Batman: Arkham Knight For Switch Receives Another Switch 2 Backwards Compatibility Update

The trilogy is on sale right now for less than $20!

I already have the first one... :/

I got it the other day when I found out it had been patched again. The audio now works

... But I want docked performance and visual updates...! 😢

Ouch the nintendolife.com review for this game, I played through the main game and a bunch of side quests before patches and I really only thought the car stuff was rough but playable. Honestly maybe I just dont care or notice frame rate that much

These would be nice candidates for Switch 2 Editions to at least match the PS4/XB1 versions, but even if it were to happen, I have doubts they would be free upgrades.

@Spider-Kev Thanks for the heads-up!

What is the difference between stability and performance updates?

Could it be....

Guess I need to boot it up...

This was shocking even on the Switch 2 so I’m gonna give this another go

I replayed the four games on X Box Series X around a year ago and I still enjoy them and the only thing I was disappointed over was we can no longer play the 'Cold, Cold Heart' DLC for 'Arkham Origins' or any of the other DLC for that game. I am looking forward to the new 'Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight' game coming out next year since it looks similar to the 'Arkham' games and we can play as Batgirl but I am still hoping we get another new 'Arkham' game one day since none of the other games have been as good as those.

@AussieMcBucket I think stability usually has to do with preventing crashes, glitches, etc. Basically the difference is between improving something that's functional but inefficient and fixing something that's flat out broken.

With my finger on the trigger for the discounted trilogy these holidays, I'm still finding Arkham Knight an ironic situation because I wouldn't be compelled to move it to NS2 for La Performance™ but its 26 Gb (the entirety of Borderlands 3 is barely 22, Carl😳) aren't the easiest to cram on the Gen 9 hybrid either - heck, if I found myself with so much freed up on the latter, I'd probably use it to do justice to guiltily shelved playthroughs like Astral Chain and FFXII. Then again, it may well be a bridge to cross when you get to it as the third game in the aforediscussed pack. Asylum is below 10 Gb, at least.😏

@Anachronism Okay, that makes sense. Good explanation, thanks!

I don’t know how much work would be involved but a Switch 2 Edition of just this game would most likely sort a lot if not all of the problems out. I’m really hoping they’re looking at doing that

@rvcolem1 I think the review was deserved when you look at how the game could/should be. I think the Switch was too ambitious a port to tackle in all honesty as I recall this on its original 2015 release there were so many issues performance wise on anything but PS3. This game actually runs and looks really great on Steam Deck, so I think in reality a Switch 2 port of this would have made more sense

I just rolled my saved game. I am currently in one of the airships. I have to say, the aliasing is cleaned up a bit as is the resolution. Frame rate is rock solid. The character models, especially Bruce, look sharper too.

Are there any new games coming to switch2?

Good news. I may revisit it one day. Its my most disliked Arkham game out of the 3, well 4, but that is no slight on it, it is still a great game.

I am actually curious how this one runs now, on S2. I gave up around 10% in, it is unplayable on Switch. And I have played games with serious performance issues.

Knight remains the only game in the series that I haven't finished.

It was unplayable on my top of the range SLI PC at launch, I ran to the supermarket and bought the PS4 version but that was no good as the frame rate was too low to complete some sections.

Then we had the unplayable Switch port.

At this point I'd like a current gen remaster but I'm not even confident that would run properly.

The frame rate and graphics never bothered me. But I’ll tell you what did bother me. It was impossible to 100% this game on the Switch. If you beat all the side quests and get all the riddler trophies, at the last moment the game would just go to black. You couldn’t get the real ending. It was a severe glitch only known by the people who tried 100%ing the game on Switch. From the release of the game to current day it never got patched. TIL NOW!!! You can finally beat the game and get the real ending!!!! I thought this patch would never come! I booted up my save file, went to where it would always glitch and it finally worked. I can’t believe they finally fixed it.

Get cool update and awesome to see the switch 2 portable mode get some love. Many switch 1 games I played are looking just fine in docked on a switch 2, but on handheld they’re pretty rough looking due to the resolution cuts of the switch 1.

@BaldB3lper78 SwitchUp on Youtube do all patched up videos every so often which I find useful, they do mention Knight often so hopefully they cover it soon - might be worth keeping an eye out there for their feedback, I'm so keen for this game to be 'fixed' on Switch 2

I'm going to confess something: because I couldn't afford a console for years, I skipped over several Switch game reviews that I didn't bother reading. Last Christmas, I bought a Switch and enjoyed it like never before. I caught up on several new releases, and just a couple of months ago, I bought a brand-new Switch 2. I bought another batch of games to see how they worked, and one of them was Arkham Knight (although I already had it on Steam, I'd never played it on that platform). I had no idea about the bad reviews and enjoyed it immensely. Yesterday, the game unexpectedly updated, and I started looking for information about what was included. Only now am I finding out that it had stability and performance issues.

All I can say is that it's by far the best Batman game they've made to date. It far surpassed what I saw in Arkham City (which, for me, was already the definitive Batman game). Now that they've added the Batmobile, I realize there's still so much to say about Batman games. I hope they include the Batjet and the Batboat in future sequels.

By the way, why haven't they included Arkham Origins or Blackgate yet? I played them on PS3 and 3DS, and they're excellent games.

Does it play like it did on real proper consoles ten years ago?

Game looks awful but seems to play better on switch 2

Still looks the same docked on S2, as bridge and building textures still have two pixels to their name. Here's to some updated/higher-res textures one day! 🤞

This redemption arc is outshining the DC cinematic universe.

@Moistnado No, you have to use your hands AND feet this time. Since we are warping back ten years, I blame Obama.

it's better but they need a dedicated switch 2 patch.

@BaldB3lper78 they were quick on this one, if interested: https://youtu.be/gpRAUJlu-rU?si=qVUqNpuvsSGSjo1g

@BaldB3lper78 I just actually loaded it up on Switch 2, and it’s still terrible. The resolution is so low in the opening scene in the cafe that everything appears to be moving on screen due to the aliasing, it’d probably give you a headache with prolonged use

I played this a little bit last month on Switch 2. The visuals were really low res. Now coming back to it is significantly better. Still doesn’t look like the ps4 game it could be, but it’s getting there. Solid 30fps is way better than even a month ago, which would still dip in Batmobile scenes.
I think they are one Switch 2 “texture pack with more lighting effects” away from this being the version it deserves.

Nice to see it getting patches but let’s be realistic it’s never going to look pretty, they will never go to those lengths, I could be wrong but I still doubt it

I tried it last week post patch and the resolution and textures to me still aren’t good enough. In the cafe at the beginning the shimmering/aliasing on so many surfaces looks like something that could be migraine inducing, was just very uncomfortable to look at.
Here’s hoping for a Switch 2 edition, but I do really appreciate they keeping working on it, just one last push please WB/Turn Me Up

It looks great now on handheld

These games deserve remastered versions on all current gen consoles. Similar to Red Dead Redemption that was just released.

A proper Switch 2 update would be cool.
I have the games on PlayStation, so I don't need it, but I'm somewhat in the mood to replay them. And if Arkham Tank Simulator already sucks gameplay-wise, I'd love for it to at least look as pretty as I remember.

This trilogy is incomplete; Arkham Origins and Blackgate are missing.

I would just be happy with a PS5 version. Arkham Knight is the game that came bundled with my PS4 back in 2015. This game seems too big for a handheld, although Cyberpunk pulled it off.

No need. I'm staying with my Xbox version.

@8bit4Life that's not true. The Switch 2 could handle the game very well, it's just not optimized yet.

The Switch version, even with low framerate, was never unplayable. The problem is that Arkham Knight just isn’t a very good game, especially compared to the previous two.

It's not a good game. It's the worst in the series by a mile even if you ignore the batmobile sections, which you can't because they are required and awful. There's basically no reason for anyone to play this game in 2025. Play asylum or city or origins even and have a much better time