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Marvel’s Midnight Suns - PS/XB/SW/PC - October 2022

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I have always been a bit reserved about this because I don't like deck builders/card-based combat, but I've remained interested because of the subject matter.

 

Some interesting bylines on that metacritic summary then, with one suggesting about half the game is the social stuff being more than a little bit off putting. The idea of buying gifts as well is just..odd, along with the fact any housekeeping has to be done by traversing the hub, rather than via menus.

 

It leaves me feeling that this sounds a bit more like a 'wait/hope for Gamepass' than one to buy, I think.

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BadgerFarmer

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1 hour ago, JoeK said:

Watching Skill-Up's reviews leads me to suggest that however good the actual game is the story element of it all could possibly be the most appalling shite ever. 

Read the Eurogamer review as a counterpoint:

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It's a blockbuster about the apocalypse, but it's also the story of a particularly taxing house share.

 

Personally, I always look forward to book club night.

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I'd been a little ambivalent about this since its announcement. On the one side, you had the fact that it's from Firaxis (and specifically Jake Solomon's team), whose output has ranged from good to incredible; the fact it's a small-scale tactics game with a high-level strategy aspect, a format I love; and the fact this is a move away from their traditional cover-oriented tactics — very promising. On the other, the fact that this is based around Marvel superheroes (which I'm apathetic towards at best, moving towards antipathetic as they achieve greater media saturation) and the fact that it uses a card-game system as part of its gameplay (a mechanic I'm very hit and miss on) gave me reason to be wary.

 

The reviews, while mixed, have completely allayed my fears; more, they've drawn my attention to the ridiculous sounding social aspects of managing your team, and I've gone from being rooted to the fence, to having ordered it to play this weekend.* I can hardly wait!

 

(also, I loved Christian Donlan's review posted above; just a very enjoyable piece of writing. Top marks, would read again)

 

*on PC; I'd been tempted to pick it up for Xbox using £25 of credit, but then realised that even after taking that chunk off it barely came to less than just buying it from Green Man Gaming for PC, so I've opted for the option that will hopefully allow for both decent trackball control and, somewhere down the line, Steam Deck play.

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I'm really tempted to grab it now, Firaxis have never let me down so far...

 

But I'm still playing Pentiment! All these amazing sedate strategy and adventure games for the more beard stroking gamer must cease their assault eventually.

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:omg:

 

Unfortunately, I've spoiled things for myself by having arranged to meet up with a group of people I love and care for in order to play board games and generally have a nice time tonight, so I won't get to play this until tomorrow. Evening ruined!

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deerokus

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Yeah there are a couple of strange UI issues like that. I'm on series x and the text is readable if you're near the screen but not otherwise. Not sure why since the interface isn't cluttered at all so there's plenty of room for them to work with bigger text.

 

Also you can't turn off subtitles for some reason. The way they're presented is especially distracting.

 

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