YMMV / Batman: Vengeance

• Complete Monster: The Joker is the true Big Bad and the ultimate mastermind behind the game's evil. Faking his death to keep suspicion off himself, Joker manipulates the supervillains Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy into committing various crimes, from flash-freezing a factory of workers to implanting carnivorous plants inside innocents to blackmail them, and uses the ensuing chaos to initiate his own scheme. Joker plans to pump Joker Gas and the highly flammable substance Promethium into Gotham City's sewers, then giddily watch as millions of innocents choke on their own laughter as they burn alive. Even when beaten, Joker attempts to fling himself to his death, hoping to both torment Batman and immortalize himself as the greatest nightmare in Gotham's history.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Poison Ivy's trenchcoat-clad henchman is a ringer for Hush.
  • If you let the Joker kill himself by Disney Villain Death, you get a Non-Standard Game Over saying that "death is not a substitute for justice." Cut to several years later, when Batman Begins came out and depicted Batman letting more or less the exact same scenario play out with another villain and vocally acknowledging it as perfectly fine and not against his code.
• Misaimed "Realism": The game emphasizes that hand-cuffing enemies will permanently neutralize them, but it still doesn't make sense that they couldn't just get up anyways. This is especially egregious since Batman leaves them behind after hand-cuffing them.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: Downplayed. While the gameplay received criticism, the story, voice work, and graphics were praised, and it was considered a decent enough tie in to the show.
• Paranoia Fuel: Thugs that you don't handcuff will get back up and attack you again. If you are out of handcuffs and happen to linger around, you'll be constantly looking over your shoulder, waiting for an ambush. It doesn't help that a lot of the secrets in the game are found through exploration of thug-ridden stages.
  • The Funny Bones Warehouse chapter only serves to exaggerate this, by having a ton of pyro Jacks in Boxes roaming the floors. You can't see them easily, but you can most assuredly hear them.
• So Okay, It's Average: All the games received mostly average reviews from critics, though the PC version received mostly mixed reviews and some negative reviews.
• Underused Game Mechanic: It is possible to sneak up on enemies and neutralize them instantly, but there are very few instances where this opportunity can arise.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The New Batman Adventures redesigns look absolutely wonderful in the pre-rendered cutscenes.