Co-Op Might Already Be Ruining Gotham Knights
Gotham Knights seems determined to hurt me, personally. While everyone else fawns over RTSs, SRPGs, FPSs, ARGs, JRPGs, TBSs, BRs, MOBAs, and MMORPGs, my favourite video game genre has always been BASAJDAFAB - Be A Superhero And Just Dick About For A Bit. Spider-Man was my favourite game of the last generation, and Batman: Arkham City of the generation before that. I got Avengers at launch and I'm still prepared to defend the campaign, while Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League is one of my most anticipated games, along with Spider-Man 2. Gotham Knights should be perfect for me then, but every single clip I see of it just makes me more wary. The latest example of this has been the awkward character trailer at Summer Game Fest, and the recently shown off co-op system.
I was sold on Gotham Knights from the original pitch. It's Batman without Batman, letting you play as his four proteges. I get to be Batgirl, I'm into it. I know the game can't just come out and spoil itself, but it's a little bit annoying how much the marketing is leaning into the idea that Batman is dead when it has already told us it’s adapting The Court of Owls - one of the most famous Batman stories of the modern era, and one which sees him fake his own death. Either you wink at us that he's still alive or you keep the Court of Owls hidden, that's the play here. It's like when Avengers told us Cap was dead, even while revealing special skins you could unlock for him alongside a full tutorial for his combat system in the opening mission. It starts to feel insulting, and the longer the charade is continued, the less impactful any kind of reveal will eventually be.
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Let's leave that aside
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