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Batman: Arkham Trilogy is a game compilation from Warner Bros. Games that released on the Nintendo Switch in 2023. It contains ports of the three Rocksteady Studios entries in the Batman: Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: Arkham City, and Batman: Arkham Knight (along with all of it's DLC). Only Asylum is included on the cartridge.
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Batman: Arkham Asylum Plot[]
The game begins with Batman capturing the Joker and escorting him to Arkham Asylum. Suspicious of how easily the Joker was caught, Batman accompanies him into the facility. As expected, it was all part of the Joker’s plan—he escapes custody with the help of Harley Quinn and seizes control of Arkham Asylum.
Joker locks down the asylum and releases many of Batman’s most dangerous enemies, including Bane, Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, and Killer Croc. His real goal is to unleash a chemical called Titan, a more potent version of the Venom formula used by Bane, which gives users monstrous strength and size. Joker plans to use Titan to create an army of super-powered thugs.
As Batman navigates the island, he must fight his way through waves of enemies and stop each villain's threat. Along the way, he’s exposed to Scarecrow’s fear toxin, faces hallucinations, and uncovers a conspiracy involving Dr. Penelope Young, who was developing Titan under the guise of creating a cure for mental illness.
Joker injects himself with the Titan formula, transforming into a monstrous version of himself for the final battle atop the asylum. Despite the odds, Batman defeats Titan-Joker with explosive gel and his combat skills.
With the Joker defeated, Arkham Asylum is returned to order. However, in a post-credits tease, it’s revealed that someone else (either Bane, Scarecrow, or Croc depending on the version) has found a remaining vial of Titan, setting up future events in the series.
Batman: Arkham City[]
Months after the events of Arkham Asylum, Gotham City has walled off a massive section of its slums and turned it into Arkham City, a sprawling open-air prison. Political prisoners and criminals alike are dumped inside with minimal oversight. The facility is run by the sinister psychiatrist Hugo Strange, who knows Batman’s true identity and is planning a mysterious operation called Protocol 10.
Bruce Wayne publicly protests Arkham City’s existence, but he’s arrested and thrown inside. Once inside, he suits up as Batman and begins investigating Hugo Strange’s plans. At the same time, the Joker is suffering from Titan poisoning due to the events of the previous game. He infects Batman with his poisoned blood, forcing him to find a cure or risk dying—and letting the Joker die with him.
Batman’s search for the cure brings him into contact with several major characters, including Mr. Freeze, Ra’s al Ghul, Talia al Ghul, Harley Quinn, Two-Face, Penguin, and Catwoman, who has her own storyline that overlaps with Batman’s. Ra’s al Ghul’s blood holds the key to a cure, but he demands that Batman become his heir, which Batman refuses.
Eventually, Batman gets Freeze to develop a cure, but the Joker steals it. Meanwhile, Hugo Strange initiates Protocol 10, which is a military operation to wipe out all inmates inside Arkham City under the pretense of restoring order. Batman defeats Strange, but before dying, Strange reveals he was working under the orders of Ra’s al Ghul.
After stopping Protocol 10, Batman confronts the Joker one final time. It’s revealed that the Joker had actually used Clayface to impersonate a healthy version of himself. During the battle, Batman obtains the cure but chooses not to give it to the Joker after Joker sabotages it himself out of paranoia and mistrust. The Joker dies from the Titan disease.
The game ends with a somber Batman carrying Joker’s body out of Arkham City, silently handing it over to Commissioner Gordon before disappearing into the night.
Batman: Arkham Knight[]
One year after the death of the Joker, Gotham City enjoys a brief period of peace—until Scarecrow resurfaces, threatening to release a new strain of fear toxin and plunging the city into chaos. The city is evacuated, leaving only criminals, the GCPD, and Batman behind. Scarecrow has allied with a mysterious new villain calling himself the Arkham Knight, who commands a powerful militia targeting Batman directly.
Batman works to stop Scarecrow's fear toxin attacks while unraveling the identity of the Arkham Knight, who seems to know everything about him. Meanwhile, Batman is secretly battling another enemy: the lingering psychological effects of the Joker’s blood. During Arkham City, Batman was infected with Joker’s blood, and now it's causing vivid hallucinations and threatening to overwrite Bruce’s personality, essentially turning him into the Joker over time.
As the fear toxin spreads and Gotham’s villains go all-in, Batman confronts and defeats multiple enemies including the Penguin, Two-Face, and Riddler. With help from allies like Oracle, Nightwing, Robin, and Catwoman, he begins dismantling the Arkham Knight’s forces and searches for a cure to his condition.
Eventually, it's revealed that the Arkham Knight is Jason Todd, the former Robin who was believed to be dead. He was tortured by the Joker and grew to resent Batman for abandoning him. After their confrontation, Jason disappears but eventually returns to aid Batman anonymously as the Red Hood.
Scarecrow captures Commissioner Gordon and Robin and lures Batman into a trap, revealing his identity as Bruce Wayne to the public. Batman is injected with a high dose of fear toxin, but he overcomes it, defeats Scarecrow, and regains control of his mind by conquering the Joker hallucinations inside him.
With his identity exposed and the Joker fully purged from his psyche, Bruce activates the Knightfall Protocol—a contingency plan to disappear forever. He returns to Wayne Manor, which explodes moments after he and Alfred enter, leaving their fates uncertain.
In the final scene, a new figure resembling Batman is seen confronting criminals in Gotham, surrounded by fear-inducing shadows, suggesting a new legend is rising—or that Bruce has found a way to continue his mission from the shadows.
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Reception[]
- Batman: Arkham Trilogy at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Batman: Arkham Trilogy at GameFAQs
| Batman series | |
|---|---|
| Movie license games | Batman • Batman Returns • Batman Forever • Catwoman (2004) • Batman Begins |
| DC Animated Universe games | Batman: The Animated Series • The Adventures of Batman & Robin • Batman Beyond Chaos in Gotham • Batman: Vengeance • Rise of Sin Tzu |
| Lego Batman series | Lego Batman: The Videogame • 2: DC Super Heroes • 3: Beyond Gotham |
| Batman: Arkham series | Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition • Batman: Arkham Origins • Arkham Origins Blackgate • Arkham Trilogy (Arkham Aslyum/ Arkham Knight) |
| Other games | Batman: Return of the Joker • Catwoman (GBC) • Batman: Dark Tomorrow • Batman: The Brave and the Bold • Injustice: Gods Among Us • The Telltale Series • The Enemy Within |
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