Batman: Arkham Knight Batgirl DLC - 9 Big Things It Finally Gets Right
2. A Sense Of Mystery
Not unlike the Cyrus Pinkey murder of Arkham Origins, A Matter of Family has its own mystery to be solved - that being how the Seagate fairground came into existence. As players take part in some fairground rides they will unlock various recordings chronicling the final days of billionaire Edmund Burke - the man who created the park to accommodate his daughter suffering with cancer. However, the more puzzles the player solves the more they begin to understand that this notably tragic tale harbours considerably sinister undertones. After the player has solved all four puzzles the true intent of the fairground becomes all too apparent, and ties in the DLC perfectly with Arkham Asylum. Not only did Joker (going by the name of Jack White at the time) trick the grief-stricken Burke into creating the park in his image, he and Quinzel conspired to murder him - his final tape revealing his death along with his daughter's. It's a truly dark tale, but one that establishes Joker's relationship with Dr. Penelope Young - the creator of the Titan formula that would later come to dominate Arkham's events - very well.
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.
