Thursday 2 June 2022

Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems Thoughts

This is a pretty unenjoyable and awkward to play brawler. Every character attacks and moves super slowly and avoiding attacks feels impossible and combat often consists of getting hit and hope the I-frames last long enough for you to kill the enemy. I would be okay with all of this but your characters don't even get health refills inbetween levels and you have to collect health refills making the game even more of a chore. This whole system feels like it pads out the length of the game because the game itself is really short. Hulk is objectively the best character because he does the most damage and takes the most damage but even then you have to deal with awkward platforming and hard to avoid traps. You never feel like an awesome superhero when playing this, you feel like a tank living off borrowed time. The Aquariam level alone is enough to drop this game and make you quit.

I would give this game a lower score but seeing older pre MCU Marvel characters is nice and to me somewhat indirect fan service and the character sprites do look solid. Music is also pretty good.

I feel like Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is a much better, "hunt down the infinity stones" Marvel themed brawler than this game is, play that instead. MUA3 actually has good feeling combat despite it having a weak story.

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