At present, Warner Bros. Interactive Leisure launched a brand new Robin-centric Gotham Knights trailer displaying the caped crusader bam! pow! and kerpslatting goons whereas (checks notes) teleporting.
Earlier than you get bent out of form, no, Gotham Knights’ Tim Drake didn’t immediately get up with the ability of Goku’s immediate transmission. As an alternative, the tech-savvy third ward of Bruce Wayne, might he relaxation in peace, is using the Justice League’s teleportation know-how to beam himself brief distances throughout fight.
Outdoors of blinking round Gotham’s gaggle of anonymous villains, the brand new trailer exhibits Drake cracking skulls with a employees, littering explosive holographic doubles of himself, and disorienting enemies with a slingshot–echoing Carrie Kelley’s Robin from Frank Miller’s The Darkish Knight Returns comedian.
Whereas it isn’t out of character for the biconic third Robin to lean into the analysis and improvement know-how from each Wayne Enterprises and the Justice League, this isn’t the primary time Gotham Knights’ left DC fan’s scratching their heads in confusion.
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Previous to the official Robin character trailer, Gotham Knights launched a 13-minute gameplay video with the acrobatic Nightwing and gun-toting Crimson Hood navigating Gotham Metropolis by way of a jet-powered glider and newly endowed “soul vitality” skills. Gotham Knights’ inventive director Patrick Redding defined the inventive selections behind Nightwing and Crimson Hood’s traversal skills in a Q&A session in Gotham Knights’ official Discord channel.
Redding revealed that Nightwing’s techno-glider, the Flying Trapeze, is actually one in all Batman’s stealth drones. Dick Grayson makes use of it to achieve extra altitude to carry out death-defying acrobatics. Crimson Hood’s Mystical Leap, alternatively, is a newfound energy imbued into Jason Todd following his dying and consequential resurrection by way of the Lazarus Pit.
“We actually favored the concept that as Jason begins to confront the trauma of dying and being introduced again, he begins to have the ability to faucet into some misplaced skills,” Redding mentioned in the course of the Q&A. “In the identical method that he’s tried to reinvent himself from anti-hero to hero whereas retaining his strengths, he discovers he can channel these mystic skills in methods he finds acquainted: Via his physicality [and] in how he strikes, but additionally in how he fights and even how he makes use of his weapons.”
Redding added that the Mystic Leap is “only one manifestation of these powers” that gamers can use with Crimson Hood in Gotham Knights.
Gotham Knights is slated to launch on October 25, now just for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Collection X/S.
