Everything GREAT About Batman: Arkham Knight!

Oops! I totally flubbed and thought that Joker killed Black Mask during his reveal in Origins. My bad!

Mark Hamill for Arkham City: I'm done playing the joker

Also Mark Hamill: Miss me?!

"Who taught you to drive?" Well definitely not his parents

Now that he has passed away, it makes us more emotional to see his best performance as Batman. Rest in peace Kevin Conroy. 😞♥️

Rest in peace Kevin Conroy, he helped make the Arkham series amazing.

1:42 Fun Fact: This game uses the Unreal Engine 3, the same engine used in the first Gears of War. A lot of people think it's the Unreal 4, but nope. And if that wasn't impressive enough, Unreal 3 was designed for linear games like shooters. The developers from Epic Games said they were impressed Rocksteady managed to create environments that huge... in Arkham Asylum! For them, Akrham Asylum was impossible to create in Unreal 3, but Rocksteady not only did it, but using the same engine they did this game which is 25 times bigger than Asylum.

For your breakdown of the chessboard (cause I really like that you analyzed that) I noticed that the black king is actually unable to move as both white knights and the queen have him penned in. However, he is saved by the fact that the black night is in position to take out the queen. Assuming you are correct in saying the white queen represents scarecrow, this foreshadows the Arkham knight (redhood) saving Batman in the final act.
Glad you pointed out the chessboard!

28:42 Fun Fact, in the official novelisation this does get expanded on and Harley does notice the change. Let’s just say she’s VERY on board with it

one thing that really kept me going through the Knightfall protocol was the interactions with the villains after you capture them. It's really cool to have all the bad guys just calling you Bruce and finally getting Batman's motivation

17:26 The knight is in fact, not checking the king, but it is in a position where the king cannot move out of the queen's check without being checked by the knight. The only move the king can make is by putting his own knight in between himself and the queen, ie Bruce (king) locking Tim (knight) in the cell, who is taken by Scarecrow (queen).

The "I am vengeance..." line is a callback to the animated series. Specifically spoken during Scarecrows first episode. It's a nice touch.

7:13 I had no idea people thought the batmobile sucked! YOU GET TO DRIVE A BAT TANK AS BATMAN WHAT THE FUCK WHO DOESN'T WANT THAT!!!!

31:51 Jim doesn’t ignore it. Right after the boss fight when they are in the elevator Jim mentions the time where he took the witness statement from Bruce, and Batman replies with “You were kind, Jim.”

The moment when you lock Joker away and You actually hear genuine fear in his voice was a very powerful moment to me. The whole game is a masterpiece.

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I’ve always liked that thought.
We may not have costume’d heroes like Wolverine, Iron Man, Batman,
Spider-Man or Superman but we’ll always have at least one man standing up for a righteous cause.

Rest in paradise Kevin. You will always be the best Batman

Finally! Despite all the backlash given to this game, this one is my favorite of the Arkham Series because all of the gameplay feels so refined! And even the story despite some flaws is also really good and Scarecrow is amazing here as well as his design. One of my favorite designs(probably behind Injustice 2 Scarecrow though, design wise).

The Tankmobile may have been used a lot, but absolutely nobody can say that the actual mechanics and gameplay of the thing was not on point. There's nothing that you can improve in the way it moves, responds and feels.

“You thought that we were gonna get through a Batman game without a suit up?”
Arkham Asylum: starts sweating

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A good way to avoid that jumpscare is to listen to the background noise. When that fully builds up, the next statue you look at will be batman
(Well the real one not a statue)