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This strong start also leaves me very excited to see how John Doe’s inevitable transformation into The Joker plays out, and morbidly fascinated to see what scars this version of Gotham City will leave behind on its inhabitants. I wish I’d been given the chance to actually solve more of The Riddler’s puzzles on my own – adventure games are traditionally all about that, after all – but the tension and drama that permeate The Enemy Within’s first episode make it a winner. But Lucius and his involvement in the Season Two premiere drive many of the key decisions and domino-effect consequences of The Enigma, and I found myself eager to see what the fallout will be in the coming four episodes – particularly regarding the cliffhanger we’re left with just before the credits roll. We’re introduced to his whiz-kid daughter Tiffany as she starts working at Wayne Enterprises, and she’s clearly foreshadowed to have a bigger role as the season rolls on. Waller, on the other hand, is both friend and foe as head of the mysterious federal unit The Agency, and how you choose to interact with her will have a significant and, according to the classic Telltale “god text” at the top of the screen when key decisions are made, permanent effect on your relationship with Jim Gordon.Īs for Lucius, he is really the star of this episode. Meanwhile, Alfred’s continued suffering in the wake of Season One’s events led me to make emotional decisions that added to this series’s dramatic success.
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Yet, when the Arkham series started in 2009, things began to change for the Dark Knight. When the caped crusader first started to get the video game treatment, most of the games were considered, sub par. I’d made a deal with the Devil in Season One in order to escape Arkham, and John’s repeated insistence that it was time to repay that debt made me uncomfortable throughout The Enemy Within’s first episode. In the past few years, Batman games have been getting better and better. In John, seeds sown in Season One begin to “blossom” – in quotes because players know that the man-who-will-be-Joker will snap sometime soon, it’s just a matter of when and how. Instead, The Enigma’s dramatic tension comes from the periphery: John Doe, Amanda Waller, Jim Gordon, Alfred Pennyworth, and Lucius Fox.
Despite being the central villain in The Enemy Within’s premiere episode, The Riddler is arguably its least compelling character. A mind as inquisitive as The Riddler’s would no doubt take a much deeper psychological interest in the Batman, but we never see that explored in their meetings. That’s no big deal, but his initial encounter with Batman doesn’t feel particularly developed. His absence from the limelight is never explained, and it doesn’t seem like it will be. Here, though, he’s also ruthlessly violent, carrying a scythe in the shape of a question mark and strapping hostages into “torture boxes” that slice off fingers one by one. As in most Batman tellings, he’s got a grandiose ego to go with his big brain. The Enigma re-introduces The Riddler, who’s been mysteriously absent from Gotham City for many years. Players know that the man-who-will-be-Joker will snap sometime soon.
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