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Batman: Arkham VR (PS4) Status: Finished playing I started playing this game on Saturday 5 August, 2017 // I stopped playing this game on: Friday 6 April, 2018
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April 6, 2018 07:09:42 PM
It's pretty neat - the detective mechanic is more compelling than you'd think and it was fun to teleport around (to previously determined locations) in order to find clues and such. I think the game also does a pretty good job of the fact that you're immersed in first person, there's a few (Joker) sequences that are unsettling mostly because...well, it's you (mirrors, you look at yourself in them). I also enjoyed going back multiple times to find hidden things and unlock figures and what not. The only issue I had was that there were a few things that made no sense on my first play through BECAUSE they were things to find/pay attention to later. This sometimes confused me the first time I played but it made more sense once I was done. In fact, for a while I was under the impression that there was a different ending you could unlock by finding stuff in other playthroughs and such. Alas, AFAIK, that's not really the case - so the extra draw for re-playing some parts was significantly diminished.