I could just see everything coming, and all I had was stubbornly hope that it wouldn't be like that. But it was just that easy. Todd doesn't feel at home in this at all to me. Was there a refference to him being beaten to death in Arkham in AA? Cause I've never heard that and I'm a pretty detailed fan of AA and AC. I'm on the opposite side of you Plkatty: I WISH Barbara had died, because why ****ing not? They can finally go into super non-continuity directions with this game. It's its own thing. It would've been an awesome shock imo. I did really love Ivy becoming an anti-hero.
But a lot of what was promised isn't there imo: All the rogues banning together? How? They're still all just separate side quests. Riddler having a bigger role? No, he had the exact same role as AC except the hostage was selina this time. Nothing about it impacted the story any more than he's done in every game. In fact it undermined what I thought was riddler's brilliant final moment of humiliation in AC. Harley? Penguin? Twoface? They're just seperate side missions, one to give some time to nightwing, who you can't actually be, just fight with a few times. And the same for Robin with harley. Two-face was cool because we got some more lore of him and it added to the guilttrip. But overall what they promised wasn't given at all imo. The city doesn't really feel alive to me. They say it's 5 times bigger but that's mainly just space. How is this game ACTUALLY bigger in content than Arkham City? It doesn't feel much bigger at all, it's way more predictable, and above all it comes after already having done 3 of these games.
Btw I also had the idea of AK being bruce's father but I canned that, it's too insanely counter continuity, and also doesn't make sense. I wish AK would've actually been a new character, a victim of AA. Also would've liked if it'd been Talia. Although I do like that her death seems to be final which keeps AC's ending strong. You could easily hide a women in that suit though. I also thought of damian but timewise that does not seem possible. There were a ton of options though. Jason Todd? Ugh, I didn't like AK's demeaner at all, he sounded petty, not like what I expected. Logical when you know the truth.
I think it's a good game I guess, I loved how they brought back joker, though I honestly was hoping for a jokerless batman world. But it definitely does not live up to what I wanted and DEFINITELY does not live up to the hype. Lastly, I think opening with 'this is how batman died' was a mistake. His (fake...) death would've had a way bigger impact had I not known anything about that. Now Knightfall was in the line of expectancy entirely.