Well, the show came and went and Batman: Arkham Legacy was never announced. He also said the game would be revealed during The Game Awards. He claimed that he had heard from a reputable source - which was backed by The Arkham Channel - that Batman: Legacy would, indeed, focus on the Court of Owns. YouTuber Slcmof was probably the most prominent of them. It was also acclaimed for its polished combat and stealth gameplay. The rumors began to take on a life of their own as popular insiders started to share more details via sources and leaks. The game was praised as reaching to a darker side of Batman not seen in video games before. Prior to the annual celebratory event, more rumors about WB Games’ mysterious title started to swirl.īy then, the game was rumored to be titled Batman: Arkham Legacy. CGC Huge Poster - Gauntlet Dark Legacy - BOX ART Sony.
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Well, both streams went on and no announcement was made. It was strongly believed that this game would be announced at State of Play or Inside Xbox that month. Further investigation into the symbols led to theories that the game would involve Ra’s Al Ghul and the Court of Owls. The whole game showed what a psychological master The Joker was, and it was better than any hand-to-hand fight could've been.The mysterious tweets sparked a number of speculation that WB Games Montreal was gearing up to make some sort of announcement. He lost Jim Gordon's respect and eventually lost his secret identity, too. He lied to and tricked Robin multiple times, dismissed Nightwing, and left Oracle to fend for herself. Aspects of The Joker manifested in the other four victims, as well, but when Batman's eyes glowed green, it meant he'd done the unthinkable: he had lost.Įventually, of course, Batman does emerge victorious, locking The Joker away in a dark, vaulted corner of his mind, but not before some possibly irreparable damage was done. It was a brilliant way to include the Clown Prince of Crime after his death, and somehow as a purely psychological threat he was scarier than ever. But more than anything, he often just flat-out taunted Batman with his impending doom.Įventually, the virus will run its course, leaving no more of Bruce Wayne/Batman, and only the Joker. Sometimes he showed Batman what could happen, while other times he showed Batman what has happened. Combined with exposure to the Scarecrow's latest fear toxin, the Joker appears as an extended hallucination during the game. Through this device, the Joker is able to harass Batman throughout the game, terrorizing him from inside. The story revealed that there are five people in Gotham infected with Joker's high-end new virus before he died, and one of them.is Batman. While he was truly dead after the events of Arkham City, (his body was literally cremated) his presence drove much of Batman: Arkham Knight. Ultimately, it all came down to Jason blaming Batman for not killing Joker any chance he got, and he threw a bit of a tantrum. The primary difference was that he never actually died, and the torture at the hands of the Joker certainly brought things to a much darker place than the comics even dared to go. Ultimately, his journey in the game as the Arkham Knight wasn't too much different from that in the comics where he was just the Red Hood the whole time. Some post-endgame chatter from thugs indicates that he's running around taking many of them down (a wink and a nod to the story DLC for Red Hood coming later). Later he'd even draw on the Bat on his chest before coming to the rescue, which was apparently as much redemption as he needed, despite the deaths and destruction he was responsible for. Ultimately, Batman: Arkham Knight took two well-explored tropes, the ways that other characters like Jason Todd (and The Wrath and Prometheus and Hush, etc, etc) can mirror Batman in training and. Once the two had their big confrontations, though, and Todd got rid of the proto-bat helmet part of his costume, he was left with just his tech helmet, shaded red, and looking like his comic book Red Hood costume. Jason Todd returns to Gotham, organizing a massive plan alongside Scarecrow and amassing an army to destroy everything Bruce Wayne cared about.
In that time, he fakes Jason's death on a tape sent to the Dark Knight, and continues to berate and beat him, blaming Batman for it the entire time, until he has Jason truly believing it's Batman's fault, and hating him for it.
Through trippy and terrifying flashbacks, we see Jason, as Robin, being tortured by The Joker for well over a year. The game follows a similar path, with the interim time period being spent as the Arkham Knight instead.