Batman: The Telltale Series Review – Realm of Shadows (VIDEO)

Season: 1 / Episode: 1 Telltale games has found a nice niche in the gaming and pop culture world. Where so many adventure games and first person shooters skip over story and plot for the sake of connecting one kill room to another, Telltale has went the other way, making their games 90% about the story while fitting mechanics and pivots within it to make the storytelling engaging and innovative. From The Walking Dead, to Borderlands to Game of Thrones, Telltale has tapped sources with rich backstory and worlds they could inhabit to produce completely new stories in those universes or supplemental stories to what we’re familiar with. But none of those is as familiar as Batman, the most commercially popular comic book character over the last several years. In this newest adventure, you navigate Batman and his true identity of Bruce Wayne as you traverse the early years of the caped crusader. Harvey Dent is still Harvey Dent. Catwoman is new to Gotham, the Falcone crime family still runs the city and Alfred hasn’t warmed up to Bruce coming home with scars at night and trying to hide them as billionaire playboy by day.

The story that Telltale chooses to weave is pretty familiar to the tone of Batman lore with a few cool twists and turns on the mythology. Bruce is backing Dent’s bid for mayor in the public and trying to clean up the city on his own in the streets. We’re introduced to some staples of the Bat-Lore: Gordon, Vicky Vale, Selina, Cobblepot, etc which widens the scop…