Hello fellow gamers, completists and perfectionists, I am new around here and this is my first post, still trying to get my head around how things work. This seems like a fun and friendly community, so I am happy to be on board!
With no further delays, I am going to talk about a game I won recently on Steamgifts and completed yesterday :
Batman: The Enemy Within - The Telltale Series
13.4 hours, 30 of 30 achievements
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
As with many Telltale games, it features a mature, complex and morally grey storyline, so it’s not your usual comic-book routine of “good versus evil”. There will be a lot of instances when you’ll be torn between standing with one character or another, you’ll have to make several, hard and impactful decisions in the heat of the moment, some of which you may come to regret later, but that’s all part of the fun.
Batman : The Enemy Within, picks up right where the first season left off, including the option to resume your romantic relationship with Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, along the way, if you had romanced her in the first game. Without spoiling the story too much, the game have you infiltrate, as Bruce Wayne, a large and colorful cast of iconic villains circle known as “The Pact”, you’ll have to earn their trust, and this entails morally ambiguous situations when you have to walk on a very thin line.
I keep hearing a lot of criticism about the engine and how dated it is, but the game looks gorgeous, the dark, Comic-Book/Cel Shading style is lovely and very fitting for the game. The characters look very close and faithful to their counterparts in the source material from which they’ve been adapted, backgrounds feature a lot of detail and reinforce immersion and atmosphere. The voice acting is also top notch, as you’d come to expect.
As for the gameplay, it doesn’t evolve in comparison with the first game, it’s much of the same, with dialogues, detective/investigation phases and easy, rather forgiving action/QTE sequences.
On the negative side and unless I missed something, there’s no “rewind” feature and if there’s a choice you’d like to change and the game has moved on (auto-save) to another point in the story, you’ll have to restart the whole episode. I had to replay “Episode 3” from the beginning to change a choice I made at the end of it, hence my playthrough is a bit longer than average, since there was no option to select Chapters and restart from there.
Anyway, it was a very enjoyable experience and I am looking forward to play and discover other story-focused games with narratives driven by player.
Also finished that game this month. Loved it! I know ultimately they have a story to tell and your actual free choice is limited, but I loved the tension between Bruce Wayne and Batman, or the ‘White knight’ and ‘Dark knight’ personas. I’ll be interested to see how much impact the choices I made here will have in any future batman games.
Welcome to BLAEO.
I’m waiting this game to get a bigger discount.
Good to know that it’s a nice game =)
Thanks!
Yeah, it’s kinda pricey at the moment, but if you liked the first game, I am pretty sure you’ll like this one even more.
That’s a very nice looking first post! :) Welcome!
Thank you for the warm welcome! :D
Welcome! I look forward to seeing you around these parts.
I’m excited that you enjoyed this game so much - I did, too! I’ve heard some middling things about Telltale Batman, but tbh I think it’s the superstar of Telltale’s stable right now - it’s certainly the strongest series they have, beyond standalone titles like Tales from the Borderlands and Wolf Among us. What a lucky, fortunate win.
Thank you for the warm welcome and the kind words, it’s good to be among a community of friendly and enthusiastic gamers.
Yeah, it was a very lucky win and mighty generous of the giveaway creator, I feel humbled indeed.
I agree they’ve got themselves a really good franchise going, the games are fun and a great take on the most popular Superhero/Comic Book character of all times, I mean, who doesn’t like Batman? :D It’s among the best Telltale games I’ve played, third only to the “The Walking Dead” (First Season) and the absolutely brilliant “The Wolf Among Us”.
So far, I heard only good things about “Tales from the Borderlands”, but it’ll have to wait a little longer, collecting digital dust on my library until I play the previous Borderlands games, which is a massive undertaking. Ahhh, the backlog, a luxury problem, but a problem nonetheless.
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Welcome to the site, and kudos on the quick SG win play :D
Thank you!