us instead, but we get Stagg and a fire chief. Then, there's the replay value. It's not just the gauntlet coms. I play this game over from scratch a LOT (all of these games), and every time I do, I find myself hating the whole Ace Chemical arc at the beginning more and more, just like I do everything up until you get the suit in City, clear the first tower in Origins, and get outside in Asylum, but those don't take all night to get through. Everything from the start of Knight up until the point you start to trace where they've taken Oracle (basically, everything until you can actually leave Bleake) always leaves me feeling a bit strangled. And I have mixed feelings on Joker. I was already tired of Joker when this game came out, and since then we've gotten Suicide Squad, the Snyder Cut, a solo film, and a bit cameo in the new film. In this game, he's fine on the first time through. Especially since he's not really there and acts as the manifestation of Bruce's own fears and personality. It's the implications of the Joker patients that gets me, and it all takes away from what Scarecrow and everyone else are doing. But on replays, I wish I could just shut him off entirely. There have been replays where I've just rushed through the main story just so I didn't have to sit through his commentary every time I finish a side quest. And then there's the stuff that the other games had and this game doesn't, whether it's individual move sets, or the entire campaign challenge system. The whole damn thing just adds up to frustration for me. Even though I still like the end result, I just didn't love it the way I wanted to.

For the villains. Honestly make Promethius real, bring in him, Todd, Elliot, and Scarecrow and have them work together. Todd and Promethius handling the militia, main strategy for bats; Scarecrow for psychological trauma and casualties which he already did extremely well; and use Elliott here to fund them by being Bruce. All that opens up incredibly interesting dialog opportunities and a possibility even better chance to give Todd a chance to turn and help. Hell this would either mean making a 2 game story or a much longer game therefore more story either way. And also get off the whole campaign in a night thing. It stopped working in Origins, even though it still worked for me. As for Jason DLC, honestly going through his side could easily be used for his dlc even to where you potentially have the ability to kill Bats or Join him via a potential trap that leads to bats bring captured. All of this could easily be a 3 part story. One where Todd fights Batman at the end loses then says he'll pay leading to 2 where he creates the Quartet I mention above before having second thoughts as explained above which lead to him saving the day, and 3 showing what he went through with Joker from Todd's perspective

One thing that could really improve Jason Todd would be if he'd question Barbara about who the new Robin is. This would create a lot of tension between them since Barbara is in love with Tim while Jason clearly hates what he represents (being his replacement so to speak). Also it would be neat if you had some optinal dialogues about Jason, for example if when you do the Penguin trucks after the story you could tell Dick about Jason being alive and being the Arkham Knight

For the hand to hand tank version. Ideas include 1. Tether that could disable their turret by ripping it off. Hell that opens up a tank hostage situation right there. Same for emp 2. Have the emp honestly just increase to where it freezes based on number not distance. 4 for lvl1, 8 for lvl2, etc. Predator version 1. Make it to where you could drop them in the ocean with the tether above. I mean I don't have a problem seeing the batmobile be that strong 2. May be asking a lot but see if you can't make vantage points for the batmobile to 3. Hostage situations to where you can't let them see lest they blow up I'm sure everyone would love all of those inclusions

The other big problem with the hologram conversations is you get things like Batman walking around in full view of other people having a video chat with Bruce Wayne’s butler (who keeps calling him “Master Bruce”) and NOBODY has any questions about this

Listen I love the Batmobile but did it have to be used for a million tanks, mines, Firefly, Deathstroke, riddler challenges, riddler trophies, and everything else? No. No it did not… And do I even need to talk about Deathstroke and how much he got shat on in this game with that cobra tank fight-

Looking back at the Barbara death scene, that's actually really cool how Scarecrow waits until batman revealed that she was there

I actually like joker in Arkham knight. As much as the trilogy is about batman, they're also about joker I think. That duality between them, and Bruce's psyche. Having Mr J be his greatest fear (or the fear of becoming him) makes sense to me. Asylum is about has a healthy joker, City has a dying joker And knight has the ghost of joker. They're all about the joker haunting batman, one way or another. I think batman finally locking the joker away in his mind is not only a great way to represent batman overcoming his fear, but also a true and final death to the Clown prince of crime. Maybe it's just me, but I really feel like as a trilogy of stories, Joker works really well as the ever present demon that, dead or alive, is still there to ruin Bruce's night

I think what makes a lot of people angrier about the issues in Arkham Knight as opposed to City and Asylum is that it had the absolute potential to be so much more and potentially be the best Arkham game ( I still think it's a great game ). The entire storyline with Jason Todd could've been masterful and incredibly emotional and could've resulted in an outstanding boss battle full of heart where the battle goes on it becomes more chaotic as Jason Todd keeps lashing out and Batman is desperately trying to help him and get answers and so on. I was genuinely excited to see how the story would go because a lot of people including me were able to predict the Arkham Knight was Jason Todd during their first confrontation and was thoroughly disappointed when the reveal came and the boss battle was so lacklustre and detached. Not only that but Jason's ENTIRE redemption happened off-screen with no proper conclusions. The same goes with Scarecrow and a few other things, but I believe that's why people are so vocal about Arkham Knight's issues.

My guy still talking about the Arkham games so many years later. Love it, still adore those games and replay them frequently, especially knight. One more flaw id like to add is that there is really no incentive to stop the rioting happening in the city, I think Origins crime in progress system was better. Oh and i would like some more detective work like what we got with the car crash scene, it took Origins’ concept and removed the “easy mode” red lines, that mechanic has so much untapped potential I think.

I think one way Scarecrow would’ve had more impact would be if the league of villains he made were actually working together as a teeth-clenched unit ONSCREEN. They each clearly hate each other (see the lockup dialogue), but could realize none of their plans would synchronize or be as effective without Crane’s backing, and being the mastermind that he is, Crane would know this as well as their fears. He’d be as much of a threat to his alliance as to Batman, and we all know he’d totally relish in that.

Everyone seems to love this interpretation of Scarecrow but I *hated* , not just the lack of screen time as you said, Hugo had little screen time but he had a lasting presence throughout the game, but Scarecrow, my favourite Batman villain, one of the best parts of the first game and cemented my love for this character, is reduced to a droning edge-lord that goes on and on about how Batman is breaking and how he's already won, yet cracks at the first sigh of anyone showing resistance to his bull$#:+.

22:08 fun fact when you do harleys detective mode sort of on some walls you can really see into harleys mind and I kinda feel sorry for her. There are stuff like “Dear god I’m done” and “End it”

Wow, I had no idea how carefully constructed the Barbara scene was until now. Thanks for that great breakdown.

My problem with the Arkham Knight character is just how obvious the twist was. Like, people predicted that it was gonna be Jason before the game was even released. I genuinely think that it would've been better if the game was a Under The Red Hood/Death In The Family adaptation with no Arkham Knight. Yes, it would've also been predictable as all Hell, but there at least would've been no pretending that it would be a "original story with a completely new character". That is literally one of the 3 biggest lies we were told about this series. First it was Joker in Origins. Then it was the Arkham Knight's identity. And _then_ it was Joker, _again,_ in Arkham Knight. I think that people would've been at least a _little_ more forgiving if they weren't lied to. Or if we wanted to go with something more original, there are two candidates: 1. Hush. 2. Damien Wayne. With Hush, the only issue is that some players might've either missed or intentionally ignored his side quest in City, but that's really the _only_ flaw, and even then, it's not that much of a flaw to begin with. As for Damien, Talia did mention "a night" that they spent in Metropolis, so that could be used as an explanation as to when Damien was born. And he could be motivated by a desire for revenge against Batman/his father for not only turning down the offer to join her, but also for not being able to protect her. Not the greatest motivation in the world, I admit, but at least it's _something._

The movie Under the Red Hood proves that the twist can still work even if it’s obvious going into it.

Deathstroke battle pissed me off. I wanted a traditional Arkham Origins rematch but nooo its a fckin tank fight

in defense of the batmobile, when considering what bats is up against it makes sense that he'd wanna be in it as much as possible.

Arkham Asylum came out and was a hit. Community: We want Batmobile in the next one. Arkham City comes out. Community: Games a masterpiece but where Batmobile? Arkham Origins comes out. Community: WE WANT A BATMOBILE DAMMIT!!! Arkham Knight comes out. Community: BaTmObIlE rUiNs ThE gAmE. I personally LOVE the way the Batmobile was added and loved every single second of it including the tank parts. The only thing i didn’t like was how bad the boss fights was especially that Deathstroke “fight.” Oh not to the mention that stupid ass Hush side-quest that was hyped up since Arkham city. lol

Wow, I was surprised to hear about how glitchy Arkham Knight was for you. I have 83 hours in the game on steam, and haven’t had it crash once nor have I experienced a singe glitch. I have also put maybe 40 hours into the game on my old ps4 and had no issues there either. Anyway, great video but I was shocked to hear how glitchy the game was for you.

With regards to the batmobile, I honestly think both things can be/are true at the time. The Batmobile sections take up less than 30% of the game, true. The Batmobile is overused in the game, also true. The Batmobile feels good and fun to drive around in, and the tank combat, while I dislike it in a thematic sense as I don't feel it meshes well with the Batman experience these games are meant to be about, is fun & engaging nevertheless. But the game too often forces the player to use the new toy instead of adding it to our arsenal and letting us play wirh it. The tank fights are fluid, engaging, and enjoyable from an objective gameplay sense, but I don't think they work as part of a Batman game. It's very jarring going from Batman to tank shooter, and there are too many mandatory sections of game that force you to do this. If the Batmobile stayed exactly as it was, but the game didn't force you into the thing for large sections of gameplay, I don't think we would be having this conversation. Like you said, the mandatory car sections take up at least as much game as the predator & combat encounters, but it's just not as fun. Most of the car puzzles aren't interesting, and I've already griped enough about the tank combat. If it had just been in the game as a mostly optional tool, maybe keep some of Riddlers car challenges (but not all, it got old after awhile, would have been more interesting if he'd tested different aspects of Batman & Catwoman. A predator mission with Riddle Bots for example. Keep some of the Batmobile sections, because it is fun & should be used to help the story, it just didn't need to be so forced for so much of the game. Also taking 1 of the best bosses from Origins and making him a tank fight is just insulting

The Jason story line worked for me except for the reveal. As GamingWins put it, if in Ace Chemicals when the Arkham Knight introduced himself and says that Batman is wondering who he is, if Batman said "No, Jason, I'm not." That would've been awesome

15:57 The worse part about this fight though is that there’s a checkpoint system when you die. This is important because you get whatever gadgets you used like the disrupter or smoke pellet, your death refills them, and you’re back on the same phase you died at. So more or less you’d prefer to do a no death run of the fight to make it fun.

In defense of the emp and virus The emp is instant making it better for giving you breathing room than the missiles. It also allows you to get a refund by getting free shots on the tanks for energy. It's a good defensive ability. The virus is a good mix role. It instantly kills four enemies, while giving every enemy another target regardless of drone taken. The turrets themselves will also deal damage. It won't give as much defense as the emp, or as much offense as the missiles, but it does both.

My main problem with Jason is that he’s kind of a hypocrite, the reason he hates Batman is because he let him die and that leaving his villains alive get ppl hurt but then he teams up with one of Batman’s villains THAT HELPED BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HIM try to fight him when he has no use for scarecrow if you remove scarecrow the only thing Jason loses is the cloudburst which is out of character in it self, why would threaten the entire seaboard because of batman

The thing that really pissed me off about the batmobile is that the enemies would cheat. If you were chasing someone, they'd go faster than you, regardless of how well you drove. You're supposed to have this giant hugely overpowered tank, and the guys in the Prius are outrunning you. And when you're being chased by the grinder thing, you can't get more than an instant ahead or it will teleport up close. No way to build up a lead in those first four tricky curves so you can make it through the fifth turn with some leeway.

I never was bothered by the batmobile, only at the "hooks in the ceiling" parts, mostly because I thought they were unclear on my first playthrough. I thought Joker and Scarecrow synergised well in the story, they somehow played off each oher even though Scarecrow didnt know Joker existed. And I played on xbox one, I've played it for, I believe, a couple hundred hours and, again believe, I can count the amount of glitches I've seen on my hands. And even those would be primarily "shakey-bodies".

Your take on how to fix the Jason Todd part of the story is honestly perfect. We would have most of the game to explore Batman's greatest failure, how it continues to haunt him, and how it has come back to hurt him even more. As is, we know, and are just waiting for our character to catch up, and by the time he finally does know, there is little time to explore it.

There’s also one extra point I want to add onto the Bat-Tank combat. It can get unbalanced at times. The Mamba and Dragon Drones might be the most annoying enemies you have to take down as the Mamba shoot homing missiles, which can do massive damage if you don’t shoot them in time. The Dragons are hard to hit than regular drones as they’re much smaller, and they fly around the area around you more quickly. The worse part is that you can end up facing against SO MANY of them while facing against the Diamondback and Friendly Drones at the same time, which can get very annoying and frustrating. You can cheese it by hunting down thug vehicles which increase your weapon generator to LV4, but you don’t want to use them too early as they can end up hitting on something you don’t want them to hit. I ran into these problems while dealing with one of the side missions, which was the milita road bombs mission. This also carries onto the main story, but they aren’t as bad as you my think because you have supporters to help you throughout the fights like Oracle and Ivy. Edit: I found a way how I made the one mission with the milita bombs side mission. I decided to use word from a wise sensei, and it’s “To defeat your enemy, you must make them your friend.” So I used the CPU Virus and hack most of the drones and make them fight each other while defending the ones that were hacked, which made all the tank fights a breeze. So yeah I think the CPU Virus is the best weapon when using the Bat-Tank.

The problem with the Arkham Knight being Jason Todd is that Jason simply was not an established character in the Arkham series prior to Knight, thus making it feel forced. Sure, comic fans know who Jason is, and there are Easter Egg refrences to Jason in the other games, but Knight is the very first time this continuity's version of Jason is properly introduced, which makes the twist super obvious forced. It felt like a payoff to a non-existent setup.

So, about the Batmobile, what I take from points you made, and from all what people said initially about it. There is too much mandatory tank combat in the storyline. I just started my play of this game, and so far the mandatory tank encounters weren't that bad, thought I did not yet get to the more difficult and swarmed areas. I really enjoyed the tank moments when I could flavour up my hand to hand combat with Batmobile takedowns, or the mission in Penguin hideout where I had to get Batmobile in position and free myself. That was cool and I wish there were more moments like that in mandatory Batmobile section rather than pure tank combat there is.

I think the story element that bothers me the most in this game is that Joker's blood is actually physically turning Batman (and the 4 fake Jokers) into the Joker. The excuse they give, a mutated Creutzfeld-Jakob disease aka mad cow disease, doesn't work scientifically as firstly, that disease causes dementia in humans and only affects the brain. It wouldn't change the color of your skin, hair, or eyes (I know it's a fictional world, but then they should make up a random disease name). Secondly, how can Joker's blood, which was killing Batman in Arkham City that Batman then got a cure for, do anything to Batman since he was cured? Different question now. Batman says the 4 fake Jokers infected by Joker's blood in this game were people who were missed and didn't get the cure for Joker's blood. Shouldn't they all be dead? If we go with the theory about the blood killing Batman because it's the wrong blood type for Batman to receive, then even if all 4 fake Jokers had a blood type that allowed them to receive Joker's blood without their body rejecting it, wouldn't they be dying from Titan poisoning now, since they didn't get cured? It also causes the ending to make no sense as Batman just locks Joker away in his mind, which wouldn't fix his body slowly turning into Joker. The game's story would've been so much better without this plot point, imo.

One thing I can't stand about Poison Ivy in this game is when she reveals her location to the Arkham Knight by destroying two drones. She says she's doing it as revenge but all she does is crush some unmanned drones, then she barely does anything to help you after she reveals your location. Then the Arkham Knight sends in Cobra tanks to kill you and Poison Ivy says she can't help you because she's not strong enough yet. IF YOU'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH YET, WHY THE FUCK DID YOU REVEAL OUR LOCATION AND START A FIGHT YOU KNEW YOU COULDN'T WIN THEN LEAVE ME TO CLEAN UP YOUR MESS?!?!

The batmobile was so fun honestly!! But they had way too much content for it. The thing I hated most was the cobra tank sections. Sure they aren’t that many but it is a SLOUGH to get through. Especially when it comes to the cloudburst fight 🙃. And the fact that the car replaced a lot of boss fights that would have been INFINITELY better as any other type of fight, the most prominent example of this is Deathstroke which should be a crime.

I’m disappointed with the lack of predator encounters

I feel like desthstroke could have been given a proper boss fight My idea: First you have to take down all the milita checkpoints, watchtowers and bombs (like you already do) Then you have a confrontation with death stroke, it would probably be more like a cutscene. Add a QuickTime event into the cutscene but make it impossible (giving the illusion of choice I guess) Then Deathstroke rides away as you chase him. You end up breaking his ride and he then surrounds you with vehicles. After you beat the vehicles, have the boss fight you already have with death stroke. At the end of it however, instead of instantly taking deathstroke down, he releases himself from your grip This leads into a proper boss fight with death stroke, kind of like the one in origins. After that you then lock up deathstroke. This makes deathstroke more impactful as you the player had to put much more time and effort into taking him out

I had no problem with batmobile or the tank and chase missions included but I was annoyed when I needed the tank for litterally anything else.

Knight probably had the best jumpscares in the series. Like legit I never saw any of them coming. Especially man bats and the bat statues.

I think that the whole twist with Jason being the Knight could have worked if the Joker hallucinations weren’t in the game.

the random person theory is correct, some people have actually found a random milita member in the chair when returning to the site in their playthroughs.

There's actually a good explanation for the bullet holes in the glass: they were put there by the mercenary who was trying to hold Poison Ivy hostage in the beginning.

My biggest issue with the tanks was fighting Deathstroke. One of the best hand-to-hand and melee weapons fighter reduced to a tank. As for glitches, I had glitches in Knight and none in Origins (both pc and 360)

I personally love the inclusion of joker bc it really show how Batman really thought the joker was bc (well at least this is what I think) I think the joker we see in that game is Batman’s projection of the joker and how he saw Him that’s why the joker says that Batman killed him bc Batman thinks that it was his fault that the joker died and that’s why I think that the joker in Arkham knight was amazing in competing Batman’s story arc and how Batman finally isn’t afraid of the joker anymore

I love the batmobile, even though there were puzzles for the car it was still really fun to drive it. Indeed, the tank battles were fun and you had to be methodical with the cobra tank battles. The fear is making batman guilty, and with joker's death, his guilt becomes even greater. Jason as the knight was really good, I too didn't even know that Jason was the knight, and probably 1% of people who play the Arkham games actually listen to the audio logs, they are a good listen and I encourage you to listen to them from each game, Under the Red Hood is a great example of Batman finding out who Red Hood is and how it affects him through the movie, it is a much watch. Still a great game.

i mean the jason todd twist worked on me, i had no idea. i didnt see it coming, and it was great

When you're talking about Oracle's 'death' scene, as you approach the glass, you can see a gas coming out Batman's side. Could be another hit of fear gas for ol' Batsy. Cool video aswell.

My original idea for a way to handle Jason was this: Have the game start off a lot slower. Start it as a nightmare Bruce is having, and also serving as the tutorial. Batman and robin (Jason Todd) are on a mission. Bruce is lecturing Jason on how to do things (also telling the player). Have this nightmare end when Jason is taken by joker. Alfred is by the bedside, some remarks “the Todd nightmare again? It’s not your fault” blah blah. Have Bruce walk through the mansion to do some things, as controlled by the player, sorta like cold cold heart’s opening. Then have a regular Batman patrol getting interrupted with the billboard scarecrow announcement. A jump cut to the beginning of the story proper. Everything goes the same, but Bruce is thinking that the Arkham knight is jason, but refuses to believe it, and with reassurance from Alfred, concludes that it can’t be jason, because jason is dead. Each knight encounter further fueling Bruce’s suspicions, but he refuses to acknowledge them. Later on, the big reveal, Bruce isn’t shocked but is highly saddened, and blah blah the story progresses as normal. I like your idea better though

In terms of Jason Todd, I never read the comics, I never watched the shows or movies. So I had little to no idea Arkham Knight would be Jason Todd. I actually thought he had died in the Joker flashbacks, so I was so surprised when AK was revealed to be Todd, so I liked it that it was him. However, after Knight, I went and watch some of the animated movies and I understand why people didn't like that it was Jason. Knowing what I know now about Redhood, I would've known AK was Jason Todd as well.

I’ve attempted to play Arkham Knight for the first time recently as part of an attempt to go through the entire series... and Knight’s the only game where I felt the keyboard controls were hostile enough that I had to take a break from playing. And Origins’ menu has the mouse as an afterthought.

Think back to Asylum. You may or may not remember it like this, but the combat and predator encounters weren't that deep. You couldn't beatdown, you couldn't ariel attack, you couldn't quickfire gadgets, you couldn't even knockout smash. Combat was just punch, punch, counter, punch, counter, and eventually do a special combo takedown, maybe throw in a ground takedown if you were feeling spicy. In predator, it was just sneak up behind, silent takedown, rince and repeat. If you were lucky enough to have someone walk under a gargoyle, do an inverted takedown. However, people forgive this because it was the first in the series. Now look back to Knight where we have the Batmobile. The tank fights have few options, are pretty shallow and get somewhat repetitive as time goes on. They spice things up from time to time with new tank types, obstacles and environments, just like the main gameplay in Asylum. This is also the first time they have tried something like this, so why don't they forgive it like they do Asylum? I think there's a few reasons. First, this is the fourth (technically third that they actually developed in-house) game in the series, so we've come to the standards of Origins and City when in reality the tank sections were destined to be like Asylum. Second, those were the two main things we had in Asylum, with some exploration and detective work sprinkled in there, so you either went in knowing that or forced yourself to like it so you can justify spending the money. In Knight, however, we have the incredible and refined combat and predator sections, where the tank sections serve as a distraction from the section that you actually enjoy, so you dislike it for making you spend less time doing those things. Combat and predator sections in Asylum won't distract you from OTHER comabt and predator sections. PS, I don't dislike Asylum or the Batmobile sections, in fact, I'm fond of both, and you may feel the same. This is just from the perspective of someone who does. PPS, if there were any glaring spelling or grammar mistakes in this little essay of a comment, be forgiving. I wrote this at one in the morning, I'm not just dumb.

the ONLY problem I have with Arkham knight is lack of epic boss battle. I almost hyped up when Deathstroke is coming back and suddenly got so disappointed

I loved when joker moved the gun to barbara. Its just cool that one tiny movement can prove and show so much

The "Boss Fight" Against Deathstroke was such a Spit in The Face for us The Arkham Fan´s , i was so pumped as i heard i had to Fight against him someday and then "Booom" SHAME! -But this Game is still Lit! i play still today ❤❤🔥🔥

I think Arkham Knight benefits most from being played in series with the other games, whether you start from Origins or Asylum. The tank combat is a new addition to what could be called a two-note approach to combat back when we only had Asylum, City, and Origins. It overstays its welcome quite a bit but I can forgive that when taken in context of its larger series. The tank combat takes up 20% of 1 game out of 4, making it 4% of the whole experience!

Finally got into Arkham Knight and I gotta say, it's pretty great. Getting 240% was actually fun, and perfectly balanced challenge-wise

just got a new sub, really enjoyed this video and the challenge maps without the grappling hooks.

Okay so here's the thing about what's going on inside Batman's head. The hallucinated joker has no information that Bruce doesn't have. Joker hints and foreshadows that Jason is the Arkham Knight, which means that Bruce has actually figured it out. But because Bruce is doing his best to ignore everything that the hallucinated joker is saying he remains in denial about it until he actually sees his face. Joker is giving light to every dark impulse, every part of himself that he wants to ignore or forget or deny. The reason joker even brings up Jason in the first place is because Batman is already starting to believe he's the Arkham Knight and is trying to put together in his head how that could possibly be, but because it's coming out of his brain in the mouth of the Joker, he doesn't allow himself to believe it.

I see you had trouble with protecting the GCPD during that massive tank fight too. There's actually a narrow "alleyway" to the left of the GCPD that you can essentially tunnel all the tanks to one point. You know when you'll see it when you see the giant barn sized wooden gate/pallet/wall.

As Jeremy Jahns said (and I'm paraphrasing): "The batmobile is like sex, I enjoy it when it's not forced on me"

Honestly if I was making the game I would’ve made Anarchy become the Arkham Knight. Not only do the characters have a few superficial similarities, such as having an A logo and being able to rile up people who believe they been wronged by the system, but I think with a few tweaks anarchy could work for the story. Let’s say after he was defeated by Batman nearly 10 years ago, at least from his point of view, Batman has been making Gotham worse and worse. I believe the breaking point for Anarchy would be protocol 10. Even though I doubt he would be there in person, I imagine he would’ve heard about how Hugo Strange abused the system to build Arkham City and executed thousands of people, some of which weren’t even criminals. To Anarchy, this only proves that The only way to save Gotham is to “Free” it from order and institution. as such he takes on the role of a shining KNIGHT to avenge the lives lost in ARKHAM City, and begins amassing followers to help him with this plan. Eventually he would partner with Scarecrow, as I imagine The version of Gotham we see throughout the game where law and order mean nothing, giving the power to the deranged criminals of the city, would be a dream come true for Anarchy. Besides I think he would be on board with the idea of the cloudburst as it would “free the people from the shackles and fears society puts on them” or at least that’s how he would see it. (It is worth noting this kid is still somewhat insane.) And finally I think similar to how in the series “Beware the Batman” Anarchy could have become a master strategist within the 10 years since Batman beat him, so it’s believable that he may recognize some of Batman’s techniques especially as the night goes on. However I do have to say I like your version of the story as well.

Another great arkham video. I realy enjoy your content. Keep doing these great video's.

For the Batmobile bit, I thought the Cobra Tank stealth was fun. The gauntlet pop-ups can be skipped and are usually really short so they don't bother me much. The explanation behind Oracle "dying" is probably what you said. Idk if I was the exception, but I didn't come across any glitches or bugs even though I am one of the supposed "buggy PC port". Agree with everything else.

I have a much better plot with Jason kinda building off yours. I need you to picture it. Imagine when Batman sees Jason while in the cell, he reveals himself. And the next encounter Bruce apologizes, something he would never do, that soon and Jason forgives him for a mission or two making excuses to scarecrow for not killing Batman. Because of this, obviously scarecrow gets mad and sees the fear in Jason. So when he gets him with toxin, he makes him break. Turning him into the joker like we see in the game. Joker seeing who he thought betrayed him turning into his killer will obviously make him snap… I think this is a good plot cause Jason will want revenge, but joker, well jokers, are dead and he needs the next best person to kill. I get why people would hate this plot and I’m not good at integrating things but I just had this idea while on my bed eating goldfish watching this video. Even if you don’t like the plot, I hope you enjoy the idea and thanks for reading!

I feel like if Alfred came to the conclusion that the arkham knight is Jason and have batman constantly deny it until he finally sees his face would have been very interesting. Maybe even to go as far as Jason telling scarecrow about how batman lost his second robin. Crane could use it to his advantage to terrorise batman and keep reminding him about what Joker did. That would also explain why batman sees the dead clown so often throughout the game [edit] instead of just relying on the joker blood subplot.

Tbh, if scarecrow were to go up against batman, it would be like mike tyson vs a baby. Granted a very scary, intelligent baby, but still a baby.

I don't think the batmobile being only 20% of the gameplay makes things better, i think it actually makes it worse, because it shows that it made people get sick of it much faster than it should since it is a small fraction of the game, showing that if it was better designed, people wouldn't get sick so quickly.

I would agree with the to much of the batmobile.. until my second playthrough.. it's actually pretty good.. my tip is aim a little bit more higher than you think you need to and pop them quickly.. then it's more fun... I'm just happy there is a Batman game with a fantastic car.

To make the game better I would do what you suggested for Jason and the hologram talks. I would also remove the batmobile part of the arkham knights hq, and replace it with a predator section and more combat; aswell as reducing the need for the batmobile in puzzles. Reduce the amount of missiles the batmobile fires so only 6 at fully charged, and the emp would have a larger area so you would have to choose between a small amount of tanks being destroyed or lots being temporarily disabled; the hack on the tank would also focus on better tanks so unless it could only get a ratler, you would hack something else. You would have to wait to use the vulcan gun if the cannon was reloding. To make Deathstroke a better boss you would get three boss fights one would be a stealth fight like Jason and Deadshot for destroying all watch towers. The other one (you could do these two fights in whatever order) would be a combat fight for taking out all checkpoints; the final fight (which you could only do after finishing the other two)would be the same tank one we got except with only two cobras, then when you hit him with the batarang it wouldn't feel dumb as you have already beaten Deathstroke up so he is weak. Give way more screen time to Scarecrow, so the game would be longer, and instead of him talking about how the Batman is breaking he would say how the world is already realising he is breaking; you could make some of his intercom speeches incude talking to captured police and they would say things like "Batman won't be able to save the city". Scarecrow would also talk more about how much he personally hates Batman and how he wants revenge on him for letting Killer Croc maul him. The Hush side mission would change by having him blow up Wayne International plasa and he captures Luciouse, and you track him down by finding crime scenes similar to Zaze and Killer Moth to show how he is an identity thief. It would include crime scenes similar to the one at the militia crash (as I like how you have to rewind and fast forward slowly piecing it together), then would end with Hush finding out Batman is Bruce Wayne. To improve the DLC's I would would extend them and have Nightwing's take place in the iceberg lounge and you get to fight Solomun Grundy as the boss (because I loved that fight in city and want to see more of grundy). Then it ends with Nightwing getting ready to take Penguin back but finds Grundy escaped. For Catwoman's make it less hard, I took like a two week break before going back to that DLC. Then with Robin's focus on him feeling like he isn't good anuff to protect Gotham alone but he realises thanks to Barbra and maybe even a conversation with Dick (these DLC's would be pretty long) he is good anuff to protect the city. For Red hood's it would be similar to his normal one, but after he kills Black Mask Dick and Tim go after him leading them to find out Jason is alive and is killing criminals. It ends with him staying to his idea of killing criminals and he leaves. Maybe even an end scene with Damien watching over the conversation between Dick, Jason and Tim.

The one thing that pissed me off about Arkham Knight just being Jason Todd was there were a couple dev interviews that specifically staited that the Arkham Knight was going to be a brand new original character with an character arc not yet done in the Batman Mythos.

I personally liked the Cobra tanks meachanic although I agree it'a a bit overblown destorying the CloudBurst. - And yes they should have kept the tank fights to a minimum. I don't agree that the BatMobile puzzles were unintreseting - instead quite the opposite going into that vent - I thought they were quite clever.

16:05 I’d say the excavator is actually a way better fight than just “okay.” You have to have a good handle on the Batman to run it, and it’s terrifying to run from this machine that’s somehow more powerful than The Batmobile. It was the best tank boss fight in the game.

One idea I saw somewhere (don't remember for sure where) for Hush that I really liked was Hush being the Knight with the Red Hood as his Robin. An intentional parallel to Batman in an attempt to get into his head and ruin him. It's even supported by the comics, in the original Hush run Clayface appears disguised as Jason, but when Under the Red Hood released it was retconned that, at first, it was Jason, working with Hush, who traded places with Clayface later.

Your idea for the Jason reveal is great

Everything wrong with batman arkham knight: nothing (in my opinion!)

I used to love the batmobile in my first playthrough i loved it i was like "yes the batmobile" but when i got to my second playthrough of the game i started to realize just how much they made use of the batmobile at some points it was fun but the more and more i played with it the more and more boring it got bc we always used the same puzzles same takedowns same combat styles. Not to forget the shitty deathstroke boss battle and that most riddler sections required the batmobile. Everytime i saw the batmobile after that instead of saying "yes the batmobile" i was starting to say "why the batmobile man". Also those hologram conversations never bothered me bc in my second playthrough i always just skipped them if you play on playstation like me just spam the o button it will skip trough the entire conversation. As for glitches i all of my playthroughs which by now stack up to like a thousand i've never ever encountered a single glitch or crash.

I’m all fairness people were practically begging for the Batmobile so it makes sense to make it a large part of the game as such a desired feature

You pretty much fixed the Arkham Knight character reveal, nice job!

24:08 Just one Level 4 Missile Launch is enough to destroy him at any mode in the game, including Knightmare mode. If he doesn’t get destroyed instantly, you attacking him after the missile launch will.

considering that this game is the finale and the whole Arkham series is about joker and batman it makes sense that he would be back to give an ending to their story and also hugo strange was even less in Arkham city. he had like two scenes in the game if I remember correctly and he literally does nothing with batmans identity, compared to scarecrow who nearly breaks batma., reveals his secret, covers the city with gas, captures all of batmans allies. he has the right amount of time considering how many other villains the game tackles. the thing is scarecrow does everything that batman is afraid of. hugo was done so poorly compared to scarecrow. the theme of the game is fear and scarecrow is grin reaper of fears because he pulls every string to make batman afraid. also this games red hood story is almost 1 to 1 with under the redhood, that movie does everything the same as knight yet that movie is considered a masterpiece. we do need some scenes of Jason otherwise his inclusion would be worse than his already out no where inclusion. loved the video, agreed with everything u said about the batmobile. also can u make a video on Gotham knights

I think I have possible explanation for the oracle death scene. The gun was real and just put in the room in-between the broadcast and the death scene itself, by a militia soldier, or thug. Why not have it in there to begin with? I don't know, probably a developer oversight, but I don't think it not being there in the broadcast is enough to write off its physical existence entirely. As for joker moving the gun, based on how much control joker showed he had over what batman saw during the game, hallucinations (Jason Todd flashbacks), changing physical objects appearance (signs and statues changing to have jokers face) and even creating reality like hallucinations (choosing to go into the cell instead of forcing robin in, sticks you right back before the choice was made, as if batman merely imagined himself entering the cell), making batman see the gun in one position being pushed to the next for the sake of a gag, when the gun was always in its final position before Barbara grabbed it, seems like something the Arkham joker, would do based on the other games, going out of his way for a small gag. as for Oracle herself, I believe it was really her in the broadcast and the death scene itself, but when she was gassed, batman was likely gassed too, I see no reason why scarecrow wouldn't gas bats as well. we don't get much of a view of the room batman is in during the death scene with the 1st person-ish view, and fear gas has been shown to be quiet hard to detect, the only clues in asylum being slight distortions in the air and batman's coughing, so some gas could have been pumped into bat's room just behind him, likely boosting jokers control and could very well massively affect what bats sees. As for the bullet holes and the Barbara's death itself, I have 2 theories, 1. the gun was loaded with both real and blank rounds, i don't like this one though as its quite convoluted and does not make sense as they would risk a lot hoping she would empty the gun of live rounds by shooting at batman then shoot herself with the blank. 2. not a shot fired or no bullets in the gun, and batman saw the gun and Barbara pick it up and make motions as to firing and holding it to her head and the fear toxin filled in the blanks with shots and bullet holes, the holes staying just cause joker just wanting to fuck with batman even more (one thing I don't know is if the bullet holes in the glass stay after joker being locked away, cause if they do, that throws the whole 2nd theory out the window, and I'm left lost for an explanation of the bullet holes) This is in no way perfect explanation and I'm not trying to excuse the confusing nature of the scene, and players ideally shouldn't have to fill in the blanks of a scene with "maybes" and "perhaps" in hindsight in order to explain away an oversight of the developer. the confusing thing, is how fear toxin has so much power to fuck with minds, batman with joker in his head specifically making it really hard to distinguish anything from being real to just a hallucinations, hell nothing is stopping them from saying the whole scene is a hallucination, to the Barbara in the room to the gun to the shot, Scarecrow only inferring what batman is feeling, and speaking accordingly (he is a brilliant phycologist after all.) this is all dumb and confusing and I'm starting to develop a headache, night folks

I was about to close the video until you told me not to

I believe the hologram calls slow down the gameplay the way they do because the game uses that for background downloading. There are absolutely no loading screens during gameplay, because loading more of the game is done cleverly during what appears to simply be a cut scene or you waiting for some action to finish taking place.

I personally didn't mind the Batmobile much (it was overused though), with all the story issues the main problem with the game (for me personally, anyway) as a whole is how it implements the characters of the Batman mythos. This applies to almost everyone in the game, from the major story players like Bruce, Jason, and Crane, to more minor side characters who don't appear much like Nightwing and Two-Face. Anyone who knew Batman stories would recognize Jason as the Knight, and anyone who doesn't could probably take their best guest with the parts where we see Jason being hurt by the Joker. Crane is overshadowed by the Joker, who is dead, and while a blast to see, I genuinely found him very funny, should not be around. Let these characters flourish! And that's just common criticisms, I have more personal issues that I don't think are brought up much as problems because they're A. minor, and B. involve the comics depiction of said characters. I hate Tim and Barbara being in a romantic relationship. There was no inkling in any previous games, and in the comics, the two have a big sister little brother relationship, and that's how it usually is with every other depiction the two share. Putting aside how bad Tim is in this game. He was fine in City, I quite liked him, in fact. But Knight just butchers him completely, with the bulky, shaved-head design not fitting with any Tim not even the one in this game, his personality being a bit off, and I just... I don't like him here. He doesn't feel like Tim Drake. He might as well be a new character with his name plastered on. Nightwing is seemingly a wimp in this world, with his capture by Penguin and his goons twice and his easy defeat by Harley in her DLC. Nightwing, one of the most capable characters in Batman! As for other villains, Blackfire gets almost no screentime, Two-Face and Penguin are rather uninteresting with their missions but are fine, I guess, Harley gets very little and the whole new Jokers thing sucks, I want to like it but it doesn't belong here. The game could've been great, amazing, but it isn't. Still a good game, like a 7/10, maybe an 8/10, but compared to the previous three (Origins is good!), it just doesn't compare because of those story issues.

This was a great video, the effort you put in was remarkable! I’d love to see you do a top 10 Arkhamverse villains video where you rank the top 10 villains from the games. For the video you wouldn’t split up a character’s performance in one game from another one so Arkham Asylum Joker, Arkham City Joker, Origins Joker and Arkham Knight Joker are the same character not four different ones.

John Noble is such a great Scarecrow, it’s hard for me to choose between him and Robert England from Injustice 2. And they gave him so many good lines. I made a Scarecrow voice performance video focused specifically on Arkham quotes, and probably 60-70 percent were Knight quotes. I do think he was underserved and think either Jason, Joker, or Crane himself should have cut to let the others get more time.

No one can criticize a game better than someone who loves it. Totally agree with everything. Great video. Subbed

I genuinely like the batmobile I found the combat encounters somewhat fun and the stealth parts were ok could be better but not bad for a first time. But like I would loved more standard fights and predator encounters they were so good the fighting system was so smooth after like playing the other games and the predator were just straight up fun and had me being creative. I just wished the batmobile parts were just more diversed to make them fun after awhile they just become a chore. I wouldn’t mind it coming back because it could be interesting.

*Batmobile gets destroyed* Next mission: No big deal, we have another. Fuck all the way off. What was the point, then?

35:44 Under The Hood. This is the story that brought Jason back. And Bruce almost immediately knows who the Red Hood is. It’s very obvious throughout the story. The story of Jason’s return is not about the reveal of who’s under the mask. It’s about the “why he’s doing this”. Even the movie understood that. And that movie is in a similar position to Knight, as there was no previous installments to introduce Jason. But the film shows numerous flashbacks and plenty of scenes to flesh out Jason. The Arkham Knight has a plentiful amount of issues from a writing standpoint. But one of the big ones is the pure concept of this reveal

I play on ps4, and I've actually never had that many issues with bugs. In about 10 full playthroughs I've only had maybe 2 or 3 crashes. I've had a few random ragdoll moments but in my opinion, if you include ragdoll physics in any game you have to expect that to happen. Only time I had something major is when I got stuck next to a crate on staggs airship and tried so hard to get out, but I had to reload my save to get out of it. That's it really, maybe it's just my choice of platform. I'm not saying other people didn't have more bugs, maybe I'm just lucky or maybe the ps4 port is just more stable, but I never expereinced it this badly.