What went wrong with Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League

The key things that are wrong with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and why it's embarrassing for DC fans to play:

• The DC and Marvel comic franchises began as and are rooted in the fundamental concept of heroes we can look up to. The triad of Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman are basically Truth, Justice, and the American Way. Suicide Squad turns this completely around.
• The characters you play are villains and assholes. They initially work for the government represented by someone who is basically also a villain and an asshole They later take instructions from another character (Luthor) who is literally a villain though not as big an asshole as the others.
• Unlike the 2016 Suicide Squad movie where the squad acted in a more decent way than the government representative they were working for, this is not repeated here to make them "heroic" in comparison to the other major players. Captain Boomerang leads the charge in this game by being a thoroughly crass asshole.
• These nobodies who are the Suicide Squad: Who are they?
• OK there's Harley, but really people are only interested in how sexy she is. They don't want a game with her so much as they want to watch her in a porn vid. That's why all the Harley-lookalikes in zombie apocalypse mobile gacha games make her look hot.
• And the rest... who are they? Did they get a cameo here and there in some obscure comic? There's no emotional attachment to them, no sense of looking forward to play them.
• At least with Marvel's Avengers you got the big names like Iron Man and Thor. Here you maybe just want to see a hot Harley but they don't deliver that either. She's so flat-chested she's basically using the new vogue of Body Type B.
• Maybe they were focus-tested to be the best of the candidates for a videogame, but I don't feel excited to play a lunatic, a shark, or Captain Embarrassing Name.
• The premise that nobodies in the DC universe can kill the strongest characters of the DC universe, characters with some of the hardest powers to deal with, like the Flash.
• Unless you can justify it with a heck of a lot of preparation to neutralize their advantages and deal with them properly, everyone in the story should just be embarrassed.
• They sort-of have help doing it, but it's dubious at best.
• For example, Lex Luthor has a gizmo to help neutralize the Flash. And it does, once, before the Flash neutralizes it and Luthor. Why would four gizmos on still-slow characters really do anything? Flash can't grab it from them before they even realize it? (Basically do to them what he did to Luthor).
• Luthor gives the Suicide Squad special yellow kryptonite but they are still basically land-bound and slow. Why doesn't Superman fight with his advantages such as dropping a building onto them from afar? Throwing someone into space to die from the airless vacuum?
• By dumbing down the opponents to the point where they don't fight like the iconic characters you know, you do a disservice to all the characters involved.
• Maybe stacking more advantages or taking a different strategy might have worked. Like a device to break Brainiac's control over the character causing them to be confused and distracted enough to slow them down for a gunfight. But we didn't get that even with Lex Luthor's science and Batman's tech.

This is like Marvel's Avengers -- trying capitalize on the popularity of a franchise by shoving it into a popular game mode. But not properly thought out enough. Who thought it was a good idea that loot drops let the Hulk change his spine as gear for example? What the heck are people thinking in game studios nowadays?

The underlying problem with Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League might be that the studio was tasked with making a looter shooter. And to avoid the weirdness of loot drops we saw in Marvel's Avengers, they had to choose playable characters who carried weapons, so that you can give them looter shooter loot drops.

But why would you match them up against the top tier heroes of the DC Universe?

There's a Wonder Woman game coming up. This story would have been better with her as the playable character. She at least has a plausible chance especially if backed up by gizmos and science of Luthor and Batman. Whether it could be a good looter shooter is debatable however.

That said the story is better told than most games and certainly there's more story here than most looter shooters.