Batman: Arkham City’s Hush Storyline Deserved A Bigger Payoff
Hush started out as a daunting villain in the Batman: Arkham series, but the end of his story arc in Batman: Arkham Knight was disappointing. Similar to Paul Dini, Dustin Nguyen, and Derek Fridolfs' Streets of Gotham comics, Batman: Arkham City set up Hush as a compelling supervillain who was successful in surgically altering his face so he looked exactly like Bruce Wayne. However, during the story of Batman: Arkham Knight, Hush used his surgical alterations to commit a lackluster crime that was quickly dealt with.
The most likely explanation for the shift in Hush's storyline is Paul Dini's exit from the Batman: Arkham series before the development of Batman: Arkham Knight. Had Dini been involved in the creation of Batman: Arkham Knight, as he was in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, players may have gotten a story similar to the Heart of Hush and Streets of Gotham comic series. Instead, Hush's plot in Arkham Knight involved him half-heartedly kidnapping Lucius Fox in a folly attempt to get revenge on Bruce Wayne for supposedly ruining his life.
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If Batman: Arkham Knight had taken the storyline in a similar direction to Paul Dini's comic series, then Catwoman could have been captured by Hush instead of by Riddler in Batman: Arkham Knight. This not only would have made Hush's side missions more interesting and urgent, but it would have freed the Riddler's story up to be more creative and interesting. Instead, the Catwoman story was presented as whimsically dire, and the endings for both side missions were disappointing.
Adaptations of Paul Dini's Heart of Hush or Streets of Gotham comics would have been much more rewarding to play through, and the Batman: Arkham series
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