These are the abridged notes I took while reviewing Batman: Assault on Arkham. You can read the full review here.
+ some good humour e.g. Google joke
+ good animation style – faithful to games
+ Kevin Conroy is superb as always as Batman
+ great, well-directed action scenes
+ pretty brutal – broken hands and blood within first five minutes
+ really fantastic intro montage – original and light-hearted
+ wide variety of interesting and obscure characters
+ great music throughout
– Captain Boomerang is quite poorly voiced
+ good writing – jokes for all ages
– some scenes last too long once dialogue has finished – very awkward
– Captain Boomerang also poorly written
+ Tara Strong is great as Harley Quinn
+ nice to hear Nolan North as Penguin
+ lots of character moments
+ tight editing between some scenes
+ very well edited
+ sets resemble the games e.g. Penguin’s Iceberg Lounge
– ICE PUNS
+ Troy Baker is still fantastic as the Joker
+ Joker very well visualised
– some jokes get old e.g. ‘Yahtzee’
+ interesting to see Batman get some things wrong – adds to his depth
+ good to see the Suicide Squad fight between themselves
– some terribly corny jokes that didn’t fit in
+ nice to see lots of easter eggs e.g. Bozo’s mask from The Dark Knight
+ Black Spider is a great character
– shame that KGBeast became the ‘red jacket’ and died too early
– becomes too focused on action in the third act
+ gets quite tense
+ good plot twist involving Batman and Black Spider
+ nice to see extra villains
+ faithful to Arkham games
– final third is too bloated with action
In our review, we gave Batman: Assault on Arkham 8 out of 10. You can read it here.
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