Recent reviews by Birddie

5/10
This game has many good things going for it, but it also has an equal amount of bad things as well.

Before reading my review, note that I played this game entirely in single player, and the game is probably more enjoyable from a game play perspective if you are playing with friends, as usually games are. There is also a matchmaking option to find random people to play with, but honestly the bot teammates are good and you don't really need random people to play with for the game to be enjoyable.

The good:
Solid game play. The game is fun and all of the combat mechanics work really well. Movement through the city feels smooth and Metropolis feels really cool to play in. The game is fun to play and I enjoyed my time playing it. This game feels like a better version of Gotham Knights, where many of the things that felt bad about that game are corrected and made to feel good from a team play perspective.

The bad:
This game is not rewarding at all. This game is all about killing the Justice League, literally in the title, but killing them does not feel satisfying. None of the Justice League characters you kill feel rewarding. You kill them and they don't even get cool cut scene deaths, they just die from the fight and afterward there's some cut scene that immediately pushes the story along not even letting you reflect on the fact that you killed a member of the JL. Even after defeating the final boss, Brainiac, you learn that that's not all, and there are 12 other Brainiacs you will have to kill at some point in the future when the developers add them in via the live service part of the game. After the whole story, your actions do not bring Metropolis any closer to being free of Brainiac's invasion and it feels like you really did not do anything through the events of the story other than killing a few of Brainiac's hit men.
Even completing all Riddler challenges feels underwhelming. You get periodic unlocks for completing some of the challenges. By completing the AR traversal challenges you can unlock some skins for the characters, and collecting the trophies unlocks codex data like concept art, but there is no reward for completing all Riddler challenges. A complete letdown. It feels not even worth it finding the trophies and scanning the riddles.
The gameplay was very repetitive, which is forgivable for the main story, but once you beat the story and you're in Finite Crisis, there's a limited pool of events you are expected to do on repeat for mediocre item rewards.
The loot drops you get are kinda not great. I got a few legendary drops early in the story and pretty much used them until the end of the game. There's no reason to use any loot that isn't legendary quality as they drop early and have better stats, so most drops you get are worthless. The item overhaul systems are also very lackluster and don't really do anything. The items you use change game play so little that you can pretty much ignore items as a whole and the game will still be pretty easy.
There's also nothing else to the story than what you can tell just from the premise of the game. You kill the Justice League then kill Brainiac. There are no twists in the story, nothing new you ever find out, very dissimilar from the Arkham games where each of them you are learning and adapting throughout the game. In this game, you kill the JL, then kill Brainiac and that's it for the story, then you are pushed into the live service part where you play the same missions on repeat for mediocre loot that hardly changes game play at all.


You may see that I wrote a lot more about the bad things than I did good, and I gave it a 5/10. It is a lot easier to write about the things I did not like about the game over the good because the bad things stick easier in my head. All in all the game was fun and I enjoyed playing it a lot. Was it worth $70? Maybe not, but if you, like me, are a big DC fan and have played the Arkham games, you can enjoy this game.

TL:DR: Fun game, very enjoyable. Bad story, bad live service aspect with repetitive content.

If you're not a DC fan, there's really no reason to get this game.

Fantastic game with a great story! It's not a challenging skill-based game, but instead an immersive experience on touch decision making and fulfilling kingly duties while balancing those with having to manage royal family. It is a fun game with many fun references throughout and great music to top it off.

I love this game. The only thing that isn't great is the main story. The battles are the best part of the game. There's also a great modding community for the game arleady.

Great game. I owned this game before it came to steam and was excited for its release. It runs great. I only wish it were easier to access songs for it. For extra songs, you have to go to fretsonfire.wikidot.com/packs but you have to have an account and either download each song individually or packs through jloader. Excluding finding songs, the actual game works and plays great!

I like it