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]

When Bruce Wayne cleared out the thugs (after busting out of his handcuffs), I turned him around to see the Penguin cowering. I stalked right the F up to him and punched his fucking lights out with one hit. That was my "LIKE A BOSS" moment, made all the more wonderful by the fact that Bruce Wayne sauntering in a suit pretty much DEFINES "boss."

I don't understand why we have to be all "Bitch, bitch, bitch" about things. People are trying to say, from comments I've seen, that that's just what you call women to be mean. If we were being mean about men, you'd call them douchebags, and no one's getting upset about that, blah blah blah. Except that the "bitch"es flying around are about how these assholes would like to hit those bitches and rape them (not an exaggeration! actual lines of dialogue: "I can't believe Catwoman can stay here. Some of these guys haven't seen a woman in a long time."). It's super, super gross.

I also don't think the costumes fix issues I have with the comics costumes. I mean, Catwoman's costume is exactly the same, from what I can see, but for some reason she's got to have her shirt mostly undone. Totally unnecessary. Harley's redesign is less offensive as it is stupid (her perverted doctor's uniform was both better for the character and more interesting). Ivy's is whatever--it reveals as much skin as any of her outfits ever have.

I did play Arkham Asylum, and I loved it, aside from the fighting aspect, at which I am still lamentably bad.