I played this for the first time as a 11 years old kid, I never read a comic before that but I loved the movies and the Animated Series (Where Paul Dini was one of the main hands), i loved the game and played the demo times and times until I rented the game for a good while. I had fond memories of this game and vividly remember some moments of my life surrounding it, of the game itself I remember only stuff like the combat system and the gadgets, the Scarecrow sections, Nygma things, the Joker final boss and that Ivy and Quinn sure did a number on me in molding my taste for women. I remember not being scared as I played the game because I was Batman and not even fear itself scares Batman. I would later play City and Origins but not Knight because I had no Ps4 so I saw that on YouTube but I guess I'll talk about that another time.

Fast forward 12 years and I'm 23, I've seen the movies time and time again, hating some of them, enjoying the later animated stuff and reading a really huge number of Batman Comics, from the latest Snyder and King runs to the acclaimed Morrison's and Miller and Moore's masterpieces even going back to Starling and Aparo and O'Neal and of course, Paul Dini. I really like Batman. So why not replay the games and finally play Arkham Knight? Every couple of months they are on big sale sure why not. I start the game and there is the big walk with Hannibal Lecter like Joker and now I'm a guy who watches the credits and here I see the name Paul Dini and things start to make more sense, I beat up the first tough guys taking some punches since I play on hard but it's okay, it's fun, and some minutes later there I am walking in long ass corridors trembling like a leaf, I wasn't thinking I was Batman therefore that setting scared me, if for a second you forget that you are Batman you realize that you are in fucking asylum for insane people that murdered hundreds of people, who would ever want to set foot in a place like that? Fuck them, close everything and let them starve to death, but Batman wouldn't like that so here we go punching thughs, helping Gordon and noticing little details that an 11 years old hardly would have grasped, like when at the start of the game while escorting Joker turning around the guards in the back you can notice one of the guards drinking alcohol and then you play a couple of hours and there he is that guy and his alcohol are important to the plot, so I spent the next twenty hours looking for every secret and reference and all the Nygma Riddle because it was fun to read the bio of character sadly not in the game. I noticed that there is a lot of stuff I didn't remember like I thought it was all tunnels so when I got out and later in the batcave I felt like a kid again discovering wonderful places. Then there is that great pov scene even more at the end and the dub, ugh, Conroy and Hamill are so so so good. What a game. What a experience. Far from perfect as a game of course, some qol that is normal now wasn't there yet and I'm 100% that I'll like Arkham City more If my memory serves me correctly but whatever, you probably haven't even read this far. Play the game if you haven't and still manage to read all this, respect.

I honestly don't know what was the initial point that I wanted to make, but I don't care, i love talking nonsense non stop, Batman is great, you should play the games, you should watch the movies and you should read the comics, about that, now I'm going to read the latest Zdarsky and Ram V's issues, bye bye.