just did 100% on this game, here are my thoughts

[SuperSonicStudent]

cant write a review because i got it on epic for free with city and assylum

to be honest? the endless grind of the riddles in the end was by far the worst part.

the best part was the story itself and doing all the side quests minus the riddler. the riddler story was nice but once you needed to complete the riddles then the ending boss fight was really lame and unsatisfying. some of the riddler puzzles were fun but some of them were really annoying. forensic scanner,time trials (those were the absolute worst due to the batmobile slowness and terrible controls) the ones with the robots were fun. but then you those who just hidden and you need to search for them.

dont get me started on the riddles. some of them are in the huge city and you can try scanning bilboards for hours when the solution is something so minimal that its really hard to detect. yep dident liked the riddles in this game, you dont have tapes and stuff like that either so there is really nothing to gain from this other then completion and the wall of text i'm not gonna read

as for the batmobile. its bad and good. its good when the actual drones fight where you are in battle mode. those are very fun in my opinion. its bad when you need to chase cars or drive overall. because the car is so bumpy and have trouble with sharp steering. some of the secondery missions are absolute torture because of that.

then there is the best thing in the game which is the stealth sections. those are really well made and challenging. love when the enemies have stuff that makes it harder for you like the jammer, medics, insvisible vests, planting mines, sentry guns. those kind of stuff are awesome

also, the cobra drone parts are my absolute favorite in the game because its like stealth just with the batmobile.

the fighting is fun but sometimes it feel way too easy, even the azarel trials felt easy aside from the last one.

and i played on hard, so, yep on hard the game still not feeling as hard as it should be. i need to do new game + with the hardest diffucilty, and finally without those blue markers, those are terrible

the stroy is great but the ending is trash imo, both the knightfall protocol and the ending before that with the joker scene. also wanted to point out that i dident liked the joker hallucinations at all. after 3 games with him i got tired of him already.

as for the dlc's (4 most wanted missions) they all feel kinda lame and forgettable, the mad hatter one was especielly bad, basically the mad hatter is the one who got the worst treatment because everytime they give him a mission its just to fight some goons, nothing original. freeze mission was bland, crock mission was okay and that leaves only the ra's mission feel actually worth it.

ho yeah, i wanted to mention that the "boss" fight in this game sucks and the double team takedown make the fights way too easy.

the most dissapointing mission was the manbat mission. litterly nothing in this mission. just fly above him and thats it. no boss fight. nothing. just wanted to say arkham origins has by far the best boss fights in the series.

[MASTAN]

Riddles are a good distraction from beating everyone down. They're a problem only if you leave them all "for later" which results in completing everything else first.
There are annoying riddles but they are few.

[chipperMDW]

Oprindeligt skrevet af SuperSonicStudent:

you dont have tapes and stuff like that either so there is really nothing to gain from this other then completion and the wall of text i'm not gonna read

There were no audio tapes to collect, but there were audio tapes unlocked for completing "groups" of Riddler challenges.

[SuperSonicStudent]

Oprindeligt skrevet af MASTAN:

Riddles are a good distraction from beating everyone down. They're a problem only if you leave them all "for later" which results in completing everything else first.
There are annoying riddles but they are few.

its wise to leave them to the end because some of them require upgrades that you can only get in the end when you completed enough side missions, obviously if you see a trophy that just happens to be in your way you take it, but the actual puzzles are not something to focus on while you still in the story

[MASTAN]

You can still solve lots of them especially mid-game and later. Just roam around from time to time and solve some.

[LHGreen]

Yup, excellent assessment, OP. And I guess that's why some people consider this Batman Arkham game "the best Arkham game" and "the best superhero game of all time".