Batman Arkham Knight

So I actually finished Arkham Knight a while back but I decided to wait until after I had finished the DLCs to write out my thoughts on it. And then the Batgirl DLC chapter had a glitch in the final cut-scene which crashed the game. I tried a couple of times but eventually gave up and decided I'd do the other chapters later.
And then I didn't.
Admittedly I got distracted by Chants of Sennaar, but I did eventually get back to finish things but I still hadn't written anything. I have now also finished Lego Batman 3, which I had got in a bundle but never played, so I think it's about time to write about AK before writing about that game.

( My thoughts )

 

Rat Update

First thing in the morning yesterday I sent a email to my letting agent basically saying 'Hey, it's the 2nd of Jan so business should be back open. Can someone please help me with this rat?!'
While I didn't get a reply (i didn't get a reply to my last email either) the rat catcher came out at around 3 and poked around and put down poison. He told me the LL was sending someone out tomorrow (today) to seal up any possible holes the rats were using to get in.

I tried to listen last night to the scratching in the walls in an attempt to narrow down where it was coming from and it did appear to be coming from the wall/ceiling by the sink.

So the guy came out today and had a look. He was able to take apart a bit of the cupboards, the bits that were screwed in as opposed to the bits that were nailed in, and was able to look a lot further along the wall under the sink. And it turns out there is a hole in the wall. The amount of insulation that was dragged out makes it pretty clear that's were the rat was getting into the kitchen. 

So he plugged up that with concrete (or at least a concrete like mortar). He also re-did the hole that was next to the back door since it was only blocked with expanding foam and the rat can chew on that.

He had to clean out under the sink cupboard to do this and there was 2 disassembled rat traps and 1 that was just broken under there.

Hopefully this is enough to stop the rat coming into the house. It'll probably still be able to get into the walls but there not much I can do about that. As long as it's not in the house proper I wont have to worry about it eating my food, nibbling on wires or pissing all over the place.

Lego Batman 3

A good while back I bought a Humble Bundle for charity and one of the games in it was Lego Batman 3.

I had played Lego Lord of the Rings before and enjoyed it so I figured it'd be fun to play.
I played to the 2nd level were a mind-controled batman is firing missiles and got too motion sick to play the rest of the game since the inter screen shakes when a missile hits and it's happening constantly through the level.

So it's been sitting there, barely started, for ages. I finally decided to try and force my way through the level in the hopes that the rest of the game is less sick induing.

No other level is as bad as that one thankfully but it's still pretty bad in places. I basically had to close my eyes or look away in bits in order to finish the game. I also did it at a bit at a time.

Still, I did finish it. It was disappointing to find out collecting the gold bricks did nothing. In Lego Lord of the Rings the Mithril bricks (instead of gold to stay on theme) could be used to get special weapons.

I also forgot to turn on the red bricks when I got them which I remember is something I did the last time as well. The fact that you have to collect the bricks, buy the bricks and then turn them on in the menu before them work is just too many steps.

Of course once you have a few multipliers active as well as the attract studs brick you can basically afford everything so it not so bad that you have to buy things as well as collect them.

I didn't have any of the DLCs so once you finish all the collection it's very lackluster.
You get a stud fountain in a room off to the side of the watchtower and that's it.

Whatever, I wasn't expecting much from cash grab the game.

I did discover that not only does the screen shaking make my motion sickness kick in but also those little hub planets have a horrible camera angle that keeps swinging around that makes me sick as well.

I honestly don't know why I stuck with it to finish the game.
 
Opps, I forgot to mention anything about the plot.
Manly because it does the job fine. Villains attack the Watchtower, the villains get defeated. Brainiac turns up and everyone has to fight the new bad guy. It's simple, it strings together all the action, puzzles and collecting nicely. Batman learns to be nicer to his friends in the end.
It's a kids game. It's fine.