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One of the boldest moves Rocksteady has ever made announced Suicide Squad the game Rumors years later had its subtitle: It will be a game about you as the players who have to fight and massacre the best heroes of DC before Braniac toy them to be his deadly invasion force. Then Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League actually came out and almost nobody was happy. Now, weeks away from its first anniversary, the live service kicks off… well, not really with a bang, or even with a whimper.

Basic version Kill the Justice League Climaxing with the deaths of Superman and Wonder Woman, as the titular team prepares for Brainiac’s defeat and realizes that there are dozens of alternate realities with their own Brainiacs in danger of being saved, they set up a live service of the game. structure for the coming months. But then Kill the Justice League That has left Rocksteady scrambling to offer fixes alongside the planned rollout of future content — culminating in the game’s eighth and final major update this week, just two weeks before the game celebrates its first anniversary. . That wouldn’t be great anyway Kill the Justice League Stuck on all sorts of descents, but instead his final story content revealed that the whole thing was a pointless hoax.

The storyline of this week’s episode eight concludes with the defeat of the last variant of Braniac in the multiverse at the hands of Taskforce X… with a little extra help from Superman and Batman, it turns out they weren’t killed during the main event. the game. Instead, the deaths caused a sea of ​​controversy at the time Kevin Conroy’s Batman character in Kill the Justice League It would be his last posthumously released performance as the Dark Knight – a performance by the clones.

On the one hand, players who are actually stuck around shouldn’t be surprised – in previous updates, Harley, Captain Boomerang, King Shark and Deadshot have already freed Green Lantern and Flash from Braniac’s clutches after their deaths, traveling to alternate worlds and putting them in stasis, so Batman and It’s not too surprising that Superman is also revealed to be a clone. And again, that means they stood by the players Kill the Justice League at their lowest point, they were rewarded with the realization that they could never kill the Justice League. At the end of it all, the only casualty is Wonder Woman, who escaped Braniac’s mind control in the original game, only to be killed by Superman (newly revealed as a clone).

And so, Suicide Squad It ends with Taskforce X and the Justice League going their separate ways: the League staying behind to atone for “their” crimes by following the multiverse to end any lingering Braniac threats, and the Suicide Squad, freed from Amanda Waller’s planted explosives, to celebrate their own and have a little pocket of the multiverse to enjoy. But to top it all off—an animated slideshow cut-scene and random, nonsensical narration via a voiceover from Harley Quinn exposing the clone mid-line—says what a sad conclusion it all was, as it was meant to be for a long time to come. Batman Arkham the universe.

At least there are some heroes left alive now so they can all carry on if the future ever comes?

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