Telltale's Batman is best when he takes off the mask

With Batman: A Telltale Series, the Walking Dead developer is positioning it as “A game where Bruce Wayne is just as important as Batman.” I’ll take that one step further and say: After watching the opening half-hour, I’d warrant the Bruce Wayne sections will be by far the most interesting.

At the heart of the problem is the fact Telltale’s games just don’t lend themselves well to action sequences. They keep trying—more with each game, really. I don’t know if Telltale just wants to counter arguments that their interactive movie-esque titles are “not a game” or whether they genuinely believe these action sequences are interesting, but we’ve seen a steady increase from Walking Dead to Wolf Among Us to Tales from the Borderlands to Minecraft.

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