Well it’s been a long time since I’ve written about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, mainly because I uninstalled the game to make room on my hard drive after I couldn’t log in for season 1 episode 2 launch, and I also realized I just don’t have the time to devote to any sort of grind there anymore. But I’m back with some…positivity?
I think at this point, I may actually be able to recommend that you buy Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. No it’s not…better, per se. Same campaign, same lack of encounter diversity and character kits. But it’s cheap now, just $20 during a 70% off Steam sale. This game was never worth $70, but $20? I…can get behind that.
I have said this before, but there is some amount of fun to be had in Suicide Squad. I do enjoy a lot of its combat, and there are some decent gear-farming, build-crafting things to do in here that I did like fiddling with for a while. The loot chase has also been improved now with higher quality, more rare weapons to hunt. They also got rid of a ton of annoying enemy modifiers.
Keep in mind that while barely anyone played this game, it did get pretty positive user scores. It remains Mostly Positive on Steam and is decent enough on Xbox and PlayStation. There were definitely people who liked many aspects of it.
As for the future of the game, I mean, there is one, at least for this year, allegedly. Despite an astonishingly low playercount, it is going to finish out the year of live content, meaning four seasons which will add Joker (already there), Mrs. Freeze, Zoe Lawton and Deathstroke, the last of which I’m definitely interested in. And, spoilers, the long-term plan is to resurrect the Justice League members they killed, so it’s not quite as brutal and universe-ending as it seems.
As for the playercount, it had settled at around 150 players a night for a month or so there, but this sales has more than tripled that to 550. Again, this is very bad for a game that cost this much and took this much time to develop, but whatever, we’ve had that conversation. The point is that I do think there is probably $20 worth of fun in there if you are not buried in Shadow of the Erdtree.
Of course you can keep waiting for the seemingly inevitable move of Suicide Squad going to PS Plus or Game Pass as a free game. Likely PS Plus, given its marketing deal with Sony. Right now the game is only on sale on Steam, not consoles, anyway.
So yeah, it’s not great, but there are bits and pieces that shine from some combat to some loot to very good motion capture. You take what you can get.
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