This year has been quite good in terms of video game releases, since important games such as God of War Ragnarok, Pokémon Violet and Scarlet, Sonic Frontiers, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, among others of great quality. However, there are still a few titles to come, and among them clearly stands Marvel’s Midnight Suns.
Currently we can tell you that we are already testing it, so next we will talk a little about the things that can be found in the game, it is worth commenting that we will not go beyond the first six hours of the game. So expecting spoilers is unlikely, because at this point we ourselves have not finished the game in its history.
To defeat the evil ones
First of all, the story places us in the role of a group of heroes known as the Midnight Suns, who are a kind of resistance to the power of an evil witch who have existed in said universe for hundreds of years. In the past it was sealed but now it returns to sow the world with terror and negative energies, a feeling that has supported the Marvel villains
Although we are going to handle several well-known characters, the protagonist of the story itself is a character known as Hunter, who we can characterize at our convenience, with options that include sex, body type, and more issues. Of course, since he is an avatar, he cannot be expected to have an interesting personality or a promising development.
Overall, the story so far is interesting as we see various heroes interact with each other, including Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Scarlet Witch, and more. There are even additions that come directly from the X-Men, and that is something that we have not even seen in the films of the brand that belongs to Disney.
Game mode that can hook
Without releasing so much information (because we want to make it known in the full review) this game is a turn-based strategy, which, how could it be otherwise, is developed by Firaxis Games, studied that in its day brought us to the xcom saga Only that it has its certain differences that give it its own identity.
In this game we will be limited to the use of cards, which provide us with attacks that the heroes can execute, they will come out semi-randomly depending on the current turn, they include attack, skill and support cards. So some will serve to attack, others to defend and some more to recharge life points.
There are limited moves for each one, so you should think twice before using such cards. To this is added that to use the special versions, with massive attacks that occupy the entire battlefield, heroic points must be accumulated. Once achieved, the special movement can appear to lower a large amount of energy.
As for the movement, it is worth saying that they place us in small scenarios where the character can move, so we must think about where to place the character so that he receives the least possible damage from the enemy. The best thing is that the objects inside it are not only for decoration, because we can interact, so if we see a rock we can throw it at a rival without having to spend cards.
As for the enemies, there are some minions that can be defeated in one hit and others by reducing their life points, so we have to see if with certain movements we can make a chain to damage more than one. There are also group leaders like the main Marvel villains, one that I had to face was Venom, a fairly easy challenge to overcome.
Explore mode to pass the time
In addition to having the main element of the game, the battles, there are also sections in which we can move freely with the avatar we have chosen, this in order to obtain energy balls to buy different accessories. That’s right, we can change the clothes to our liking, as long as we take with us the coins they cost.
But that’s not the only thing that can be done in the Abbey of the Midnight Suns, since we can interact with the heroes who are on our side with conversations in the purest style of graphic adventure games. This is in order to create affinity with them, since depending on the response we assign, they will trust us more and that will translate into battle with special movements.
Another of the activities within the base is the characterization of our room, to which you can add different furniture, decorations and paintings. Of course, you can’t leave the forge aside either, because if we find certain special objects in battles, we can take them to an anvil to create additional cards that we don’t have or if they come out repeatedly, it’s possible to merge them to raise their level.
Finally, regarding the main base, there is the option to choose the missions to access, whether they are the ones that are more directed towards the story, or some more secondary ones that give us extra objects for the battle or simply to gather experience and So level up the characters. It is highly recommended not to always go straight with the story, as things can get more and more difficult as we progress.
The path of heroes stays positive
For now, that’s all I’d like to discuss about Marvel’s Midnight Suns, as I don’t want to spill so much information that it can easily be included in the review I’m submitting right now. Mainly, I don’t want to repeat many things in that text, since I feel it would be unnecessary to copy and paste, even for you as readers it could be tedious.
The only thing I must say is that at the moment everything is going positively with the video game, which in fact is the only large-scale one that is being launched this year regarding the theme of Marvel superheroes. Of course, there are details in its graphics that are not entirely convincing, but we must also take into account the fact that it will be released for all current and previous generation consoles.
Despite this, I have had fun in the few hours that I have been progressing, so I promise to elaborate extensively in the coming days, and tell you if at the end of the day to make the purchase or if perhaps it is a game that they were playing for us. hyping a lot for nothing. Well, we’ll see about that when the time is right.
Remember that the game is released on December 2 for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S and PC. The Switch version does not yet have a defined date.