Summary
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguearrives in about a month and though leaks have already let loose a bunch of potential story details it is still exciting to see the newest chapter of the Arkhamverse nearly here. There’s no telling whatSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguewill mean for the larger Arkhamverse in terms of what kind of game to expect Rocksteady to make afterward, but there’s also no real waySuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguecould iterate on theArkhamgames since it’s as polar opposite as it could be.
As a live-service shooter, there’s not much in common theSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguemight have withArkhamtitles’ action-adventure gameplay. Of course, not enough has been publicly shown to truly know if shooter combat and unique traversal are all players can anticipate, but it’s unlikely the gameplay will be as dynamic as Batman hacking comms frequencies, solving crime scenes using AR deductions, or taking out a room of thugs silently. However, ifSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguehas a New Game Plus option, it has an opportunity to right one egregious wrong theArkhamgames never rectified.
The Arkham Games All Have Subpar New Game Plus Modes
The primary issue with New Game Plus across allArkhamgames is that it is fleeting. Players only get a single New Game Plus playthrough before having to start from scratch on a fresh file, meaning it isn’t infinitely replayable with New Game Plus perks, and New Game Plus runs cannot be reset.
To be fair, this wasn’t exactly a ubiquitous quality-of-life feature forNew Game Plus modesa decade ago, but it’s still egregious due to a lot of collectible hunting throughout all of theArkhamgames.
Each one would have felt far more gratifying to achieve full completion if players were rewarded with infinite New Game Plus’ thereafter, thoughAsylumis still the onlyArkhamgame that made sense not including a New Game Plus mode in the first place since it’s a Metroidvania that relies entirely on gadgets retrieved for progression in an already short story.
It’s great to start New Game Plus runs inCity,Origins, andKnightwith some gadgets already unlocked, but they too have many gadgets or areas locked behind progression regardless of New Game Plus. That said, the worst offense is knowing that completing all of Riddler’s challenges and collecting all of his trophies isn’t a lasting satisfaction because players only get one New Game Plus run to enjoy the leisurely spoils of their hard work in a single save file.
Unfortunately, the nature ofSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguebeing a live-service gamelikely infers that New Game Plus won’t even be an option for the story campaign.Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguedoes seem to be making a priority of its story thus far, but that won’t always be its emphasis and it’ll need to satisfy players in the long run, apparently in the way of seasonal content.
New Game Plus would certainly be a boon for replayability, especially if skills and the like carried over, but New Game Plus modes aren’t abundant or remarkable in live-service multiplayer games. Knowing how theArkhamgames treated their own New Game Plus modes probably says everything it needs to, and if Rocksteady doesn’t feel like it needs to include one at all then it most likely won’t.
This would be a shame, though, because a New Game Plus mode forSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguethat is infinitely replayable would be a great correction of how New Game Plus modes have been back-burned in the Arkhamverse beforehand.Knightdoes include a fun trick to play on New Game Plus runs whereJoker suddenly begins laughing during his cremationat the start of the game, too, andSuicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguecould hopefully come up with more fun tricks like that.
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
WHERE TO PLAY
Play as the Suicide Squad to take down the World’s Greatest DC Super Heroes, The Justice League. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, is a genre-defying, action-adventure third-person shooter from Rocksteady Studios, creators of the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham series.
