I like Batman. I think he is a well balanced superhero with just enough realism to his character to make a real life person go, "yeah I could be Batman." So when TellTale announced they would be doing a point and click adaptation of The Dark Knight I was excited. I knew that TellTale had pedigree with narrative based games and was intrigued to see how they would approach the dark, twisted world of the Batman and his impressive rouge's gallery. However, the most intriguing aspect of TellTale's game was the ability to play as Bruce Wayne. This was a bold move by the studio seen as it had not really ever been used in a Batman game before other than when you played as Bruce very briefly in the opening moments of the Batman Arkham Origins DLC, a Cold, Cold Heart. However TellTale did a brilliant job in writing the character of Gotham's most eligible bachelor bringing through his tortured psyche along with his mask of brash arrogance brilliantly. Troy Baker excels voicing Mr Wayne and truly brings life to the character and makes him very likeable. However, this excellent character writing does not just stop there with characters like Harvey Dent and Carmine Falcone coming across as both likeable and despicable in their own rights. But... The writing for Dent does fall down a little and does at times make him seem a little bit desperate when he is usually portrayed as a D.A. Who takes no prisoners when convicting a criminal. Falcone is written very well a
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