Up Next: Batman Arkham Asylum

Thanks to Rafterman for the suggestion.

This is an interesting piece in my collection. It was lent to me by a friend, but since I lost a couple games my recent move, I figured I could plug the holes with borrowed games to make it fair.

I literally know nothing about this game. I've heard fantastic things about it, but haven't played it for a single second. Hopefully it's better than Batman: Dark Tomorrow - literally the worst game I've ever played. Worse than Donkey Kong Country. May I?

Not this.

I used to work at GameStop which, as you may know, thrives on their trade-in business. Customers who came with trades were often disappointed to find out that their games are essentially worthless with our insultingly low trade-in values. This would result in one of two things:

1) They would just leave their bag of crappy games with us and say, "I was gonna throw em out anyway" or
2) I would offer them a cash deal out of my own pocket. "Under the table". Totally against the rules but a fairly common practice amongst employees. Try it next time you're in a GameStop.

Anyway, one time a dude came in with a bag of about ten games that netted him maybe $2.50 in store credit. Insulted, he handed me the bag and said, "fine, then you throw em out!" and stormed out of the store. The bag was divvied up amongst the employees and I got Batman: Dark Tomorrow.

I was having a bunch of friends over that night and we all tried it out together. From what I remember there isn't even a start screen. There is a 3 second cut scene of bad guys mugging some woman, then it cuts to Batman in a completely different area. You run to the end of an alley, then you're on the rooftops. You have to use your Batcable to swing from roof to roof. This is the end of the game - literally we spent about two hours trying to get to the end of this sequence and it was impossible. The game was broken 2 minutes in.

Conversely, Arkham Asylum has been touted as "The Only Good Batman Video Game Ever". If it has more than two minutes of gameplay, it will have succeeded.