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9. The Ending is Bad
Okay, yeah, we kinda need to talk about this.
At the end of Arkham Asylum, The Joker finishes synthesizing Titan, a super-steroid that operates like Bane’s Venom, only it’s injected and much more intense. It turns him into a huge Mohawked monster, and Batman fights him. If that sounds kind of terrible, it’s only because it’s kind of terrible.
The fight isn’t fun, it’s kind of exhausting, and I totally understand why. All four Arkham Games know the truth: The Joker makes for a pretty bad final boss. He’s not physically imposing. We’ll talk about how they got around that in the followup games, but here they try to turn the Joker into a typical video game final boss and it falls flat on its face.
Dude looks like the Abomination from the Edward Norton Hulk. At the end, Batman sprays explosive gel on his hand and punches The Joker in the face so hard that it causes an explosion. Okay, that’s awesome. I don’t like this fight, but I can’t deny that this is a great moment.
