Batman: Arkham Knight

I think this is better than City. Also, playing this on Steam Deck just blows my mind. It looks fucking MINDBLOWING

people shit a lot on this game's story but it's really not much worse than the other games
the strong point of these narratives always has been the performances and how Rocksteady understands these characters well, but the writing was never that good

the only game I actually think the story is very good is Origins, which wasn't even made by Rocksteady

glad this appears to be getting the "old game that used to be much maligned now is getting retroactively reevaluated in comparison to newer, more divisive game" treatment

Probably the weakest of the trilogy thanks to overuse of the Batmobile but still better than Spider-Man 2018. Huge variety of sidequests most of which have actual stories and satisfying conclusions, not just collecting things or beating up the same guys in the same scenarios over and over. Man-bat's sidequest stands out to me. Having to manually find and land on him without relying just on the quest marker, learning about his backstory, all great.

Massively underrated, these games each one-upped each other in my opinion. Batmobile sections were fun and often interesting besides some of Riddler's puzzles/races. And it definitely doesn't constitute nearly as much of the game as some people make it out to.