Zero Punctuation: Batman Arkham Asylum

[Kif]

I really don't understand how everyone praises this game on the one hand but then damns it for all its many flaws on the other.

Personally, I don't buy it and I didn't buy the game either after reading and hearing about the flaws and playing the uninspired demo.

Part of me wonders if the lack of any games worth a look recently has put some sort of goggle vision over the nafness of Arkham Asylum.

 

[Warachia]

really good review yahtzee, i guess they can't call him during the day, unless it's cloudy

 

[crotalidian]

Top Review. Tried the demo on the PC but havent qute got the muscle in my laptop for it sadly. Spent the majority of this review giggling inanely to myself at my desk.... great way to start lunch

 

[Minjoltr]

Now I think I might actually try playing this. Minnie = coward and therefore likes stealth.

 

[Quantupus]

"Batman is the least interesting character in every thing he's in." I have to agree with that. Batman is boring. I don't watch "The Dark Knight" for Batman, I watch it for Joker.
Also, I agree with pretty much everything in this review. I'm always turning off detective mode to make the game look normal again. If only they made it so detective mode just made it so you could see people as silhouettes through walls like in L4D and just highlight air vents and stuff without making the whole screen blueish green.

 

[DeLukas]

Having the voices from The Animated Series back was icing on the cake. I am glad to see some valid criticisms, and having played just a little (the PC version), I have to agree that you take off Detective Vision because you want to see what the world looks like even when you'd do better just to leave it on.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Oh dear me that was hilarious. I guess because I've played the game and am a super Batman dork I can agree completely with him.
The final boss fight was pathetic, and the Killer Crock fight was also pathetic.
Oh well... Awesome review.

 

[Diegolomac]

Hah, surprisingly enough, Yahtzee has rather liked it! Will it come in his top five best games of all time?

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

Great review like always. I'm considering buying the game now.

 

[CosmicCommander]

Fantastic as always!

 

[skintrade]

An honest review (as expected) aaaand as expected the same plus and negative points covered by the quality games press with additional extras that the press doesn't go on about box art for example.

Just goes to show that every review that gave a rating of more than 8/10 was either amazed to get a good comic book game and was blinded by its flaws, or just wanted it so bad that their trouser tightening moments took over before they even played it.

I say this as an owner of a poor quality batarang, and someone who loved this game.

 

[TraumaHound]

Ah, morning coffee and Yahtzee, best way to start a Wednesday.

That said, I definitely agree with his assessment of the Killer Croc level (which had me so frustrated I had to quit playing for a week then reattack it and power through the frustration.) I was anticipating a much bigger fight there than what I got, though, really, Croc's a scary-tough mofo so there's really no way Batman'd fight him straight on anyway.

Now that I've beaten the story I've gotta go back and get all the little damned extras. Might pop down to the game store for the guidebook just to make the searching go quicker.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Wow, even Yahtzee loved it. I simply have to get this one. The faults are hardly worth thinking about, I put with bad boss fights all the time.

Hilarious as usual by the way.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Wow, for once I pretty much agree with everything he said.

I was expecting more of a slating, I'm glad that he was honest and admitted it was good instead of totally tearing it apart for a giggle.

Batman is actually a pretty interesting character though.. once you accept that he's as big a looney as all the baddies.

Also, he forgot to mention the best part of the game: the falcon punch...

 

[forgetaboutme]

I suppose they just give him a ring on his cell phone if they need him then.

 

[J-Alfred]

My usual video game research on whether or not it's worth buying goes thus:

1. research the game online from regular reviewers to get the good bits.
2. hope Yahtzee reviews the game so I can hear all the bad bits.
3. figure out (through a complex mathematical formula) whether or not the good bits outweigh the bad.
4. either buy game or not.

So thank you Yahtzee for aknowledging the relative lack of bad bits, because this was a game I'd long been looking forward to, and would have really hated it if the bad bits uncovered by you had discouraged me.

But they didn't. So I'm off to buy Arkham Asylum and enjoy this great game.

That is, once the price drops a bit. stupid $60 PS3 games.

 

[tkioz]

I agree with pretty much everything he said, I loved the game, and that's exactly why you should never look forward to a ZP review of a game you know will be really good, I'd much rather watch a review about a game you know is crap just to watch Yahtzee rip shit out of it.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

well, this makes me not so sad i've no money to purchase the game. i'll buy it next year

 

[deora2dude]

that was hilarious, after playing the demo i thought it was pretty good. to see yahtzee agree...

why cant all tie in stuff be like this?