Were they really just [SPOILERS]? Really? Like, really? Seriously?
One more warning, big spoilers for the whole game. Main story, the seasons, the audio logs, all of it.
I want to preface this by saying I actually quite like this game. It's very much flawed, sure, but it super works for me on a lot of levels, and one of those is the story. I really really enjoyed the main story, but for months now (since I first played the post launch stuff) I've been baffled by the post launch story.
Rocksteady said they weren't doing a fakeout. You are really killing the actual Justice League. So...clones? Really? I get that the League was gonna come back, that seems like a no-brainer. But clones? They even set up resurrection in the post launch stuff, but they decided to fo a twist and make them clones. That one stupid decision means that Deadshot was never interacting with the guy who arrested him. Wonder Woman was killed not by Superman in an emotional moment, but essentially a robot that was just created. Harley never killed Batman, that year of feeling heartbroken (in a good way imo) that we had killed Batman, and the crazy consequences we could've had to deal with from Batman having broken his rule, as well as all the other heroes. Basically, everything that happened in the story was made significantly worse because clones.
But the way they presented it was weird too. They revealed it was maybe clones in an audio log after they had said already that they were resurrecting them. And then our confirmation is from Harley recounting the events in the very last cutscene. So...was it clones? It feels like it's just a theory, and a terrible one, narratively. But it's also what they present at the end. But it's presented via a very unreliable narrator. But maybe they wanted to basically negate the story impact of the game since it was so poorly received. But if they wanted that, why did they send everyone to space after? Why did they have Braniac seem like he's being controlled by somebody else, or like he has some other plan?
But yeah, my fundamental question is, do you think they really were just clones? Or maybe the Justice League at the end is the clones and the ones we killed were really them? That would at least make the main story good still, for those who liked it, where if they were clones the whole time, that's the worst of both worlds.
What do you think?