![]() This Gotham feels like a flat plane of monotony rather than a patchwork of personality.Īrkham City and Arkham Knight dealt directly with Gotham itself as character and space: You experienced permanent alterations of architecture or landscape. However, I found it to be completely bereft of character: Its homogenous, lifeless districts are only different in name, and it doesn’t evolve at all over the course of the Bat-family’s campaign in Gotham Knights. It is, at least on the surface, striving to emulate Gotham. This is a city flooded with fog that clings to buildings in the distance multicolored lights punch through the dark gentle rain cascades down walls and latex suits gargoyles hang omnipresently on various buildings. Every night, the four patrol an open-world Gotham. Gotham Knights sees you take on Batman’s mantle as the defender of the titular city after his death, in the shaky boots of four proteges: Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin, and Red Hood. Thinning any one of these will lead to a less rich tapestry of whatever Batman story is woven. Gotham, Batman, and his rogues’ gallery are inexorably tied together: All the great Batman stories are woven out of these three threads. It’s a pity, then, that in the latest open-world game set in Gotham, WB Games Montréal’s Gotham Knights ( which I did somewhat enjoy), this kind of rich characterization of the city, as a unique character unto itself, is dimmed, along with the villains therein. This depiction is at the crux of Arkham City and Arkham Knight. Not only did the trilogy pull from the animated series’ brilliant voice cast, but modeled its version of Gotham on the dark deco style: the Gothic architecture, large moon, art deco interiors and exteriors, noir mood, and lighting. When Rocksteady created its Arkham games, the developer drew from this episodic masterpiece. When I think of Gotham, it is this Gotham that comes to mind. This formed what the show’s producers called “ dark deco,” a unique aesthetic drawn from Tim Burton’s Batman films, detective noir, and art deco. Batman: The Animated Series’ animation department had a standing order from the show’s co-creator, Eric Radomski: Instead of working on the industry standard of dark colors on white paper, backgrounds would be painted using light colors on black paper.
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