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Telltale’s Latest Batman Adventure Redefines the Joker

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Clocking in at about 75 minutes, ‘What Ails You’ is Telltale’s shortest-yet episode of Batman: The Enemy Within. It’s also the first in which Bruce Wayne (mine still sporting a missing chunk of ear suffered in the Season 1 finale) leaves Batman’s cape and cowl at home the entire time. It serves the story just fine, however, because the quickened pace helps make the episode feel like the bottom of a ramping, two-episode drive towards whatever episode 5’s climax ends up being. In other words, things start to pay off.

On that note, I appreciated that ‘What Ails You’ avoids the obvious cliffhanger ending that The Enemy Within has previously been guilty of. Instead, the finale puts another twist on the backstory of The Joker (still known here as John Doe), leaving me tantalized and compelled to see what happens next without feeling like I was being hoodwinked to return for the upcoming finale.

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