Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League: Season 4 launched today, the first half of the final season of the game. And of course the biggest thing about it is that Deathstroke is added to the game! And I really like his design:
The story is that Deathstroke was the first choice by ARGUS to deal with the Brainiac threat, and so he’s spent a while in the medieval Elseworld and he was able to kill 2 Brainiacs offscreen. They did a nice subversion where you think that this episode will have yet another reused boss fight, but Deathstroke just stabs Brainiac in the back before the fight starts.
The VA for Deathstroke isn’t the same as the one from Origins and Knight, but he does a great job and sounds a lot older and more grizzled. His personality is also a lot more serious than the other characters. My favorite line from this episode is that when you do one of the navigation challenges as Deathstroke Riddler says “I should have put your one weakness in the challenge, a single punch from Batman”. At the very least, this game treats Deathstroke better than Arkham Knight did!
Once again, this Elseworld has a ton of detail and effort put into it with a ton of unique buildings, decorations, and banners. You can see castles, sunken ships, broken windmills, the ashen remains of peasants and archers, etc. If only they had done Deathstroke and this great Elseworld for Season 1, the game might have managed to be more successful!
The Battle Pass skins this season are called LexCorp skins, but outside of some Kryptonite and “L” branding they’re more themed around Greco-Roman aesthetics. For instance, Joker’s skin has a comedy or a tragedy mask to wear, and Deathstroke has a sort of Roman soldier looking outfit:
Of course, the biggest thing missing from this episode is a Justice League member returning. The first episode of Season 2 had Flash, and the first episode of Season 3 had Green Lantern. The question remains how are they going to finish the game off in Episode 8? There are three Brainiacs still at large, and while some people thought they would just have Deathstroke kill 4 of them they kept in that he only had killed 2 of them offscreen. There’s 3 Justice League members left to save, so maybe they’ll just have you fight 3 Brainiacs in Episode 8 and each one was guarding a hero. I don’t know if the game will even get a final end cutscene, as they didn’t even finish the intro cutscene for Deathstroke this episode and just put the dialogue into an audio log instead.
What’s weird is in Deathstroke’s final interview tape he talks with Amanda Waller about how she has the Justice League under her control, and they specifically mention Batman and Wonder Woman even though they haven’t been confirmed alive yet. In other audio logs, they have Mrs. Freeze suggesting that the evil JL were clones, but the ones we’re rescuing are the real ones. Even though earlier audio logs implied that the JL we’re rescuing are the same ones who were evil and therefore not clones. Probably a case of them playing both sides so they always come out on top.
And yet despite the shortcomings with the game’s plot especially in this update, Rocksteady managed to finally get a W, the first one they’ve had in years, by adding offline mode to the game. From what I’ve played of it so far, it works perfectly, and I can freely and easily swap between the online profile and the offline one, with even an option to start fresh and do it all over again. They could have easily broken their promise and not added it, and I guarantee that it cost more to implement it than they’ll get from additional sales of the game. Yet now, the people who call this game a “dead game” are wrong, as it won’t die now and will last as long as all the other digital videogames. And it’s crazy to think that as it stands now someone decades from now will be able to play Suicide Squad and have an experience pretty much the same as people who play it today, but someone who plays Hitman won’t be able to.
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