![]() Despite Telltale’s usual quick time actions, too few instances of interactivity make this still more of a passive experience than I was hoping for. ![]() What I found lacking in this opening episode, though, was the gameplay. The coming confrontation with The Joker is a story arc I look forward to playing out. “I’d like to see The Enemy Within challenge players’ minds a bit more.”īatman: The Enemy Within gives players a solid start to this season’s story, with Telltale’s usual solid writing and cinematic flair. Telltale has shown with earlier games like Back to the Future that they can make real puzzles, and I’d like to see The Enemy Within challenge players’ minds a bit more. Putting together clues is really just a matter of joining a few obvious items together with your controller, and with so few possible combinations, any player could solve them by random trial and error pretty quickly. While these elements are a good idea, they are still just too simple and easy. You may have to scan an area or put clues together at a crime scene. Like last season, some puzzles are included utilizing the Bat-Tech gadgetry. ![]() Where The Enemy Within fails, if Episode 1 is any indication, is in its puzzle elements. Once again, the cel-shaded visual style fits perfectly with the graphic-novel source material, and technically I experienced no bugs or hiccups – an improvement over last time – although I was once offered only a keyboard-based button option in a QTE event even though I was using a controller. Voice acting is, like last season, a strong point, and I will take Troy Baker’s Batman over the unpleasant sandpaper-scrape of Christian Bale any day. Narratively, The Enemy Within’s first episode is solid, and Telltale shows its usual expertise in creating a cinematic atmosphere with good music, snappy pacing and excellent dialogue. So, I was able to see that Gordon was left “Steadfast” in his loyalty to me after what I said and did in the opening installment. ![]() ![]() In case you wonder just how your relationships are affected, Telltale has added a new summary at the end of each episode. And every relationship is being shaped by you as you interact with people – I sensed, for example, that my conversations with John Doe (The Joker) would come back in a big way later in the story arc, and the game makes it pretty clear by the end of Episode 1 that he will be Batman’s real nemesis this season. I won’t spoil anything, but let’s just say that in The Enemy Within no secondary character is safe, and what you decide to do or say can alter the story a lot. Expect big narrative twists and repercussions for your actions and choices as well. ![]()
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