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Injustice 2 notes

Injustice 2 tickles the exact spot I want tickled with this type of game, and WHY MARVEL WHY CAN'T YOU MAKE ONE JUST LIKE IT? But I digress. I finished the campaign on medium in around 5 hours I'd estimate. It's really quick, but you're basically watching a 5-hour movie where you're personally responsible for winning all the fights, so 5 hours is a nice, merciful runtime here. Injustice 2 feels like such a clean fighter. My experience in the genre is pretty limited to MK, Injustice and Smash Bros, with MK tending to be my favorite, but this game feels even cleaner than MK11. It's so nice that I'm really tempted to keep playing it, dive into the towers and grind for a while, but that's not the exercise as we know. The story here manages to excite me even more than the actual DCEU, just as it did in the first one. It's not perfect. The Act 2 pivot where Batman releases Superman (right after Blue Beetle and Firestorm just worked so hard to keep Wond...