A couple of games on, however, and Arkham Knight feels more like the popular Jeph Loeb comic arc Hush a flashy, Michael Bay-like explosion of set-pieces, secret identities, and a lengthy all-star line-up of both allies and antagonists. The graphic novel from which the game took its name, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison, is a thoughtful, claustrophobic comic heavy on symbolism, psychological horror, and hard to read lettering. It teased the world outside the walls Amadeus Arkham built, but we never got to go there.
One night, one location, one man standing against his nemesis in a battle that was as much about wits as it was about brute strength. The original Arkham game was an intimate affair.
