Batman: The Telltale Series was the first time that the “Telltale magic” disappeared for me. I spent my playthrough with just one goal in mind: do everything possible to keep Harvey Dent from becoming Two-Face. That goal was appealing to me not only because Dent was a likeable character early on, but I also wanted to see how much agency I had in the story. It turned out that I didn’t have a real impact beyond if Dent ended up getting scarred or not, and that ended up souring me on a game I had really been enjoying up until that point.
While the first season of Telltale’s Batman left me disappointed, I did end up loving a lot about the game. I loved how Telltale put fresh new twists on established characters, especially how the Wayne family was cast as villains rather than philanthropists with a heart of gold. I know it’s in a comic book universe where bad guys and heroes alike tend to play dress-up, but it all felt more real than past depictions. That’s not always what I want from a comic adaptation, but there’s been so many variations of Batman through the year that Telltale’s felt fresh. All of that great world building continues into Telltale’s second season, which is titled Batman: The Enemy Within. No time is wasted getting the player into the action, as they are quickly introduced to the episode’s antagonist. As one might expect from an episode called The Enigma, Batman’s main foil ends up being R...