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Batman: Arkham City (2011)

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Short clip of when I earned the Platinum Trophy in Batman: Arkham City on Playstation 3. Read more...

I saved a simple trophy (Pay Your Respects) for last so I could record it on my GS4.

This game was an improvement over the first one in many ways... I didn't think they could have accomplished such a feat - Arkham Asylum was a phenomenal game. Rocksteady took the series to a whole new level and made this one of my favorite PS3 titles to date.

I loved the feel of the game and the free-roam capabilities (sandbox games are definitely my forte). The story was great and all the cinematics did a great job of adding to the experience.

The campaign difficulty was fairly minor and didn't pose much of a challenge. The random enemies throughout Arkham City were more difficult than some of the fights required to progress the story. I thought some of the Catwoman sections were more difficult than the Batman ones.

The Riddler challenges were pretty tricky (and very numerous) in this game. Especially the trophies associated with the Combat, Predator, and Campaign challenges you had to earn medals in.

Combat Challenges:
I thought the combat was easier this time around once I got used to the new control layout and how to utilize the gadgets. Ultimate Stun and Ground Pound FTW! They added the benefit of "Critical Strikes" for perfect timing during your freeflow combos... this did 2 things: 1) caused more damage to the enemies and 2) added 2 to your combo multiplier

In addition to that, you can abuse the evade maneuver (as long as you evade over an enemy) whereby the combo meter does not drop if you keep evading over enemies (even consecutively).

Predator Challenges:
These puppies were stepped up in difficulty from Arkham Asylum IMO. I didn't really love them in the 1st game and they absolutely infuriated me, at times, in this game. Your timing and reaction has to be pretty darn fantastic for some of them.

Campaign Challenges:
As if going through all the maps (and their Extreme equivalents) wasn't bad enough, Rocksteady decided to add insult to injury by making you do all the challenges AGAIN! This time, you get 3 challenges (a mixture of combat and predator maps) lumped into a single "campaign". The insult is... you also have to choose "modifiers" (mostly handicaps) to make things all the more challenging. Ugh.

The trophies for this game were mostly straight forward with the collectibles taking quite a bit of time. The Riddler challenges, and their respective trophies, took the longest and provided the most difficulty.

I purchased the GotY edition and had the pleasure of completing all the DLC for this game as well. Harley's Revenge was fun with some collectibles and a few missions that take place after the main story-line. Catwoman's missions were integrated into the main story (as far as I could tell) and added around 40 collectibles to the free-roam portion of the game. Of course, you also had to re-complete all the Combat, Predator, and Campaign challenges (as Catwoman) too.

The Nightwing and Robin DLCs simply consisted of playing through all the Combat, Predator, and Campaign challenges with their respective characters. I haven't worked that hard for bronze trophies in quite a while, haha. I did enjoy the mixture of the gadgets and the unique fighting style of each of the characters through. I'm really glad that I took the time to fully enjoy everything and the 100% completion feels pretty good now that it's over.

I would highly recommend the game. If you don't care about the completion % of your profile, you could easily skip the DLC and just enjoy the greatness of the main game.

Platinum Difficulty: 6/10
100% Difficutly: 8/10 (mostly just takes dedication and time)
Overall Enjoyment: 9/10

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Credits:

Recorded with: Samsung Galaxy S4
Edited with: VideoPad Video Editor (PC)
Edited by: bmj14772
Intro/Outro Music clips: flixpress.com

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