Batman: Arkham City is an absolutely incredible sequel. It improves combat, has a more interesting plot and expands the characters to include more of the Dark Knight's best villains. But the real standout is the open world. While small to todays standards it's dense and feels very immersive to travel around. Rocksteady Provided a really great title here that is desrving of 5 stars despite the Riddler being alive.

But this isn't Batman Arkham City. This is Batman: Return to Arkham - Arkham City. While the remaster of the first title only suffered a aesthetic downgrade this one comes with a host of problems. More visual pop in, some wonky animations and worst of all a combat desync issue. I read that a patch was released that fixed this. It didn't. It's absolutely still in the game, it is just now very uncommon.

I ran into these issues while going for the Platinum so I recommend imited exposure. If you are just looking to play through the main content I think you'll be fine. Problems became more apparent the longer I spent with it. But overall I think this version of the game is not as good as the original release, and I recommend you play that one instead.