Botanical Glasshouse

Batman: Arkham Asylum Guide - Walkthrough

Botanical Glasshouse

As you enter you get the Riddle: “What time is tea time in Wonderland?” and you see a nice group of armed thugs spread around the area.  There is also a convenient ring of Gargoyles above – you know where this is going, right?

Zip up to the Gargoyle on the right and wait for the thug to walk beneath you and string 'em up!  Soon as you do, zip away to another Gargoyle so you do not get spotted.  I have to admit I get a perverse enjoyment from stringing these guys up – and I know it takes extra time to wait for them to get into position, but their reaction is just priceless!

Once I had them down to two left, I figured that was enough hanging around, but I want to offer a word of caution to you – two armed enemy is two too many – those assault rifles they have will do serious damage to you if you are careless and let them draw a bead on you!  Your best strategy is to wait until one of the remaining thugs is on the level below the other – that gives you enough time to easily glide kick and then ground takedown the one on the upper level and zip back to the Gargoyle before the other can make it up the ladder to see what is happening.  Once he is up the ladder and approaching his downed comrade, repeat the glide kick and ground takedown for an easy KO.  Good on ya!

You will be following the fingerprints again, but before you head out, in the north part of the trail of prints there are some grates that you walk on and that you can enter by doing RT A – open one up and drop down to pick up a Riddler Trophy and 200XP, and then turn around and drop down into the fountain in the center of the room.  In the NNW corner of the fountain is a weakened wall – go ahead and blow that then enter the duct inside on the left and get another Riddler Trophy and 200 XP.

Now walk back to the door we entered from, and stand facing into the room – look to your left and you will see a short flight of metal stairs – go up those stairs and then under the arch ahead and look to the left on the wall for a stone shelf with a tea set on it.  Scan the tea set to solve the Riddle for this room.

On the west wall is a door (not the north door where the fingerprint trail leads) that opens in to the Statue Corridor – the glowing wires on the floor when you are in Detective Mode disappear under this door.  Go ahead and open it and go in.