No spoilers: Arkham City

[trinityvixen]

I am roughly three hours of game play into Batman: Arkham City (which you shouldn't read as me actually getting far, since I'm reeeeally bad at video games), and I have some thoughts.

-I wish I could play as Bruce Wayne. But Bruce Wayne doing Batman-esque things. You get to start the game as Bruce. (This is not a spoiler as it is literally the first

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[trinityvixen]

I mean, they continue to live in a city where there are not only supervillains, there are a plethora of supervillains, all of whom are not only disruptive but violently so. I'd say "stupidest citizenry" is probably a given. At least in Metropolis, you know Superman will rebuild the stuff he breaks, or that he could. I just didn't know they were this desperately dumb.

All the snark aside, the game delivers this news extremely disjointedly by showing Bruce Wayne being dragged off. First of all, stupid citizens or no, you cannot kidnap a billionaire and declare him insane for participating in politics. (Would that you could with some people...) There is no way in hell this Strange person wouldn't have, like, the federal government shut down his experiment in the first place, but kidnapping prominent citizens and journalists and locking them up in a place that makes Gitmo look like sunny Florida? Nuh-uh. Never happen. It might if it were just the journalists, but not Bruce Wayne. Would NEVER happen. But it does happen and I'm sitting there going, "WHAAAAAT?"