It’s been quite a while since I last updated my progress in Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition for Wii U. I beat the main story mode back in April, but I’ve still been playing the game off-and-on, trying to grab more of the collectibles in the game. Soon after starting up tonight, I switched to Catwoman to collect some of her items.
I went down into the sewers to grab some of her Riddler trophies and of course, beat up some thugs along the way. When I was done, I switched back to Batman.
I scoured the city for Riddler trophies, riddles, and anything else I could find that still needed to be done. I also went into the steel mill to destroy a bunch of those talking Harley Quinn statues. Even though they had shown up on the map as destructible items, I previously didn’t know how to destroy them. Punching them didn’t work, Batarangs didn’t work, even explosive gel didn’t work. But I figured out you have to use the remote electrical charge on them.
At this point, I think I’m pretty much done with as much as I’m going to do, and this will probably be my last blog entry about the game. I’ve actually only completed 64% of everything altogether, but a lot of the remaining stuff is either quite tricky to accomplish (like some of the later augmented reality training tasks), more trouble than it’s worth, or in modes that I don’t really enjoy playing (Riddler’s Revenge). But I did complete 9 of the 12 side missions, I collected 282 of the 400 Riddler secrets, and I got all of the WayneTech upgrades.
According to my Wii U daily log, I’ve put a total of 62 hours into Batman: Arkham City: Armored Edition. It’s been my most-played Wii U game, and I also consider it the best Wii U game I’ve played so far. But I think it’s time to move on to something else. There is another Batman game, Arkham Origins, coming out in October. Depending on how it turns out, I may buy it as well.
