Summary
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguehas withheld any big story updates since the base game as it moves into the second episode of its first post-launch season. This is the Elseworld Joker-themed Season 1, which strangely only delivered a cutscene for Joker’s debut inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Otherwise, animated illustration graphics have been employed to fill in the blanks. If anything, this suggests that Rocksteady has little intent to perfume its seasons two through four with substantial narrative content beyond explaining how its DLC characters have been recruited.
This is a missed opportunity as there probably won’t be any considerable story updates until players have defeated the last Brainiac at the end of a lengthy multiversal trek. Missed opportunities were also rampant throughoutSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s story campaign, though, and because Batman was on his way out the door it would’ve made sense for Rocksteady to pepper the game with far more Arkhamverse fan service than it did. A huge piece of fan service it neglected, for example, was any kind of interaction between Kevin Conroy’s Batman and Nolan North’s Penguin.
Oswald Cobblepot is a persistent pain in Batman’s backside whenever he appears in anArkhamgame—that only leaves outAsylum, the one entry where players don’t hear his unreasonably smug and obnoxious tone whether the accent is legitimate or not.Nolan North’s portrayal of the Arkhamverse’s Penguinis phenomenal, to be sure, and the crime lord has even been able to elude Batman before, as well as somewhat laughably ambush Nightwing not once but twice, which demonstrates that he’s perhaps more crafty and resourceful than he’d appear on paper.
There’s a case to be made that if any reprised villain deserved an encounter withBrainiac’s mind-controlled Batmanit was Riddler, but Riddler is only baked intoSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueas he pertains to optional side content and he never actually appears in-game.
Penguin always wore an unexpected and perhaps naive resolve when confronted by Batman, which is more than 90% of criminals in Gotham City could say. Rather, Penguin is more subdued and out of his depth inSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leagueand it would have been interesting to see how he’d respond to being pursued by a Batman who’s actively trying to kill him this time.
There’s supposedly still a chance that a Brainiac Batman boss fight could be preceded by a moment where he locates and kills Penguin, but that wouldn’t be as impactful. There are two reasons why that’s nearly impossible:
Even so, it would’ve been more satisfying seeing the base game’s Batman get his hands on Penguin anyway, hearing Conroy and North share dialogue again in a brief sequence. Batman is ultimately gunned down by Harley Quinn and it would’ve been gratifying to see him secure a definitive and violent win over at least one of his oldest Arkhamverse nemeses.
Unfortunately,Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguedoesn’t try much to create a tangible tether between it and theArkhamgames regardless. While itstouching tributes to Kevin Conroy and Arleen Sorkin are wonderful, there is still a lot Rocksteady could’ve done with the knowledge that it’d be shelving the Arkhamverse’s Batman with supposed finality.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
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Play as the Suicide Squad to take down the World’s Greatest DC Super Heroes, The Justice League. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a genre-defying, action-adventure third-person shooter from Rocksteady Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham series.
