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Arkham Asylum and City are two games that I loved when I played them, but have never gone back and given them a replay. I should fix that sometime.

City took the crown back in the day simply because Asylum's boss fights fuckin' suuuuuucked; most were just rehashes of the first Bane fight, the 'encounter' with Killer Croc was a major letdown, and Harley's fight was so annoying that I wanted to chew my own foot off just so I'd have something besides my controller to throw at the screen. Meanwhile in City the Mr. Freeze fight was legendary, you had surprise encounters with Solomon Grundy and Clayface, and the Joker fight was much more what I wanted out of Joker fight, which was him pretty much being just a normal guy sending waves and waves of goons at you.

And I know open world gameplay is automatically treated as a negative these days, but it really lent itself a sense of self-discovery in City that I didn't get out of Asylum; okay, lemme follow a clue to this uninhabited part of town and holy shit I'm suddenly in a Mad Hatter dreamworld! There were also little touches in the open world that made you feel like Batman which wouldn't have been feasible in the more enclosed Asylum setting, like the knocking on the door to Penguin's club and watching the bouncer piss himself as soon as he sees who's on the other side.

Honestly, I had no interest in any of the games that came after because I knew the chances were slim to nil that City would ever be topped.