One of the boldest steps taken by Rocksteady unveiled it suicide squad game After years of rumors it had a subtitle: It was going to be a game about you, as the player, being forced to fight and kill DC’s finest heroes before Braniac captures them with his deadly possession. Can build strength. Then Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League actually came out, and almost no one was happy. Now, just weeks shy of its first anniversary, the live-service game is launching… well, not really with a bang, and barely a whimper either.
base version of kill the justice league The game climaxed with the deaths of Superman and Wonder Woman alike, as the title team prepared themselves for Brainiac’s defeat and realized that dozens of alternate realities were in danger with their own Brainiac waiting to save them. Live-service was established. Structure for the coming months. but then kill the justice league suffered serious defeats and terrible sales, leaving Rocksteady scrambling to offer improvements alongside its planned rollout of future content – ​​content that arrived this week with the game’s eighth and final major update. ended, just two weeks before the game celebrated its first anniversary. Wouldn’t it already be great if kill the justice league Any kind of landing was banned, but instead, the contents of its final story revealed that the whole thing was a pointless hoax.
The story content of this week’s eighth episode concludes with the defeat of the final version of Braniac in the multiverse at the hands of Taskforce The game was gone. Instead, those deaths—which sparked massive controversy at the time—were believed Kevin Conroy’s portrayal of Batman In kill the justice league What would be his final posthumously released performance as the Dark Knight were clones.
On the one hand, players who actually stuck around shouldn’t be surprised – previous updates already featured Harley, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and Deadshot rescuing Green Lantern and the Flash from the clutches of Brainiac following their apparent deaths. While freeing, was seen traveling to alternate worlds. Putting them at a standoff, so the revelation that Batman and Superman were also clones isn’t that surprising. And yet, it means that the players who have stood kill the justice league At its lowest points it’s rewarded with the realization that they never actually succeeded in killing the Justice League. The only casualty at the end of all this is actually Wonder Woman, who escaped Braniac’s mind control in the early game, but was killed by (newly revealed as a clone of) Superman.
so, suicide squad It ends with Taskforce Freed from Waller’s embedded explosives, locates them. Your own little pocket of the multiverse to celebrate and hang out. But to end it this way – a casual, playful interpretation of Harley Quinn via an animated slideshow cutscene and voice over that reveals the clone in half a line – suggests what a sad conclusion it all turned out to be. , which was to have a long-awaited future batman arkham universe,
At least there are now some heroes alive that they can look forward to, if that future ever comes?
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