{"id":77276,"date":"2026-05-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77276"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:36:28","slug":"lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight-may-be-the-arkham-successor-weve-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77276","title":{"rendered":"Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight May Be The Arkham Successor We’ve Been Waiting For"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been kind of a long time since we had a proper new Batman action game\u2013more than a decade, in fact, since 2015’s Arkham Knight was the most recent one. But that’s going to change on May 22, when Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight<\/a> hits digital storefronts. I had the chance recently to get about two hours of hands-on time with the newest Lego Batman epic, and it feels as much like a new Arkham game as it does a new Lego Batman game.<\/p>\n

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It didn’t take long for the parallels to become obvious. My session began with a battle against Carmine Falcone’s thugs at the Iceberg Lounge, and I felt immediately at home with the familiar control scheme–square to attack, triangle to counter, X to evade or jump over an enemy’s head. As you play, you’ll unlock gadgets and additional moves that will make each brawl more dynamic and fun, though the battles certainly aren’t as difficult as they were in the Arkham games–Lego games are not generally intended to be challenging in that way, after all.<\/p>\n

The feeling of familiarity didn’t fade once I got out into the open world of Gotham City, gliding around and using Batman’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been kind of a long time since we had a proper new Batman action game\u2013more than a decade, in fact, since 2015’s Arkham Knight was the most recent one. But that’s going to change on May 22, when Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight hits digital storefronts. I had the chance recently to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":77278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77279,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions\/77279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}