Gotham Knights

having fun

la ambientacion es muy buena, se siente realmente Gotham.

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rejogabilidade boa demais

While playing this game on stream, I decided to coin a new term for my audience. This game is a "Shareholder Game", meaning that no one other than the shareholders wanted it made. There's clearly no passion from the devs, and there's clearly no players behind it. This game is designed to throw you into the live service grind loop, but with no real long lasting updates to keep people entertained. The writing is subpar to say the least, with no build up to the story, characters that wont stop quipping like its a marvel movie, and a twist that I guessed literally within the first few hours. The gameplay is extremely bland and tedious, with 90% of combat consisting of you just hitting the attack button over and over, occasionally interspersed with a press or two of the dodge button, and then loop that cycle for minutes at a time. You also get stuck on the slightest bit of geometry when walking around, and combining that with the really momentum heavy unresponsive movement just makes even moving a chore. And then the final boss hit. No spoilers, but it basically throws every lesson the game taught you over the past several hours into the trash, letting you get hit while you're dodging, not letting you do any combos, and basically making using your supers impossible unless you take damage to do so. Appeal to Bruce

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Was looking at this game in my library. I haven't touched it since I beat the story in 2023. I don't mind the plot hook. If that's what it took to get a game about the Batfamily in 2023, then sure, why not. Have Batman be dead. It's not so much that Bruce was dead, it was how they did it that rankled. It felt like a bad fanfiction. That trend continues throughout the entire story. Any attempt to be novel, or interesting- and I say "attempt" because at no point does it succeed -falls flat and feels as lifeless as Bruce's still-cooling corpse. The last-minute "twist", while not obvious, felt like it was done for the sake of itself. It leant nothing to the story, and at times actively undermined the mystery you were trying to solve. Characterization was in most sections, abysmal. Characters feel more 2D than a comic page, and so much "therapy-speak" is thrown in that most* conversations hold very little weight or emotion. Combat shouldn't be compared to Rocksteady's Arkham trilogy. It also doesn't feel good, regardless of comparison. These two statements can coexist just fine. You feel almost zero impact, and it quickly becomes a mindless, pattern-repeating slog. There was no compelling mechanic or visual hook to make combat fun. It did the bare minimum, which for a game featuring martial artist bat vigilantes, is a damn shame. Traversal sucks. Jason, who as the game posits *correctly* has a connection to magic that ♥♥♥♥, Tim, and Barbara do not, due to his resurrection, is immediately butchered by giving him magic leap-frog. Plenty of other games besides Arkham have done large-scale traversal mechanics well. Infamous, Spider-Man, even Sunset Overdrive for the sake of an outlier, did better. The Bat-Cycle literally moves as quickly as you would walking, and lines for motion-blur were added post-launch to *simulate* a speed increase. It feels like the world's slowest tandem bike ride. Character choice: Just for the sake of character development, of basic plot coherence, and not spitting in the face of the disabled people who adore Barbara as Oracle (myself included), Batgirl should've either been Steph or Cass, with Oracle in Alfred's place. It butchers her character that was already in pieces due to horrible writing and an awful VA performance. Tim was clearly meant to be Damian at some point, based on Plot Stuff and his outfit, which just seems like a weird retrofit. Jason is, for some reason, the Bruiser character, just because he's the "angry one", when 90% of his attacks use pistols. The fact that character archetypes were used to justify Jason's role, but then ignored in favor of giving similar movesets to ♥♥♥♥, Barbara, AND Tim was just stupid. ♥♥♥♥ is bland, and the most accurate of the four, but that isn't a compliment. Nightly patrol activities are bland and often make little sense, just for the sake of replayability in a game that no one wants to replay. Plot shoehorns in the Court of Owls, and does a poor job adapting a wonderful story, stealing set pieces and decor to suit a bland and unjustified story. As for positives, I really enjoy Michael Antonakos as Bruce. Could've sworn it was Troy Baker at first. *The one scene I liked was choosing Jason as the character to end the story with. His connection to the League/Talia as well as his conversations with Bruce were heartfelt, and downright a pleasure to experience. Not necessarily a fan of Jason's VA performance for the rest of the game, but this hit a home run, and I begrudgingly found myself slightly emotional. The crazy bast ards really did it. They got this game to make me feel something other than disgust. I'm shocked too. In conclusion, don't bother. Maybe watch the cutscenes on youtube if you're getting FOMO 3 years later, or are morbidly curious. Game ran perfectly fine after the Day 1 hotfix that came out. No crashes, stutters, or issues with performance, though most times, I wish there were, just as an excuse to give me a cop out.

Sinceramente, el peor juego que jugué en mi vida, Suicide Squad es una obra maestra al lado de este. La cinemática del principio promete bastante y te vende la idea de que se viene algo groso, pero esa ilusión se desmorona en el preciso instante en que tomas el control. Me banqué y le di la oportunidad hasta el final esperando que levantara en algún punto, pero nada. Una decepción absoluta de principio a fin. Guardate la plata y el tiempo, es imposible de recomendar.