Nightwing’s trying his best to step into the role of a leader, while Red Hood himself finds himself struggling between his thirst for violence and his desire to honor the legacy of Batman. There are great dynamics between each of them, with the standout for me being between Red Hood and Nightwing. Since the demo was so focused on the Harley Quinn sub plot, I didn’t get much of a feel for the overall story of Gotham Knights and how the Court of Owls fits into everything, but I’m very into what I’ve seen of the characters so far. Just by glancing at the skill tree, it’s easy to see that there’s a lot to get excited about for each character everytime you gain skill points.

Batgirl can be built to be a single-target DPS machine, a nearly uninterruptible tank that can self-revive, or a stealthy hacker that can make herself invisible to security cameras Nightwing can build himself to enhance his leaping abilities and deal massive critical-hit damage, he can become a slippery acrobat that gets extra dodges and faster momentum meter gain, or he can be built more like a team leader designed for coop play Red Hood can lean more heavily into his ranged attacks by giving them higher crit chances and more damage, he can become more of a close-range bruiser that aims to get in and grab his opponents, or he can increase the damage he deals towards various different factions of enemies And finally Robin can build himself to have a gameplan centered around his decoy he can become a true Batman successor by investing in stealth skills, including Arkham-game mainstays like vantage takedowns or he can focus on his gadgetry and elemental damage. They all generally control the same, which makes jumping between them very easy, but they each have their own combat/stealth focuses and playstyles that are defined by what you put points into on their skill tree. The other characters have their fun surprises too. Plus, he had some neat tricks – like being able to grab an enemy, place a bomb on them, and then kick them away so you can explode the bomb with a gun shot.

My favorite character ended up being Red Hood, because he excelled at a hybrid style of both ranged and melee, which felt quite different from what everyone else was able to do. Fights quickly started to feel very routine, with very similar enemies in every encounter, to the point where I felt like I had to mix up my tactics – not because I was being forced to, but just to try and make things a little more interesting.

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