One of the boldest moves Rocksteady made when introducing their suicide squad The subtitle was the game after years of rumors: this was going to be a game about you, as players, fighting and being forced to slaughter DC’s greatest heroes, before Braniac could turn them into his own deadly occupying force. So Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League It actually came out, and almost no one was happy. Now, weeks before its first anniversary, the live service game is coming out with… well, not really a bang, and barely a whimper.
The basic version of Kill the justice league climaxed with the deaths of Superman and Wonder Woman alike, as the titular team prepared for Brainiac’s defeat and the realization that there were dozens upon dozens of alternate realities with their own Braniacs under threat for them to save, setting up the game’s live service. structure for the coming months. but then Kill the justice league faced a critical drubbing and terrible sales, leaving Rocksteady scrambling to deliver solutions alongside its planned release of future content, content that came to an end this week with the game’s eighth and final major update, just two weeks before The game will celebrate its first anniversary. . That wouldn’t be cool anymore if Kill the justice league stuck any sort of landing, but instead, the content of his final story revealed that the whole thing had been some kind of pointless hoax.
The story content of this week’s eighth episode ends with the defeat of the final Braniac variant in the multiverse at the hands of Taskforce during the events of the main episode. game. Instead, those deaths, which sparked a sea of controversy at the time, when it was believed that Kevin Conroy’s interpretation of Batman in Kill the justice league It would be his last posthumously published performance as the Dark Knight, outside of clones.
On the one hand, players who actually stuck around shouldn’t be surprised: in previous updates, Harley, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and Deadshot already freed Green Lantern and Flash from Braniac’s clutches after their own apparent deaths, traveling to worlds. alternates and putting them into stasis, so the reveal that Batman and Superman were also clones isn’t all that surprising. And yet it means that the players who have stayed on the sidelines Kill the justice league At their lowest points they have been rewarded with the realization that they never actually managed to, well, kill the Justice League. The only victim at the end of all this is actually Wonder Woman, who had avoided Braniac’s mind control in the opening game, only to be killed by Superman (recently revealed to be a clone).
And then, suicide squad ends with Taskforce Waller, finding her own little pocket of the multiverse to go celebrate and hang out. But to end it all this way: an animated slideshow scene and a casual, flippant explanation from Harley Quinn via voiceover that covers the clone reveal in half a second. line—speaks to what a miserable conclusion this all turned out to be, because what was meant to be the long-awaited future of the batman arkham universe.
Are there at least some heroes alive now that everyone can carry on, if that future ever comes?
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