Beat Arkham Asylum the other night, good game all the way through. There are some little issues that don't really matter except on higher difficulty settings. In combat, sometimes you just have to tilt the stick towards the next enemy, hit attack and Batman will leap over and strike, irrespective of the distance. Other times, even when an enemy is "in range" (since Batman demonstrated the ability to leap across the room twice in the fight already) Batman just punches the air and breaks the combo. It didn't happen enough to wreck the game for me, but it was frustrating when I was trying to work up a 40 hit chain. I ended up taking the turtle approach for most crowd control battles, except when there was a Titan henchmen or two involved. I'd let myself get completely surrounded and then just go to town.
One thing they could have fixed is the "strike a stunned enemy" on the ground thing. In a few fights, I tried to take the enemies out in a hurry so I could deal with some of the tougher guys as they streamed in, but there's a problem. The game goes into slow-mo during some of Batman's moves - sounds cool, nice visual effect. The problem is that it seems to me that it only slows down Batman's movement (and maybe the guy he's hitting) but not the world around him. Scenario - guy on the ground, press y as I hold rt. Batman leaps up in slow motion and is poised to take the guy out of the fight when - bam - another thug has time to run halfway across the room and slug me during the animation, knocking me out of it.
I also don't really like how even if your strike would have connected under normal circumstances, the game gives the enemy's move priority once it pops the "I'm about to attack so you better not press anything but y for the next half of a second" indicator up.
Still, once you learn to slow down and fight within the game's system, it is a lot of fun to clear out an entire room in one sequence.
I really hope the game performs well enough so that the devs get a green light for a sequel and are granted the time and funding to set it in a highly explorable Gotham City.
My one big gripe would be some of the "boss battles" because several of them are the SAME EXACT FIGHT just with a different number of Titans and henchmen.
I'm going to mess around with the challenges for a while, hope for some decent dlc in the near future, and probably play through the whole thing again at least once more when I get the time, maybe a no upgrade run or something.
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