Marvel's Midnight Suns

So I've 100% this game, quite a few times now, and I honest to gods think this is one of the best Marvel games ever made. The story is great, the characters are written well, (and with their existing lore in mind so it isn't a "brand new take" we've already seen 6 times over.) the costumes are fantasic, (even if I don't jive with all the color swaps.) and on Gwen's grave the gameplay is great! I'm serious, the card gimmick isn't that big a deal, I promise. It's tough at times, but when you put in the effort and craft builds, you're tougher. If you can get this game on sale, I implore you to give it a try. Some of the best characterizations I've seen from Marvel in YEARS with the cast, a really great main story, and an even better DLC story, great gameplay that won me over in the first few hours. Please try this game. I promise the virtual cardboard won't hurt you.

This was a pleasant game. Nothing too crazy. But good enough to spent several hours on it.

Not a super hero guy but love Blade and tactics

Decent tactics game made better by a whole host of characters and really good effects (even if they take awhile sometimes). Excellent voice acting with some hit or miss dialogue, but that's any Marvel thing tbh

This game is solid. The open world exploration bits aren’t as fun as they should be, and hanging out with your favorite hero’s isn’t quite as fun as it should be. The gameplay is pretty solid, a combination of deck builder and grid based strategy, and all of it with a marvel skin. It’s… fine. I didn’t finish it, I just got bored after 25ish hours. I set it down and never came back, and never will. If it’s on a big sale it’s probably worth it.

A great game with problems.

The combat was way too repetitive and slow-paced. Story is meh. It wasn't absolutely terrible, but there are a ton of other games I'd rather waste my time playing.

Excellent game, mixing some fun (if repetitive) gameplay with some good background storytelling. Unfortunately it hits a pet peeve of mine: if I find a bug, google it and then find that it's been common for years without being fixed I'm always disappointed, and this game is full of them, especially in New Game + Overall I recommend this, but only at sale price

UPDATE: I am changing this review for positive only because from my world perspective a person can't leave negative review on a game one spent 43 hours in and keeps playing it. But everything bellow is still valid with one exception - core gameplay is developing greatly through the game progress and i enjoyed it a lot. That's the reason for 43 hours. When I heard "marvel game from XCOM team" I was sold immediately, but the truth is, it is extremely questionable. It tries to be so much and fails miserably at everything so in the end we get a mixed-genre abomination with mechanics from everything that just doesn't work. It feels like a game planned to be a F2P Mobile Card Gacha, that for some reason switched into a PC singleplayer. The game introduces tons of meta-mechanics like relations, training, resource-gathering, base decorations etc, etc, etc. But all of that is to compensate for the lack of deep core gameplay. Core gameplay design is... acceptable. I was honestly expecting something xcom-like, but I guess the idea to make Marvel game less tactical and more puzzlish works towards more broad audience (not like XCOM has a small audience, but super-hero theme can certainly attract lots of kids and casual players), I can't really comment much on it as it feels like I have lots more to try with it. What I really want to comment on is EVERYTHING ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ELSE! The pacing of the game is terrible. They tried to go hard CRPG with HOURS of dialogues and killed any motivation on exploring those dialogues. So we have casual gameplay with BG3 dialogues and a relationship system. You think it's weird enough? Wait, there's more. How about lootboxes? And MORE LOOTBOXES? [b]AND EVEN MORE LOOTBOXES[/b]? There are at least 3 types of those. And you can't just get the rewards after a mission. The gameplay loop forces you to WALK between different locations to do everything. Imagine if the base at XCOM was a 1:1 replica where you have to walk on foot to do everything you usually just clicked. Sounds terrible? Not to MMS designers apparently. The game doesn't appreciate your time at all. You want to speed up animation? No. You want to skip the lootbox opening animation you saw 50 times already? No. You want to read dialogues and not wait for them to be voiced to you? Well. Not always. 50% of dialogues are cutscenes where you can either skip it whole or watch it at a 1x pace. As a Summary: Is it an overall bad game? - No. It can be fun and the core gameplay feels fresh, even though it doesn't play like XCOM at all. Can I recommend it? - Honestly, no. Playing it feels like being forced to eat 7 appetisers that were made by a motel cafe cook to have a lick of a main course cooked by a master-chef. Not worth it.

If you're looking for Marvel XCOM, you will be disappointed. The making friends part is kind of meh, but the combat is great.