Batman: Arkham Knight is one of the greatest video games of all-time

I know this article feels out of place and random. I know this game came out over 6 years ago. I don’t care. Because I just finished Batman: Arkham Knight for the second time and want to expunge all that I feel about it from my brain because there’s so much to talk about. That’s more or less why I started writing on Medium to begin with. So bear with me.

First, a bit of background on my history with this game. I had watched a walkthrough when Arkham Knight first came out (which, having known nothing about the previous games, confused the hell out of me). I played it sometime during the summer of 2020 when I had nothing else to do all day.

And then a month or two ago, I saw the Arkham trilogy on the PlayStation store for dirt cheap, which eventually led me to typing out this article.

I’m a big fan of games that offer side content. In fact, those are really the only games I look to buy at this point. If I’m going to fork over my hard-earned money for a game (which, on the new generation of consoles could be up to $70) I don’t want my experience to end after the main story is complete. That just doesn’t feel like it’s worth my money.

An argument could be made that Arkham Knight actually over-delivers on the side content because there really is so much to…