{"id":732812,"date":"2025-11-22T04:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-still-dont-know-how-i-feel-about-suicide-squad-after-five-hours\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T04:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T04:21:26","slug":"i-still-dont-know-how-i-feel-about-suicide-squad-after-five-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-still-dont-know-how-i-feel-about-suicide-squad-after-five-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"I Still Don’t Know How I Feel About Suicide Squad After Five Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am not reviewing Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League for Game Informer (that privilege belongs to looter-shooter expert Matt Miller), and for that I am grateful. But it\u2019s not because the game is terrible. It\u2019s because even after five hours, I still have no idea how I feel about it.<\/p>\n

There is a scene in The Dark Knight Rises<\/a> that I always assumed would become a meme, but never did. When Anne Hathaway\u2019s Selina Kyle gets stopped trying to escape at the airport by Joseph Gordon-Levitt\u2019s John Blake, he asks her about Bruce Wayne\u2019s fate. In a fantastic one-line performance, she looks into his eyes with genuine uncertainty and fear and says simply, \u201cI\u2019m not sure.\u201d And that\u2019s exactly how I feel when someone asks me what I think of Rocksteady\u2019s Suicide Squad.<\/p>\n

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I am not a fan of the genre Suicide Squad is pursuing. I don\u2019t like shooters where you perform similar actions (e.g., fight waves of enemies) over and over for slightly different results (e.g., gear with marginally different stats). The loop has just never appealed to me. I am, however, a massive fan of Rocksteady and its Arkham Games. Arkham Asylum, City, and Knight (and Origins, as well) are not just some of my favorite comic book games but some of my favorite games, period. I love the world Rocksteady created in those games, and in those not-frequent-enough moments when Suicide Squad remembers it is a sequel to Arkham Knight, I find myself getting wrapped up in learning what is going to happen next.<\/p>\n

But even in those story and character moments that I have enjoyed, I am falling short of becoming fully invested. The premise of Amanda Waller and Batman\u2019s worst-case scenario actually coming to exist \u2013 what if the members of the Justice League turned bad? \u2013 is interesting and sometimes scary. An early sequence where you, as the Suicide Squad, have to play on the opposite side of Batman\u2019s stealth and fear-inducing hunt is a highlight. But the overall tone of the game sometimes makes it feel more like the uninspired arguments of comic book fans playing out their uninteresting fantasies of, \u201cWhat if Superman killed civilians?\u201d<\/p>\n

But then, every few minutes, a joke will land with me, and I find myself appreciative of the tone. Captain Boomerang, for example, is the kind of confident idiot that always makes me laugh. We\u2019ve had four self-serious, sometimes melodramatic Arkham games. Why not make room for something a little lighter? My opinion changes every five minutes.<\/p>\n