How Arkham City is as Much Catwoman’s Story as It is Batman’s

Batman: Arkham City deserves the praise it gets to this day for a multitude of reasons. It’s uniquely impressive how Rocksteady was able to take Arkham Asylum and craft Arkham City atop its bones in such an alarmingly short amount of development time, for example, and what it would achieve in comparison helped ingratiate it to fans with an open world and exceptional gameplay improvements. Arkham Asylum’s story is also much more elementary in terms of having a plot, whereas Arkham City is full of twists that keep players on edge throughout. That said, one of Arkham City’s most rewarding narrative beats occurs when fans aren’t even playing as Batman.