Highlights
- Side bosses in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League can affect the game's story and offer interesting challenges to keep players entertained between major missions.
- The game's unique opportunity allows for enemies to be pulled from a pool of both heroes and villains, making for potentially diverse boss battles beyond just the Justice League.
- While focusing on brainwashed heroes would make sense for the game's premise, fighting villains offers its own fertile soil.
Any side bosses that appear in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League could offer some interesting ways to affect the game's story. While the game's premise on its own could be enough to carry the game, it will still probably need some side challenges to keep players entertained between major missions. The way that such missions are approached could have a significant impact on the game. While the quests themselves need to be fun, players also need a good reason to care about what they're doing. For Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, both major and minor missions must deliver in that regard.
Players can expect the remarkably violent Suicide Squad: KTJL to be a radically different experience from past Arkhamverse titles, and not just because of the change in protagonists. Rather than using stealth and hand-to-hand skills like Batman, the Squad is set to destroy practically everything in their path with high-powered weaponry. Of course, considering the power level of their foes, they will need every advantage that they can get in a fight, no matter how absurd. This new gameplay approach is assuredly going to come with new mission setups, and that is where Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League may need some of its best tricks.
Suicide Squad: KTJL Could See Heroes and Villains in its Rogues Gallery
Due to the trailer showing Suicide Squad: KTJL including a confrontation with Superman, the stakes in the story are sky-high. As the name implies, the main targets for the mission are the Justice League themselves, brainwashed into acting as the pawns of Brainiac. Since the Justice League consists almost entirely of the most powerful superheroes in the DC universe, the concept of fighting them at all is incredibly daunting, especially for a team of mostly non-powered villains. Of course, not every mission can be a super high-stakes battle, which is why other missions can help space out the big, dramatic moments of the story.
So that players can do something besides fighting the Justice League, Suicide Squad: KTJL could include side missions to handle other problems that arise during Brainiac's scheme. For example, while the Justice League isn't in the immediate area, other characters could show up as foes for the Squad to fight. Some lower-level heroes could show up, either fighting the protagonists due to a misunderstanding, or because they were also brainwashed by Brainiac to serve as foot soldiers. This could create some interesting fights, while also giving some lesser-known heroes a little bit of time in the limelight, even if for just a mission.
The game could also go in the opposite direction when it comes to extra missions. Suicide Squad: KTJL already features minor villains in supporting roles, so it's not out of the question that other villains could be in town as well during the game's events. After all, while a game where the player only fights heroes as bosses would be an interesting niche, there are a lot of villains who would also make solid opponents. Plus, considering the nature of Task Force X, it wouldn't be a surprise for Waller to give them such a diversion. A few villains not aligned with the Squad could make for good boss battles.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has a pretty unique opportunity that hopefully won't go to waste. The enemies in Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League could potentially be pulled from a pool of both heroes and villains, which is something that cannot be said for most DC video games. With the morally ambiguous nature of the squad, they could face pretty much anyone from Mr. Zsasz to a Green Lantern, and there would probably be a way for it to make sense. There's plenty of ways that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League could have more bosses than just the League itself.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League will be released on February 2, 2024 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S.
