#btw this is not kevin conroy hate i just absolutely dispise almost every word that comes out of Arkhamverse!Batman's mouth

[magicrainbowkitties]

UPDATE:

I have seen the nightmare sequences and I am... SHOOKETH.

Absolutely incredible in that Batman actually shuts the fuck up for once (and doesn't call people animals or scum), and in that we see some of Batman's greatest fears and traumas laid bare in an interesting way that actually utilizes the fact that it's an interactive video game to get the point across. Absolutely delightful.

AND THEN.

THE MAN. THE MYTH. THE VILLAIN.

THE BOI.

This is by far one of the best showings of Scarecrow in.... well anything I've seen (which to be fair is quite a low bar because I am rather starved of good canon content for this man).

His voice is incredible, just the right mix of creepy and crazy (he has a better laugh than Joker fight me). I hope I've made clear my absolute fascination and adoration for his crop-top laden costume and beautiful fear gauntlet long before this post, but in case I haven't... AAAAAAAAAAAH IS PERFECT.

But by far my favorite thing about him is the way he moves. Him skittering around just out of Batman's sight like a lil gremlin man, the grandiose, swooping gestures he makes in his death screens, his fingers just stimming about while he's a giant searchlight, even the way he strides around to Batman when he's strapped up in the 3rd sequence is just FLAWLESS.

Not to mention his manipulative and sadistic nature is shown incredibly well in the tapes, like holy shit! They absolutely NAILED him in this game!

... which honestly makes his appearance in Knight all that more disappointing. Like yeah I know he got mauled and has a whole litany of trauma and medical issues now, but the end result is they sucked all the... well, whimsy out of him. They took away all the fun and interesting things about Scarecrow and... didn't really replace it with anything fun or interesting. He didn't scamper, he didn't laugh, he... he wasn't having fun torturing Batman or anyone else, he was just doing it because... plan?

Idk it's just something that makes me hate Knight even more than I did already (keep in mind I had to stop that game as well, mostly because the way Bats was treating Riddler just made me wanna vomit).

But Asylum? 10/10, would absolutely play his sections if they weren't attached to a slog of a rest of a game. As it stands right now? I will enjoy in the way that I can.

Wym he got mauled by Croc? I simply Do Not See It 😌