Arkham Origins Blackgate Is NOT An Arkham Game...

Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate is the best Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate game, selling about 3 Battillion dollars. My favorite cutscene of this piece of art was when the Batman came in and said "It's battin' time" and you had to bat all over those guys. Both YouTube and Twitch exploded with so many streamers playing Batman Arkham Origins Blackgate, and the stream chats went nuts as well.

The Deadshot fight using a 2nd person perspective is a highlight of this game

Its so nice to see an actual review of the game instead of hearing someone just go "Oh Blackgate? Yeah its terrible, dont play it."

Listen I’m one of the 3% who played this game multiple times to get all the endings and upgrades and that’s all cool. My only real gripes is the combat and the puzzle lay out of the prison. Why did Gotham Architecture hire Riddler of all people to make the prison floor plans-

Fun fact, Origin actually ran better on Wii U than it did on PS3/Xbox 360, it crashed less.

Watched this review a few times and I just now had a realization. The Grundy fight was definitely designed for Croc, and at the last minute somebody realized Croc is much smaller in Origins, so devs scrambled for another villain to put in his place. The only other big bois Batman deals with in these games are Bane and Grundy, and Bane was important to the story so they couldn't have him as a boss. Every boss fight has a 2D cinematic before it except Grundy Fight is underground in a sewer system, which usually is Croc territory, Grundy should probably be underneath the museum anyways, since I'm not even sure Penguin would have it at this point in time Like Puncher mentioned, electricity is his weakness, which should actually empower Grundy At the end he's just incapacitated and Batman leaves, also how he usually treats Croc since his lair is already in police custody

For me the game is ok. I LOVE the alternate ending challenges, the camera, puzzles, and especially the ability it do the bosses in any order. It falls apart for me for 3 reasons. The combat witch is self explanatory. A repetitive story. We just had origins were blackgate was overrun twice doing it again was boring to me. Finally my biggest problem moving from place to place. The way you have to scan everything, constant traps, and generally clunky movement makes exploring tedious. Maybe this is because I went for 100% and got all the endings so I had to run back and forth more but it got really annoying. I don’t think it deserves the title of cash grab or bad game because it isn’t but I understand why some really don’t like it.

Pretty sure the comic style cutscenes were due to budget/time limitations, not hardware. The only hardware limitation I could see leading to that decision would be cartridge space, but I’m pretty sure it was the buget

Arkham blackgate is hugely underated in my opinion. I think there's some pretty cool features such as the shock baterang or gel launcher.

I think price has a lot to do with why some people are less forgiving of this game. We're in the Golden Age of Metroidvanias and absolutely spoiled for choice with better games at the same or cheaper price, and Blackgate rarely if ever goes on sale too. Plus you can get pretty much any of the other Arkham games often with their DLC included for about the same price nowadays and they go on sale much more frequently. Blackgate is decent enough in a vacuum but when graded on a curve and especially when price is factored in it's not gonna be compared favourably. For what it's worth I think it's an a'iight game it's got some glaring flaws but nothing that completely ruined the experience and it is especially fun to replay, but when I can get Hollow Knight or Castlevania Symphony of the Night, just to name a couple far better Metroidvanias no matter how you slice it for 5 dollars cheaper I can't in good conscience recommend it to most people simply because it's value for money is lacking when graded on a curve, and can only recommend it to people who already own most other Metroidvanias or are complete Arkham fanatics who already have all the other Arkham games and even then I suggest waiting for a sale. It's sad because I do think the game deserves more credit even with all that being said.

I really enjoyed the story, writing, graphics, cutscenes, and villains and exploring blackgate.

To be fair, from this vid. I kinda wanna play Blackgate now, looks alright.

I think it would be so cool if this was a full game with the gameplay and stuff of other arkham games. Just being in Blackgate the whole time trying to take down different sectors sounds so cool

I actually tried playing this game for the sake of lore and just could not get through it. Its so tedious and the amount of backtracking is insane

Tbh, I feel like this game gets so much hate due to its janky controls on the 3DS, predator sections feel awful due to the thugs being hyper aware in this game for some reason, the combat can feel alienating for the Arkham veterans and the overuse and unpracticality of analysis mode.

It’s cool they brought back the gel launcher it originally was supposed to be in Arkham origins to replace the explosive gel

I casually replay this game every once in a while, still a decent (if not incredibly flawed) experience in my opinon

Can we take a minute to acknowledge that the origin games set up the suicide squad as Deadshot, Deathstroke, and Bronze Tiger only for it to not matter at all. Now almost a decade later the suicide squad game they were trying to tease only has one of the three in it.

Having played it on 3ds, im not going to say it's great because it feels clunky often enough but I really like the concept of what is essentially a side-scrolling epilogue to arkham origins with a unique style for the presentation. I will say, I encountered a big error at the end of my game that prevents me from completing and that weighs it down heavily for me. Overall though, when it's working it ends up being pretty cool and unique given what they were going for.

I feel so stupid for judging black gate without ever giving it a try. I'll definitely play it now.