Kill the Justice League eliminated the part about killing the Justice League

One of the boldest moves Rocksteady made when he did this I revealed it Suicide squad game After years of rumors, its subtitle was: This will be a game about you, the players, fighting and having to slaughter DC’s best heroes, before Braniac can move them on to become his deadly occupying force. then Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League He did come out, and pretty much no one was happy. Now, weeks before its one-year anniversary, the live service game is coming out with… well, not really much fanfare, and barely even a whimper.

Basic version of Kill the Justice League Culminating in the deaths of both Superman and Wonder Woman, as the titular team prepares to defeat Brainiac and realize that there are dozens upon dozens of alternate realities with their own Brainiacs under threat to save them, setting up the live-service game structure for the next several months. But then Kill the Justice League It faced critical defeat and terrible sales, leaving Rocksteady scrambling to deliver fixes alongside planned future content rollouts — content that ended this week with the game’s eighth and final major update, just two weeks before the game celebrates its one-year anniversary. That would really not be great then Kill the Justice League I stumbled upon any sort of landing, but instead the final story content revealed the whole thing to be some sort of senseless deception.

This week’s Episode 8 story ends with the defeat of the final version of Braniac in the multiverse at the hands of Taskforce game. Instead, those deaths, which sparked a sea of ​​controversy at the time, when it was believed so Kevin Conroy’s portrayal of Batman in Kill the Justice League It would be his final posthumous performance as the Dark Knight – that of the clones.

On the one hand, players who are already stuck shouldn’t be surprised – previous updates have seen Harley, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and Deadshot actually free Green Lantern and Flash from Braniac’s clutches after their apparent deaths, traveling to alternate worlds and putting them in stasis, so the reveal That Batman and Superman were also clones is not surprising. However, this meant that the players stood by and watched Kill the Justice League At their lowest point they were rewarded with the realization that they could never kill the Justice League. The only victim at the end of all this is actually Wonder Woman, who evaded Braniac’s mind control in the initial game, only to be killed by Superman (who is newly revealed to be a clone).

And so, Suicide squad Task Force . But to end it all this way — an animated slideshow scene and a cheeky casual explanation from Harley Quinn via voiceover that covers the clone reveal in half a line — speaks to the miserable conclusion it all came to, for what was supposed to be the long-awaited future. Batman Arkham universe.

At least some heroes are alive now and they can all go on with their lives, if that future arrives?

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