It’s finally time for Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League to live up to its name, for itself.
The game’s official Twitter account made this announcement:
“As a reminder, Episode 8 will be the final update to #SuicideSquadGame. The title will remain playable in both Online and the recently released Offline Mode for players to continue to wreak havoc in Metropolis.”
Of course, this was all already announced beforehand, and we reported on plans to make an Offline Mode. This game’s story should be familiar to our readers, so we’ll jump straight to what you probably opened this article for: the game’s official ending.
As reported by The Gamer, the official ending has been relegated to a 2D cutscene with some flash animations, but this was also the way Rockstar handled the story sections for the game’s DLC. It’s also some real Poochy the Dog writing, but we should just share it here.
After defeating the Brainiac of Episode 8, Superman and the rest of the Justice League suddenly reemerge to reveal that they were never under Brainiac’s control. Instead, Brainiac cloned them while the real League hid for an opportunity to actually take Brainiac down. We then get a completely unearned happy ending, where the League agrees to allow the Squad to escape to other Elseworlds while they cleaned up the mess left behind in their original universe. This squad gets to keep the DLC characters who joined them, as we also see Hack, Poison Ivy, and Penguin join them in escaping Waller’s clutches.
As terrible as this ending is, we don’t even see the point of getting mad about it, not in a world where DC Comics was allowed to make Batmanhattan. TLDR, Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League was a complete creative and financial misfire, trying to mix together ideas from Slash Maraud and Deadpool and put them into a live service game that was expected to print money. This ending has a lot of disappointing plot points, such as the unfixable deaths of Wonder Woman and the Batfamily. It also features glaring potholes, like why didn’t Supes stop his clone from killing Wonder Woman?
But we know this is the final consequence to Rocksteady having to wrap everything up just to say that Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League had an ending, any ending. And even this isn’t the worst indignity we have seen recent live service games face. The only real hopeful epilogue to this is that Rocksteady will finally be able to move on, and WB Games will allow them to make the single player games closer to their specialty after this. And so we can lay our hopes that Rocksteady can rebound with their next project.
If you really want to go through it, you can watch the ending below.
