Batman: Arkham Asylum - All Scarecrow nightmares

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Published 2015-03-23

This video features all the Scarecrow nightmares/allucinations you can experience in Batman: Arkham Asylum. There is a total of three of them during the main story, which you can enter as you progress through the plot. Here they are in order of gameplay's (and video's) appearence:

1) The first one is triggered by taking the elevator to the morgue (00:00)
2) The second begins after checking the book where Dr. Young hid her research notes inside the mansion's library (8:15)
3) The third is kicked off before getting down the sewers in your return to intensive treatment (18:04)

I don't know the reason of the sudden frames drop around the end of the second sequence, unless you consider that, to this day, these levels are fairly taxing on the PhysX engine.

The Scarecrow sequences are mainly stealth-based missions (the second and third one also throw in some mooks for you to fight, but it's nothing noteworthy) and some easy ones at that. I had only a couple of problems during recording due to me not following Scarecrow's gaze carefully during some sections (some of them require a better timing than others). Honestly, the main beef of the whole thing is just about admiring the scenery

All Comments (21)

@kinghulkk5143 6 years ago

Imagine how scary this would be in a real Batman movie
@wesker9041 7 years ago

I forgot how badass scarecrow was in arkham asylum.
@magicman6908 6 years ago

"ME??? IN A THONG?" thanks joker
@godseye8785 5 years ago

is it just me or was scarecrow's laugh way creepier than joker's...
@infinessia4019 5 years ago

Man I LOVE this scarecrow, he actually FUN, he speaks in a wispy voice, he cackles with delight at causing nightmares, when you lose he talks like some poetic nightmare, his design reminds me of silent hill, what the hell is there not to love~!
@Rockhard1492 6 years ago

I remember when I played this game for the first time, when the game "crashed" I thought my PS3 was actually broken for a second.

"Use the middle stick," Rocksteady you trolls.
@lupesalas1992 7 years ago

"use the middle stick to avoid jokers gunfire "

XD
@diskdrive6113 5 years ago

I like how most of the time even in the most horrifying moments Batman doesn’t give a crap
@thejadedjester6429 4 years ago

“There is no Crane!

... only Scarecrow!”

Probably one of my favorite parts tbh.
@Harper_1984 7 years ago

When I first played this game I was shitting my pants at the scarecrow parts. I was like 7 of 8, it was the first time I was scared playing a Batman game, and it was the first one I've ever played.
@user-fz1vm2yq9p 4 years ago

I believe every one of those three Scarecrow nightmares shows Batman's greatest fears:
1. In the first nightmare, we can see Batman's fear of not managing to save his friend Gordon in time. Batman fights crime because he considers his duty to make sure no one else is going to suffer the way he did when he lost his parents. The scene with the talking corpses shows his fear of failing any time he fights and letting down his parents.
2. In the second nightmare, we dig even deeply. Though Batman sees again his parents, this is a moment he re-lives the trauma that changed him. He feels the pain, the injustice, his desire of having his family back. He secretly wishes he could overwrite what happened then, and had his parents now.
3. The third and worst nightmare shows Batman's deepest fear; Batman knows just how extreme his means of fighting crime are. He is afraid that one day he will become just like the lunatics he defies. Joker himself says they both are crazy, so Batman shouldn't fight him but join him. All those nightmare Batmen are Batman's visions of his possible future if he ever lets insanity eat his mind away.
@reidedelman5871 6 years ago

easily my favorite missions in the game. The way they shook you up, and came out of nowhere. Perfect atmosphere.
@tt_ivi_99 5 years ago

Everyone talking about the "middle stick" but nobody remembers the "press J to avoid cinematic"
@crane7472 9 months ago

Scarecrow was so giggly in Asylum, like he was a kid in a candy store. It's crazy when you realize that it's the same guy in Arkham Knight. The incident with Croc truly changed him
@CIDEStheharasser 4 years ago

There’s a small detail throughout the game hinting when the Scarecrow bits were coming up. In the elevator, a wavy gas appears and Batman starts coughing. This happens many times before you encounter Scarecrow so I guess that’s one way to poison someone. Also in the first bit, after opening the vent, you can notice that when he blinks his eyes turn red.
@TheRealStorman 3 years ago

Played this as a young teenager and didn't know too much about batman (outside some of the tv show that ran a few years before this came out). I had no idea about scarcrow, so that first scene where you're introduced to him and Gordon seems dead has stuck with me more than most gaming moments. Truly terrifying
@bbandthesv 4 years ago

"And at the end of fear, oblivion..."
@sicklyfilms 2 years ago

I forgot how terrifying this game used to be. It’s the sudden paradigm shift from kick ass action game with sick combat to all of a sudden a straight up psychological horror that’s just so unsettling.
@garretthildebrandt6743 4 years ago

Scarface: Doctor Crane has made no real progress, but he seems to enjoy his work-
Scarecrow: MANIACAL LAUGH
@Vibrioidimp7 4 years ago

God, Scarecrow's needles seriously remind me of Freddy Krueger. Quite appropriate since, in a way, they're both masters of nightmares.