Marvel's Midnight Suns

Goth Baddies dating simulator

So this had been sitting on my Wishlist for awhile - I knew nothing about the game at all and was never particularly into Marvel aside from watching a few Wolverine and Deadpool movies awhile back. It just looked like another game worth putting on my Wishlist with all the hundreds of others, waiting for a Steam Sale and repeatedly saying 'nah, maybe next time'. Well I eventually got it on sale and have to say I'm glad I didn't miss out on this one.. I put a lot of hours into it and enjoyed every minute. It has a unique combination of gameplay elements which seem odd on the surface, but for me they worked great. It's fairly story-driven, with your time split between interaction with the other Superheroes at the Abbey, exploring the abbey grounds, and doing combat missions. As with the X-COM games by the same dev, you'll be building your team's strength, doing research, and managing your resources, much of which you'll get from doing missions. You'll also be improving your friendships with the other superheroes, and choosing & improving their cards for combat. As you progress, you'll slowly explore new areas of the Abbey grounds, which reveals more backstory and gives access to more plants to pick for making things at the cauldron if you wish, though I would say don't focus on picking plants as much as I did, they're handy for the average player but probably not worth spending too much time on. I have to mention that I did enjoy the gothic feel of the Abbey and grounds.. right up my street :) Combat is turn-based and uses card decks. It adds other aspects in there, such as knocking enemies into each other or over ledges. As you complete battles, you'll gradually unlock further difficulty levels which you are encouraged to increase as you play, just to keep the challenge at the right level for your team. I did run into some bugs, mainly in combat, but they generally weren't too bad. Some things like your character not counter-attacking can be fixed by saving and reloading. I believe there's a bug that stops you getting the Ancestral Armour, which is one of a handful of armours, but it's not the end of the world tbh. The game has plenty of other viable armours and a huge amount of cosmetics and colour palettes. So overall I'd very much recommend the game. Full price is out of my range, generally speaking, but it felt like a steal on sale. The DLC's are pretty solid, which you can get with the Season pass, and account for 4 superheroes; Deadpool, Storm, Morbius and Venom. I'd suggest maybe watching a quick video of Deadpool to see if you can get on with his voice acting. Really nice quality game with good graphics, animations, voice-acting and story. I'm just a bit sad that it looks like there won't be a sequel as this wasn't really the commercial success they were hoping for. Hell, I even watched through most of the Marvel movies in release order while playing this, so it must have been alright :)