after playing the other 2 games I decided to replay this one
finally complete the arkham trilogy for the first time
and yes I did say arkham trilogy because I don't own arkham origins and while I would like to play it one day tim sweeney decided not to bless me with the game for free on the epic games store unlike the other arkham games

anyways
Arkham Knight!

this game is super interesting
out of the 3 games its very easily the odd one out
the other 2 games were dark and gritty but still had that comic book flair

this game is just dark, gritty, semi realistic and a whole lot of sci-fi robo shit to go along with it

I mean look at his new suit
looks like a mcu suit

but thats not to say thats a bad thing
its atmosphere and visuals is the best in the series I think and hold up really fucking well to this day

everything about this game is practically the best in the series
the combat? perfection
the gliding and overall movement? fantastic
the stealth? amazing

ironically its all the new shit that ends up being pretty bad
aka
the batmobile

now I don't hate it as much as everyone else
and hell I think being able to drive the batmobile at all is pretty damn cool

it looks cool as hell and the overall idea isn't even that bad
the execution just wasn't very good...

the thing I imminently noticed when using it is that it controls like shit
I try doing a high speed chase and just crash into literally fucking everything

now I saw another review either on this site or on youtube saying how
its supposed to control like shit
you're controlling a big heavy tank

and you know what
fair enough
it does feel like im driving around a absolute fucking beast
it just gets really annoying at times

battle mode for the batmobile however is the exact opposite
it controls so smoothly
its perfect

whats not perfect is the whole reason for battle mode
aka the shooting

you see ive been playing these games on controller since I feel thats what these games were made for

and I don't know if its the PC port or what but I swear there is no aim assist when shooting any of those guns

I know thats a corny complaint but trying to aim on a joystick is horrendous plus the whole combat loop with the batmobile is boosting/dodging out of the way of incoming fire while also accurately shooting targets especially since the main gun has to reload after every damn shot

so yeah not being able to aim properly is pretty damn annoying

also there really only is 3 things to do with the damn car

1. the chases
2. the races
3. the combat encounters

the first 2 suck cause of the car controlling like ass and the last one sucks because of aiming the gun plus the encounters starting to feel repetitive due to there only being like 3 or 4 enemy types and their idea of game design is to just throw them all at you at once

yeah the batmobile kinda sucks

another new thing the game tried was a more grandiose story
and while its probably my favorite in the series
its not without flaws

the biggest and most obvious one is the arkham knight aka jason todd

now I didn't get to experience the marketing for this game and rocksteady lying about his identity

and on my first time playing this game I already knew who the arkham knight was cause its a hard to avoid spoiler

and this is a replay so obviously I knew who he was

but even if I didn't this game spells it out for you like crazy
there is no mystery

the whole game the arkham knight just goes on and on about how much he knows about batman and taunts him about being a old man and knowing all of his tricks

and then out of nowhere joker is just like "hey wanna know a story about a robin who has never been mentioned once in any of the previous games who I kidnaped and killed and also maybe has an extreme hatred for you cause of me?"

wow the game really does make me wonder who the arkham knight is

ok whatever
the twist sucks
but I still think the overall story told with him isn't that bad
I actually liked the more batfamily story this time around
tbh I just wish they got more screen time
I mean hell nightwing is basically only shown off in the side missions
and tim gets treated like shit in all of these games (rip btw)

to briefly mention scarecrows involvement in the story
he was good
he felt very different from asylum but I do prefer his appearance here more

and now for the other controversial part of this story
the joker!

listen
I know hes overused like crazy
but dammit man not only is he the best part of this story
hes the best part of this game
hell this is also his best performance in the whole series!

hes so good in fact that I beat almost every notable villain before actually beating the main story just to get extra joker dialogue

keyword being "almost"
I did all of the riddler missions just for him to tell me to fuck off and don't come back until I do all 243 riddles

yeah no fuck that shit

however this is a good time to go into side quest!!

also probably the best in the series

I mean no way in hell am I doing the 3 quest lines dedicated to taking down the militia cause thats boring as hell

and I also don't feel like doing 243 riddler shits

but the rest of them are pretty damn good!

I mean another on here review pointed out how they can be kinda repetitive
and gave man bat as an example
how you just glide into him and play the exact same animation 3 times over

or firefly where you do the same chase sequence like 3 or 4 times

and like yeah
thats fair

but I still had a ton of fun with all of them

also the man bat jump scare was awesome
and exploring his lab was haunting
so I overall disagree with the man bat hate

oh and pyg was also so damn good that I just feel a need to mention it here

oh and the hush one was good but kinda expected more from his build up in city

I also love how all of these quest lines including the main story and dlc play into the ever evolving GCPD building

so fucking cool
I love it

the big thing this games missing is boss fights
they were great in city and just no where to be found here

why?????

the combat here is the best yet but decided to remove the best way to show it off (also the best parts from city) in favor of more batmobile shits

this is why im giving this game a 4 stars while city is a 4.5

I think I prefer this game and this game is the best in the series at a lot of things
but a lot of it comes with some really lame downsides

oh and I guess I should quickly mention that apparently there is 2 knightfall endings and one is mid and one is good but the good one requires 100% the game

kinda lame

overall however
good game!

had fun playing through the whole trilogy of games