[VD: a screen recording of someone playing the game Batman: Dark Tomorrow. In it, Batman is getting his shit fucked up by nonstop explosions. A car first explodes near him, causing Batman to collapse on his back as the player rapidly switches through items to get to a medical kit. Batman stands and the player repair's their low health and switches their tools again to now be holding a bat-cable. They try shooting it to escape just to have an explosion happen right next to them again. Batman crashes into the ground again—the head of character model clipping through a brick wall as the player once again has to switch tools to be holding a medical pack. Six explosions happen as Batman keeps trying to stand up, all while being relentlessly shot at from off screen. Finally he escapes and cowards behind a wall, where he then blocks his head as another (off screen) explosion happens. END VD]
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2 days ago this game gave me the ick and i'm only now feeling better. This game was so awful it actually sucked the life from me, and sucked the fun out of live streaming a "bad Game" because it controls like shit, has awful combat, and is a prime example of a "Where the fuck do I go Kinda game". Did this game actually make me sick? Probably not but I felt real bad and got worse as the first night progressed and still felt bad last night when I beat it.
For context I decided to stream 3 coincidentally similar DC Games I've dubbed the "Unholy DC Trinity., consisting of Batman: Dark Tomorrow, Superman: The Man of Steel, and Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis.
All 3 games are based off the then current comic versions of the characters (rather than a show or movie or being an original take on the characters), all released around a similar time frame (2002-2003), are all apparently Terrible (I can attest to Batman being bad), and none released on the PS2. Batman and Aquaman are Gamecube and Xbox and Superman was an Xbox Exclusive.
I beat Batman on stream last night, probably could've knocked it out in one stream if I didn't feel sick, and will be moving on to Superman this Wednesday and then Aquaman when I beat Superman.