{"id":399,"date":"2009-09-01T12:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T02:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=399"},"modified":"2009-08-30T12:56:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T02:56:22","slug":"batman-in-the-nuthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/09\/batman-in-the-nuthouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman in the (nut)house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given <a href=\"http:\/\/au.xbox360.gamespy.com\/xbox-360\/batman-arkham-asylum\/1017924p1.html\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/play.tm\/review\/26332\/batman-arkham-asylum\/\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/reviewPage?cId=3175696&amp;p=4\">hoohaa<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/cad-comic.com\/news.php?i=1920\">going<\/a> round the Internet at the moment over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batmanarkhamasylum.com\/\">Batman: Arkham Asylum<\/a>, I figured I should at least try the demo.<\/p>\n<p>Was I blown away. First of all, Rocksteady&#8217;s approach to making a demo really hit the nail on the head. Whereas <em>The Force Unleashed<\/em>&#8216;s demo made the game out to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/08\/the-force-subdued\">too fiddly to bother with<\/a>, and <em>Resident Evil 5<\/em>&#8216;s demo dropped me in the middle of a firefight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/06\/minor-videogame-update\">with no explanation of the controls<\/a>, <em>Arkham Asylum<\/em> starts at the beginning of the game with a light tutorial that teaches you the basics of combat, stealth, and the totally awesome &#8220;Detective Mode&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge comic reader, but the game really captures the &#8220;Dark Knight&#8221; mode of Batman that I like. It&#8217;s about being a high-tech, enigmatic, tenebrous badass. He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2009\/8\/28\/the-circle-of-life\/\">Sam Fisher<\/a> without the handholding of the US government.<\/p>\n<p>The combat is fluid and dynamic, the &#8220;Detective mode&#8221; adds an interesting dimension to the game, and the stealth system beats the pants off anything I&#8217;ve played before. This is definitely high on my must-play list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given all the hoohaa going round the Internet at the moment over Batman: Arkham Asylum, I figured I should at least try the demo. Was I blown away. First of all, Rocksteady&#8217;s approach to making a demo really hit the nail on the head. Whereas The Force Unleashed&#8216;s demo made the game out to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[323,117,324,287,325,319],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-6r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}