wesker9041 I agree but in Arkham knight it was a wasted opportunity with the scarecrow nightmare side mission its good but not as good as Arkham asylum
I remember when I played this game for the first time, when the game "crashed" I thought my PS3 was actually broken for a second. "Use the middle stick," Rocksteady you trolls.
Same for me. Actually i had borrowed this game from my brother back in 2009 (i was 7) when it was still expensive and he said that he would kill me if i bring it back broken down... Then during a delightful day i decided to continue playing and came across that sequence and i was like "shit i'm fucked" xD good times.
Yeah my brother and I had rented it from Blockbuster and we had to return it the next day, and we absolutely freaked out when the game glitched because we thought we broke it, the fear was real.
That happened to me and I got pissed off and turned the Xbox off and when I got it back up I had to re do the armed thugs part again 😡😡😡with no gargoyles...
Man I LOVE this scarecrow, he actually FUN, he speaks in a wispy voice, he cackles with delight at causing nightmares, when you lose he talks like some poetic nightmare, his design reminds me of silent hill, what the hell is there not to love~!
I believe every one of those three Scarecrow nightmares shows Batman's greatest fears: 1. In the first nightmare, we can see Batman's fear of not managing to save his friend Gordon in time. Batman fights crime because he considers his duty to make sure no one else is going to suffer the way he did when he lost his parents. The scene with the talking corpses shows his fear of failing any time he fights and letting down his parents. 2. In the second nightmare, we dig even deeply. Though Batman sees again his parents, this is a moment he re-lives the trauma that changed him. He feels the pain, the injustice, his desire of having his family back. He secretly wishes he could overwrite what happened then, and had his parents now. 3. The third and worst nightmare shows Batman's deepest fear; Batman knows just how extreme his means of fighting crime are. He is afraid that one day he will become just like the lunatics he defies. Joker himself says they both are crazy, so Batman shouldn't fight him but join him. All those nightmare Batmen are Batman's visions of his possible future if he ever lets insanity eat his mind away.
Indeed. Perfect breakdown of Batman’s fears in the nightmare sequences. Great game. Pity this was never made into a movie. The game has more depth in exploring the psyche of Batman.
I especially love your breakdown of the third. I've run into a lot of people who think Batman's oblivious to the extremes he takes to fight crime when he's anything but that. It's one of the reasons why he doesn't kill his enemies. He's afraid of losing control altogether, so he needs to limit himself.
there's also more to the third nightmare, his allies captured and his enemies learning and exposing his identity, a fear that actually comes to pass at the end of Arkham Knight. by Scarecrow himself no less.
When I first played this game I was shitting my pants at the scarecrow parts. I was like 7 of 8, it was the first time I was scared playing a Batman game, and it was the first one I've ever played.
Myles Hoglund i played this when i was in pre school and i had to tell my friend to do half the scarecrow mission because i was scared by the way that was right when it first came out!!😊
Scarecrow was so giggly in Asylum, like he was a kid in a candy store. It's crazy when you realize that it's the same guy in Arkham Knight. The incident with Croc truly changed him
Indeed. Scarecrow definitely became a little more mellow after his near death experience. He truly experienced fear for himself and what it felt like. Also proven when he was injected with his own toxin.
Definitely. As much as I love what John Noble did, I do miss this version of Scarecrow and wish he got to come back for Knight given he was there at the start. I miss his maniacal laughter. I don't think it would make sense with the official timeline, but I pretend that age explains why Crane sounds and acts so different in Knight, not to mention all his potential injuries. Granted it's really just a retcon because they wanted a different actor. I mean Gordon has a different VA in literally each game for no discernable reason lol.
Its because he relives his greatest fear his parents death everyday Bruce Wayne died that night hes just a mask Batman is who he is all the time he never moved on
There’s a small detail throughout the game hinting when the Scarecrow bits were coming up. In the elevator, a wavy gas appears and Batman starts coughing. This happens many times before you encounter Scarecrow so I guess that’s one way to poison someone. Also in the first bit, after opening the vent, you can notice that when he blinks his eyes turn red.
There not details there just straight up showing you that you got hit with fear gas stop tryna make it sound like something secret I literally seen the fear gas coming out the vents its not supposed to be a hint lmao begging for likes making some shit like that up sad
Played this as a young teenager and didn't know too much about batman (outside some of the tv show that ran a few years before this came out). I had no idea about scarcrow, so that first scene where you're introduced to him and Gordon seems dead has stuck with me more than most gaming moments. Truly terrifying
Me too back them in Lego Batman I thought he was just some goofy bad guy and I didn’t know much about Batman at the time I was playing but after playing this game I know a lot more about Batman and his villains and how dangerous they are, especially scarecrow.
I forgot how terrifying this game used to be. It’s the sudden paradigm shift from kick ass action game with sick combat to all of a sudden a straight up psychological horror that’s just so unsettling.
gas masks only work if gas adsorbs at the active carbon inside the mask. scarecrows fear toxin doesn't adsorb at active carbon and that makes the gas mask useless
the gasmaskis just to look scary. i think i read somewher that scarecrow injected himself so long with the fear toxin until he doesn't feel fear anymore.
+Hudson Williams Vicki Vales also refers to the mayor's plans to "release all the villains into a walled off part of town being put on hold." She says it's good that the project is being halted as it "would have been a disaster."
Arkham is kind of a horror game. But not much because Batman is not helpless. He can fight back. It would be more terrifying if we played someone who is helpless and can only run and hide and it’s in first person point of view. That’s just my opinion.
I agree-- I think the *most* creative thing was how they gave Batman glowing red eyes (first noticeable around 2:20 or so, when the camera zooms in on them while he's prying off the grate); that, to me, served as a sign to the audience that SOMETHING is definitely hinky, but the audience doesn't yet know exactly WHAT (though particularly astute viewers might, correctly, guess, than if Scarecrow hasn't dosed Batman with his fear toxin, that the not so good Doctor has SOMETHING to do with what is going on). An even more subtle hint is that Batman *coughs* (he NEVER does that, ANYWHERE ELSE in the game) while in the elevator (a tip that that is probably when he started getting exposed to the fear gas). People well versed in Bat-lore probably have deduced what has likely happened by then, but its the red eyes that seal it; SOMETHING is wrong, and though Batman hasn't yet realized it yet (he can't see his own eyes, but the audience can; plus its likely his eyes aren't *actually* glowing, so Batman looking in a reflective surface and seeing them is out; the eyes is a nod to the audience, not him) the *audience* does. It's a beautiful irony; we are waiting for *Batman* to get the hint about what is going on around him, while The World's Greatest Detective, is (at least at the beginning...seemingly) still blissfully ignorant; though, when he calls Oracle to tell her that her father has "died", and he gets a 'number disconnected' message, he probably figured out something's up.
@@psychorocho9943 think of the Poison Ivy boss fight in VR. If you get entangled in vines, you actually have to shake around and struggle in order to escape.
This stuff had 8 year old me in shambles. My dad had to be in the room for this and the killer croc fight cause I was too scared to do them alone. Man I miss those days sometimes.
i think its interesting that when the walls are destroying, the pieces turn to bugs, implying that bruce has a fear of bugs (or similar to cockroaches or maggots)
I argue the sight is Crane looking for Batman's one major fear flaw and by seeing him it's like Bruce is exposing his one exploitable fear only by making it to the bat signal (basically his motivation to fight) is he able to counter Crane's fear theatrics. Yes I know I have read too much into this but Scarecrow is my favorite Batman villian
Idk but in the first one when you get up after scarecrows jump scare (if you would even call it that) you can here the doors batman come into the room open and close
I'm a Deer Yeah, it does make sense for Knight scarecrow to act that way. I just adore this design of scarecrow. His mask is so awesome! It would also have been kind of neat to have more of these types of scarecrow hallucinations in Arkham Knight.
Thing that i love about batman, and all other villians is they all suffered alot from childhood or bad things happened to them, but batman was the only one who didnt let his bad past make him a bad person, he didnt let the evil of the world stop him from channeling his energy into good
I remember getting to scarecrow for the first time after getting this game at midnight launch it was around 3:30AM it was honestly terrifying how it just gently eases in to the nightmare without you realizing it till his eyes glow seeing those body holding doors opening closing and opening up the body bag of his parents were something that stood with me till this day
explains why the Bat signal is how Batman breaks free from the toxin's effects. it's a manifestation of Batman's willpower and a symbol of hope for gotham. even Scarecrow came to that conclusion in Arkham Knight Scarecrow: how can the world know fear, true dread, when it has you? a stalwart knight, ever ready to slay monsters. Fear isn't pure biology, batman, it's more than instinct. True fear is the absence of hope, and hope is the spread wings of a bat, shining on the clouds.
100% Agree with you on that. In Arkham Knight, all we got to see was just him "behind the scenes" and not doing much of anything except giving speeches to Batman on the city's loudspeaker about his big plans for Gotham and all that throughout the whole entire game. The worst part, is that we only get to come face to face with Scarecrow only 3 times throughout the whole entire game and not once did we have to deal with his fear toxin induced hallucinations (and no that part with the Joker at the end does not count for me) or even fight him at all. All we get to see is Batman "confront" him in cutscenes and that's about it. For a game that said it was about Scarecrow trying be the one to take down Batman, Arkham Knight really missed that mark by a longshot.
“Use the middle stick to dodge Joker’s gun fire” WOW THATS HELPFUL Edit: I totally forgot to say that I didn’t know this game had a lot of detail on the PC: Debris flying in the air following-up to some creepy screeches.
Wow they really did a good job making scarecrow much more frightening in this it's almost they took some ideas straight out of horror movies specifically Nightmare on elm street mix with Hellraiser.
I love how fittingly morbid this is. Kinda reminds me of Statesville Haunted Prison. It makes me wish there was a haunted house themed after Batman villains.
“And listen son. Call me Jim.” -Jim Gordon That line made me tear up showing how much Bruce/Batman trusts Gordon and treats him like family besides Barbara.
THIS IS DEFINITELY NIGHTMARE FUEL ⛽️ man my hearts pumping all of those nightmare sequences are terrifying and I love ❤️ it! All I know is I wanna see an on screen ScareCrow that is just like this one funny, evil, witty, scary etc.
I remember when I was little and I watched my brothers play one of these parts of the game and after I did I went to bed but the thing was I had a really creepy night mare about one of the scare crow scenes in this game. This was about 6 years ago
I really wish Arkham Knight just focused on Scarecrow instead of adding “you know who” to the game. He is one of the most underrated members of the Batman Rogues Gallery.
Imagine how scary this would be in a real Batman movie
Ke'Andre Traylor Yeah this would be totally great for a new Batman Animated series and a new Batman Animated movie.
MONSTER ENERGY 105 I'd watch it in 3D.
Roman Torchwick Me too.
Katelyn Bodiford YESSSS
Katelyn Bodiford exactly
I forgot how badass scarecrow was in arkham asylum.
I really hate how they turned him into a generic evil overlord in Arkham Knight
Mo Uddin AGREED and worse no next gen boss battle. What a wasted opportunity.
wesker9041 I agree but in Arkham knight it was a wasted opportunity with the scarecrow nightmare side mission its good but not as good as Arkham asylum
Sans_G_gaming I yeah racing the batmobile oooo what fun. Amirite?
@@chumunga648 It still makes sense that he'd act way different because of how jaded he had been.
is it just me or was scarecrow's laugh way creepier than joker's...
DidJewNaziMe I think both are so cool
Scarecrows laugh was creepier jokers laugh was more recognizable
Both pale in comparison to the creepiness of those Morgue whispers.
I like him a lot more than the joker
Scarecrow was my favorite part of the game. Easily the best rendition ever.
"ME??? IN A THONG?" thanks joker
Magic Man The video just played that part when I read it...
You being played by Jared leto
Magic Man I just got an unpleasant image in my head
Magic Man Me: Nooo!!!!!!!
I need to go scrub out my brain with bleach now
I remember when I played this game for the first time, when the game "crashed" I thought my PS3 was actually broken for a second.
"Use the middle stick," Rocksteady you trolls.
Has_Matt same
Same for me. Actually i had borrowed this game from my brother back in 2009 (i was 7) when it was still expensive and he said that he would kill me if i bring it back broken down... Then during a delightful day i decided to continue playing and came across that sequence and i was like "shit i'm fucked" xD good times.
Yeah my brother and I had rented it from Blockbuster and we had to return it the next day, and we absolutely freaked out when the game glitched because we thought we broke it, the fear was real.
That happened to me and I got pissed off and turned the Xbox off and when I got it back up I had to re do the armed thugs part again 😡😡😡with no gargoyles...
It still gets me
Man I LOVE this scarecrow, he actually FUN, he speaks in a wispy voice, he cackles with delight at causing nightmares, when you lose he talks like some poetic nightmare, his design reminds me of silent hill, what the hell is there not to love~!
Wispy?
Uhh... what??
Best scarecrow
Not to mention he pops up when you really don't expect him to.
It seemed like he was having a blast he got away more emo after killer croc whacked him
"use the middle stick to avoid jokers gunfire "
XD
Yeah I was confused on that too. I was like "what the fuck is a middle stick?"
Lupe Salas I made a middle stick with playdough XD
Lupe Salas what happens if you pressed "quit" ? 0-0
Castle Disaster YT Nah you probably go back to the menu screen and probably be like. What the heck just happened?)
Lupe Salas thats what she said
I believe every one of those three Scarecrow nightmares shows Batman's greatest fears:
1. In the first nightmare, we can see Batman's fear of not managing to save his friend Gordon in time. Batman fights crime because he considers his duty to make sure no one else is going to suffer the way he did when he lost his parents. The scene with the talking corpses shows his fear of failing any time he fights and letting down his parents.
2. In the second nightmare, we dig even deeply. Though Batman sees again his parents, this is a moment he re-lives the trauma that changed him. He feels the pain, the injustice, his desire of having his family back. He secretly wishes he could overwrite what happened then, and had his parents now.
3. The third and worst nightmare shows Batman's deepest fear; Batman knows just how extreme his means of fighting crime are. He is afraid that one day he will become just like the lunatics he defies. Joker himself says they both are crazy, so Batman shouldn't fight him but join him. All those nightmare Batmen are Batman's visions of his possible future if he ever lets insanity eat his mind away.
Excellent breakdown.
Indeed. Perfect breakdown of Batman’s fears in the nightmare sequences. Great game. Pity this was never made into a movie. The game has more depth in exploring the psyche of Batman.
I especially love your breakdown of the third. I've run into a lot of people who think Batman's oblivious to the extremes he takes to fight crime when he's anything but that. It's one of the reasons why he doesn't kill his enemies. He's afraid of losing control altogether, so he needs to limit himself.
there's also more to the third nightmare, his allies captured and his enemies learning and exposing his identity, a fear that actually comes to pass at the end of Arkham Knight. by Scarecrow himself no less.
And third Nightmare at the very start also shows *your* biggest fear. Game suddenly crashing and having to play everything from the start.
When I first played this game I was shitting my pants at the scarecrow parts. I was like 7 of 8, it was the first time I was scared playing a Batman game, and it was the first one I've ever played.
Same, I had my brother do them for me because I was too scared.
Myles Hoglund me to
Multi Gamer Tom thank the lord I was not the only one
Myles Hoglund
Holy shit. This game is almost 9 years old. I got this game for my 16th birthday....... I'm getting old!!!
Myles Hoglund i played this when i was in pre school and i had to tell my friend to do half the scarecrow mission because i was scared by the way that was right when it first came out!!😊
Scarecrow was so giggly in Asylum, like he was a kid in a candy store. It's crazy when you realize that it's the same guy in Arkham Knight. The incident with Croc truly changed him
Including his accent
Indeed. Scarecrow definitely became a little more mellow after his near death experience. He truly experienced fear for himself and what it felt like. Also proven when he was injected with his own toxin.
Definitely. As much as I love what John Noble did, I do miss this version of Scarecrow and wish he got to come back for Knight given he was there at the start. I miss his maniacal laughter.
I don't think it would make sense with the official timeline, but I pretend that age explains why Crane sounds and acts so different in Knight, not to mention all his potential injuries. Granted it's really just a retcon because they wanted a different actor. I mean Gordon has a different VA in literally each game for no discernable reason lol.
easily my favorite missions in the game. The way they shook you up, and came out of nowhere. Perfect atmosphere.
Same here. Rocksteady made a masterpiece with missions like that.
5 year old me nightmares
@@Omelander yeah same
@@Slycoomer56 mostly Paul Dini did most of the writing here & City the only time Rocksteady did their own stuff was in Arkham Knight
@@dilloon7626 crazy i remember this mission vividly from 5th grade. graduate HS now and still haven't forgot 😭😂
I like how most of the time even in the most horrifying moments Batman doesn’t give a crap
BECAUSE HE'S BATMAN
nice
becuz he was only scared of bats, which he already ovecame that fear.
Its because he relives his greatest fear his parents death everyday Bruce Wayne died that night hes just a mask Batman is who he is all the time he never moved on
@Cameron Matlock hes not afraid its just a trauma for him
The change of voice between asylum to knight
Jacobo Cabrera it was to represent his damaged vocal cords I believe
Or maybe his balls dropped.
Dino Andrade's voice was a million times better. Not a fan of Scarecrow's monotonous voice in Arkham Knight.
John Noble is great, I was more upset that Mass Effect’s Kimberly Brooks didn’t return and I’m still in the dark as to why
@@breakwithjake4u I like how it captures how more cunning and serious scarecrow is in arkham knight
“There is no Crane!
... only Scarecrow!”
Probably one of my favorite parts tbh.
Everyone talking about the "middle stick" but nobody remembers the "press J to avoid cinematic"
Ivan Ruiz i do lmao
I don’t remember that?
S H Y E E 1 2 Because most people didn’t want to skip the cutscene.
@@dweetsauce8513 OH WAIT IN THE SCARECROW INTRO WHERE THE GAME "LAGGED" AND THE ROLES WHERE REVERSED I REMEMBER!!
S H Y E E 1 2 Yeah. Nobody wanted to skip the scene because they were confused.
There’s a small detail throughout the game hinting when the Scarecrow bits were coming up. In the elevator, a wavy gas appears and Batman starts coughing. This happens many times before you encounter Scarecrow so I guess that’s one way to poison someone. Also in the first bit, after opening the vent, you can notice that when he blinks his eyes turn red.
You can see the gas spraying out the pipes and Batman coughs when you leave the library
There not details there just straight up showing you that you got hit with fear gas stop tryna make it sound like something secret I literally seen the fear gas coming out the vents its not supposed to be a hint lmao begging for likes making some shit like that up sad
He also coughs right before the intercom goes off about "the game last night"
Played this as a young teenager and didn't know too much about batman (outside some of the tv show that ran a few years before this came out). I had no idea about scarcrow, so that first scene where you're introduced to him and Gordon seems dead has stuck with me more than most gaming moments. Truly terrifying
Me too back them in Lego Batman I thought he was just some goofy bad guy and I didn’t know much about Batman at the time I was playing but after playing this game I know a lot more about Batman and his villains and how dangerous they are, especially scarecrow.
I forgot how terrifying this game used to be. It’s the sudden paradigm shift from kick ass action game with sick combat to all of a sudden a straight up psychological horror that’s just so unsettling.
"And at the end of fear, oblivion..."
ReaperhunterB “you failed now suffer...”
"Now madness takes you, forever."
"Your mind, will shatter like glass."
@@bellamywilliam20 I have never heard him say that before
@@Spectralanomaly6 You will
If batman wore a gas mask none of this would happen
HoodedGamerPlays gas mask's don't work
HoodedGamerPlays he injects it though
Plus, it's penetrates the skin, so hey're useless.
gas masks only work if gas adsorbs at the active carbon inside the mask. scarecrows fear toxin doesn't adsorb at active carbon and that makes the gas mask useless
the gasmaskis just to look scary. i think i read somewher that scarecrow injected himself so long with the fear toxin until he doesn't feel fear anymore.
God, Scarecrow's needles seriously remind me of Freddy Krueger. Quite appropriate since, in a way, they're both masters of nightmares.
And in Injustice 2, Scarecrow is voiced by the man who played Freddy Kruger.
@@sloanewalker42 Yup! Robert Englund! Best Freddy Krueger ever!
I remember reading somewhere that that was intentional
Scarface: Doctor Crane has made no real progress, but he seems to enjoy his work-
Scarecrow: *MANIACAL LAUGH*
Um chile anyways
scared the shit outta me when i was a little kid
Velocity agreed
Still gives me the creeps.
CreepyCreeper The fireball same dude I was so scared when I was like 5
Yes, Joker in a thong would do that to ya 😰
I know. It was SUPPOSED to do that, which is why it makes this part of the game amazing.
The laugh at 16:48 is perfectly fit for Scarecrow!
in my opinion scare crow is way better here then he is in arkahm knight
crashandcynder It makes sense to why he’s changed throughout the years.
Not opinion, fact
That's a fact
No shit it's rocksteady's first time interpreting the character ofc it would come out good.
The thing is he went from super insane to less insane in Arkham knight especially after that whole killer croc encounter in the asylum.
I like how they use the Dutch angle to create this sense of desorientation
its driving me nuts because batman doesn't respond like normal and it gets you killed. But...I don't game much so I suck anyway
Ralsei it’s a tilt cameramen use. Watch Marvel’s Thor to understand what I’m saying bc that movie is loaded with Dutch Tilts.
Arkham Asylum had this amazing atmosphere. Incredible game
Lego Batman 2 has a reference to this game, you fight the Scarecrow in Arkham Asylum and he uses fear toxin to make him look huge.
+Hudson Williams Vicki Vales also refers to the mayor's plans to "release all the villains into a walled off part of town being put on hold." She says it's good that the project is being halted as it "would have been a disaster."
the scarecrow dreams scared me I was 5 when I saw this and I had nightmares of this ;-;
SamuraiXbrutha _ Jonathan Crane
25:56 i love how his head shakes uncontrollably like that. Really brings up the nightmare fuel
Cracks neck cutely
I know this is late but when I played this I noticed that and I immediately got silent hill vibes
0:42
The first time i herd those screams i turned off the console and didn't turn it on for a week
What screams?
All I hear is Joker laughing
Avalanche TV The background screams, kinda sing-song like, blends in to the atmosphere though
I took my disc back to the store.
He mean Arkham Inmate is affected by fear toxin
18:12 - 18:18 The moment EVERY gamer thought their PC/console died.
Brit Lynx except me cause I knew it was going to happen
@@jordan3769 Bullshit, no you didn't
@@mr.banana7223 lol.This game had a different soul.Now, no one knows this master piece :/
Not me. I was sure it was the game. Because my computer was crashing a lot times and it looked different.
XD You got that rift, Brit Lynx!
Imagine how awesome this would be as a horror series?
To me arkham asylum was a horror game. I know you said series I'm just pointing this out.
@@xgaming125g it honestly was the tone and everything fit perfectly the other games couldn't capture it
Arkham is kind of a horror game. But not much because Batman is not helpless. He can fight back.
It would be more terrifying if we played someone who is helpless and can only run and hide and it’s in first person point of view. That’s just my opinion.
@@natwalsh2710 like outlast
@@ayjay6289 Yup! :D Like Outlast, and the DLC Whistleblower and Outlast 2.
I love these. They are very creative!
I agree-- I think the *most* creative thing was how they gave Batman glowing red eyes (first noticeable around 2:20 or so, when the camera zooms in on them while he's prying off the grate); that, to me, served as a sign to the audience that SOMETHING is definitely hinky, but the audience doesn't yet know exactly WHAT (though particularly astute viewers might, correctly, guess, than if Scarecrow hasn't dosed Batman with his fear toxin, that the not so good Doctor has SOMETHING to do with what is going on).
An even more subtle hint is that Batman *coughs* (he NEVER does that, ANYWHERE ELSE in the game) while in the elevator (a tip that that is probably when he started getting exposed to the fear gas). People well versed in Bat-lore probably have deduced what has likely happened by then, but its the red eyes that seal it; SOMETHING is wrong, and though Batman hasn't yet realized it yet (he can't see his own eyes, but the audience can; plus its likely his eyes aren't *actually* glowing, so Batman looking in a reflective surface and seeing them is out; the eyes is a nod to the audience, not him) the *audience* does.
It's a beautiful irony; we are waiting for *Batman* to get the hint about what is going on around him, while The World's Greatest Detective, is (at least at the beginning...seemingly) still blissfully ignorant; though, when he calls Oracle to tell her that her father has "died", and he gets a 'number disconnected' message, he probably figured out something's up.
DorianMichaelsIII he just said a sentence and you just replied with a 5 paragraph essay on batman -_-
3rd the batman
xsfxdfx
Damian Sniady I was just
Imagine if this was in VR
The Poolfia I would pay all the money in the world to play it
Imagine the Killer Croc level in VR
@@psychorocho9943 Dude, screw that.
@@psychorocho9943 think of the Poison Ivy boss fight in VR. If you get entangled in vines, you actually have to shake around and struggle in order to escape.
And in first person point of view. ^^
I will admit, starting at 9:31is just genius. How they went in with the story, the graphics all leading up to the scarecrow mission very well done!!
This stuff had 8 year old me in shambles. My dad had to be in the room for this and the killer croc fight cause I was too scared to do them alone. Man I miss those days sometimes.
How old are you now and is your dad okay? Are you okay?
Man for a game that came out 13 years ago, the graphics still hold up. I remember this boss battle so vividly, glad I found this video!
i think its interesting that when the walls are destroying, the pieces turn to bugs, implying that bruce has a fear of bugs (or similar to cockroaches or maggots)
never But bats eat bugs
Bruce deals with the likes of Killer Moth tho😅
No one rlly likes bugs tbh
@@tigerkat4419 fair enough
There are plenty of bugs roaming around every game and he doesn't seem to care
25:33 that laugh is so frightening i love it!
Same
that's not even a scary laugh
@@demoncyborg8700 There's a small difference between scary and frightening.
scarecrow is the best
DarkReasons, That's because he's my main Character to play as him for INJUSTICE 2! 😉
And you gave me nightmare for weeks
i wonder what has really happened during all those nightmares, scarecrow trying to kill batman or something like that?
Kashe That is if they conquered their fear like how Batman did in Arkham Knight.
I argue the sight is Crane looking for Batman's one major fear flaw and by seeing him it's like Bruce is exposing his one exploitable fear only by making it to the bat signal (basically his motivation to fight) is he able to counter Crane's fear theatrics. Yes I know I have read too much into this but Scarecrow is my favorite Batman villian
Idk but in the first one when you get up after scarecrows jump scare (if you would even call it that) you can here the doors batman come into the room open and close
Alex Durand I've always wondered that myself
@@seermayton-el3488 same
First time realising that at 15:06 Batman becomes Scarecrow
Daniel Brown I
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He does! When the flash happens, you can see that Batman turned into Scarecrow.
And 6:55
@@Spectralanomaly6 why does he turn to scarecrow?
I played through the game again this week. These were my favourite sections in the game. A total mindfuck.
I wish we had this Scarecrow in Arkham Knight, the other one felt weaker in my opinion.
mymoonproductions This one was super awesome. I love the look of the mask, and his more crazed personality/voice.
mymoonproductions yeah
Mercynaryz It makes sense that Crane in arkham knight was calmer & more careful, he was after all attack & nearly killed by croc
I'm a Deer Yeah, it does make sense for Knight scarecrow to act that way. I just adore this design of scarecrow. His mask is so awesome! It would also have been kind of neat to have more of these types of scarecrow hallucinations in Arkham Knight.
How do you know?
Just imagine how insane it will be in Matt Reeves's BatVerse. Absolutely amazing. Can't wait
Matt Reeves is creatively bankrupt, he’s contempt with simply following up on Nolan’s realism.
use the middle stick to dodge
me: how about insted I give you the middle finger.
That’s hilarious
And you give me my phone call.
@@canceritself1854 I just want my phone call
Cancer Itself185 sounds like something Zssaz would’ve said in Arkham City.
Avalanche TV True. But that’s a Matrix reference.
Joker: ""ME?? IN A THONG!??"
it was hilarious at first until I got a visual
Me : hell no nope no thanks
@@noorelmesiry6040 1:32
Kinky LOL XD
speak for yourself
This is the best version of scarecrow they really nailed him in Arkham asylum
Yup
I like how in 18:46 the music is on the radio.
TheLegoDirector that is cool
this game kinda scares the shit out off me
same when its scarecrow
THIS definitely is my most favourite of Scarecrow's voices of all times!
It's flawless. Incredibly creepy and eerie.
Thing that i love about batman, and all other villians is they all suffered alot from childhood or bad things happened to them, but batman was the only one who didnt let his bad past make him a bad person, he didnt let the evil of the world stop him from channeling his energy into good
That’s because he had Alfred by his side to take care of him and taught him right from wrong compared to the other villains who didn’t have anyone.
I came for the nightmares, but found batman eating a rat entertaining.
Imagine scarecrow being such a one-trick pony that batman starts developping ungodly tolerance to the fear toxin.
I remember getting to scarecrow for the first time after getting this game at midnight launch it was around 3:30AM it was honestly terrifying how it just gently eases in to the nightmare without you realizing it till his eyes glow seeing those body holding doors opening closing and opening up the body bag of his parents were something that stood with me till this day
When you didn't think that the LSD trip would be that bad
We need a Scarecrow like this in a movie
NO WE NEED BLACK MASK IN MOVIE
the scarecrow is very different here then he is in knight, both in character and voice
if you think scarecrow is different you should compare black mask in arkham city to the one in red hood's dlc from arkham knight
"...All it takes is a symbol of hope to defeat pure fear..."
-something batman would say.
explains why the Bat signal is how Batman breaks free from the toxin's effects. it's a manifestation of Batman's willpower and a symbol of hope for gotham.
even Scarecrow came to that conclusion in Arkham Knight
Scarecrow: how can the world know fear, true dread, when it has you? a stalwart knight, ever ready to slay monsters. Fear isn't pure biology, batman, it's more than instinct. True fear is the absence of hope, and hope is the spread wings of a bat, shining on the clouds.
I like this voice a lot
Ihate Mr. Wires
i wanna buy this game
Aside from Killer Croc, Scarecrow was easily one of the scariest parts of the game
I wish Arkham City and Arkham Origins had Scarecrow in it too that includes these type of nightmares he’s the best villain imo
Ill never forget how scared i was facing scarecrow as a kid
I was scared of this as a kid
Same bru i used to shit in my pants
Same here. When he jumped out of the body bag, I just couldn’t.
@@warthog3x328 your nasty if you actually pooped on yourself
Imagine if you got chased by that I know right
I’m a kid and I’m scared shitless! 😅
"Me in a THONG?!?"
That would be my fear. 😅
Harley would love that lmfao
Is a thong something like an orgy outfit?
@@googisthegreat1397 it's underwear
I remember being absolutely terrified when Batman heard the whispering voices in the morgue. Arkham games had peak Scarecrow imo
Those voices at 11:18 just made me respect Jim Gordon a whole lot more than I already did, he's too good for Gotham.
17:02 I see you, Batman
And this is the guy who unmasked batman?!
@@LucasBR702 no that was jim gordon
@@jakemuller5 you're technically not wrong
Everyone's freaking out about God of War Ragnaroks' fake death scene with Thor. But everyone forgets this game was one of the first to do it at 20:35.
"Me in a thong!"
Batman's worst fear
Lmao 🤣
These were honestly my favorite parts of the game
Believe me or not this scarecrow is scarier than Arkham knight
100% Agree with you on that. In Arkham Knight, all we got to see was just him "behind the scenes" and not doing much of anything except giving speeches to Batman on the city's loudspeaker about his big plans for Gotham and all that throughout the whole entire game. The worst part, is that we only get to come face to face with Scarecrow only 3 times throughout the whole entire game and not once did we have to deal with his fear toxin induced hallucinations (and no that part with the Joker at the end does not count for me) or even fight him at all. All we get to see is Batman "confront" him in cutscenes and that's about it. For a game that said it was about Scarecrow trying be the one to take down Batman, Arkham Knight really missed that mark by a longshot.
Luis N. Pietanesi probably because scarecrow learned his lesson on getting near Batman with a weaker toxin
Can't wait to play these in Return to Arkham!
I hope is not a Pussystation 4
Prince of Persia Fuck you man :-|
Theman 1138 u must be a pony (Sony) fanboy .
Prince of Persia Not a fanboy but they dont suck i like xbox and playstation but neither of them suck dude.
serial killer you mean the system that everybody buys more than Xbox and right below PC
Scarecrow scared the shit out me when he heard the explosion and actively started look for you at 7:00-7:14
Fucking nerve racking
I don't remember all those clouds of debris circling Scarecrow...
Neither do I. I also don't remember 3:08 or 6:08
oodsong I think this is the PC version.
oodsong this could be the xbox one version return to arkham
Crazygamer12671 look at when this was uploaded
Bit late but it's the PC version with Nvidia PhysX enabled. It adds extra particles and objects and stuff.
You know Scarecrow is screwed when he mocks Bruce’s parent’s death
Joker saying "Me? In a thong?" as part of a list of what he thinks Batman is really afraid of is so underrated. That's a frightening mental imagine.
“Use the middle stick to dodge Joker’s gun fire”
WOW THATS HELPFUL
Edit: I totally forgot to say that I didn’t know this game had a lot of detail on the PC: Debris flying in the air following-up to some creepy screeches.
10:56 “My father died tonight. My mother died tonight. I died tonight. And the Batman was born”
-Batman, DC Trinity
Gaming bolt "15 creepiest video game locations" he stole your footage and gave no credit.
Sorry it's "15 creepiest places in video games"
Thank you
Wow they really did a good job making scarecrow much more frightening in this it's almost they took some ideas straight out of horror movies specifically Nightmare on elm street mix with Hellraiser.
The mind games and hallucinations is what makes the Arkham series so unique!!
I love how fittingly morbid this is. Kinda reminds me of Statesville Haunted Prison. It makes me wish there was a haunted house themed after Batman villains.
Scarecrow seriously needs His own Movie 🍿🎬👍
“And listen son. Call me Jim.”
-Jim Gordon
That line made me tear up showing how much Bruce/Batman trusts Gordon and treats him like family besides Barbara.
This might just be my personal favorite version of scarecrow.
Why the fell do people get up set with me when I tell them that the Scarecrow is my favourite Batman villain?
@A N C same
I think all the Scarecrow parts in this game are pure genius atmosphere and gameplay wise as well.
i love scarecrow's voice!!
TinJester they didn't like it as much as the new guy
Yeah dinos my fave scarecrow voice
@@zxJC34xz no it’s because scare crow got his vocals ripped out by croc
@@JCTHEKIDDD how do you know?
I don’t know why but the second battle was always my favorite
Max The Fabulous same
Scarecrow now favorite villain in the DC universe One tank of fear gas and he is your worst nightmare
But without it..
joker is better villain but scarecrow is good too
THIS IS DEFINITELY NIGHTMARE FUEL ⛽️ man my hearts pumping all of those nightmare sequences are terrifying and I love ❤️ it! All I know is I wanna see an on screen ScareCrow that is just like this one funny, evil, witty, scary etc.
Joker: Me in a THONG?!
...Wow. He really is insane.
LMAO XD and kinky too! XD
The attention to detail in these scenes was unbelievable
Very well done!
18:18 when I saw that for the first time I thought my game had broken lol
I remember when I was little and I watched my brothers play one of these parts of the game and after I did I went to bed but the thing was I had a really creepy night mare about one of the scare crow scenes in this game. This was about 6 years ago
I really wish Arkham Knight just focused on Scarecrow instead of adding “you know who” to the game. He is one of the most underrated members of the Batman Rogues Gallery.
Bruh I remember replaying the game JUST to do these parts. The Nightmares were so fun to play