Media type: Video Game
Title: Injustice 2 (Legendary Edition)
Released: May 11, 2017
Format: PS4
Played before?: Yes
Hey peeps and welcome to a written playthrough of Injustice 2, specifically the Battle Simulator. Because if there’s anything someone would want to do, it’s read about someone playing a video game. Not even watching them play it, just reading what they did.
This review will focus on the Battle Simulator mode with Hellboy. I will fully admit I have played this game rather recently, but I wanted to at least start writing with a game I at least kind of knew rather than one I didn't. They’ll be plenty of time for that later.
Going into the mode, I picked the Advanced Battle Simulator, which has eight battles. I have previously played every character on the Novice Battle Simulator, so I do have a small idea of what gets points and how it goes. I have also played the first Injustice game, which I absolutely loved.
Hellboy was level three when I began the mode and I played it on very easy, because goddamn easy mode was too hard for me over in the storyline of the game. I know it’s the wimp move, but I don’t really care because I’m never playing this game competitively. I will also admit, I don’t understand meter burns. I have never successfully used one. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I don’t get how to. It sounds stupid, but basically anyone who ever reads these write-ups is going to read how an utter beginner fails at most concepts involving this game.
Anyway, onto the fights.
Fight 1: Aquaman
First off, I was just so excited not to start the fight in Slaughter Swamp. Every single fight in the Novice Battle Simulator starts there and with as many characters as there are, it gets tiring to always start the level there. Especially knowing the last level will always be Brainiac’s ship.
The battle took place on the Brother Eye level of the Batcave. I’m usually pretty good at getting first hit for the meter at the bottom so that’s not usually an issue. It has been a few months since I’ve played as Hellboy, as he was the first one I played the Novice mode with. He’s a heavier fighter and I cannot figure out his combo moves at all. The only one I could get consistently is the one with the gun.
(Sidenote: If you haven’t figured out by now, I really don’t know what particular moves are called. Again, not for lack of trying.)
My fighting style, in video games, is to typically just attack until someone dies. Sometimes it’s the opponent, sometimes it’s me. Depends on my luck. In a fighting game, that works out a little better for me, just as long as I remember to block sometimes.
The only hits Aquaman could get on me were with him throwing his trident and the little octopus arm that comes out of the ground. I kept trying to switch position to be able to knock him into the transition but he kept moving back. Eventually I super moved him and ended the fight.
Fight 2: Supergirl
And there’s Slaughter Swamp. At least it wasn’t the first stage.
I was able to hit her to the edge of the stage and knock out most of her first bar without taking a hit but then she laser-eyed me. It was the only way she could really hit me. That and some weird wind move. I have absolutely no clue how she does that move, nor will I ever figure it out. When we get to Supergirl in this, we will learn I have absolutely no clue how to do any decent combo with her.
I proceeded to do my super move and end the fight.
Fight 3: Starfire
The fight started in Kahndaq in Black Adam’s palace. I absolutely loved the beginning interaction between the two. One thing I really love about the game is how the openings to the fights have a range and that they aren’t all serious.
Knocking down Starfire’s first bar was really easy. This surprised me because I usually have a hard time fighting against her, even on very easy. I remembered to try and use the environmental interactions more, but I don’t have them as easily memorized as I do the Injustice 1 stages.
I was able to do a transition into the Rock of Eternity stage, but did not use my super move to end the fight because the bar never completed. At the end of the fight, Hellboy proceeded to level up to Level 4.
Fight 4: Cheetah
The fight started in the Red Sun Prison Power Core section.
I find Cheetah to be really easy to fight. I very rarely have a hard time against her. I went about a bar and a half of her health without taking a hit. Most of the time I get a perfect round, they’ve been against her.
I managed to transition from the Power Core stage to the Central Containment stage, where Superman just hangs out in the background. No super move to end the fight once again.
Fight 5: Firestorm
This one had a challenge attached to use two environmental interactions. I tried, but with the stage being the Fortress of Solitude, I couldn’t get them. I can only ever manage to kick them into the statues, but unfortunately most of the fight took place on the right hand side past those statues.
Firestorm kept doing his little air fire circle, which doesn’t really do much damage, but is annoying when you’re trying to bounce him to your other side so you aren’t trapped in a corner. Once again, no super move.
Fight 6: Atrocitus
The fight took place in the Arkham Asylum Cell Block.
To take my rage out on not getting two environmental interactions in the last fight, I proceeded to hit Atrocitus into the cage holding a prisoner. About half a fight later, I realized that it’s Two-Face hanging out in the cage. So that’s a neat little background feature.
Atrocitus did his swirly red move a few times to hit me. Also, he brought his cat out, which I honestly have no clue what the hell it does. It just floated around for ten seconds and then disappeared.
No level transition this stage, but I did get to do a super move to finish the match. After the match, Hellboy went up to Level 5.
Fight 7: Swamp Thing
This fight had a challenge attached to use the character power twice. I did, but I don’t know what the hell Hellboy’s character power does. Reading later what the power is, I still don’t get the different medallions and how to know which you have and what it’s doing because I’m more focused on beating the crap out of my opponent. That’s on me, though.
Fighting Swamp Thing was looking at me fighting. He just attempts to hit and hopefully something hits. I will say, Hellboy and Swamp Thing kind of play the same, for me, so it made sense that I might feel this way.
The fight was in the Command Center in Atlantis. Once again, didn’t manage a level transition, but did manage a last minute super move to end the fight.
Fight 8: Brainiac
I really hate fighting this character. He doesn’t really fight. He uses his cheap special moves that knock your health down immensely.
I did learn from the novice simulator that I should just hit him and not stop hitting him. Don’t let him try to summon his stupid moves. That does work until he uses his super move and you’re in the middle of attacking him and can’t block. Which is what happened in this battle.
I did manage to level transition him and defeat him with the super move. Also, he didn’t even knock me out to one bar, which is really rare for him.
The Ending
I will admit, I’m not a DC connoisseur. I don’t know if these endings do the characters justice. I don’t really know the origin stories or a plethora of information about the characters. I do really enjoy the characters though, and I do want to learn more about them. There’s unfortunately, only so much time in a day, as well as so much other information to learn about.
I will say, I love that each of the characters narrate their story rather than an omniscient narrator doing so. That they kept Hellboy’s art style for his story was great. I liked the background element of Penguin, Riddler, and Two-Face in the police wagon being captured. I don’t know who the fourth one is supposed to be, but I imagine it’s another Batman villain.
Overall Score: 962,000
From the Novice Battle Simulator, I learned the doing super moves at the end of a fight nets me more points. That’s why I tend to end the fight with them. Same for trying to get level transitions and environmental interactions. I know I’ll never get the gold mother box simply because I am doing the fights on very easy. I never obtained it in the novice simulator, but that’s okay for me.
I will be keeping track of the scores I get with each characters, just for my own knowledge of who I managed to do best with. I will state that the score above is not fully correct because I didn’t write the score down in time. A ranking system will come once I’ve played more characters.
That’s it for now. Until the next badly played battle simulator story, I’m signing off.
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