Injustice 2 Critique

Corrections and Clarifications: 1. Bruce asks Barry to go back in time in the comic. He says no. 2. Firestorm's offscreen mission was to craft the gold kryptonite dagger. 3. The bad music playing in the Metropolis crater scene is apparently a glitch. I've seen other recordings that have much better, sombre music in the scene. 4. Adam says "Kazam!" when he's on the throne. 5. I wasn't making a joke about "World's Finest." I was making a joke about "Chapter 11", like in the MKX video.

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You really have to appreciate the fact that Joker, Atrocitus and Grid are fully playable characters in this game, despite only having one canonical appearance, whereas Baraka, Rain, Sindel, Smoke, Sector and Cyrax get none despite occasionally having more than one fight in both MKX and MK11.

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Superman punching Batman before the final battle reminds me of Quan Chi punching Kuai Liang in Sub Zero's ending in MK4 lol

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34:40 when Bruce says “forgot that was there” was actually pretty significant. It hints at the fact that the story brings up later in the final fight that Bruce doesn’t want to fight Superman and just wants his friends back. Really nice and emotional scene that I loved and felt like should’ve been pointed out

Stopped everything I did prior Sat down And decided to solely focus on this

I feel like the mole in The Society was a bit pointless too. Everyone knew it was Selina from the moment they saw her. It would have been much better to not bother having Selina in the society, especially considering Ivy knows shes connecting to "The Bat" and therefore she wouldn't be believed for two seconds. Honest to god, what was the point? The worst bit is, they could have made it Deadshot, helping Batman to take down Grodd, doing all he can while under threat from his bomb implant, I mean, he gets called dog a few times. It would've been an interesting twist, but ah well

One problem I always have with Catwoman ever being on a villain's team is that it's so obvious that she's working for Batman. What mastermind would allow a superhero's side chick in your hideout when you know she's just gonna rat you out?

Not even gonna lie to you. When I saw this I instantly knew how I was going to spend my next hour and change.

Something else sort of worth mentioning is that one of the reasons that the base roster use recycled dialogue with the DLC and premier skins is because of a voice actor strike that was going on during the game's production. I have not done my research on how voice actors going on strike could've possibly forced NRS to not record new intro dialogues for the base roster but the fact that the main rosters of MKX and MK11 actually have unique dialogue with their DLC's (and that there were no public strikes that could've affected the video game industry during those game's respective productions) seems to be evidence of the strikes impact on Injustice 2's recording. Such a shame that Aqua Man could not have a unique intro with his nemesis, Black Manta. Basically, the limited intro dialogues are not NRS trying to be cheap. Sometimes real life crap enforces people to make due with less.

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Honestly that Superman scene of him screaming when he sees Metropolis being gone only strengthened my hatred for this version of the character. Like, he's already unlikable but that scene just shows how non self aware he actually is. He ordered Doomsday, the creature who almost killed him, the creature he thought Lois was when he killed her, he orders that creature to flatten Metropolis, the city who's destruction is one of the main motivators for Superman turning into Space Hitler. You can not show Superman being traumatized by its destruction, then okay with its destruction, then traumatized by its destruction again. It just makes him look worse as it gives him the "Its okay when we do it" logic where its okay when he destroys it but if someone else does then its the worst thing ever. Between this and his interactions, I would honestly never play Superman in this game if it wasn't for the Bizzaro skin. I don't want to play as Space Hitler and I don't want to hear this dumbass talk about how he 'hates people who hurt humans' and 'won't fall so low as to hurt children'.

A good answer to Damian's "what would you do if it was Gotham that blew up and I died?" Could've been "I'd probably act the same, but I'd have Clark the same way he needs me."

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46:05: Gotta love when Superman pulls a Metroman lol.

Seriously though, Robert Englund is a diamond in the rough. That Scarecrow voice is amazing.

Actually have a decentish idea for a different way to handle the final chapter. At the least I tried. Set up is generally the same as before, two sides, different fights. Batman's generally goes the same except for the ending. Superman's is a little different in that Batman is not his final boss. For Superman's path, his fights against Hal and Barry show that he's actually come around from his whole Ubermench Injustice 1 arc and is clearly not down for fighting his friends and also doesn't toss Supergirl through a damn building. Supergirl, like before, leads Superman and Wonder Woman to Bruce. Wonder Woman goes off to fight Supergirl and unlike in the game, Superman doesn't punch first Batman first after their little back and forth.The fight ends with Superman and Batman punching each other tiredly until Superman gets on top and begins punching Bruce's mask until it breaks. Before he can punch again, Clark sees his friend's bloodied and bruised face, and in some flashbacks to the previous game, realizes he's repeating the same mistakes as before and refuses to kill Bruce. Wonder Woman, having just knocked Supergirl out, asks Clark to finish him off. Clark however refuses and Wonder Woman gets outright furious, saying they have a chance to get everything back, but Clark cuts her off, realizing that Wonder Woman fed on his fear and anger at the time, refuses to kill anyone else. The final fight begins between Superman and Wonder Woman, with Superman winning, restraining Wonder Woman with her own lasso. Superman willingly enters the Phantom Zone of his own choice and tells Supergirl that the House of Jor-El still stands for hope, that she is that new hope before walking through, ending Chapter 12 as Superman. Chapter 12 as Batman is mostly the same, minus Superman fighting Supergirl and the ending. Batman beats down Superman but instead of locking him up, the two have an honest discussion about their morals and how Clark's morals changed, with Bruce noting how on Braniac's ship, Clark looked like his old self again. Clark even wonders if things can ever go back to the way things were, and Bruce notes that things will be different for sure, but we can still ultimately make things better if we try. Inspired, Superman gains more confidence in himself and after much effort and patience, with help from Bruce, Supergirl, Hal, Barry (and maybe Harley?), the group forms a new Justice League. TLDR; Superman's ending deals with him feeling that he can't trust himself with his power after the events of Injustice 1 and Batman's ending helps Superman regain that old personality he used to have and redeems him. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

"And with that Superman is fockin back" Are you sure about that?