When comparing The Last Guardian vs Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Slant community recommends The Last Guardian for most people. In the question“What are the best PS4 (PlayStation 4) games?” The Last Guardian is ranked 58th while Batman: Arkham Asylum is ranked 117th. The most important reason people chose The Last Guardian is:
The Last Guardian is set in a long forgotten and ruined castle hidden in a valley called "The Nest." Everything about this environment draws you in. From the grandiose architecture to the beautiful vistas. The colors in the game vary from bright and cheery, to dark and gritty. This helps contrast elements from the present and the past. So you'll often see things like lush green grass on top of a dark and worn-out structure.
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Pros
Pro Beautiful environments
The Last Guardian is set in a long forgotten and ruined castle hidden in a valley called "The Nest." Everything about this environment draws you in. From the grandiose architecture to the beautiful vistas.
The colors in the game vary from bright and cheery, to dark and gritty. This helps contrast elements from the present and the past. So you'll often see things like lush green grass on top of a dark and worn-out structure.
Pro Great variety of puzzles
The Last Guardian is a puzzle game, and as such has a wide array of puzzles for you to solve. You and your companion Trico, will travel the ruins and often there will be a roadblock in the form a of a puzzle. The solution requires teamwork and involves finding/reaching a switch or destroying part of the environment.
Because each location is different, no two puzzles will be the same. One of the locations is a collapsing bridge and the puzzle involves you and Trico crossing it. Another is a tall tower you have to climb, but you have to figure out how because it's falling apart.
Pro Captivating soundtrack
The cinematic orchestral soundtrack is one of the best parts about The Last Guardian. Each musical piece uses a different mix of instruments, arrangements and tempos. One song will have a full orchestra furiously going at it, while another will have a lone mellow piano. Each one evokes a different set of emotions in you and helps paint the relationship between the boy and Trico. When you listen to the soundtrack after beating the game you'll vividly remember the scene or location a musical piece was used in.
Pro Freeflow combat pioneer
Arkham Asylum is the first game to bring us freeflow brawler melee combat in its full glory. It invented the combat genre where you fight a multitude of enemies who take turns attacking you, while the player has a basic attack, a parry+counter and a combat roll. Getting multiple hits in on enemies builds up a combo streak that makes batman stronger. This streak is reset by getting hit by an enemy. Other games, like Assassin's Creed, had superficially similar combat systems, but not as optimized as this and they did not feature hit/combo streaks. Arkham Asylum's freeflow combat system is very suitable to be played with controllers.
Pro Fun stealth & gadgets
Remaining stealthy and getting stealth takedowns is important in Arkham Asylum's gameplay. Arkham Asylum gives the player a relatively large number of different gadgets to use for different combat purposes, such as ranged takedowns, cutting ropes, diverting enemies' attention, blasting through doors, traversing longer distances and hacking.
Cons
Con Control and AI issues
The controls and AI in The Last Guardian feel a little off. The camera isn't very responsive, and the AI just kind of picks a random action and goes with it.
Con Dark atmosphere
You won't realize how many shades of black exist until you've played an Arkham game. It's always dark outside, so to people who like daylight and colors in their games, this might get a bit dull after a while.