Following some extended gameplay earlier this month, the developers behind Gotham Knights have given more of an insight into the designs of Nightwing’s glider and Red Hood’s (somewhat surprising) mystic leap.
During a Q&A on the Gotham Knights Discord, creative director Patrick Redding revealed Nightwing’s Flying Trapeze was inspired by “a couple of ideas” including some classic issues in the Nightwing solo book that saw the DC hero using his “aerialist moves with jet-powered gliders”.
Additionally, the team wanted it to feel as though Nightwing had been through the late, great, Batman’s arsenal.
“We liked the death-defying angle of him looking at all the various stealth drones in Batman’s arsenal and calculating that he could just get away with hanging off one of the smaller models and still be able to maintain or gain altitude with it,” said Redding.