Failing both in its writing and its gameplay loop, Gotham Knights is not a complete disaster, but offers too little despite wide ambitions. It maybe would have been better to take a risky move and entirely shatter the Arkham formula then attempt something radically different, to avoid drawing comparisons with a beloved franchise it had hard chances to live up to. Are those issues signs of a development hindered by publisher interference, or was the project doomed from the start? A post-mortem documentary could tell.