What’s also great about how the collectibles work within Arkham Asylum is that they not only bring more casual fans up to speed on the origin of some of the characters, but reward long time Batman fans as well.
Despite the danger going in within the asylum and the ramifications if the Joker’s plan actually comes to fruition, there’s no sweating the small stuff for Batman and from years of reading, watching or playing stories with the character, I feel he would find time to stop the Riddler while dealing with the carnage within the asylum. In the case of the Riddler, him waiting for you to answer his riddles is par for the course, and Batman actually indulging him is to very much in line with that character as well. The whole game world stops while you do these things, even when it shouldn’t. I bring up Assassin’s Creed II again, it is one of my favourite games I’d like to preface, but there would be so many times when the story dictated urgency, but I would put all progress to a screeching halt because I just got a new treasure map, or some new assassin contracts opened. What sometimes breaks the immersion in open world games to me is my inability to not collect things in the face of urgency. The Riddler is a villain who challenges Batman’s mind, not his physique, so having to solve riddles to catch him are far better than just having to face him in a giant robo….oh wait, they did that didn’t they.īut not only is how you interact with the Riddler in Arkham Asylum true to the character, but also to Batman’s as well. Putting aside the fact that I think it’s a bit video game-y that the Riddler would spend all this time hiding trophies and painting giant, invisible question marks that can only be seen when viewed in detective vision from specific angles, which gets more ridiculous in Batman: Arkham Knight’s race courses, I always felt that how both the character of the Riddler and his relationship with Batman was handled excellently in Batman: Arkham Asylum. The Riddler’s challenges in Arkham Asylum in my mind are one big boss fight that take place over the course of the entire campaign. Clearing each of the areas within the Asylum of their Riddler challenges lead to Batman eventually discovering the location of the villain so that the police can return him to custody. These range from actual riddles that needed to be solved within areas, green question mark trophies that need to be uncovered and joker teeth that need to be destroyed.
In Batman: Arkham Asylum, the context behind the Riddler trophies is that he escaped from Arkham Asylum, as revealed in the doctor/patient interview tapes that you eventually find while playing the game, and he’s hidden various things around the Asylum that, in true Riddler fashion, will lead to his capture. Batman: Arkham Asylum is a game that gets the act of collecting things in a video game right, and it does this by putting context and meaning behind the rewards.
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The above mentioned treasure boxes in Assassin’s Creed II are an example of how to do collectibles wrong, as they add little to a game that has so much stuff to do that all has so much meaning to it all. I spent too many hours running around collecting treasure boxes in Assassin’s Creed II, even though my many businesses and side-missions had my pocket flush with cash I ventured into many areas I had no right entering in inFAMOUS because there was a blast shard I just absolutely needed to get No gold brick goes unfound within a Lego game (unless we’re talking Lego Dimensions where you literally at times have to spend real life money to get them) and every time I play Batman: Arkham Asylum, I collect all the Riddler trophies.Īs much as I sadly can’t turn off the compulsion to clear my a game’s map of feathers, treasure chests, or green question marks, there are games that make the process of filling out a checklist of things to find much better than others.
I’m a sucker for collecting things in games, especially in open world games.
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