{"id":27427,"date":"2015-06-18T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27427"},"modified":"2015-06-18T19:31:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:31:01","slug":"arkham-asylum-ep5-batass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27427","title":{"rendered":"Arkham Asylum EP5: Batass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-RHwk3XlN0o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-RHwk3XlN0o'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not even going to get into the blasphemy that Mumbles was spouting about Spiderman being a bigger bully than Batman. I&#8217;m just going to assume she&#8217;s talking about some newer incarnation of Peter Parker. MY Parker was a college guy trying to balance his obligations at school, a girlfriend, paying his bills, his aging aunt, and his part-time job, while also being seemingly the only superhero in a New York infested with Electro, Rhino, Green Goblin, and Dr. Octopus. Nowadays I suppose he&#8217;s hanging out with billionaires, fighting galactic horrors in a city brimming with cross-overs, recovered from death half a dozen times and retired and un-retired another half dozen. He might even be dating a supermodel or something. The beleaguered Peter that used quips and one-liners to mask his pain and anxiety is a relic of a bygone era. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway. Let&#8217;s talk about this episode&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This Bane fight is a complete mess. Bane throws you though a wall into a boiler room with no doors, where Joker already has guys waiting on the &#8220;balcony&#8221;, waiting to jump down into the fight. Once you win, the ceiling collapses for no reason, you Bat-claw up to the ceiling<span class='snote' title='1'>Possibly leaving a half-dozen mooks to die!<\/span>, then emerge from a manhole to find Gordon has beat you there. And then Bane &#8211; who should be fifty feet below you under a mountain of bricks &#8211; bursts out of the wall like the Kool-Aid man. Then Batman blindsides him with the Batmobile and knocks them into the water, even though the Batmobile wasn&#8217;t pointed in the right direction and the water was both too far and in the wrong direction for this to work. <\/p>\n<p>See, I thought this game was based on the Animated Batman, but here I think they took a page from Animaniacs. This is goofy loony crazypants moon logic.<\/p>\n<p>This is something that you can sort of get away with in a cartoon. We can always imagine there are other details to the scene that the camera never shows us. We&#8217;re never totally sure of where all the elements are in relation to each other, so when the Batmobile travels in a stright line from parking spot, to Bane, to the water, we just assume that makes sense. But this is a world where the audience can control the camera, and we can see this cutscene is a geographic mess.<\/p>\n<p>In the fight, the game doesn&#8217;t make it clear what you&#8217;re supposed to be doing. It&#8217;s a lame repeating pattern fight, the mooks only obscure what you need to be watching for, the geography makes no damn sense, and you&#8217;ll spend more time fighting the camera than fighting Bane. It&#8217;s like a crappy, unpolished version of the fights Ocarina of Time was doing back in 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) We&#8217;re not even going to get into the blasphemy that Mumbles was spouting about Spiderman being a bigger bully than Batman. I&#8217;m just going to assume she&#8217;s talking about some newer incarnation of Peter Parker. MY Parker was a college guy trying to balance his obligations at school, a girlfriend, paying his bills, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[318],"class_list":["post-27427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-batman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}