Yeah it's sort of trial and error when you're playing it - first time I did it it took forever to figure out what to do. It's a genuinely good boss fight, I just wish there'd been round 2 or 3 later in the game. The Bane boss fights more than make up for it though.Kingjackl said:Maybe it's better interactive. The video made it look like he was just mashing attack and occasionally countering while Deathstroke just powered through everything he did. Actually that was my biggest issue; the lack of reaction to the attacks. Hell, his health bar didn't seem to go down at all except during the scripted sequences.endtherapture said:The Deathstroke boss fight is actually fairly interactive and plays a bit like a combat puzzle as opposed to a QTE. Even so, there's a lot of other great boss fights in the game - Bane, stealth Bane, Firefly and Deathstroke are all highlights.Kingjackl said:I didn't play Origins, but I was really disappointed with how Deathstroke was handled in Knight, since I heard his boss fight in Origins was the highlight of that game.
I like the idea of video game bosses that are about fighting an opponent of equal combat ability in a one-on-one fight (see also: the final boss of Bloodborne, most Platinum game rival characters), so I booted up the fight on Youtube to see how the Deathstroke fight went. Two minutes in and I closed the video because it looked like boring quick-time-event laden garbage.
I love the Arkham games combat system, and I love one-on-one boss battles, but the Deathstroke fight proved to me those two simply don't mix very well. As it stands I think City has the best boss fights overall; Asylum's boss encounters were all terrible, and Knight's boss battles were mostly fighting waves of henchmen until the boss became vulnerable to a takedown, or boring Batmobile tank fights. With two exceptions; the last Arkham Knight encounter, which was a decent predator boss fight, and the highly memorable Johnny Charisma bit.
Out of my 5 favourite boss fights in the series, 3 of them (Bane, Deathstroke and Firefly) are in Origins, and the other two (Clayface and Freeze) are in City.