Batman: Arkham Knight - 10 Ways The Season Of Infamy Is A Mixed Bag
4. Most Of Its Length Comes From Travelling
Backtracking, bomb disposal, fetch-quests - each of them crop up in the Season of Infamy and all wear out their welcome all too quickly. In fact, the majority of Hatter's mission - about three quarters to be exact - revolves around finding police cars and disarming their explosives. Without nit-picking over just how the scrawny rogue was able to lift cars onto collapsed lighthouses or unoccupied islands, the repetitive nature of these tasks only cements them as being among the worst to feature in an Arkham game - they're just that bad. 'Shadow War' too has players backtrack needlessly and forces them to follow a DNA trail for almost five minutes - starting at the peak of Miagani Island and ending just before Founders' Island begins - It breaks the pace awkwardly and clearly only exists to artificially extend the playtime of the DLC. Croc's mission also succumbs to said backtracking, as the player is forced to find key cards conveniently held by the only two guards to jettison from the airship prior to its crash. Again, a poor way of extending the DLC's playtime needlessly and worthlessly. It's always cool to give the player opportunities to explore the wonderful environments present in Arkham Knight, but doing it in detective mode is completely and utterly headache-inducing.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
