Retronauts Episode 328 Preview: Batman: Arkham Asylum

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:30.7	RetroNots. And I'll let you get to this free preview of one of our exclusive episodes.
0:35.9	This game, so it was kind of greenlit in spring of 2007 and September of 2007, it begins
0:58.6	development. Guess what game came out in August 2007? BioShock. This game is very bioShock, not in
1:04.3	terms of its philosophy, but in terms of its design. There are a lot of bioShocky things in this game
1:10.8	from the person in your ear telling you what to do, of course, they don't portray you, but you
1:15.0	know, you pick up audio logs. The atmosphere is very similar. I think they were very informed
1:20.5	by the things that game was doing when we thought that was the future of games.
1:25.2	Now, I mean, there's so much narrative built into the world you're in. There's so much
1:32.2	environmental storytelling. It's so much leaking. Oh, yeah,
1:37.3	with the water leaking everywhere, like garbage. Yeah, lots of statues of people.
1:43.1	And like broken machines too. And even just the way the the chattering teeth laugh at you,
1:49.2	I'm like, this sounds like how the circus of values laughs at me.
1:52.7	Right. But yeah, it's it's bioShock was the most recent thing on the record that they
1:57.7	mentioned as an influence. But obviously, these are also on the record. Metroid and Zelda were two
2:02.7	things that really influenced them. And thinking about this game having replayed it all, I'm like,
2:06.2	this is just like six or seven three D Zelda dungeons smashed together with no overworld.
2:12.5	It feels like everything borrows from that kind of gameplay style, but in a very, very fine way,
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