This review will contain spoilers for all previous episodes and the current episode of Batman The Telltale Series. For our review of Batman The Telltale Series Ep. 1: Realm of Shadows, click here.

There was a lot of excitement around Telltale taking on one of comics most well known masked heroes, but there was the question of how they would handle the storied Batman. Would this be just another Batman story, with nothing new to show after 70 years of twists and turns, or could Telltale find the fresh approach to a hero getting late in his years" The first episode showed a little bit of promise after a slow start and the expected Batman platitudes. There’s the new, young and fresh Oswald Cobblepot, and of course the twist of finding out that the Wayne’s had actually been a central component of crime and corruption in Gotham.  Children of Arkham starts by confirming Thomas and Martha Wayne’s criminal involvement, and has Bruce figuring out that the supposed mugging that killed his parents wasn’t a mugging at all, but an assassination. Of course the dark criminal underbelly of Gotham is not to be trusted, and this episode plays off of the classic Batman themes of not being able to trust anyone. Through episode two I could see the roots of Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face. Oswald Cobblepot, once Bruce’s first and only friend, now dons the mantle of the Penguin, seeking to kill those complicit in Gotham’s corruption, and Bruce is in his cr...