NekoAli

*wanders into the bathroom where the sound of an electric razor can be heard. After a few minutes, the razor turns off and a bald cat looking Neko emerges*


How about now?

*hands back the shinys*

Well so much for channeling Gollum.

*hisses and retreats further back into the hole, clutching the shiny gems*

My precious... You can't have my precious....

*dunks Fedor under water and grabs the shiny gems*

Mine they is! You can't have any! All mines... all mines.. my precious they are....


*retreats into a dark corner with the shiny gems*

*tosses out a couple more limp and confused looking neko-kitties*

I think these clones have gone past the expiration date. Or maybe out of warranty or something. We should probably get a new batch.

In unrelated news, will there be a Rookery. team going tonight? Curious kittehs want to know.

I'm not worthy! I'm not worthy!

I don't actually follow the whole rep thing, but out of curiosity, why can't you give us rep? And why do some people have bright green and dark green gems?

*pokes her head out the door*

The clonekittehs are being.. problematic. Here are a couple of the more active ones*

*tosses out two mewing, disoriented kittens which wobble around and bump into things*

*pops out of the cat room for a moment*

Oh, I just saw a review of Batman Here. I must say I agree with the reviewer on all points, which is rare enough.

*throws catnip grenades into the breach of the pillow fort, then opens up the door to the room where the Nekoclones have been napping*

Go forth my fuzzy little minions! Go forth and destroy!

*waits for a bit and looks in the room at the sleepy kitties*

Uh.. go forth? Destroy? Catnip? Saucer of milk? hmmmm.

*goes into another room and returns wearing a cowboy outfit*

Gotta wrangle me up a herd o cats. If'n ya don't hear from me in two hours... Call the President and tell him to send in the marines.

*tips her hat and moseys on into the cat room*

*salutes Jag*

Give em heck, soldier!

The controls aren't bad really. Fairly typical for a stealth actioner type game Left stick moves, right stick looks. D-pad to select bat-gadgets. Left trigger tosses your batarang, Right trigger crouches, left bumper activates detective mode visor, right bumper fires the grapple line. A button lets you run and jump and x, y and b are used in fighting.

There's some combo controls to think of, but in a lot of cases you get on screen clues to remind you what you can do when you can do stuff. Like whenever you look towards something you can grapple to a little RB icon pops up over it.

Hi Fedor.

*reaches into her utility belt and throws a Bat-donut at him*

It.. well it plays like a Batman game should. It has a pretty wide variety of gameplay styles. Definitely not a shooter, though you do have batarangs. You play it mostly as a third person sneaker, though as I said you won't go to wrong charging into a group of thugs, unless they're armed. Combat is pretty simple... you attack with X. If you see someone about to attack you, you can hit Y to counter if you want. B will flourish your cape, stunning a person with it for a couple seconds. You can do a quiet take down if you sneak up behind someone and press Y, or if you're in a fight against an enemy on the ground, right trigger+Y does an instant take down.

Mostly though you'll be sneaking around, exploring Arkham and trying to figure out what the Joker is up to while he taunts you over the various communication systems. You've also got 'detective mode', which lets you scan areas for non-obvious clues and to track bad guys, even though walls.

As you go through, you get experience and level up, which unlocks new abilities for you to choose from, giving you better batarangs and fighting moves. You will also find new gadgets to let you do things and go places you couldn't without them.

I recommend getting it Rook. So far the story is interesting. The voice work is top notch being as they got the cast from Batman: The Animated Series. The character models are a bit to deep into the Uncanny Valley, but I've seen worse. Batman himself looks like one bad mother- Shut your mouth! I'm just talking 'bout Batman.

Gameplay is pretty good, and very smooth. Bats can wipe the floor up with a mess of thugs.. unless they've got guns. In which case he can be very sneaky and take some out. The only time I've died so far was flubbing a take down on an armed guard, and I got shot up before I could stop him. No rubberized bat-armor in this game...

My one semi-quibble at this point is I keep running into side areas I can't enter because I don't have the proper tool yet. So I'm getting the feeling there's going to be a lot of Metroid style back tracking as I slowly pick up gadgets to let me into those areas.. A gameplay choice I never liked.

*curls up on the other side of Rook*

I couldn't sleep either. Had the strangest dreams and unending coughing fits. So I spent the wee hours of the morning with Batman: Arkham Asylum. So far it is shockingly living up to all the hype about it. Best $10 I've ever spent on a video game.

I shall destroy the person below me by selling them to Disney Corp!

I haz no cookies....

*leaves a shiny catgirl next to Tiger*

There you go.

*resists making comments about Rad testing out his Wii*

This is the Rookery. Fey. It's ground zero for fluff bombs, they're always going off here.

*secretly replaces Fedor's donut with a fluffy one. Let's see if he notices*

sniff, Fedor doesn't like my donut.. Fine, I'll put it back under the couch until tomorrow then.

*slips another 50 villain onto BP's account*

*runs around flailing*

IT'S THE END TIMES!

Next month: A very special X-men, introducing their new mentor, Professor Mouse.

Morning Detra. I'm sure it's five o'clock somewhere *slides over a drink*

*joins everyone on the lawn, giving puppy scritches and hugs to Rooky, Emmi and Princess*

Good morning everyone. You could have always said you had the 24 hour Avian Flu, Rook.



*lays out a donut for Fedor*

Here you go. It's a little fuzzy, but fuzzy is cute, right? So it's an extra cute donut.