I can see how scary it was for everybody back then to play Arkham Asylum. Let's have a moment of silence for the young us who played the Killer Croc Lair level. R.I.P Innocence
@@TheDalekCaan_ well duh it's not meant to be. It's a T rated game that really pushed the boundaries of what a T rating could do. Can't say it's a T and just scared the shit out of children. It's was masterfully executed. "Not as scary as silent Hill or resident evil." No fucking shit Sherlock.
@@Omelander 3 years old!? Dude I'm 22 and just replayed it yesterday, now it didn't scare me but man it's unnerving. I can't imagine what that would do to me at 3 😅
Knowing Amadeus Arkham's backstory from the original graphic novel, it seems the first ten, and possibly the eleventh, were written by Amadeus Arkham, and all the following were an insane Quincy Sharp 'continuing' as the self-professed spirit of Amadeus. It's also hinted at by the "new bricks and metal" lines matching Sharp reopening the Asylum, and later he even parallels Joker to the infamous 'Mad Dog', who killed Amadeus' family. Knowing Arkham's backstory from the original graphic novel makes all this very clear as to where Amadeus' story stops (and where Sharp begins).
@@londomollari1082 It's called 'Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth' by Grant Morrison. It's amazing, so worth getting - it's the game's main inspiration and it adapts it really loosely, so you won't at all be re-treading anything you experienced already from in the game. Oh and Ben Affleck's The Batman was going to take a lot of inspiration from it as well!
Yeah I was confused for a bit because after hearing him tell the story of Mad Dog killing his family and then himself killing Mad Dog in return it sounds right, then he starts talking about Killer Croc and Joker, but Amadeus Arkham is long dead by the time they are inmates. I thought they rewrote Amadeus's backstory as Quincy's instead but then I came to the same conclusion you did, that it actually was Amadeus for the first 10 and perhaps from developing another personality he genuinely believed that he was Amadeus reincarnated or simply just continuing his legacy and narrated the first few as if it was himself before continuing with his new stories.
You can hear his voice slowly become less Armadeus Arkham and more Quincy... 0:43 The FIRST Audio Tape 14:06 The 2nd to Last Audio Tape 14:51 The LAST audio tape
"And then he called me that horrible name." That becomes funny af after you find out that it's Quincy Sharp talking and Joker probably called him Warden Idiot while impersonating his voice.
If I found these I’d turn them to the police. He talked about beating Croc, burning Ivy, stalking Harley, and Joker was the only one to brake him. Also after Arkham City he was sent to prison and he started seeing ghosts of Hugo Strange. He then hung himself...
If Sharp killed Joker, that would be a public service, not a crime. The thing that disturbs me is that some of the patients do legitimately need help and Sharp is murdering them.
This chronicles are terrifying, specifically because there is nothing supernatural going on, it's just humans doing vile things to other humans and that's more terrifying than any fantastical monsters.
For some reason, I didn't notice that the Spirit of Arkham diary was actually Quincy Sharp's life being told. What unsettles me more is how different his two portraits are at the end, which supports Batman's description of his character.
First part was Amadeus and a reference to the excellent comic Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. Second part is exclusive to the game, his story "continued" by Quincy.
@Apothicon Undead Dr. Edward Richtofen Sharp proclaims himself to be the spirit of Amadeus but he's really just obsessed and unknowingly developed a personality disorder
They should have carried this storyline on instead of retconning it into "Strange and Mad Hatter were just drugging Sharp into thinking he was Amadeus." The original explanation of Sharp being crazy to start with, exposure to the inmates making it worse and as he read more of what Amadeus Arkham had written he developed a split personality based on him, a personality that wanted to kill the inmates like Arkham had killed Martin Hawkins was better.
You’re mistaken, Warden Sharp was a schizophrenic whose particular delusion made him believe that he was in fact the reincarnation of Amadeus Arkham. Hugo Strange was aware of his condition and his habits (drinking tea) and enlisted the help of the Mad Hatter to make Sharp more suggestible to Strange.
Bro, literally my favorite part of the game was solving all the riddles, getting all the trophies, and completing the characters stories. the other games have that stuff but something about Arkham Asylum did it best
When I first officially watched the playthrough of this game by Arkham videos, I remember listening to these, I liked the atmosphere they used for this. The dripping in the background is so unique, unlike the other tape interviews. I thought it was actually Amadeus when I listened but one thing gave it away, Poison Ivy. I didn't remember putting Killer Croc in. But when I first heard The Spirit Of Arkham say "A green woman" I was shocked I thought to myself "Amadeus wasn't around when she was around" And then him recalling Joker. Then when I found out the warden was the one killing his patients AND writing the chronicles of Arkham I wasn't surprised. They made it pretty clear in the entry before the final one. A lot of the entries felt out of order but l loved it anyway good storyline
The fact that this is based on the book “Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth”, where a crazed head doctor of the Asylum believed himself to be the successor to Amadeus Arkham, and began killing inmates.
You hear a man go obsessed with the past, insane with power and then briefly desperate to justify his sadism, before just abandon all pretension of righteousness and take pride in his "work". This has to be the most chilling of the tapes.
I feel sorry for Amadeus. Like, he was probably insane from the moment Mad-Dog killed his wife and daughter. Anyone would be. He’s sympathetic. But at the same time, he’s probably the reason why Arkham never seems to reform people. Some villains like Scarecrow could be reformed. A lot of writers just don’t lean into it because that won’t sell more comics. I wish they did, imagine how could of an arc it would be to see a proper villain desperately try to redeem them self after a life of crime. Hell, they could use some lesser villains; Dollhouse, Babydoll, Kite-Man, Cluemaster etc…
The topic of Batman's villains reforming is a topic that's touched upon quite a few times. The problem isn't ranges from them not wanting to change to them wanting to change but can't help themselves or they are pushed back into a life of crime. Take Harvey Dent from the Dark Knight Returns comic. Harvey Dent in this story had surgery on his face that fixed his scarred half. For the first time in over a decade, both sides matched. After several therapeutic sessions, Harvey Dent was released from Arkham and everyone had the best hopes for the guy. Unfortunately, Harvey Dent was never actually cured. While yes, physically he was, but his mind was forever scarred. Instead of seeing himself as normal, he saw his face as both sides being scarred, and everyone was just pretending that he looked OK. He eventually fell back down to his old ways, threatened to blow up a building for money, though he actually planned on blowing it up anyway to commit suicide. Reform stories like this are meant to compare them with Batman, because Bruce also can't change who he is. He tried to in this story, retired for 10 years until 1 night he couldn't take it anymore and donned on the Cowl and Cape yet again.
In my opinion: out of all the Arkham Games, Asylum takes the cake for creepiest T rated game. The atmosphere is pretty unsettling,the buildings and the stuff can give you an idea of what these inmates go through,the stories Amadeus Arkham are….something,the boss fights(except steroid joker) are amazing(especially scarecrow and crocs’),and,if you’re a riddler trophy hunting nut like me, you can see some stuff that really shouldn’t be in a T rated game.
Yeah, honestly the outcome of this was disappointing for me because I genuinely wanted the location to be haunted, it would've been so unique for this series
@@docrofreborn7497 Sharp is no hero he only cared about himself and what HE wanted instead of thinking about all the innocent people in danger in Gotham City.
@@adamgoncalves1591 true, but he’s a politician. He probably spun the story around so he and Batman fought side by side to take down the Asylum inmates or something to get the people swaying for him. And that’s without the brainwashing done by Strange to make him even more charismatic.
Someone needs to make a movie like Joker, but on Amadeus Arkham. Basing it on Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. It won't just be like Joker in how it shows trauma and mental illness, but also a psychological horror about the slow breakdown of an innocent man spiralling into complete insanity after he lost everything. Seriously, Arkham is a really underrated character in the Batman mythos.
I wouldn't mind a film or show about late 19th century Gotham with cool characters ripe for exploration like Solomon Wayne, Cyrus Pinkney, Richard Cobblepot and such. I think the best way to do it would be to have it start from either Cyrus' perspective or Solomon's (or both) and then as the series progresses Amadeus begins to take more of a center stage and eventually securing the funding from Cyrus to build Arkham Asylum. Then have the series focus on the Cobblepot's attempts to take over Gotham City (like Richard's son attempting to become mayor, building an arms manufacturing factory in the city, and more), Cyrus' growing fear of the situation, and Amadeus' slowly lapsing sanity caused by tragedies in his life. Then, by the end of the show it is just him . . . alone. Amadeus Arkham as the last remaining hero of Gotham (in this era at least) trying to help the insane and the mentally infirm. It would cover his attempts to help Mad Dog and the progress he makes, only to end in the abject failure to help him and resulting in the destruction of Amadeus' psyche as the series ends on him writhing and scrawling in his cell. Dark I know, but I think it's a cool idea since that particular time period of Gotham is so unexplored.
@@austinkersey2445 I like this idea. It would scratch my itch of wanting a story in Gotham way before Batman, Joker, and everyone else we're accustomed to. Always wanted to see more of Gothams history.
*The Fact that Quincy* took his frustration out on a paranoid schizophrenic that was alone.. and he begged for him to stop - while he beat him to death.. is another level of dark - - even some of the darkest Batman comics don’t go THAT DARK.
How ironic was it that Amadeus, the founder of Arkham Asylum, eventually went mad and wound up in his own insane asylum that he built. Faye can have a cruel sense of humor and irony it seems….
This game was the WaW zombies of the Arkham games. It wasn’t fully developed, but it laid the groundwork for the later games, and it was by far the most creepy ass one in The series.
I mean, if this guy had just succeeded in killing joker, lobotomizing Harley, and killing killer crock, yeah id say gotham would be in a lot better shape, batman killing them would just cause a lot of problems, but the head of the asylum killing them? Wouldn't really make anything worse, only better
I wish they actually stuck to their guns with this part of the story instead of just making a throw away plotline in the sequel where Hugo strange was just mild controlling Sharp into thinking he was possessed by the spirit of Amadeus Arkham.
Jesus Christ. As a kid I listened to these without really understanding what they meant. But now… Holy fuck this game was dark. Really sad the rest of the series didn’t embrace that darkness. Knight tried, but didn’t quite hit the mark of subtlety.
“My name is Quincy sharp the spirt of Amadeus Arkham u have done well to decipher on my story and I prey it will help you on your path. I trust through my writings you will do what is right, please I implore you continue my work this city deserves a savior continue my work”
Remeber, Quincy Sharp is still out there, we see him in city after he became mayor, and we never hear from him again. Honestly he could have fit the role of the Arkham Knight perfectly with the split personality thing and the fact that we know the character. Instead of some random person we've never heard of except for easter eggs.
Before anyone comments it, yes. I've just found out after writing this that he started seeing ghosts of Hugo Strange and hung himself. I still think this could have been a better idea then Jason Todd coming out of nowhere.
@@leshape192 And it was such a fucking cop out, too! What the hell was all that buildup about his connection to Amadeus for if it they were just gonna kill him off with no ceremony?!
The voice actor for Warden Sharp here is named Tom Kane AKA Professor Utonium from Powerpuff Girls And Master Yoda from the Star Wars Clone Wars and its series on CN. Sadly he had a major stroke a while ago and it seems he can no longer voice act :C
And it all ultimately meant nothing! All that buildup, all that intrigue about Sharp's connection to Amadeus Arkham and they chose to squander it on Jason Todd taking up another identity because apparently he got bored of being Red Hood! Aren't you just glad you went around the island looking for these messages just for it all to never properly get followed up on?! I know I am!
There once was a man named Amadeus Arkham. He was raised in Arkham Manor with his family. Unfortunately his Father had severe psychological issues and committed suicide. It scarred Amadeus but he went on to have a good life with a Wife and child. When his Mother became mentally ill he wanted to help her. So he transformed the Manor into an Asylum and named it after her. But she died and Amadeus wanted to honour her so he opened the Asylum for all Gotham. His first patient was someone named ‘Mad Dog.’ He escaped from the Asylum and murdered Amadeus’ Wife and Child. ‘Mad Dog’ was recaptured and Amadeus silently killed him while in his asylum. Unfortunately his mind snapped and he started writing down his mad thoughts in a notebook. His mind going more and more obsessed with ‘his great work’ of murdering, lobotomising and destroying all the evil that came into the asylum. He died in his cell. A long time after that in modern Gotham. A man named Quincy Sharp was appointed the New Director of Arkham. He believed in bettering Gotham by curing the Insane. Unfortunately his right hand was a man named Professor Hugo Strange. He was a ruthless cunning Mastermind who used the inmates of Arkham and Quincy for his own ends. He asked a brilliant man named Jervis Tetch A.K.A The Mad Hatter to help Hugo into manipulating Quincy to be under… a spell so to speak. Hugo found the old journal of Amadeus Arkham and had Quincy read it. Slowly he too became insane believing that he was possessed by Arkhams ghost. He became ‘The Spirit of Amadeus Arkham.’ And developed a split personality. Hugo wanted Quincy to begin silently murdering the vile villains of Gotham. Similar to how Amadeus did to ‘Mad Dog.’ Unfortunately The Joker threw a spammer in the works. Causing a ruckus at the Asylum making Hugo’s plan impossible. Causing him to come up with another idea he dubbed ‘Arkham City.’ He needed the Approval of the Mayors office so he had his pawn Quincy elect himself for Mayor. Because the public saw Quincy as a hero for stopping The Jokers attack on the Asylum (even though it was The Batman) he won. When he won the election and became Mayor he approved the plans for ‘Arkham City.’ Hugo concocted a new top secret plan with his Master Ra’s Al Ghul. A plan named ‘Protocol 10.’ Which was to rid the City of all its filthy evil. By killing all the villains like Penguin, Joker, Riddler etc. Causing Batman to be obsolete in Gotham and Join Ra’s Al Ghul in becoming his successor. That plan failed Hugo was murdered by Ra’s for failing him and Ra’s committed temporary suicide. Once the public found out about Quincy’s involvement with Hugo and how he was connected he was arrested. While in Prison Quincy snapped for real this time and started seeing visions of a Ghost Hugo Strange. Eventually all the mental strain took a toll on Quincy and he hung himself in his cell. Ending ‘The Spirit of Amadeus Arkham’ once and for all.
I thought I am the only one who find Arkham Asylum scary, creepy and dirty. Game is just masterpiece for 2009 I have so much memories and it still give me chills
None of the other Arkham games ever came close to how spooky Arkham Asylum was.
Walter Kovacs yup
I played this game when I was young and the crazy inmates always scared me and their scary sounds too
I must've been 8 years old. this game scared the living shit out of me. But I loved it
Probably because they didn't take place in an asylum.
because it is a Asylum game #outlast
I can see how scary it was for everybody back then to play Arkham Asylum.
Let's have a moment of silence for the young us who played the Killer Croc Lair level.
R.I.P Innocence
Oh ffs, it was tense but not that bad. Nothing compared to shit like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.
Idk the first scarecrow fight scared 3 year old me death
@@TheDalekCaan_ well duh it's not meant to be. It's a T rated game that really pushed the boundaries of what a T rating could do. Can't say it's a T and just scared the shit out of children. It's was masterfully executed. "Not as scary as silent Hill or resident evil." No fucking shit Sherlock.
@@Omelander 3 years old!? Dude I'm 22 and just replayed it yesterday, now it didn't scare me but man it's unnerving. I can't imagine what that would do to me at 3 😅
@@kennanblake1562 I don’t remember how old I was but I was young
Knowing Amadeus Arkham's backstory from the original graphic novel, it seems the first ten, and possibly the eleventh, were written by Amadeus Arkham, and all the following were an insane Quincy Sharp 'continuing' as the self-professed spirit of Amadeus. It's also hinted at by the "new bricks and metal" lines matching Sharp reopening the Asylum, and later he even parallels Joker to the infamous 'Mad Dog', who killed Amadeus' family.
Knowing Arkham's backstory from the original graphic novel makes all this very clear as to where Amadeus' story stops (and where Sharp begins).
How's the graphic novel called?
@@londomollari1082 It's called 'Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth' by Grant Morrison. It's amazing, so worth getting - it's the game's main inspiration and it adapts it really loosely, so you won't at all be re-treading anything you experienced already from in the game. Oh and Ben Affleck's The Batman was going to take a lot of inspiration from it as well!
@@SCOLTON97Archive Thank you, I'll put it on my list.
Thanks man, I was wondering that myself. When was Amadeus and when was it sharpie.
Yeah I was confused for a bit because after hearing him tell the story of Mad Dog killing his family and then himself killing Mad Dog in return it sounds right, then he starts talking about Killer Croc and Joker, but Amadeus Arkham is long dead by the time they are inmates.
I thought they rewrote Amadeus's backstory as Quincy's instead but then I came to the same conclusion you did, that it actually was Amadeus for the first 10 and perhaps from developing another personality he genuinely believed that he was Amadeus reincarnated or simply just continuing his legacy and narrated the first few as if it was himself before continuing with his new stories.
You can hear his voice slowly become less Armadeus Arkham and more Quincy...
0:43 The FIRST Audio Tape
14:06 The 2nd to Last Audio Tape
14:51 The LAST audio tape
We know that already
No, the 2nd last to last it just completely flips. It does not slowly change lmfao.
You think he possessed Quincy ?
Mauri GL bruh it’s for telling
That's one fuck of a voice actor.
This game was an absolute masterpiece
Final boss was trash
follow the damn train cj
Masterpiece!? I WAS *MOLIWOPED BY BANE WHEN I WAS ALREADY DEAD AND I SAW MY SELF GETTING ICONIC BANE-BACK-BREAKED* HELL YEA ITS A AWSOME GAME
@@SuperMandibleclaw that was a common complaint back when it came out. Venom Joker was very whack.
And all you had to do, was follow the riddlers clues C.J!!!!
"And then he called me that horrible name." That becomes funny af after you find out that it's Quincy Sharp talking and Joker probably called him Warden Idiot while impersonating his voice.
It'd be funnier if he freaked out because joker called him "sharpie"
@@felipecosta-kv2fx Quincy wasn't the Sharpest tool in the shed.
@@felipecosta-kv2fx I think "Sharpie" is the likely name Joker used
It was definitely sharpie
It was a pun considering he was holding a knife to him
If I found these I’d turn them to the police. He talked about beating Croc, burning Ivy, stalking Harley, and Joker was the only one to brake him. Also after Arkham City he was sent to prison and he started seeing ghosts of Hugo Strange. He then hung himself...
There was also something about a paranoid schizophrenic. Could be either Two Face or Scarecrow
Professor Nichols Scarecrow isn’t schizo
@@reillymcwriting I took a swing. Two Face then
If Sharp killed Joker, that would be a public service, not a crime. The thing that disturbs me is that some of the patients do legitimately need help and Sharp is murdering them.
Him being possessed by Armadeus’s ghost is actually Sharp being drugged by Strange
After reading Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, this game - especially this section - still gives me chills. Like holy shit.
Jak Dexter Good thing it wasn't really the spirit of Arkham. It was just Hugo Strange controlling Sharp and making him kill his patients.
Unpopular Opinions I absolutely hate that retcon this was so interesting and they ruined it
The whole book along with TAS influenced Arkham Asylum
Because there is nothing supernatural going on. It's just humans doing bad things to humans.
This chronicles are terrifying, specifically because there is nothing supernatural going on, it's just humans doing vile things to other humans and that's more terrifying than any fantastical monsters.
They aren’t even humans
@@iwalktoburgerkingandwalkba4800 The doctors are. And they are just as crazy as the patients.
What phenomenal voice acting. Goes perfectly with the vibe of playing Arkham Asylum
11:40 The scariest part of the chornicles in my opinion. Sharp literally wanted to lobotomise Harley Quinn for her relationship with the Joker.
tbh wouldve been better
sharp: [literally admitting to murdering the mentally ill]
also sharp: pls continue my work uwu
He's reading the ameadus arkham work i think so its not him
@@theskeletonfulthe first 10 or 11 are Amadeus, the rest are Warden Sharp.
For some reason, I didn't notice that the Spirit of Arkham diary was actually Quincy Sharp's life being told. What unsettles me more is how different his two portraits are at the end, which supports Batman's description of his character.
RicardoHipper No the first parts were Amadeus and than Quincy continued it
First part was Amadeus and a reference to the excellent comic Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. Second part is exclusive to the game, his story "continued" by Quincy.
Joker Ministry It’s Amadeus story and Quincy is continuing it
@Apothicon Undead Dr. Edward Richtofen It's Amadeus' journal and then Quincy continues it and begins killing inmates.
@Apothicon Undead Dr. Edward Richtofen Sharp proclaims himself to be the spirit of Amadeus but he's really just obsessed and unknowingly developed a personality disorder
They should have carried this storyline on instead of retconning it into "Strange and Mad Hatter were just drugging Sharp into thinking he was Amadeus." The original explanation of Sharp being crazy to start with, exposure to the inmates making it worse and as he read more of what Amadeus Arkham had written he developed a split personality based on him, a personality that wanted to kill the inmates like Arkham had killed Martin Hawkins was better.
So it were Strange and Mad Hatter who made him like this and not how it was dexcribed in Arkham asylum? That's a shame it screws ip the character
as far as i know Mad Hatter and Strange only got Sharp to open Arkham City
You’re mistaken, Warden Sharp was a schizophrenic whose particular delusion made him believe that he was in fact the reincarnation of Amadeus Arkham. Hugo Strange was aware of his condition and his habits (drinking tea) and enlisted the help of the Mad Hatter to make Sharp more suggestible to Strange.
@@wafflemanofficial3130 no. He was already a schizo and was doing terrible stuff. Strange merely gave a name to the persona doing it.
Bro, literally my favorite part of the game was solving all the riddles, getting all the trophies, and completing the characters stories. the other games have that stuff but something about Arkham Asylum did it best
Facts, probably cause it felt more enclosed
The range of Tom Kane is astonishing. Too bad for his stroke. I’ll miss it.
god me too dude
When I first officially watched the playthrough of this game by Arkham videos, I remember listening to these, I liked the atmosphere they used for this. The dripping in the background is so unique, unlike the other tape interviews.
I thought it was actually Amadeus when I listened but one thing gave it away, Poison Ivy. I didn't remember putting Killer Croc in. But when I first heard The Spirit Of Arkham say "A green woman" I was shocked I thought to myself "Amadeus wasn't around when she was around" And then him recalling Joker.
Then when I found out the warden was the one killing his patients AND writing the chronicles of Arkham I wasn't surprised. They made it pretty clear in the entry before the final one. A lot of the entries felt out of order but l loved it anyway good storyline
The fact that this is based on the book “Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth”, where a crazed head doctor of the Asylum believed himself to be the successor to Amadeus Arkham, and began killing inmates.
You hear a man go obsessed with the past, insane with power and then briefly desperate to justify his sadism, before just abandon all pretension of righteousness and take pride in his "work".
This has to be the most chilling of the tapes.
This oldman's voice with the sound of the wind blowing make me chill everytime.
Oh yeah it is
I feel sorry for Amadeus. Like, he was probably insane from the moment Mad-Dog killed his wife and daughter. Anyone would be. He’s sympathetic. But at the same time, he’s probably the reason why Arkham never seems to reform people.
Some villains like Scarecrow could be reformed. A lot of writers just don’t lean into it because that won’t sell more comics. I wish they did, imagine how could of an arc it would be to see a proper villain desperately try to redeem them self after a life of crime. Hell, they could use some lesser villains; Dollhouse, Babydoll, Kite-Man, Cluemaster etc…
The topic of Batman's villains reforming is a topic that's touched upon quite a few times. The problem isn't ranges from them not wanting to change to them wanting to change but can't help themselves or they are pushed back into a life of crime.
Take Harvey Dent from the Dark Knight Returns comic. Harvey Dent in this story had surgery on his face that fixed his scarred half. For the first time in over a decade, both sides matched. After several therapeutic sessions, Harvey Dent was released from Arkham and everyone had the best hopes for the guy. Unfortunately, Harvey Dent was never actually cured. While yes, physically he was, but his mind was forever scarred. Instead of seeing himself as normal, he saw his face as both sides being scarred, and everyone was just pretending that he looked OK. He eventually fell back down to his old ways, threatened to blow up a building for money, though he actually planned on blowing it up anyway to commit suicide. Reform stories like this are meant to compare them with Batman, because Bruce also can't change who he is. He tried to in this story, retired for 10 years until 1 night he couldn't take it anymore and donned on the Cowl and Cape yet again.
In my opinion: out of all the Arkham Games, Asylum takes the cake for creepiest T rated game. The atmosphere is pretty unsettling,the buildings and the stuff can give you an idea of what these inmates go through,the stories Amadeus Arkham are….something,the boss fights(except steroid joker) are amazing(especially scarecrow and crocs’),and,if you’re a riddler trophy hunting nut like me, you can see some stuff that really shouldn’t be in a T rated game.
This genuinely made me think that Arkham was fucking HAUNTED as a kid, felt like I was being watched throughout the asylum
I honestly feel the same too. It always feels like there’s something out there, waiting.
Yeah, honestly the outcome of this was disappointing for me because I genuinely wanted the location to be haunted, it would've been so unique for this series
He really is the FIRST two-face in my opinion...
I would actually say that Quincy Sharp has become 2 spirit
@@maurigl7720 Sharp wasn't actually possessed by a spirit. Hugo Strange was manipulating Sharp through his medication.
Let's not forget that Quincy Sharp was in the Arkham City video game
Becoming Mayor no less lol
@@brookswilliams5239 he was considered a hero after Batman controlled the riot at the Asylum
@@docrofreborn7497 Sharp is no hero he only cared about himself and what HE wanted instead of thinking about all the innocent people in danger in Gotham City.
@@adamgoncalves1591 true, but he’s a politician. He probably spun the story around so he and Batman fought side by side to take down the Asylum inmates or something to get the people swaying for him. And that’s without the brainwashing done by Strange to make him even more charismatic.
This would be the origin of Quincy Sharp and a creepy one for sure
Someone who legitimately wanted to help the mentally ill, only to become hopeless and embittered to the point of worsening the problems.
Someone needs to make a movie like Joker, but on Amadeus Arkham. Basing it on Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth. It won't just be like Joker in how it shows trauma and mental illness, but also a psychological horror about the slow breakdown of an innocent man spiralling into complete insanity after he lost everything. Seriously, Arkham is a really underrated character in the Batman mythos.
My exact thought
I wouldn't mind a film or show about late 19th century Gotham with cool characters ripe for exploration like Solomon Wayne, Cyrus Pinkney, Richard Cobblepot and such. I think the best way to do it would be to have it start from either Cyrus' perspective or Solomon's (or both) and then as the series progresses Amadeus begins to take more of a center stage and eventually securing the funding from Cyrus to build Arkham Asylum. Then have the series focus on the Cobblepot's attempts to take over Gotham City (like Richard's son attempting to become mayor, building an arms manufacturing factory in the city, and more), Cyrus' growing fear of the situation, and Amadeus' slowly lapsing sanity caused by tragedies in his life. Then, by the end of the show it is just him . . . alone. Amadeus Arkham as the last remaining hero of Gotham (in this era at least) trying to help the insane and the mentally infirm. It would cover his attempts to help Mad Dog and the progress he makes, only to end in the abject failure to help him and resulting in the destruction of Amadeus' psyche as the series ends on him writhing and scrawling in his cell. Dark I know, but I think it's a cool idea since that particular time period of Gotham is so unexplored.
@@austinkersey2445 I like this idea. It would scratch my itch of wanting a story in Gotham way before Batman, Joker, and everyone else we're accustomed to. Always wanted to see more of Gothams history.
*The Fact that Quincy* took his frustration out on a paranoid schizophrenic that was alone.. and he begged for him to stop - while he beat him to death.. is another level of dark - - even some of the darkest Batman comics don’t go THAT DARK.
I was freaked out when I got the second to last one!
How ironic was it that Amadeus, the founder of Arkham Asylum, eventually went mad and wound up in his own insane asylum that he built. Faye can have a cruel sense of humor and irony it seems….
Quincy sounds worse than the inmates.
This game was the WaW zombies of the Arkham games. It wasn’t fully developed, but it laid the groundwork for the later games, and it was by far the most creepy ass one in The series.
I mean, if this guy had just succeeded in killing joker, lobotomizing Harley, and killing killer crock, yeah id say gotham would be in a lot better shape, batman killing them would just cause a lot of problems, but the head of the asylum killing them? Wouldn't really make anything worse, only better
Sometimes when I'm looking for Riddler Trophies I listen to these Tapes while I'm doing riddler stuffm
This was a very wicked and evil performance
I wish they actually stuck to their guns with this part of the story instead of just making a throw away plotline in the sequel where Hugo strange was just mild controlling Sharp into thinking he was possessed by the spirit of Amadeus Arkham.
Did it really? It was only assumed that Strange drugged Sharp so that it was easier for him to approve Arkham City. Unless I'm missing something.
@udonnauchegbu2018 Nope, it was all just mind control from strange. It was revealed in the arkham city story files when you scan certain riddles.
Too bad this plot was dropped in the next games.
conyo985 and retconned to “it was just Strange messing with him”
@@redstreak9430 Yeah, really underwhelming imo.
Redstreak 94 and the mad hatter
Sharp and Strange should have been Arkham City's main villains.
Better yet, Sharp should've been the Arkham Knight.
The best Arkham game, such a masterpiece
At least Mad Hatter and Hugo Strange manipulate his mind and give him want he deserves
I think it's what made Quincy do those things in the first place
@@andrewstovall2139 Nope, he was diagnosed as a schizophrenic years before he met either.
Jesus Christ.
As a kid I listened to these without really understanding what they meant. But now…
Holy fuck this game was dark. Really sad the rest of the series didn’t embrace that darkness. Knight tried, but didn’t quite hit the mark of subtlety.
I agree . I went through this part 9 times and I think it's perfect. The rest are on the same level. But they are not Asylum .
It only gets darker from Arkham asylum to knight
@@iAmScope2 I dunno. Asylum has a special atmosphere that the other games just don't have imo.
@@Splunkmastah I agree, although the other games are darker and bigger, asylum isn’t just more scary than the others
@@Splunkmastahagree the specific atmosphere from asylum was not present in city or knight. I wish it was there
“My name is Quincy sharp the spirt of Amadeus Arkham u have done well to decipher on my story and I prey it will help you on your path. I trust through my writings you will do what is right, please I implore you continue my work this city deserves a savior continue my work”
Remeber, Quincy Sharp is still out there, we see him in city after he became mayor, and we never hear from him again. Honestly he could have fit the role of the Arkham Knight perfectly with the split personality thing and the fact that we know the character. Instead of some random person we've never heard of except for easter eggs.
Before anyone comments it, yes. I've just found out after writing this that he started seeing ghosts of Hugo Strange and hung himself. I still think this could have been a better idea then Jason Todd coming out of nowhere.
imagine a fat dude in a military like batsuit
Dunno how to tell you this, but after the events of Arkham city, he was sent to prison, saw ghosts of Hugo strange, and then hung himself and died
@@leshape192 And it was such a fucking cop out, too! What the hell was all that buildup about his connection to Amadeus for if it they were just gonna kill him off with no ceremony?!
6.35: The doctor who agree with him was Penolope Young Aka Doctor Young? Because he describe as her.
7:00 killer croc?
Yeah, quite likely so.
Grim Fandango is such a good game.
Is hilarious how Quincy turns out at Arkham city considering the final audio
Kinda like asmr
Imagine being 8 years old getting this game for Christmas and suddenly christmas aint so happy of a holiday
Not with Calendar Man on the loose.
Luv this game
Amadeus' speaking style sounds a bit like William S Burroughs.
Im still trying to find missing chronicles--where are the last 6 chronicles to be found?
anyone know why these symbols were in the other games as well?
That's been Bugging me as well
The voice and dialog sounds like Anton Ego from Ratatouille. If anyone finds that offensive in anyway it is anything but. Both have brilliant dialogs.
His Amadeus Arkham voice does give Peter O'Toole vibes. It had the quiet gravitas that suits Amadeus' character perfectly.
I would watch an entire show about Amadeus Arkham and the history of Arkham Asylum.
You should read the Arkham Asylum: a serious house on serious earth comic, it's where all of this comes from
The voice actor for Warden Sharp here is named Tom Kane AKA Professor Utonium from Powerpuff Girls And Master Yoda from the Star Wars Clone Wars and its series on CN. Sadly he had a major stroke a while ago and it seems he can no longer voice act :C
Really wish this voice actor read more books in this voice before his stroke
I love this game so much
Arkham Asylum without a doubt had the creepiest atmosphere.
9.28: Her skin was venomous green? İs that Poison Ivy?
I'm late, but yes, that is Poison Ivy.
And it all ultimately meant nothing! All that buildup, all that intrigue about Sharp's connection to Amadeus Arkham and they chose to squander it on Jason Todd taking up another identity because apparently he got bored of being Red Hood! Aren't you just glad you went around the island looking for these messages just for it all to never properly get followed up on?! I know I am!
Goddamn hes psychotic
Why a scarab?
"Scarabs frighten me. It's time my enemies shared my dread."
@@thenoirknight5729Batman Begins reference
Remember: The insanity of Amadeus Arkham is further explored in Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth.
I haven't figured out who says all these.Is it Amadeus Arkham Or Sharp?Somoene pls tell me
Sharp.
The warden sharp has a split personality and is the spirit of Arkham this is by far one of my favorite side missions in all of the Arkham games
Stirling Hancock
That explains a lot.I liked it as well
Sharp and the spirit are the same person. BTW he mentions Killer Crock, Poison ivy, Scarecrow, Joker and Harley quinn
These were the hidden writings of Amadeus Arkham’s life that Quincy became obsessed with. At first it was Arkham speaking but it turned in to Sharp
8:40
The new Two-Face....
Knowing the timeline he's the original two face
This went nowhere... :(
Yeah I was a little disappointed that it was all just Hugo Strange manipulating him.
What's his story?
Could someone explain all of this, i never understood it.
There once was a man named Amadeus Arkham.
He was raised in Arkham Manor with his family. Unfortunately his Father had severe psychological issues and committed suicide.
It scarred Amadeus but he went on to have a good life with a Wife and child.
When his Mother became mentally ill he wanted to help her. So he transformed the Manor into an Asylum and named it after her.
But she died and Amadeus wanted to honour her so he opened the Asylum for all Gotham. His first patient was someone named ‘Mad Dog.’ He escaped from the Asylum and murdered Amadeus’ Wife and Child.
‘Mad Dog’ was recaptured and Amadeus silently killed him while in his asylum.
Unfortunately his mind snapped and he started writing down his mad thoughts in a notebook. His mind going more and more obsessed with ‘his great work’ of murdering, lobotomising and destroying all the evil that came into the asylum. He died in his cell.
A long time after that in modern Gotham. A man named Quincy Sharp was appointed the New Director of Arkham.
He believed in bettering Gotham by curing the Insane.
Unfortunately his right hand was a man named Professor Hugo Strange. He was a ruthless cunning Mastermind who used the inmates of Arkham and Quincy for his own ends.
He asked a brilliant man named Jervis Tetch A.K.A The Mad Hatter to help Hugo into manipulating Quincy to be under… a spell so to speak.
Hugo found the old journal of Amadeus Arkham and had Quincy read it. Slowly he too became insane believing that he was possessed by Arkhams ghost.
He became ‘The Spirit of Amadeus Arkham.’
And developed a split personality.
Hugo wanted Quincy to begin silently murdering the vile villains of Gotham.
Similar to how Amadeus did to ‘Mad Dog.’
Unfortunately The Joker threw a spammer in the works. Causing a ruckus at the Asylum making Hugo’s plan impossible.
Causing him to come up with another idea he dubbed ‘Arkham City.’ He needed the Approval of the Mayors office so he had his pawn Quincy elect himself for Mayor. Because the public saw Quincy as a hero for stopping The Jokers attack on the Asylum (even though it was The Batman) he won. When he won the election and became Mayor he approved the plans for ‘Arkham City.’ Hugo concocted a new top secret plan with his Master Ra’s Al Ghul.
A plan named ‘Protocol 10.’ Which was to rid the City of all its filthy evil. By killing all the villains like Penguin, Joker, Riddler etc.
Causing Batman to be obsolete in Gotham and Join Ra’s Al Ghul in becoming his successor.
That plan failed Hugo was murdered by Ra’s for failing him and Ra’s committed temporary suicide.
Once the public found out about Quincy’s involvement with Hugo and how he was connected he was arrested.
While in Prison Quincy snapped for real this time and started seeing visions of a Ghost Hugo Strange.
Eventually all the mental strain took a toll on Quincy and he hung himself in his cell.
Ending ‘The Spirit of Amadeus Arkham’ once and for all.
@@godofevil9468 thanks for responding you're the best!
@@godofevil9468 I did all the research already on the arkham wiki 2 years ago, but thx for the short recap.
@@godofevil9468 as I’m writing this now after 10 years I’ve been arsed too 100% the game this has made so much more sense thanks man
I thought I am the only one who find Arkham Asylum scary, creepy and dirty. Game is just masterpiece for 2009 I have so much memories and it still give me chills
Sounds like Admiral Yularen from the clone wars
Can anyone help i can't claim these when I come near them it does nothing old help
Scan them
"My story is carved into the very steel of Arkham and will only be revealed to those dedicated enough to discover it"
RUclips:
Well yes... but also no
They tried a little too hard to make it spooky, so it’s not really that spooky
It is spooky, specifically because there is nothing supernatural in it: It's just humans doing unspeakably bad things to other humans.
This game IS spooky. Especially those inmates in the penitentiary.