

The story picks up one year after the events of the first season. How the remainder of the season plays out will ultimately decide how well they've done with their troubled game engine this time, but for now it's safe to venture back to Gotham without fear of slowed scenes and bugged performances. Of course, nearly all premieres from the lag-prone developer perform well because premieres have spent months if not longer in development. Thankfully, this episode was able to keep up on a technical level. New techniques are utilized in the QTEs and they are even more frequent than before in action sequences. Although it may not mean much to some people, this second season actually outperforms its predecessor in that regard.
BATMAN ENEMY WITHIN EPISODE 1 PUZZLE SERIES
All of those " will remember that" moments are now visualized post-episode alongside the usual statistics about your big choices.īatman season one offered the most intensive quick-time events of any Telltale series yet. All of your choices from the first season carry over and the relationships play out a bit differently for the first time in a while. It's meant to allow people to feel comfortable enough to jump into the story now, but like other games from the studio, it's also best consumed as that continuation. Mitchell respectively).Like they did with The Walking Dead's third season, Telltale opted to use a subtitle rather than call attention to the fact that The Enemy Within is in fact a continuation of an ongoing story. New minor characters introduced include Police Detective Harvey Bullock (Keith Szarabajka), Agency operative Vernon Blake (Christian Lanz), international arms dealer Rumi Mori (Keone Young), Riddler's second-in-command Eli Knable (Alex Hernandez), and Stacked Deck patrons Frank Dumfree and Willy Deever (Kirk Thornton and Dave B. Freeze (Matthew Mercer) and Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn (Laura Post).ĭetective Renee Montoya (Sumalee Montano), Reporter Jack Ryder (Robert Clotworthy) and Wayne Enterprises Chairwoman Regina Zellerbach (Lorri Holt) return with smaller roles within the series. Other members of the group include Riddler (Robin Atkin Downes), Bane (J. "John Doe" (Anthony Ingruber) and Selina Kyle/Catwoman (Laura Bailey) also return, now members of a group of criminals called "the Pact".

New supporting characters are also introduced, including Special Agent Iman Avesta (Emily O'Brien), one of the Agency's operatives and a fan of Batman, and Tiffany Fox (Valarie Rae Miller), the daughter of Lucius and an employee at Wayne Enterprises. The game introduces "The Agency", a mysterious government organization with its own agenda led by the ruthless Amanda Waller (Debra Wilson). His butler and former legal guardian Alfred Pennyworth (Enn Reitel), Police Commissioner James Gordon (Murphy Guyer), and Wayne Enterprises Chief of Technology Lucius Fox (Dave Fennoy) return to assist Batman in the field. The player once again assumes control of Bruce Wayne/Batman (Troy Baker), a billionaire who secretly fights crime in Gotham. Crowd Play, a feature implemented in the predecessor, also returns for The Enemy Within, allowing streamers to let their audience interact with their session with the game. Sections of the game also present situations to the player where they may choose to approach as Bruce Wayne or as Batman. The series also includes investigation sequences, allowing the player to use Batman's detective skills to investigate areas. The game includes action sequences that are resolved similar to Telltale's other games, using quick time events. If the player had played the previous game, choices made, such as saving certain characters or stopping a criminal, may also be imported, though the game can be played as a standalone title. The game features a branching narrative, similar to past Telltale games, giving the player options in approaching a situation and having that choice affect later events in the game. The player controls Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego Batman, with the game evenly split for both characters. Like most Telltale games, the game features a similar episodic format found in other titles (such as Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us and Tales from the Borderlands). The game is a sequel to 2016's Batman: The Telltale Series, which was based on Bob Kane and Bill Finger's Batman character.

Interactive Entertainment under its DC Entertainment label. Batman: The Enemy Within is an episodic point-and-click graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games and distributed by Warner Bros.
