It’s a phenomenon unique to the end-of-PS3-and-360 era: just-powerful-enough handheld systems running software that can be upscaled to an HD screen franchise-based “transmedia” marketing that means that software can be complementary to its console counterpart rather than a completely different approach to the same material. Following Castlevania: Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate HD and Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation HD, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate – Deluxe Edition is the latest in a line of long-named downloadable ports of Big Franchise Handheld Spinoff Games.
