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I had overwhelmingly low expectations going in, and i was still somehow disappointed. I've never played the Arkham games, so i'm not biased by what came before, but this game was honestly broken on concept and had no shot at being good.
gameplay wise:
-the loot system is extremely boring and almost pointless. i'm getting showered in legendarily and uniques(hell the first weapon drop i got was a legendary) and my main character(boomerang) had a complete loadout of legendary or better before i even hit level 10.
-the skill trees for each character are similar to the ones in borderlands, but they somehow fucked them up since you have no agency over which skills you take. you get one skill per row per tree, and the game picks for you which tree you get a skill point for so you have to level up all 3 evenly. and even worse, most of the perks are extremely boring. you know in borderlands 2 how your perk loadout could completely change the way you play each character based on just one or two perks? yeah that's gone most of the perks i've seen so far are basic stat buffs. the only interesting one i've seen so far is a perk for captain boomerang that slows down time on an enemy when you melee them
-the traversal mechanics are pretty dull. there's 4, one per character(a jetpack, a teleport, a grapple, and a super jump) and all four are too under baked to be even slightly interesting or fun to use. compare harley's grapple to the swinging in spider-man 2 and it really shows how under-used all of these mechanics are since they needed to make 4 instead of focusing on making 1 good one.
-the difficulty is a joke. i beat green lantern and flash in one try on the hardest difficulty and acording to the game i was under equiped for both. neither fight was difficult, i just had to run around like a headless chicken for 10 minutes taking pot shots with the legendary sniper rifle the game shouldn't have given me yet.
-the modifiers on missions are just flat out irritating rather than interesting. you want to only be able to kill enemies with a limited resource(grenades) that you can run out of and all your other weapons deal 0 damage? you want to only be able to deal damage with crits on enemies that have very unclear crit spots and all other damage heals them? no? too bad.
-the game basically requires a controller since the mouse controls are so bad(good luck sniping)
-the scopes are useless. i hit the button to scope in with a sniper rifle and it feels like the camera barely zoomed in at all, it just goes into first person instead of third person without actually changing the distence.
writing wise: i hate it. i hate all of it. there are 4 characters in this game who come anywhere near close to likable, and they're king shark, boomerang(sometimes), flash(in the 3 cutscenes before he dies), and deadshot(because he hates everyone in this damn game as much as i do). the fact harley is a main character too doesn't do it any favors, because she is at her absolute most annoying that she's been in the past several years and not a single line out of her ear piercingly awful voice was funny. in fact none of the jokes in this game are funny, i laughed literally one time in 10 hours and it was when deadshot tried to snipe flash and then flash was looking over deadshots shoulder and said "did you get him?". that's it. that's the one funny joke in the whole game and i just spoiled it for you so if you want to play this game for the humor you don't have to anymore.
and the overall plot is just a flat out bad idea to begin with, even if it were done well which it isn't, because where the hell do you go from here? this is a live service game so what the fuck are you supposed to do now? the game's called "kill the justice league" so after you kill the 5(not even 7, 5) members of the league, what next? is a new league gonna form off screen and then get mind controlled by a different bad guy so we can kill them next and literally piss on their corpse again?
if you like DC, don't play this game, because it couldn't be more clear that the writers of this game outright hate this property and only like harley quinn and wonder woman while wanting to disrespect every other aspect of this world that they possibly can.