Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is currently the front-runner for the dubious honour of being the biggest gaming flop of 2024, costing publisher Warner Bros an eye-watering loss of $200 million. But how did it all go wrong? Apparently, a culture of «toxic positivity», an ill-advised genre switch, perfectionism, and a constantly shifting vision are all to blame.
Suicide Squad KTJL Is Giving Free Arkham Asylum Skins To Anyone Still Playing
23.05.2024 - 20:05 / thegamer.com
Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League has, unfortunately, turned out to be exactly what many of us feared it would be during the months building up to its release. The first extensive look at the game resulted in so much backlash that its release was delayed, but there was no backtracking by then. What was supposed to be a live service game we kept going back to for its new content currently has fewer than 300 people playing it on Steam, and it doesn't look like an offering of free skins for its characters based on the final boss fight in Arkham Asylum is going to help those dwindling numbers.
The new skins, of which there is one for all five playable characters, are inspired by the Joker's look at the end of Asylum after he has undergone a rather hideous transformation brought about by consuming Titan. That's why the Suicide Squad members all have Joker face paint on in their new skins, and it's also why they have patches of blood and exposed bone dotted over their bodies. It's a cool tip of the hat to the first game in the series Kill The Justice League is a part of (sorry for the reminder) but execution leaves a lot to be desired.
There are still Suicide Squad players out there, and as highlighted by Kotaku, they're not all that enamored by the new Titan skins. A Reddit thread in which a player has asked what fellow Kill The Justice League fans think of the new skins has prompted pretty much nothing but negative replies. The closest I've been able to find in terms of positive feedback is a backhanded compliment noting pulling from the Arkham trilogy is a step in the right direction, and someone saying that the Joker skin looks okay, but that's to be expected since it's based on one of the Joker's looks from a game from earlier in the same series (again, apologies).
If you are still playing Suicide Squad and you like the Arkham Asylum-inspired skins, even though they're free, you will need to actively go and get them. Don't worry, they really are free and you won't need to spend any of your precious LutherCoin. You also won't need to defeat 500 more generic purple aliens on rooftops to call them your own. All you need to do is fire the game back up and head to its store where the new skins will be waiting, provided you have downloaded the season one episode two update.
This is the second time Suicide Squad has given away free outfits to try and get people playing again, previously giving the villainous team's members Easter makeovers provided you logged back in to claim them. My hunch is the game's connections to one of the greatest trilogies in video games needed to be stronger from the outset, and some skins that people don't even seem to like aren't going to have any effect on attempts
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