It's only tough until you figure out how to play the game Batman-style, then it will ease a bit (some of it will of course be from repeating a level over and over, but still)

"Now you're thinking like Batman"

They should use that in their marketing

Don't know if I like the gargoyles though. Kind of weird that they're just littered all over the walls and such.

The game is tough?  I thought the demo was ridiculously easy.  The stealth part in particular was a complete joke.  R1 to hide on a gargoyle.  Inverted takedown or glide-kick, R2 + Triangle to knock out.  R1 to hide again.  Rinse and repeat for all the guards.  It would have been nice if the guards had some sort of squad AI so that they covered each other as they searched the level, but as it is, they just seem to wander around randomly.  It makes it extremely easy to pick them off one by one.

As for the combat, it's nice and fluid, but also shallow and easy.  Just keep mashing square until you see the little lightning bolts above an enemies head, in which case you press triangle.  Then mash square again.

Despite how easy I thought the demo was, I really enjoyed it.  And the game does a good job of making you feel like Batman.  I'll definitely be looking to pick this up after a pricedrop unless I can find a good deal on it.

Sometimes there's some stiff animation when Batman is talking to somebody.

And I thought that one part where he's talking to that one guard (right before you go to stop Zsasz) was right out of Mass Effect, lol. All they had to do is blur the door behind the guard.

I was thinking that for a bit, but then I realised that when you are sprinting or attacking, the camera zooms back out, and the default setting gives it a more personal feel.

Tough? I died once, messing around and trying to gung ho melee all of the people with guns. And I failed once with creepy electrode guy, but that's another matter.

Did anyone manage to break that explodable wall, though?

I had trouble with that room where there is 5 guys with guns. I'd go for a takedown, and the other 4 would start shooting at me.

I was able to get through without alerting anybody on my first try, but I was being VERY paitent and only made a move on somebody when everybody else was walking away.

lol :p when there was 2 left and i grabbed one the last started shooting.. but i managed to get away from him and then take him out from elsewhere.. So I didn't die :p ... Just gotta take them out while the other guys aren't looking.

I just pretended I was in a Batman comic so I pulled myself up to the catwalk hung on the side until the guard was for sure not going to notice me jump over I snuck behind him took him down silently, then did the same for all the other guys on the catwalk, the two guys on the bottom floor one is standing under the Gargoyle so I sprang up there saw I could laso him and his screams baited the last guy to come see how it was hanging with his friend *ba dum pish!* and to take him down I just glided down and kicked him in the face.

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It was epic to me cause it felt like something Batman would totally do!