10 Tiny Details In Games That Made Them So Much Better

1. Hallucinations - Batman: Arkham Knight

There are loads of excellent little details enhancing the experience and game world in Arkham Knight but we’ve tried to boil it down to a single example and that’s the Joker hallucinations.

Once the Fear Toxin is released in Arkham Knight you might be able to notice plenty of little Joker hallucinations throughout the city. Your arch nemesis can be spotted in billboards and posters, on statues, and even projected over the Lady of Gotham herself.

Some of these are really rare and can vanish in the blink of an eye so it all does an extraordinary job of embedding you in Batman’s psyche. Some players even reported noticing random thugs can resemble the Joker, though if they end the encounter, look away, and look back, it turns out it was simply a regular non-Joker-resembling thug.

The implications here of where Batman is at and where the narrative is going are super interesting. These aspects and the technical achievements of the environment plus Batman’s cape animations and how it interacts with weather all combine in a really satisfying way.