InGotham Knights, Batman is dead.
These are, barring any surprises, who you will play as in Gotham Knights.
What’s missing is a sense of conviction.
The same goes for its combat.
This may be one cause of the problems.
The system itself, I’d suggest, is the other part of the issue.
Gotham Knights' combat relies on a kind of rage metre in the bottom-right of the screen.
So the result is a dozen light attacks, followed by another, more stylish flurry of light attacks.
Then several more light attacks.
It doesn’t feel great.
Some of those skills are slightly more interesting.
That leads to another slightly underwhelming aspect though, which is the way the characters loosely fit into classes.
Where Gotham Knights can recover some ground is with its Batman lore.
There are plenty of returning favourites.
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There’s an obvious solution: put Batman in it - and let it feel like Batman, too.
