It's a hollow product that should have stayed in the oven for at least two more years - I went into the game knowing full well it was bad, still I was surprised in both good and bad ways.

Let's start with the good things: amazing aesthetic of city design, good looking suits and touching side story sequences. The design team did their job wonderfully and gave us a Gotham design that's almost on par with Arkham Knight's Gotham. Still it lacks substance - the staggering absence of details around the city, and the unvaried building structures.

The real downsides of Gotham Knights are many, namely the horrendous gameplay, bad story progression, uncreative and repetitive side activities, etc. Its combat takes away all the things that made Batman Arkham games great, and gives us a jankier Sleeping Dogs. Sometimes it's required to do Ubisoft-styled missions in order to progress story, meaning you have to find "clues" or interrogate thugs through random events. The story progression system is truly evolving backwards. The batcycle is slow AF, the game has to add a wind blowing filter to make it look fast lol. There're also a tons of what I consider to be minor issues, like NPCs repeat lines way too often, NPC models vanish soon as enter a camera blind spot.

All those I can still endure. But my current biggest gripe with it is the the genuinely unfun experience resulting from a combination of widely scattered side activities and severely downgraded (from the Batman Arkham games) traversal system. Gliding and grappling speed is somewhere between Arkham City and Knight, but the traversal as a whole feels wrong on many level - there's no physics or a good sense of control to it. And the lack of detail in Gotham only makes going around the map even worse.

TL;DR - the design dev team is 9/10 but the gameplay dev team is 5/10

The combat is not that smooth and advanced as in Arkham Series, but as its own title it's a great action RPG from the Batman universe. After all the patches games runs very well without any stutters even with RT enabled. Gameplay may feel little bit clunky and slow from the beginning, but after some leveling up and unlocking skills for your character, it will get much better.

Story and character development is very good.

I wish there was a thumbs-sideways button.

This game has a lot of good things going for it. I will admit it seems like it's mostly made for multiplayer, but I'm a soloist. With that said, there are many well-thought-out play mechanics with a unique fighting system and upgrades, and the ability to craft suits and mods for your suit SEEMS like a good idea, but I feel the crafting is very poorly executed. I do like all the variations and elemental effects and whatnot, but it is very confusing when I get blueprints (blueprints for batsuits are dropped by enemies or something???) and I'm not sure why it's necessary to have just a ton of useless things.

The main story's very good. But I wouldn't have chosen that voice for Bruce Wayne, or Batman, or Jason Todd.

The random emails are strange and all the notifications for the hundreds of things that get updated all the time, like emails, crafting items / materials, etc. And idk, but I feel like Jason Todd wouldn't ever go to a gay pride parade in costume to help celebrate. Like, I really don't feel that would be his style at all. Idk, maybe that's just me.

I've played enough of this game by now that I'm hooked by the story, and can appreciate the fighting moves and so forth and how challenging the boss fights can be, but as a whole I just don't like it. Again, just wish there was a thumbs-sideways button.