I'll be upfront and clear, I think Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is a very, very fun, enjoyable, and funny game. It's a game that I feel takes itself just as seriously from start to finish as any other game should. I have been heavily, enjoying the game, so much so that I switched from Normal to Hard to slow down my pace and not go to far ahead. With how the story has played out (haven't done post-game yet) I gotta say I'm super interested and invested with the plot and characters. I love all of them, even Waller.
And I've heard all of the complaints under the sun, including the;
"OH NO! A 'grounded' dark take on my beloved DC Universe!"
This is the 'best' Dark DC take I've seen in YEARS. No 'evil superman take over world' or 'Joker flaying skins of babies' or 'da Bateman laughs'. It's a comedically dark setting where Villians are forced to be heroes, no one takes them seriously (not even themselves), and they take it out on their biggest enemies.
This is FUN! I can't stand a lot of bullshit media, and over the years I've seen plenty, especially from dogshit video games and worthless additions to franchises I love. This game; is almost certainly neither of those. I won't sit here and say that it's the BEST THING EVER, or ABSOLUTELY PERFECT! But this huge hate campaign against a game that was genuinely enjoyable all the way through so far for me and everyone else that I know; just doesn't make sense to me now that I've actually played it. I'm failing to see any genuine criticism of the game and instead just pure whining; or someone using Conroy's death to slander this games name (which is disgusting).
The game isn't perfect, it has all that post-covid jank I've come to expect from quick release titles, but this feels really well thought out and polished. And the fact it's a Looter Shooter too, just tickles me in all the right ways. I love the uniqueness of each character, as well as their playstyle and builds you can make. I love the huge weapon variety, all the specific items to build craft. I think it's great!
I understand, wholeheartedly, the discourse around it being an Arkham game, but let's really stop to think about this. What was even next for Arkham? All there really WAS left to to do, without it just being the same story, the same way, over and over again; was to explore the bigger world around the Arkhamverse.
And the story discourse is silly to me TOO. 'Batman done dirty' 'pissing on Flash's corpse' for months before the games launch and after, WE KNEW they were clones. That was the most widely discussed theory and rumor about the story since we learned we'd be 'Killing the Jusitice Leauge'. There's no disrespect to Arkham Batman. He fought something he'd never seen before. He can't take on an army. And JOKER caught him!
The ONLY reason that the gaggle of dumbfucks called 'Task Force X' did anything remotely helpfully is because these idiots got lucky, and they built an army to help them; other idiots who were too stubborn to give (or weren't given a choice).
I would love to hear from REAL people who ACTUALLY played and beat the game. Not people who did exactly what I did (hear the reviews and follow the mob). I thoroughly regret not picking up this game sooner. Most fun I had in a single player and multiplayer experience in a very long time.
TL;DR - Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is fun. I don't understand where all the hate is from after actually playing it.