LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame

constantly crashes

goated classic

I like all the nods to The Batman Animated Series in this game; as I watch the show, I can point to certain scenes and know where they got some of Batman's suit options from. My main issues are the misogynistic portrayals of the women characters, especially when it comes to the love door that only the women characters can unlock. Catwoman's special move to open this door is to stand in front of the man inside the love room and suggestively shake her body at him, which is probably the worst one. Poison Ivy's special move in fighting is to give a deep kiss to the enemy that then poisons him and kills him. I say HIM because you cannot use this move on the enemies who are also women in the game, such as Victor Fries' henchwomen in their fur coats. The game will not let you use this move, and instead Poison Ivy blows them a poison kiss as if they were not even there. I just take issue with this because Poison Ivy is a queer woman canonically, and they sure did try to erase that in this game. Anyways, the best part of the game is being able to double jump as one of the girls in freeplay, there is no greater joy.