Batman: The Telltale Series is an episodic graphic adventure game developed by Telltale Games, first released in 2016. The game offers a narrative-focused experience, where players control Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, Batman, making choices that shape the story and relationships with characters.
The plot explores Bruce Wayne’s struggle to uncover corruption in Gotham City, while confronting revelations about his family’s past. The game features dialogue-driven gameplay, quick-time combat, and detective sequences. Decisions carry over across episodes, influencing the narrative’s direction and character arcs.
I've left out the specific criteria as they would match episode 2. Telltale continues right where they left off and run with it. Batman is, through Episode 3, a consistently excellent game. This installment, being right in the middle, delivers on the tried and true practice of delivering conflict after character and story development. And wow is there...
This episode does a good job of progressing what has already happened, and what is about to occur. I am invested at this point, I have to know how it unfolds, but the wait for the fourth entry is not as painful.
A slight step back from previous episodes, New World Order is still an interesting chapter that provides the best twist to come from the game yet.
A stronger episode, but poorly-conceived villains and a lack of satisfying payoff means this increasingly looks like a series you should be playing when it's finished.
Inconsequential decisions suck the momentum out of Telltale's Batman series.
