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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League was finally put on hiatus due to poor reviews, fan reaction, and sales.
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The game's ending disappointed many players by revisiting its core premise.
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Audiences criticized the rushed and cheap finale, while some sympathized with the development team's challenge.
Yesterday, Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League finally got out of its misery. After middling reviews, lukewarm fan reception, and incredibly poor sales, the game was finalized and taken offline.
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But not before Rocksteady dealt a final blow to fans, forcing the studio to rethink the game's core premise along with its ending. Naturally, it didn't go down very well.
Get your Suicide Squad: Justice League finale spoilers ahead.
“It’s the most disappointing and vain ending.”
The entire premise of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is explained very clearly in the game's title. With the world threatened, the Suicide Squad is tasked with defeating the Justice League, which includes Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman. This is something the team successfully did early in the game. At least that's what players were led to believe.
The Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League finale reveals that the version of the Justice League that was actually killed was just a clone. The original version of the character returns at the very end to help defeat the game's big villain in a very brief comic book-style cutscene. You can watch it here.
This ending, predictably, was not well-received by the game's audience. Since it was taken down, several threads have appeared on the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League subreddit, with players lamenting what happened.
In one thread, Reddit user Old_Snack said, “It was very rushed and cheap, but unfortunately, as expected, this game burned too much cash. This ending was probably made with whatever money could be found on the developer lounge couch.”
This was a common sentiment among many players, with Pyrotails echoing “It feels like it was completed in a week rather than an ending planned from the beginning. It makes you wonder how the game would have ended in an alternate universe where it was successful.”
It feels like it was completed in a week rather than the ending that was planned from the beginning.
Some sympathized with the development team's plight, others not so much. “I enjoyed the game as is, but this is the worst I've ever seen,” one user said, while another added, “Even by restoration standards it's only half finished.” A third added: “Why am I surprised? Of course Rocksteady ruined the ending.”
For better or worse, the game is over now, and it feels right.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, an open world action adventure from Arkham creator Rocksteady, puts you in the role of a team of anti-heroes. You'll have to face the Justice League mentioned above either solo or in online co-op.
It's time for everyone to move on.
