I always loved Batman growing up watching his movies and the DC Animated Universe. I hear how great the Arkham Asylum was and got a PS3 bundle with the game. I was eager to play the next entry of the Arkham series. I even seen the Suicide Squad animated movie that supposedly tied-in to game universe.
Arkham Knight was the grand finale of the series with Batman supposedly dying and his sidekicks taking up the reins to protect Gotham. I remember a few years back, we got two trailers of two new games. One was about Bruce supposedly dead and his Bat Family taking over. It looked like a sequel to Arkham Knight, feels like a sequel, smells like a sequel, taste like a sequel, and yet, it's not a sequel. It's weird it's premise looks alot like how Arkham Knight left off and yet it's not the sequel to it. It was made WB Games Montreal who did the prequel game and a few minor stuff to the Arkham series.
I learn the game actually made by Rocksteady Studios was the upcoming Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. This seems cool. You get to play these four famous villains like Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, and Deadshot. I mean they sure have they're own abelites like Harley using a bat, Boomerang using his weapons, King Shark using his muscle.
It then hit me a week or two later, why is Deadshot black, isn't he suppose to be white. The thing is we seen Deadshot in Arkham City and Origins. He was basically the lead in the animated movie, Assault on Arkham. We did get an answer from the studio and they said the Deadshot we knew for a while was a copycat and the real Deadshot, is the guy in the new game. Are you kidding me? The one we been fighting is fake. This "copycat" retroactively made Amanda Waller look like an idiot for filing him as "Floyd Lawton", who has a daughter named "Zoe Lawton."
Another thing hit me is that King Shark is supposed to be dead. He got his head blown off in the animated movie. Not only that, but the Arkham version of King Shark is more humanoid than his other counterparts. Usually he's a two-legged 7-foot shark in most versions but the Arkham version is big muscle human with metal choppers. Think Jaws from James Bond but it completely covers his entire upper and lower jaws. Yet the game features him like your usually version of King Shark.
However, you could debate the animated movie may not be considered canon and the main canon are the games alone. I also heard from somewhere in a tie-in comic that Captain Boomerang is suppose to be dead too.
Gotham Knights did came out and I heard there were mixed reviews. Some people were like "Oh well," because it was a stand-alone thing and not the continuation of the Arkham series that people were looking for, but oh boy, as more and more things got revealed, the hype for the game died.
Gameplay footage was revealed and everyone was going gun-ho. You think each member of the Squad be using other weapons. Captain Boomerang's name itself makes you think he be using other things than guns. More news about battle passes, loot boxes, and microtransactions. Gosh, I didn't expect we go from a single-player action adventure game to a shooter. What the heck.
Time passed, I didn't hear anything for a long while but I heard that beta testers didn't have much nice things to say. I mean ouch. This is killing my excitement more and more.
Then social media erupted and say they disrespected Batman and gave him a terrible spinoff and the internet wasn't joking or anything because Batman, the very same Batman we loved from the Arkham games got brainwashed and than shot by Harley, and he died in a lame anti-climatic manner. Gosh, I'm having flashbacks of Luke in Last Jedi or John Conner in Dark Fate.
It's not just him who died all lame like. The subtitle of the game is literally, "Kill the Justice League." They died from guns and Boomerang wanted to pee on the Flash's corpse. WTF man. The entire League dies. This isn't some other universe where bad stuff happens while the "main" universe is fine and dandy like the Injustice games. I mean, this is in very bad taste, and this is the continuation of the Arkham Games? I'm in complete disgust.
