![]() Mere minutes before this moment, everything is fine between the two – they are chummy and work well together. The introduction of Amanda Waller is also an interesting curveball, but depending on how you play your cards, it leads to an odd skip in the narrative where a rift is immediately formed between James Gordon and Batman. This relationship is wonderfully cryptic at this point, and I hope Telltale continues to evolve it slowly. Telltale is taking its time with this powder keg of a friendship, perhaps even letting players entertain the belief they can save John from becoming Batman’s greatest villain. The most interesting moments in this episode are the interstitial sequences that show Bruce Wayne developing a relationship with John Doe, who we all know eventually becomes The Joker. He overstays his welcome, and is so over the top in his killing that he's oddly comical. He’s just a one-note killing machine, and a pawn for a larger story arc that we only briefly get a whiff of at the end of the episode. ![]() The duality Telltale achieved with Penguin, Two-Face, and Catwoman is nowhere to be found in this villain. When backed into a corner, he lashes out and tries to murder as many people as possible. His riddle machines slice off fingers and heads, and cook you if you don’t move fast enough. Despite the familiar antics, this Riddler is nothing more than a cold-blooded killer Telltale turns him into Jigsaw from the Saw movies. He wears green, his calling card is a question mark, and he gives you a chance to escape or catch him if you solve his elaborate riddles. This episode focuses mostly on The Riddler, who looks like the character comic fans have known for decades at first glance. This new story is aggressively dark and gruesome, flighty in its character building, and more about shocking moments than establishing the foundation of a cohesive narrative. In The Enigma, the premiere episode of a new five-part season, Telltale clearly liked its first taste of bat blood, and may have gone a little wild from it. Almost every prominent figure had an alternate persona or hidden agenda – we even learned Bruce Wayne’s parents were deserving of a cell in Arkham Asylum. From Lady Arkham to Two-Face, a key theme in the story was duality. Villains transformed into allies, and everyday nobodies emerged as unexpected threats, all as Bruce Wayne’s sanity was tested. ![]() He cares very little-if at all-about the lives of those he uses in his plots and instead only sees them as disposable pawns in his continuing intellectual battle against Batman.Telltale’s unique take on Batman’s lore was mostly successful in the first season. Although not physically imposing, the Riddler's brilliance, neurosis and lack of empathy make him an incredibly dangerous foe. Possessing a genius-level intellect, the Riddler creates elaborate, sometimes Rube Goldberg-esque traps, and is even willing to use innocent civilians as bait. Because of this, the Riddler often finds himself a resident of Arkham Asylum following his inevitable capture. ![]() While this habit constantly leads to the aptly named Riddler failing in his criminal endeavors, his puzzle-problem actually stems not only from his own narcissism and ego, but also from a deep-seeded psychological compulsion. One of the Dark Knight's most infamous villains, Edward Nygma enjoys flaunting his intellectual superiority by conducting crimes and leaving clues for Batman to piece together. Riddle us this: what cerebral criminal with an affinity for purple and green loves challenging the Dark Knight with cleverly calculated crimes and puzzling plots?
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