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Batman: Arkham Nightmare

Saying I'm a huge fan of the Batman Arkham games would be an understatement. I love them to death (except for origins that one was just ok).

I've lost count of how many times I've replayed Arkham City. It's one of my favorite games. I decided one day that, since I had nothing to play, I would pop it in again for old times sake. Doesn't seem like a bad idea, right? Right? Wrong. I loaded the game up and chose my save file with the most progress. I selected the play game option in the menu and chose my skin. I decided to go with the year one skin. When the game loads, usually it just has whatever side mission you haven't done yet as the loading screen. It had that this time, but some of the words were in the wrong place or just missing. I originally dismissed it as a glitch

I was such a damn idiot.

When the game loaded, I saw that I was wearing the Sinestro Corps skin, which was weird. In all of the internet research I had done on this game, I had never heard of it giving someone the wrong skin. Again, I thought it was just a glitch.

I noticed I had loaded in Joker's office in the Steel Mill. I hadn't played the game in a while, but I never remembered going into the Steel Mill at all. I tried to leave through the door to the right, but somehow, I was shot. Shortly after, I heard a terrifying laugh. I couldn't make out who it was from, but it kind of sounded like a mixture of Joker and Scarecrow's laughs.

This time the loading screen was Joker's face, but not his normal face, his sick face from the final mission. It showed the expression from when (SPOILER) he died, although I noticed that the eyes and mouth got ever so slightly bigger with every loading screen.

When it loaded me back in, I was right in front of the theatre. From playing this game so many times, I knew there was a thug somewhere around here, but no one came. I looked around, and I noticed that the city was empty. I decided to walk into the theatre and, to my surprise, I actually opened it. You can't usually go back into the theatre after the end of the game.

When I walked in, it was empty. I walked around for a while when all of a sudden, I heard that same laugh as the game froze. Then it did the thing from the beginning of the third Scarecrow mission from Arkham Asylum where it makes you think your game broke. It cut away, but I swore I could see something before it did. It looked like the loading screen of Joker from earlier, but the eyes stared at me with a horrifying look of insanity and the mouth...oh dear fucking god, the mouth. It was pulled back more than humanly possible into the most creepy and terrifying thing I had ever seen in my life. I immediately turned my Xbox off.

The next day I felt like playing some GTA V with my buddy, so I turned on my Xbox only to find that it loaded straight to the Arkham City screen. Although, this was different. Batman, instead of being perched on the gargoyle, was hanging on it from a rope. He had those red eyes he has right before the first Scarecrow mission from Arkham Asylum, and that godforsaken grin was pasted on his face. The screen was eerie night and the title read Batman: Arkham Nightmare. It started playing My Heaven from Silent Hill out of nowhere and I ran out of my room. Then, it stopped. I went back and it said that the disc was unreadable. I don't know for sure, but I think my Xbox saved my life.

(Note, this is my first pasta, so please try and not judge me. I know it's probably crap. If you can give me feedback, that would be great.)