Pre-Game Show: Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition

And now that that unpleasantness is over with, it's time for another proper entry into the Alphabet!

Created in 1962 by Stan Lee and Jim Shooter, Batman is Image Comics' first openly gay superhero.  And even though he's been somewhat reimagined from the half naked crusader of queer justice we once knew, there's no question that his flamboyance is still his greatest weapon.

Arkham Asylum is the latest in a long string of video games chronicling the adventures of the Dark Knight, and one of the few to actually be any good.  Starring many of the voices of the 1978 animated series, it drastically differs itself from that show by not having a talking dune buggy.  SO!  Let us journey into Arkham Asylum, and meet all the whimsical characters that are sure to dwell there!

A Quick Look At: Bad Rats

Hello, everyone.  I'm sorry I've been lax with my blogging of late, things has been crazy.  To make it up to you, I took a quick look at Bad Rats.  It's a puzzle game where you, as a bad rat, are tasked with constructing puzzles to murder cats.  It's interesting enough as a game, I suppose.  But nothing about the graphics or the design make me feel like playing more of it.  In fact, as you're doing these puzzles, the cat you're set to murder mewls pathetically and cowers, and when you do finally kill it it explodes in a shower of gore and eyeballs and brains.  I... didn't care for it.  Unfortunately, my efforts to capture my own playthrough of the first level failed, so I have to yank something from YouTube.  But you'll get the gist.




So yeah, weird robot voice for the tutorial, awful graphic design, and just plain ol' nasty cat murder.  Not my thing.

So uh, don't buy it, probably!