August 6th 2023.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns is a great game that has been poorly marketed. When the game trailer dropped, many people, including myself, assumed it was a XCOM-style tactics game with a Marvel skin. But instead, it was a deck-building card game. This put a lot of people off, myself included.
Recently, however, the game has gone on sale, so I decided to get the Legendary Edition and I’m so glad I did.
The visuals in Marvel’s Midnight Suns may be a bit bland and the story isn’t particularly clever, but it succeeds in creating the same gameplay-driven character moments XCOM made famous. You know that attachment you get towards your veteran unit in XCOM? Well, here you get that same feeling with Marvel’s most recognizable characters, like Spider-Man and Captain America.
Take Spider-Man, for example. If you’re in a tough mission and your party isn’t generating enough Heroism, you can pull his card that allows him to vault off crates and throw copies of the Daily Bugle at his opponents. Or maybe you draw the card that grants him extra strength for a turn, as well as a card that does area of effect damage. When you roll his Legendary card, you watch as he becomes truly amazing and spectacular, hurling himself across the battlefield and decimating his enemies.
Captain America is another standout in combat. His cards increase his defence via his shield and convert damage he deals out into additional shield points. With the right cards, he can be an absolute tank, shielding his companions from harm.
Iron Man is another great character to use in combat. He has the best multi-target attack card in the game, as well as a bevy of support cards. My favourite thing to do with Iron Man is to play a card that fills up your hand with his cards, then play a card that gives him his next card play for free, and finally play two of the same card in a row which allows him to chain attacks.
The deck-building mechanic is actually a boon to the game as it allows each character’s abilities to stay true to the actual powers of that character. This is something the marketing didn’t do a great job of explaining.
Overall, Marvel’s Midnight Suns is a truly fantastic superhero simulator. It rewards you for as long as you learn its mechanics and there are plenty of gallantly victorious moments that await you. Even the lacklustre story has some great small character moments, like Iron Man welcoming you to his ‘Scary Demon Cave’.
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