I love this game. While Arkham City certainly has a more ambitious scope and more daring narrative strides, Arkham Origins has more mechanically varied and engaging boss battles, and Arkham Knight has a far more expansive and richly detailed open world than any other game in the series. However as time goes on Arkham Asylum has slowly become my potential favorite in the series. This is the Arkham game i have the most fun revisiting for the simple fact that i feel it very acutely captures what it truly means to be Batman, what is a Batman game in its purest, most distilled form. From its efficiently told story that’s laser focused and paced incredibly well, the flawless characterization that’s completely faithful to the core values of Batman stories, the innovative and fluid combat system that feels consistently engaging and fun, the hauntingly atmospheric setting, to the tight and brilliant intrinsically connected level design. Every single aspect of Arkham Asylum is so masterfully put together. It’s a game filled with such a clear, evident love of the source material, making it one of the best superhero games ever made and a true staple of the action genre.