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Batman: The Telltale Series - The Enemy Within (Switch)
This is the second season of Batman: The Telltale Series. I played the first one for Game of the Month way back in 2018, then the sequel came out on Switch that October. I picked it up instantly and got through the first episode and a half, and then abruptly dropped it. I don't remember why, even though I can remember a lot that was going on in my life at that time. So it got selected for January Game of the Month this year and I decided to finally pick it back up and finish it.

Anyway, this was a Telltale game through and through, and I mean that in all the best ways. It doesn't do much to deviate from the company's formula but, like the first season, it does take a LOT of liberties with the license. Obviously the star of this season was the Joker and how you can turn him into a vigilante rather than an outright villain, even though you have to take him down either way, initially leading me to believe I failed and got a bad ending. I realized long ago in Telltale games that if you try to please everyone all the time you end up contradicting yourself constantly and only piss everyone off (I made a gigantic mess of this in The Wolf Among Us), so the best way to play is to prioritize 1-3 characters to maintain a positive relationship with and please everyone else only when it doesn't contradict your relationship with those characters. Continuing from the first season my #1 was Alfred, followed by Selina and, once I caught onto where their plot twist was heading, Joker.

Episode 1:
You and 9.9% of players told Gordon you could not talk about Lucius; You and 74.3% of players chose to visit Mori for information on Riddler; You and 56.3% of players took the drive from Mori by force; You and 28.5% of players let the agents die by not answering Riddler's questions.

Episode 2:
You and 50.1% of players convinced Tiffany to hand over the Phalanx Key and remain hidden in the vault; You and 71.6% of players reached out to Gordon in their time of need; You and 23.9% of players took Willy down violently when he pulled a knife on you; You and 42.2% of players attempted to minimize casualties in the convoy raid by following Harley, countering her chaos at every turn; You and 95% of players accepted John's offer of a pinky swear, becoming "friends for life."

Episode 3:
You and 61.4% of players warned Catwoman. She avoided the GCPD, and stole Harley's laptop before John; You and 64.5% of players coached John to be himself, and he told you about his time in Arkham; You and 82.4% of players told Tiffany your secret; You and 82.6% of players took the fall and were left in one of Mr. Freeze's cryochambers to die.

Episode 4:
You and 5.3% of players turned your back on Mr. Freeze, leaving him to suffer; You and 86.9% of players told John that you trusted him to find Harley by himself.

Episode 5:
You and 70% of players saved Willy; You and 77.4% of players took Tiffany out into the field; You and 68.5% of players refused to hand over Joker to Waller; You and 36.3% of players told Alfred you would give up being Batman; You and 55.1% of players defeated Vigilante Joker.

Overall I liked it. This is certainly a very good series. Knowing there probably won't be a third game made the final choice of the game a lot easier for me, even though I probably still would have done the same regardless (although I guess now that Telltale has risen from the dead maybe there could be a third game after all). I'll certainly play some more Telltale games in the future, but that was never in question anyway.