Gotham Knights is an enjoyable superhero game featuring a great cast of characters. The graphics are superb, and the atmosphere of Gotham City is fantastic. Compared to the Arkham series, it feels very mediocre, but there's still some fun to be had here. To be honest, during my first hours of playing Gotham Knights, I was not enjoying it. I was constantly comparing it to the Arkham series and nitpicking things that the Arkham games did better. Then I realized that this game neither has Arkham in its name nor claims to be the next entry in the Arkham franchise. After this realization, I started to look at things differently. I think most people do this when playing Gotham Knights, and that's why they say it is a bad game. It is not a bad game. It feels very generic and bland at some points and never reaches the quality of the Arkham series, but it's not unplayable or anything. After years, I finally got to play as Red Hood from start to finish. As a DC fan, that is huge for me. The combat itself is good, and the boss fights are memorable. Every member of the Bat Family is great. They don't feel the same. Each of them has a different skill tree. They have different passive abilities and unique skills. Robin excels at stealth, while Batgirl focuses on hacking. Nightwing is more agile in combat, and Red Hood is a tanky brawler. They really feel like four different characters. Their interactions with each other are good. I'm not much of a fan of the story and its pacing, but I really liked the voice acting. The soundtrack is generally fine. Like I said at the beginning, it is an enjoyable game, but your enjoyment may not last long due to the very repetitive nature of the game. It is pretty normal for open world games to become repetitive over time, but Gotham Knights becomes repetitive right after the tutorial. After you finish the tutorial and are free to explore Gotham, you are forced to collect clues. In order to collect clues, you need to defeat bad guys or interrogate them. With the clues you collect, you learn the locations of premeditated crimes. If you go back to the Belfry, your base, without collecting any clues, you will not learn the locations of these crimes. They are not always necessary, but they are sometimes required in order to progress the story. They are absolutely necessary if you want to level up, collect materials, and obtain blueprints. Doing these premeditated crimes over and over again and interrogating criminals repeatedly really burned me out. I completely ignored all of these activities during the last few hours of the game. The locations of these premeditated crimes change, but the objectives you have to complete and even the enemy spawn points are always the same. I wish they had focused more on different side quests and didn't force us to grind so repetitively. The side quests themselves are fine and interesting. You deal with Harley Quinn, Mr. Freeze, and Clayface, and that's it. This huge open world game only has three side quests, and that is not acceptable. The developers were really lazy when it came to designing unique content. Overall, I had a great time while playing Gotham Knights, and if you are a DC fan like me, I am sure you are going to like it. Just don't expect it to be an Arkham game, and don't forget about the very repetitive nature of the gameplay if you decide to play it
