Amusingly, this isn’t the wildest numbers interaction I’ve heard about.

I’m almost certainly contributing to this...cause honestly the times that I go into GameStop these days, if I do leave with something it’s a little collectable or blind-bag (got a couple neat Monster Hunter keychains from them, and my wife got some YuYu Hakusho stuff, since it was her favorite anime growing up).

If you wanna be the best, you gotta beat the best, right?

Once you get this quest rolling, you’ll have the option to get your tarot read by Misty in her shop.

The characters seem a bit less photo-realistic than previous games, which is either a choice or a failing, take your pick.

Agreed, Gotham in GK is far more lively then I expected, and far more lively then most reviews are putting on.

Not only is Batman dead, the Batcave got destroyed, so they are essentially in a sort of rebuilding phase in the Belfry, complete with their own 3D-printer tech setup.

But if you wanna deal more damage while rapidly filling your momentum meter (a bar that lets you perform unlockable character-specific combat abilities), then you’ll need to get good at perfect attacks.

I have to think that Domino was added with her effect for a similar reason - 2 cost, 3 power, always drawn on turn 2.

Or option 3 - focused primarily on upgrading commons to uncommon, then uncommon to rare.

Note for those looking to use this card - while it went viral, it’s also a datamined item and not one you can currently acquire.

100%.

About the time they called the Arkham series combat “perfect” and gushed about the animations I stopped watching their review, to be honest.

I think I found your issue.

I suspect that as you unlock more cards and increase your collection level, you end up mostly being matched with those of similar rank and collection level...

Upgrades to cards making them more powerful would basically kill a game like this, unless you had incredibly tight matchmaking.

What you described here - pitting your ability to plan and improvise against your opponent’s - is a lot of what I’m experiencing.

SEO, as mentioned, and since hits are more about positive press for Cyberpunk 2077 due to the excellent Edgerunners, I can only assume Kotaku is following suit with positive-styled (aka “this quest is good, check it out) articles...

Given the absolute hard-on most of the fans of Batman and gaming have for the Arkham games, I’m not at all surprised this one is getting hit with bad reviews.

Anthology approach makes perfect sense, especially since it’s technically already started. Edgerunners and the game itself exist as two stories, involving two different groups of people, with some bits of overlap.