Batman: The Telltale Series

I wonder if any of you can remember those awesome Choose Your Own Adventure books from long ago?

Well, this is pretty much the twenty first century's answer to those epic stories from before we had things like Netflix and Facebook. If you aren't sure what I'm talking about, there use to be, probably still are, only on some dusty library shelf no one even knows about anymore, these magical books. What made these books so amazing was that they had multiple endings, that were all based on the decisions you made. So at the end of each chapter there was a consequential decision that had to be made, then, depending on your decision you would have to go to a specific chapter and continue reading. Much the same as in life, you would only realize 3 or 4 chapters and many more decisions later that a choice somewhere has greatly affected the outcome of your story.

Batman from Telltale is very much a Choose Your Own Adventure, every choice you make either has a positive or negative outcome to what happens. The great part about this is that you can play it a few times over with the main story following sort of the same path but every decision or lack there of will have some kind of impact on the story.

The story begins with Batman responding to a break-in at Gotham City City Hall, where he has to take on a group of mercenaries, who are there for unknown reasons.

He discovers Catwoman has broken into the safe and stolen a hard drive, while he was dealing with the bad guys. She tries to make a run for it but we know Batman, who somehow steals the drive back from Catwoman as she escapes. Batman heads back to the Batcave to analyze the drive, then has to meet with Harvey Dent who is in the process of holding a fund raiser for his Mayoral campaign in Bruce Wayne's mansion.

During the party the notorious gangster Carmine Falcone shows up, who then attempts to proposition Bruce to join his crime family. The alter ego of the Dark Knight would obviously never agree to something so outrageous, and Falcone leaves vowing to get even for being denied. The next day accusations come to light in the press that the parents of Bruce, Thomas and Martha Wayne who died when he was just a young boy, are somehow connected and had affiliations with the Falcone crime organization.

The story continues with Bruce and Batman having to solve this mystery of what had happened in the past. Are these false accusations created by Falcone in order to strong arming him to comply, or is there truth that his parents might have somehow been involved with Gotham's more shadier characters?

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If you have ever played any of the other Telltales games you would know, they are all tied together by two distinctive elements.

Firstly the visual feel of all their games, which is an animated, almost stock motion feel but not really, which I am finding incredibly hard to explain right now. The other element is of course the play style, which is what they refer to as point and click style games. This makes the game rather easy to play, it's almost like watching a movie where you get the make decisions. These decisions do require pretty quick thinking as you only have but a few seconds to respond when prompted, and failing to responds counts as not saying something which does have consequences. You know like when you girlfriend or boyfriend says I love you and you don't respond, things can turn ugly quickly.

Batman is an unpredictable adventure, that is very well balanced between playing as Bruce Wayne and his alter ego Batman. The two are almost different characters altogether, completely independent from each other and this is even experienced through the game style. While as Batman it's mostly detective work and combat, and when playing as Bruce, there are for more quick strategic decisions that need to be made.

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"You crossed the line first, sir. You hammered then and in their desperation they turned to a man they didn't fully understand. Some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn." - Alfred Pennyworth

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My verdict on this game, well, it might be a bit on the short side when it comes to the length, if you have to compare it to other games or even the Arkham Knight series.

The story is exciting, original and does not follow any of the Batman stories either from the comics, films or previous games, that I know of. The vocal dialogue was well done but at times felt a little over explained, almost like I might miss certain plot points in the story. I was caught off guard a number of times with the game which probably caused me to make decisions I didn't want to. Once the the decision window is gone, you have to live with it, or restart the entire episode.

When it comes to combat it was rather fun, like I said it very much like watching a movie, then out of nowhere and without warning you have hit the right keys to not get killed. This happened a few times as I was getting into watching more that actually participating, when instantly I would need to grab my controller.

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Batman: The Telltale Series game is what's called an episodic point-and-click graphic adventure game, due to the mechanics as I explained earlier.

The game was launched in September of 2016 and was released an episode at a time, in much the same way TV series would be released. So every few weeks they would release another episode with 5 in total and about 2 hours long each, depending on your play style. The game was developed by Telltale Games, who have done quite a few of these games by now, like Game of Thrones, Back to the Future and The Walking Dead. This title can be be found on all your favorite platforms, even the older generation consoles like the PS3 and Xbox 360. I would say this is something fun to introduce to someone who's just starting to game for the first time. It's currently free on PSPlus and on special for the PlayStation Easter sale.

I'll give Batman: The Telltale Series a rating of 7/10

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In case you missed it, here is the previous game review

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Game review for ADSactly by MorkRock

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