Recent reviews by Rumpled Foreskin

I purchased this buggy piece of trash for reasonably cheap just after it came out. A couple of hours into the game, I walked through a door in the GCPD building and started falling forever. My game just happened to auto-save as soon as I walked through the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ door, so trying to restart at the last checkpoint spawned me falling forever.

"The game has just come out", I told myself, "surely this game-breaking bug will be fixed in time!" How wrong was I?

I installed and booted up the game just the other day and reloaded my save. Nope, still falling. No worries, it's been a long time since I've played, I should probably restart the story again anyway. Within hours, I encountered my first game-breaking bug. For whatever reason, I couldn't unjam the signal tower. The objective just wouldn't complete.

That's fine, I still have a marker to go and collect Penguin's sim cards. Off I glide to go complete that objective, thinking that perhaps if I progress through the mission far enough, the old objectives will just automatically complete. I get to the second sim card and what happens? It also doesn't complete. Furthermore, now the only quest marker I have is for the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ signal tower, but I'm supposed to go to some ship in the harbor and find the Penguin. Luckily, my memory served me well and I vaguely remembered where I was supposed to go.

I infiltrate the ship (with no markers and only Batman talking to himself to let me know that I was where I was supposed to be) and things seem to be going okay. Then I get in a fight with the Electrocutioner. He jumps at me, I jump at him. This one is gonna be a good one! Hold up, what the ♥♥♥♥? He's knocked the ♥♥♥♥ out the minute I make contact with him. Huh, some boss fight.

I continue through the ship and finally come to Deathstroke. A difficult battle, but I somehow manage to get through it after the nth attempt. I feel good, I've done it. I get a lead to a murder at some apartment complex. Everything's coming up Batman! So I leave the ship, some angsty teenager starts talking to Gotham on TVs scattered around the entrance. Great, someone else to beat up later on down the line. But what's this? No. Surely not. The game still wants me to deactivate the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tower and find Penguin's second sim card.

With no other markers and no way to progress, I'm now apparently left with the option of never playing Arkham Origins again, or restarting the entire story from scratch. Again. I think I'll opt for the former.

If you want a Batman game that isn't a buggy piece of ♥♥♥♥, play Asylum or City. Do not buy this game, do not support this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ developer (who is on record saying that they won't fix any of the many game-breaking bugs people have found)