Zero Punctuation: Batman Arkham Asylum

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The Youth Counselor

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You'll miss some of the breathtaking vistas, details, information, easter eggs, and riddles in Detective mode.

It's also next to impossible to free flow face to face with it. Enemies become a blue blur, and the counter indicator is the exact color.
 

historybuff

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Excellent. Exactly my thoughts.

I got really tired of those juggernaut fellows after the third or fourth time. But everything else was really fun. Awesome.
 

Gaderael

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The reviews are always funny, but this one had me in the knots. This game is awesome, and I have yet to find fault with it.
 

Textbook Bobcat

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I was hoping that Yahtzee wouldn't be a fan of Batman, but I think the review has confirmed what I thought about the game: it's massively repetitive.

I'll just read a story synopsis and be done with it.
 

magnuslion

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Excellent review. I cant wait to play this, but if the large villian that slams repeatedly into a wall turns out to be Bane, im going to be pissed. considering he was an evil genius in the comic books and ultimately is the one responsible for taking Batman out, I'll be rather pissed if they dumbed him down like in Batman Forever.
 

The Youth Counselor

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magnuslion said:
Excellent review. I cant wait to play this, but if the large villian that slams repeatedly into a wall turns out to be Bane, im going to be pissed. considering he was an evil genius in the comic books and ultimately is the one responsible for taking Batman out, I'll be rather pissed if they dumbed him down like in Batman Forever.
If he does act that way he has an excuse.

He was restrained against his will and both starved and drained of his venom. His mind and body is going through heavy withdrawal.

Also

I didn't like how Zsasz was a catatonic and compulsive low IQ brute. Sure he's not much of a physical threat and no mastermind. However in the comics, he's pretty ingenious. He was sneaking out of Arkham and sneaking back in to kill undetected in his first appearance (Where he was a Hannibal Lecter type.
 

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Woo for the ending credits "I eat punks like that for breakfast"...When I first heard that, I looked over at my friend...who had the exact expression that I assume I had. Utter disgust. I pity batman for being forced to say that line...the writer who drafted that should be shot. Just like the line at the beginning where batman says "Harley thinks she has me trapped in this chamber. She never was all that bright." I was playing the demo and nearly turned it off when it happened.
 

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Diegolomac said:
Hah, surprisingly enough, Yahtzee has rather liked it! Will it come in his top five best games of all time?
Well, it'll never top Silent Hill 2 in his eyes, that's for sure. I really need to get this game now.
 

Joey245

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I knew it! I knew you'd like it, Yahtzee! This is a great game, and the flaws you pointed out are definitely spot on.

Good to know that even though you have an infinite capacity for bile, you still know what makes a good game. Spot on, as usual.

This only solidifies my desire to get it.

10/10 for the review.
 

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My greatest gripe wasn't addressed. The body count exceeds 100 fatalities by the time this is resolved, and even before this game, every villian has put at least a dozen normals in the ground, and yet, Batman and the law are insistant on bringing these criminals to justice and rehabilitating them. WTF!? I'm sorry, but a crime of passion resulting in murder should cost you half your natural life, wherein you spend every second of your incarcaration either being sodomized, tormented, or fearing being sodomized or tormented. Anything beyond that body count should equate to death penalty carried out by bullet behind the ear. Serial killers, mass murderers, serial rapists, pedophiles, and the clinically insane CANNOT be rehabilitated. The entire idea of stalking around and beating criminals just to get them back into their cells is ludicruous after just watching them kill innocents in mass and having to watch them do it over and over in every new location and cut scene. F@#$ING Zasz has killed 30+ women and you knock him out even though you just heard a recorded session where he tells his treating doctor that he knows her address and habits and intends to kill her next. That's just silly. The greatest flaw of this game is trying to take a bleeding heart like batman and putting him in an uber violent world that makes reality look tame. It makes for a very weird experience.
 

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I preferred this week's ZP to the last 12. However to counter my usual negativity and cynicism, I think any "serious" Batman incarnation is boring. Bring back camp JAmes Woods-esque Batman I say...!
 

lozfoe444

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What about the joker? You didn't say anything about the Joker. Well, besides the whole "I'm afriad it's just begun: thing.
 

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Blastcage said:
awatkins said:
I've been refreshing every minute for an hour waiting for this to be put on...hurry my life is complete again.
They're on every Wednesday at 5pm GMT pretty much exactly.
For me, in the american central time zone, thats about 11:00 am.

I forgot my hat for that one part, there a big mess now.
 

Arkhangelsk

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Great review. Think I might buy this. Also, is it just me, or does it look like that Batman stick figure is making a really big smile rather than wearing a white mask around his mouth?