Why Gotham Knights Doesn't Use Stephanie Or Damian As Robin
gamespot.comI can't be the only one who thought, «Okay, but why Tim Drake?» when developer WB Games Montréal announced Gotham Knights, an upcoming game that sees Nightwing, Red Hood, Batgirl, and Robin band together to take down the Court of Owls following Batman's death. In the game, the Robin we play as is Tim Drake, the third individual to don the mantle. But he's not the final one to do so, or even the most popular (far from it). So I ask again: Why Tim? Stephanie Brown and Damian Wayne are surely the more interesting choices.
«There were a lot of reasons--from a lot of departments--for Tim,» Gotham Knights narrative director Ann Lemay told GameSpot. «One of the ones that I specifically can point to is one of the things that we wanted to explore for Tim, [which comes] from the comic books, from his backstory: He crafted his entire identity as Robin [from the idea that] every Batman needs a Robin.»
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Batman's stories have been written and rewritten dozens of times over, but the agreed-upon backstory for Tim Drake is that he's the third Robin, becoming Batman's sidekick after the apparent death of Jason Todd in hopes of becoming an anchor for Batman--someone to ground the vigilante and keep him from slipping too far into the darkness.
«One of the things we get to explore with [Tim Drake] in this story, both for Tim as Robin and for Tim as Tim is, well, what is a Robin without Batman?» Lemay said. «And there's a lot of interesting angles to look at there. And we are
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