Batman: The Telltale Series is back only this time, it’s with a noir twist.
Athlon Games published – and then rapidly unpublished – a press release that announced The Telltale Batman Shadows Edition – Batman: The Telltale Series, a new version of the narrative-driven game with a graphical update and a “sinister new look” “noir-style” makeover.
“Batman: The Telltale Series cast players into the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne in a dark and violent original story and challenges players with discovering the powerful and far-reaching consequences of choice as the Dark Knight,” the press release says (thanks, Gematsu). “As Batman, players will encounter classic allies and adversaries, and will learn the true meaning of what it means to be the man behind the cowl as Bruce Wayne.”
If you’ve already got the base game, the new features can be purchased and added-on separately via the “Shadows Mode” DLC for $5. (Related: I completely read that as “Shadow Moses at first and now cannot unsee it).
Though dated 5th December, reports of the withdrawn press release are only just starting to circulate, and while the presser says the game is available “today”, it doesn’t seem to have been formally announced yet, let alone released on Nintendo Switch, PC (Steam and Epic), PlayStation 4, and Xbox One as promised, perhaps intimating plans for the title changed at the eleventh hour.