Marvel's Midnight Suns

I honestly really like the game, people keep complaining about to dialogue and story but trust me there are worse dialogue marvel games *cough* marvel superheroes *cough* (it's so bad it's funny), and i don't mind that they're yapping a lot, these are my favorite characters and most of the times it makes me laugh or chuckle. Great game if you're really into marvel !!

good to great

not usually a big fan of turn base but this I can get on board with!

I'm a huge turnbased tactical fan, and I tend to pick up any positively reviewed game in the genre. However, I'm not a fan of Marvel, so I was a little wary about the storyline in Marvel's Midnight Suns and whether I would enjoy the game if I didn't care about the story. Like anything else Marvel, I felt like there was a lot of context I wasn't getting with all these heroes and villains that kept popping in and out, but I never felt like it was detrimental. The plot ultimately didn't keep me after the combat started to get repetitive, so I hadn't finished the game. The combat feels like a extremely simplified version of Baulders Gate 3 combat, but instead of spells and abilities, you have hero-specific decks and cards you can improve on as the game goes on. You're in a small arena, and there's places you can move enemies to knock them out. Overall, you probably could jam through the monotony if you're a Marvel fan, but I wasn't so I didn't.

First the positive! The combat is genuinely great and kept me going for a few hours. All the environmental attacks look feel and sound amazing. Exactly what you want from a super hero game. Now the negative. As someone who hasn't interacted with anything Marvel related since the original Guardians of the Galaxy movie, I always thought the "Marvel writing" bit was overblown. Can't speak for the rest of the franchise but this game lives up to every stereotype about the writing I had ever heard. If you enjoy that, all the power to you but I can't in good faith recommend a game I was about to close the game mid tutorial. The term "Flerking" shows up less then 5 minutes in. Again, I LOVE the combat. I hope someone takes the combat system and makes something great with it. If the writing was merely bad I would still be playing. I've never found the story/writing in a strategy game to be so insufferable that I can't go on before. The voice actors deserved hazard pay for this thing.

[h1]So damn unfunny.[/h1] You can tell this was made at the height of Marvel's "Whedon" phase. Every character will not stop quipping. Spider-Man is famous for his quips but when EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER is Spider-Man, it loses a metric ton of weight. I don't think I laughed one time while playing it. Just groans and eyerolls as far as the eye can see. Shame, because the actual game is quite fun. I'm not playing a game on mute to enjoy it, though.

What a surprise! Great game, and I must say that I enjoyed it very much. I had never played a tactical RPG before, but I'm very familiar with the Marvel IP, and I found the game very beginner-friendly. I was gradually immersed in the game, and now it's certainly one of my favorites. The story is great and rewards you for having outside knowledge of Marvel comics; the card system doesn't have that much skill expression, but that's fine by me; the cutscenes are cool, and I didn't feel the story dragged on by any means (even after playing for 60 hours). Even the adventure section surprised me with its depth. Now for the bad stuff: the actual Midnight Suns team (Nico, Magik, etc.), despite being in their late 20s, act very much like teenagers, and some story choices didn't feel too natural (they pissed me off a bit). Some clubs and hangouts are really cringe; the graphics are kind of lame (it looks like a PS3 game); and the game's price is absurd, especially the DLCs. I don't recommend buying any of these at full price. Each DLC gives you three missions and two base upgrades (and costs almost as much as the base game), but sadly, you need them if you want to platinum the game. I recommend buying only the base game at first and then, if you like it, getting the Season Pass on sale. Overall, the game is great, and I don't regret giving it a chance.