Midnight Suns is FREE on the Epic Games store until June 13. Grab it while you can! I was not paid to say that, I genuinely love this game and want more people to try it. If you liked this video, make sure to SUBSCRIBE for more! Link to the character doc I mentioned in the video: docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUL2aUlTM1H3FvXS79b9PjA6qG4NxSHyX0SPIYXCBgI/edit
Heyo, this is the guy that brought up that it's free on Epic. I decided to pick this game up, since I'm currently sick at home and I didn't really have much else to do. I remember brushing it off the second I heard it was a card game when it came out. Cut to today, I've played about 15 hours in two days... You were right, the gameplay is extremely engaging and entertaining, every single move feels like it's got such weight behind it, which makes every hit feel so satisfying. The social aspect is kinda growing on me too. I really like how all the characters have their little quirks. Blade being a bookworm and Strange worrying about Tony's depression really endeared me to them. Thanks for the recommendation!
Midnight suns had the better overall extra dlc content Marvels avengers game had better gear, some would prefer the 3rd person combat style over XCOM in marvels avengers. Both games had better stories, but if I wanted a better story I think midnight suns is better, gameplay avengers would've been good if it wasn't so boring. Marvels midnight suns seems more fun online. Marvels avengers paved the way. But I'll give midnight suns a shot. I'm not a fan of XCOM fighting styles
Lol I got morbius late and when we get that bomb thing from hydra morbius was there but I couldn't interact with him 😂 I went and got him immediately afterwards
I thought the dlc characters would just be silent through the main campaign until Morbius threw a little fit because Stark and Strange didn’t let him work with them on the either the Demon suit or Symbiote suit if I’m remembering right🤣
I will never forget falling in love with this game for my 100+ hour playthrough, finally pushing to the gate for the final boss, talking with every character for the last time before the ending... and then FINALLY getting blindsided with *THAT* line from *THAT* character. They waited the ENTIRE game to pull that card and I needed minutes to recover. Such a cool game.
@@evansellers5205 Actually it's a little sillier than that, as I said it's BEFORE the ending. If you need a little more context, you can talk to every character one last time and then not interact with them further. This character in particular CAN be re-interacted with JUST so they can repeat this line however many times you want.
Love how this game understood PERFECTLY each one of the characters that were part of the plot, & having cool reference to obscure facts & moments of the OG comicbooks in the optional dialogue
Venom especially. The poor guy has been misunderstood in a lot of recent adaptations. It's a nice when they remember Venom's whole motivation used to be about being Spidey's biggest op & how he eventually got his redemption thanks to Peter. Even remembered to add that bit about how Venom isn't just the suit or Eddie, it's both of them together.
@@lucky4d725 I don't remember Steve Rodgers needing advice on how to let someone know they're cool with being friends, or Blade needing advice on how to date.
The marketing for this game was so bad, I was interested from the first announcement but had no idea what the game actually played like til I got it, and finding out it was a turn based card game, made me love it so much as RPGs and card games are two of my favorite things
Lucky! I wish that was my reaction. I saw the first couple trailers and was on the edge of my seat. But then I watched the first gameplay reveal and immediately lost all interest. I never felt so disappointed in such a short span of time
Actually tho the marketing made me hyped but I dislike card games and when I found out I got like every bit of hype turned into hatred. Still wont finish the game because it's "grind" feels stupid. Mission, run around talk and collect orbs, end day, loop
I’ve played this game already and I fell in love with its charm. The reaction to Hulk’s Worldbreaker card doing ridiculous amounts of damage will never leave me
It's easier to put up with Magik's walls when you've read the New Mutants comic that turn her time in Limbo into a child being "bad touched" metaphor...
It's interesting how you perceived Magik. I loved getting to know her and didn't find her grating at all. For me Nico was that character that I actively avoided and maxed friendship with last. She completely rubbed me the wrong way in every conversation and felt very entitled and over-the-top naive about everything. I hated how she straight up ignores you and Magik when it came to the birthday surprise. Plus her gameplay felt the worst to me.
I know, with Magik it made sense, she was a mutant, got tricked to live in hell. Stuff like that would not make someone the nicest person. Yet Nico acts like such a cunt if you dont agree with her, and then goes on to complain about the Avengers, when there the ones coming up with the plans, and she does nothing to help out. But gets pissy when they "take over"
I personally didn't like Carol Danvers because of how entitled she talked and the way she treated things like when towards the beginning when Bruce falls to lillith and iron man chooses not to kill Bruce. She is mad at him and says he should have taken the shot. And before thay when she says "don't tell Bruce but when they say bring out the big guns they really mean me"
SAME OMG I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME! Nico is the WORST. Majik is just blunt, but she's legit cool. I couldn't stand Nico and Carol though, but with Carol it's just bc I don't like her in the comics either 😭
i find it funny how different people play the game, spider-man was by far my favorite character, i love how he can remove almost all the first wave enemies with enviromental attacks, and you barely have to focus on the minions with his crazy amount of knockback (i am also a huge spider-man fan and kinda forced myself to learn his playstyle)
I actually had an interview with the combat producer of this game on my podcast channel. It was interesting hearing the choices made to make this a card based game to limit the power level of these heroes to make an interactive experience for the player.
i just got the legendary edition for this game on sale for $25 and i have been having an absolute blast with it. at first i wasn’t sure about all the friendship levels and hangouts and stuff around the abbey but i’ve probably spent as much time on that stuff as i have on the actual missions. and i wasn’t too sure about playing as a created character but it works so well in the story and makes the room for you to interact with and become friends with the characters. the gameplay is really solid too, i got it because the animations and graphics looked good but the card combat and the rules make for a great strategy game.
I started my journey with the game a few months ago and man I’m glad I tried it out! What a great game! Very outside my comfort zone with run based combat but I grew to love it!
I'm a pretty big Magik fan and personally I really like her default costume in the game, I think it's a really clean design that works tonally for the game, I would've liked to see her more current outfit as an alternative though
That’s weird, I really liked that you had to actively make the asshole choices to get on Magik’s good side. Nico was the one character o disliked the most. She’s just so whiny constantly, always shitting on the Avengers
Can you blame her? The only thing the avengers cared about was bringing hulk back but never mentioned bringing Wanda back so I agree with Nico on that point
Idea to fix Deadpool’s gameplay: Instead of Deadpool’s En Fuego being triggered by KOing any enemy, En Fuego is triggered by Deadpool KOing specific marked targets. This is to match Deadpool’s role as a mercenary. Basically, at the beginning of every mission, an enemy is targeted by Deadpool as his “mark.” Deadpool must then need to KO this enemy in order to gain 1 stack of En Fuego. Once the enemy is KOed, a new random enemy is marked at the beginning of the subsequent round. If Deadpool fails to kill his target by the end of the round, he loses 1 stack of En Fuego; Deadpool no longer loses his En Fuego by taking damage. Deadpool loses all of his En Fuego if he is knocked out, making his passive heal actually useful. All in all, this change to Deadpool’s playstyle now has synergy with his passive, as he is a progressive overload character that builds up more and more damage in order to eliminate more and more targets. This will never happen, but it’s a fun exercise.
I mean, Firaxis' games are no stranger to sweeping overhaul mods, looking at Civilization and XCOM. Could totally see a Enfuego rework or Scarlet Witch AOE buff mod.
I bought the Legendary edition of this game on sale last year and had a blast with it! Ghost Rider, Ironman, Spider-man, Venom, and light side Hunter were my favorite characters to use. Midnight Suns it deserves more love in spite of its flaws.
out of curiosity, are you planning to make a rating suit video (like the ones you did for Marvel's Spider-Man & Square enix Avengers) on the IRON MAN VR suits? because that game have such an awesome variety of suits worth of commenting on Specially the Gunsmith variants
Also, i think that a big reason so many people dislike the card aspect for Midnight Sons is due to it being a $70 game at launch with multiple deluxe editions. Whereas in SNAP its a ftp mobile game with a monrtization scheme that isnt actually awful. But overall i gotta say Midnight Sons is my favorite Marvel game to date.
I loved this game SO much. A bit of the modern slag is weird, but aside from that, this game was insanely good and I'm so happy to see other people talking about it cause i feel like this one kinda flew under the radar for most people
its interesting to me that you list Nico as one of the weaker characters. she's a must-have on my team and has cleared entire levels on her own. she's fun and powerful to me!
Her problem is that her initial deck is pretty weak and heavy RNG dependant, you need to get her good cards to get her rolling unlike lets say Ironman who has all he needs from the get go.
I disagree about Nico. I think she's pretty valid on complaints. The Avengers came into their home, had war meetings without them about the state of things, and were giving orders. The Midnight Suns were supposed to work with the chosen on this. And honestly with them we were able to pull back Hulk and Scarlet Witch from Mother's control. Let's not pretend Tony and Strange weren't super pretentious to them throughout the story.
I wonder if Deadpool could have been improved if his en fuego provided an additional bonus when the level went down. Lets say to get to Level 3 en fuego you'd need to kill 3 enemies, or go back down to level 1 if you take maybe 1/3 your health in damage in exchange for a different but equally strong bonus. Or perhaps he has two stats that scale based on how much en fuego, one scales upwards and one that scales downwards. This would encourage a reckless and carefree playstyle but I feel that's more appropriate for the character
@@tTaseric Honestly, kinda useless. The current IS RISKY: play your abilities well while trying to K.O. with Deadpool abilities and keeping him untouched. Get good🤷
I revisited it recently after initially playing it for only about an hour because of your costume videos, and man I'm so mad I didn't stick with it initially. This game is great and sucked me in big time
I love this game, I don't usually want DLCs but this is the type of game where I would absolutely pay for more DLC since more characters would give me a reason to replay the game again. It sucks that the game didn't do better because it really is a good game.
Got the game last week, and it's great, I put it off for so long as I thought some of the characters looked weird, but that will teach me to judge a game by its cover lol
To address the alignment friendship thing - I wouldn't worry about the friendship being "dramatically" effected by your alignment choices; Any given dialogue choice (alignment based or not) will give approximately +1 to +2 at most with few exceptions; Training/complimenting/bringing on missions do that in a repeatable capacity and hangouts/hangs/gifts give WAY more than that. the 1 or 2 points from dialogues in a drop in the bucket
I only just heard about this game in passing a couple years back, and watched a friend play it recently and I had to get it myself. Absolutely addicting to play through and there's always something to do in the Abbey alone. Games that are just chock full of endless things to do is something I enjoy since it keeps me invested in spending time playing them.
It's funny you said what you did about exploring the Abbey Grounds, cause that's my favorite part of the game. This is probably one of my favorite hubs in a game
It took me like two hours of feeling like quitting the game to become addicted to it and put in about 500 hours, I wish this game still got support or a second character pass considering big MS characters like Daredevil and Moon Knight didn't make it in
7:02 Personally I just don't like those types of games because I find them sorta boring, I enjoy strategy and I'm fine playing turn based games but I'd much prefer to just play other games 11:57 Damn, haven't heard that name in ages. Genuinely my only exposure to him is through the lego games haha Also, as someone else pointed out midnight suns is free on epic games store from now till 13th June, I literally just got it rn coz why not 🤷♂
I’d like a link to that google doc that you mention at the end, please. It’s a complete pipe dream, but I hope that a spiritual successor to this game using the same gameplay but starring the X Men gets made. Maybe lean full into the X-Com influence and have it be set in space among the backdrop of the “Shi’ar-Brood war” that is mentioned by Storm.
I'll admit that I was extremely disappointed when I found out about the card aspect. I love Xcom games and was hoping for that, but Marvel. I saw it for super cheap with all DLC and decided to give it a shot. I was wrong about the cards. They work really well. I had an absolute blast with this game and I wish more people would play it so we could potentially get a sequel. The only thing I would really change is adding romances. Comic accuracy be damned. And I would make the party 4 people instead of 3.
I liked the Abbey but yeah, they should have added a shoulder button prompt to zip to another vendor as long as you've interacted with one to be in the menu at all. That way you'd just have to run to your left to speak to Blade and then you can just do everything with no running around the house.
This video taught me not to judge the game on what I wish it was but for what it actually is In other words putting aside the game I want and enjoying the game I have
1:37 my one complaint is EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME POSE. they made so many cards, voice lines, and outfits. They couldn't add about 1 custom idle pose for each person? I liked magik. I got her max friendship first, her story on the daily missions felt the most natural as it went along with mephisto as I faught Dracula along the same time and he made an appearance or two
As a huge magik fan, I was pleased with her outfits, I'm used to her in the classic New Mutants yellow uniforms. Obviously I wish we got both, but I'm not upset.
Thank you Dorito God. I saw this video and made me wishlist it. I'm a fan of card games and those older Ultimate Alliance games. This scratched an itch I never knew I had. The game is a lot of fun and got me hooked, however I agree with you on the story. It's serviceable but not great but helps with the relationship building of the game. Funnily enough Magick was my first maxed out friend because I simped for her. thanks for informing my decision in buying this game, picked it up for 20 bucks with all the DLC.
Just have to say, this video encouraged me to buy the game (I did it on sale for about $20, which is one hell of a deal) and I’m having a blast! Thank you for that. That being said, I didn’t really get what you meant by “Sonic Frontiers-y” until I played the game lol. “Man, (character) would love this!” “Hey, you should meet (character)!” “Haha, this reminds me of (character)!” I do like that it clearly comes from a place of love and not “I clapped when I saw it!” though.
I think it's funny how my opinion on magik is total opposite of yours, since I like her a lot in this game to the point of her being my first maxed friendship character, even tho I'm way more of Spider-man fan and he got second maxed out (but I agree on her costumes tho) Something I find odd is Doctor Strange place in the story, he's sometimes treated as part of the Avengers by the Suns which is weird since I don't see him as part of the avengers and while he's not a core midnight sons character in the comics to my knowledge, he helped build the midnight sons team in Damnation and it was gonna lead to a midnight sons book after with him on the team so I don't understand why he is treated as part of avengers and cast out even tho he's part of the emo kids side plot
As I said, I'm not very familiar with Magik, so it's nice to hear the perspective of someone who is. Also glad to hear I'm not alone in regards to her costumes😅 Yeah Doc Strange being associated with the Avengers is odd for sure, but that can be chocked up to MCU synergy.
@@DoritoGOD2811 unfortunately MCU synergy will always be in other medias even if just by a little, like Peter in this game feels like it's leaning towards more of MCU Peter than 616 Peter but not a big deal The review is great, and I want to know if you have plan on doing more Midnight suns videos, like the concepts you had for other Marvel characters in this gameplay style or even a video ranking all of the suits in the game at least for all the Marvel heroes
My only disagreement really is the characterisation, I think these are some of my favourite renditions of some of these characters ever. They clearly show an understanding of the character and their comic book counterparts but are just different enough to feel unique without ruining what makes them special. Whilst I do think some characters (like Magik, Iron Man and Blade) are written better than others (like Dr Strange and Bruce Banner) I think for the most part everyone is written spectacularly. I especially don't understand the Magik hate perosnally Although I do agree the boring plot, and lack of urgency regarding the plot holds some of these characters back. I also think the main story does them less justice than the side content, events like the Book Club, have some amazing characterisation, and show the characters off better than the main story ever does in my opinion. Awesome video! Keep it up!
A bug I found on the ps4 version that was funny was when I played the dlc missions with the introductory characters. They immediately defaulted to their Midnight Sun outfits. But when I looked at the suit selections, they were still locked. So when I switched to another skin, I couldn’t select them again so I had to progress through the game to get the outfits I started out with. How does a bug like this exist?
Dude this game was so underrated, I really enjoyed it. It's always nice to play as a faceless character that actually speaks. My only gripe was it wasn't long enough and there wasn't more base characters in the game itself. The gameplay is awesome, it really makes you think and strategize and it makes you wanna keep playing because of all the different characters and abilities, the battles are always fresh. The other thing i think was overlooked was the relationship system. I know everyone likes to dog on romance-like mechanics but with this world, it works. You already know these characters so you know who you'd like to get closer to and getting more relationships leveled up, unlocks more content in the game so it gives you reason. This game wasn't perfect but it was sure as hell better than The Avengers game lol I hope this game someday gets the recognition it deserves and they make another game like this. I personally think the bones of this game would work great for an X-Men game. Live at the school, go to class, train your powers for missions and get to know the teachers and classmates.
I had shoulder surgery last year and discovered this game. I was only able to use one hand while healing. This game kept me sane from boredom. I fully enjoyed the game. I loved Hulk, Deadpool, Dr strange and Wolverine. I wish we got Punisher and more DLC.
To this day I always see "watch it be a card game 😂💀" in the comments of superhero game trailers. They'll never know how good this game was. Admittedly I was one of them until I got it on a sale.
I did see comments of people complaining it’s a card game and not an action game, which seeing how mediocre the recent action games for the last few years feels like dead end
Got this game for free from epic game. Wasn't really a big fan of card game until I actually playing and Ooh boy, I'm so glad they made this a card game. An rpg would made it really difficult for you to fully understand how to control a character, and balancing. I mean, how would you make Magik's portal functional as a focus for fighting style? And how would other character interact with the same situation? Making it an rpg would massively increase the time, resource and effort needed to put into a solo game. One more thing I love is the game doesn't have any micro transaction, if you want you can pay $23 for the season pass dlc but that's it. And the dlc really worth the money. The Deadpool mission was the best for me, Morbius and Venom are nice too, while Storm basic deck was a bit under whelming until you unlock her stronger card and make her a literal force of nature
I really enjoyed this game when it came out. I love the Abbey and walking around talking to characters, I love my Hunter the customization options of the game. The story was okay, frankly. The gameplay itself is fun, though it has its flaws. I recognize its not perfect but I don't suspect they'll have a chance to make another. So this game, while not a diamond in the rough, certainly will hold a special place in my heart and my Steam library
I platinumed this game. Did like two and a half playthroughs I think. So I wholeheartedly agree with pretty much all the positives and negatives brought up in this review :P
While the complaint about magiks default suit is warranted, she has on several occasions worn a similar looking costume that was chosen as the default skin (I’m assuming it’s a nod to when she was apart of the new mutants group who all wore the standard X-men outfit initially) Also yeah the Abby isn’t the best, honestly it would a much better hub if you were only required to use the mission select station
Little late to this video but the disdain for Magik caught me really off guard. For me, she was the only character that actually believably developed throughout the story and beyond their surface level traits. She was the first person I maxed out and her interactions were always engaging to me. As many others have pointed out, Nico was the character that got on my nerves because of her constant complaining.
I think making Scarlett witch have the glass cannon buffs that Deadpool has and then DP should get a strong self destruct where he revives after 2 battles or something and then wolverine’s taunts
I just beat this game on full difficulty after preordering the game years ago... i took breaks, tried not to get burnt out, but again and again I found so many gems. This game was amazing and weird... Triple A needs more games like this! All i can do is hope for a sequel... gambit is an obvious choice for a new character ;)
About Magik, I don't know what they have done with her since child Illiyana died to the Legacy Virus, but old Magik isn't supposed to be like that. She hid pretty well how she was f-ed up most of the time, and used many different diversions if people got too close to the truth.
Kinda wishing I watched this video earlier, I just got the game like an hour ago and I got it on the PS4 so we’ll see how that goes with the glitches and whatnot (I’ve got such great timing) (edit: ok, haven’t run into a lot of glitches, the textures keep blurring not long after I start the game up when I go back to it but my main problem is that every time I get on, like an hour or two in, the freaking thing crashes and it’s never consistent on when or why it happens, it’s so annoying, especially since the game sucks at auto-saving so I usually lose a little bit of progress whenever it does crash meaning I keep manually saving and I don’t want to play a game while constantly wondering every second when it’s gonna crash, seriously how did this get made to work so badly on the PS-freaking-4 of all things?!). But after this and all the gameplay I’ve seen, I’m looking forward to playing it especially since I got the Legendary Edition since it’s on a 75% discount right now so it was $25 and I figured “why not” (definitely gonna put Iron Man in the Bleeding Edge armor as soon as I’m able to, not big on that main suit)
I paid £15 for the deluxe edition, been chipping away at it slowly over the last few months. For that price I've already easily got my money's worth, and I feel like I've barely gotten started with it. It's not perfect but the combat is extremely satisfying when things fall into place.
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Midnight Suns is FREE on the Epic Games store until June 13. Grab it while you can!
I was not paid to say that, I genuinely love this game and want more people to try it.
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Link to the character doc I mentioned in the video: docs.google.com/document/d/1ZUL2aUlTM1H3FvXS79b9PjA6qG4NxSHyX0SPIYXCBgI/edit
How do you get it for free on Xbox? Can you? Do you know?
Heyo, this is the guy that brought up that it's free on Epic.
I decided to pick this game up, since I'm currently sick at home and I didn't really have much else to do. I remember brushing it off the second I heard it was a card game when it came out. Cut to today, I've played about 15 hours in two days...
You were right, the gameplay is extremely engaging and entertaining, every single move feels like it's got such weight behind it, which makes every hit feel so satisfying.
The social aspect is kinda growing on me too. I really like how all the characters have their little quirks. Blade being a bookworm and Strange worrying about Tony's depression really endeared me to them.
Thanks for the recommendation!
@@ranieldale4842this is second marvel game(first bring guardian's) that has blown away my expectations. Why can't marvel market games
Midnight suns had the better overall extra dlc content
Marvels avengers game had better gear, some would prefer the 3rd person combat style over XCOM in marvels avengers.
Both games had better stories, but if I wanted a better story I think midnight suns is better, gameplay avengers would've been good if it wasn't so boring.
Marvels midnight suns seems more fun online.
Marvels avengers paved the way.
But I'll give midnight suns a shot. I'm not a fan of XCOM fighting styles
ughhh I hate that I stopped focusing on Epic games for like months and never grabbed this game
My favorite part was how the dlc characters actively interact with the story
Same I was surprised when Deadpool made a joke about the avengers tower just getting blown up
Lol I got morbius late and when we get that bomb thing from hydra morbius was there but I couldn't interact with him 😂
I went and got him immediately afterwards
I thought the dlc characters would just be silent through the main campaign until Morbius threw a little fit because Stark and Strange didn’t let him work with them on the either the Demon suit or Symbiote suit if I’m remembering right🤣
If anyone was wondering, yes. Iron Man's playstyle is intended by the devs. IIRC, they describe him as wanting to be the center of attention.
i mean that's definitely canonical tony stark behavior!
Was literally just about to go to bed when my RUclips refreshed and I saw “Dorito God 15 seconds ago.” Bed can wait I guess
For real
Cringey
i’ve seen this exact comment since youtube made notifications
I will never forget falling in love with this game for my 100+ hour playthrough, finally pushing to the gate for the final boss, talking with every character for the last time before the ending... and then FINALLY getting blindsided with *THAT* line from *THAT* character. They waited the ENTIRE game to pull that card and I needed minutes to recover. Such a cool game.
Sorry, which line do you mean?
@@thomasantrobus8261 I'd really rather not spoil it for anyone going in blind and I don't think we can spoiler text on youtube ^^;
@@Pinkanator I'll say it then..
SPOILERS AHEAD!
It's doctor Doom coming up to the book of chthon and he says "amateurs.."
@@evansellers5205 Actually it's a little sillier than that, as I said it's BEFORE the ending. If you need a little more context, you can talk to every character one last time and then not interact with them further. This character in particular CAN be re-interacted with JUST so they can repeat this line however many times you want.
@@Pinkanator Oh I did not read that correctly.
Love how this game understood PERFECTLY each one of the characters that were part of the plot, & having cool reference to obscure facts & moments of the OG comicbooks in the optional dialogue
it didn't really
@@marcusclark1339 Yes it did.
Venom especially. The poor guy has been misunderstood in a lot of recent adaptations. It's a nice when they remember Venom's whole motivation used to be about being Spidey's biggest op & how he eventually got his redemption thanks to Peter. Even remembered to add that bit about how Venom isn't just the suit or Eddie, it's both of them together.
@@lucky4d725 I don't remember Steve Rodgers needing advice on how to let someone know they're cool with being friends, or Blade needing advice on how to date.
@@leadpaintchips9461 yes because if they didn't do something like that, then the game wouldn't have any interesting characters arcs to give.
The marketing for this game was so bad, I was interested from the first announcement but had no idea what the game actually played like til I got it, and finding out it was a turn based card game, made me love it so much as RPGs and card games are two of my favorite things
Lucky! I wish that was my reaction. I saw the first couple trailers and was on the edge of my seat. But then I watched the first gameplay reveal and immediately lost all interest. I never felt so disappointed in such a short span of time
Actually tho the marketing made me hyped but I dislike card games and when I found out I got like every bit of hype turned into hatred. Still wont finish the game because it's "grind" feels stupid. Mission, run around talk and collect orbs, end day, loop
I’ve played this game already and I fell in love with its charm. The reaction to Hulk’s Worldbreaker card doing ridiculous amounts of damage will never leave me
I love how Robbie just constantly fanboys over Johnny Blaze
Johnny Glaze
It's easier to put up with Magik's walls when you've read the New Mutants comic that turn her time in Limbo into a child being "bad touched" metaphor...
She got molested?
It's interesting how you perceived Magik. I loved getting to know her and didn't find her grating at all. For me Nico was that character that I actively avoided and maxed friendship with last. She completely rubbed me the wrong way in every conversation and felt very entitled and over-the-top naive about everything. I hated how she straight up ignores you and Magik when it came to the birthday surprise. Plus her gameplay felt the worst to me.
Wellfamn if I ever get this game I know the character to avoid now
I know, with Magik it made sense, she was a mutant, got tricked to live in hell. Stuff like that would not make someone the nicest person. Yet Nico acts like such a cunt if you dont agree with her, and then goes on to complain about the Avengers, when there the ones coming up with the plans, and she does nothing to help out. But gets pissy when they "take over"
I personally didn't like Carol Danvers because of how entitled she talked and the way she treated things like when towards the beginning when Bruce falls to lillith and iron man chooses not to kill Bruce. She is mad at him and says he should have taken the shot. And before thay when she says "don't tell Bruce but when they say bring out the big guns they really mean me"
i have the same with Nico lol
SAME OMG I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME! Nico is the WORST. Majik is just blunt, but she's legit cool. I couldn't stand Nico and Carol though, but with Carol it's just bc I don't like her in the comics either 😭
i find it funny how different people play the game, spider-man was by far my favorite character, i love how he can remove almost all the first wave enemies with enviromental attacks, and you barely have to focus on the minions with his crazy amount of knockback (i am also a huge spider-man fan and kinda forced myself to learn his playstyle)
Nico’s randomized card’s definitely fit her character in the comics and in the show. Due to her staffs very unique limit.
I actually had an interview with the combat producer of this game on my podcast channel. It was interesting hearing the choices made to make this a card based game to limit the power level of these heroes to make an interactive experience for the player.
You can’t just say that and not drop a link
6:45 "Sonic Frontiers-y" is literally the perfect term for an abundance of unnecessary references
They're not unnecessary
i just got the legendary edition for this game on sale for $25 and i have been having an absolute blast with it. at first i wasn’t sure about all the friendship levels and hangouts and stuff around the abbey but i’ve probably spent as much time on that stuff as i have on the actual missions. and i wasn’t too sure about playing as a created character but it works so well in the story and makes the room for you to interact with and become friends with the characters. the gameplay is really solid too, i got it because the animations and graphics looked good but the card combat and the rules make for a great strategy game.
I started my journey with the game a few months ago and man I’m glad I tried it out! What a great game! Very outside my comfort zone with run based combat but I grew to love it!
I'm a pretty big Magik fan and personally I really like her default costume in the game, I think it's a really clean design that works tonally for the game, I would've liked to see her more current outfit as an alternative though
That’s weird, I really liked that you had to actively make the asshole choices to get on Magik’s good side. Nico was the one character o disliked the most. She’s just so whiny constantly, always shitting on the Avengers
Funny enough I also really liked Magik and disliked Nico I wonder if that’s common you either like Nico but not Magik or like Magik but not Nico.
Can you blame her? The only thing the avengers cared about was bringing hulk back but never mentioned bringing Wanda back so I agree with Nico on that point
You upload this like a week after I finished my first (120 hour) playthrough. Incredible timing for an incredible game.
Idea to fix Deadpool’s gameplay: Instead of Deadpool’s En Fuego being triggered by KOing any enemy, En Fuego is triggered by Deadpool KOing specific marked targets. This is to match Deadpool’s role as a mercenary. Basically, at the beginning of every mission, an enemy is targeted by Deadpool as his “mark.” Deadpool must then need to KO this enemy in order to gain 1 stack of En Fuego. Once the enemy is KOed, a new random enemy is marked at the beginning of the subsequent round. If Deadpool fails to kill his target by the end of the round, he loses 1 stack of En Fuego; Deadpool no longer loses his En Fuego by taking damage. Deadpool loses all of his En Fuego if he is knocked out, making his passive heal actually useful.
All in all, this change to Deadpool’s playstyle now has synergy with his passive, as he is a progressive overload character that builds up more and more damage in order to eliminate more and more targets.
This will never happen, but it’s a fun exercise.
I mean, Firaxis' games are no stranger to sweeping overhaul mods, looking at Civilization and XCOM. Could totally see a Enfuego rework or Scarlet Witch AOE buff mod.
I bought the Legendary edition of this game on sale last year and had a blast with it! Ghost Rider, Ironman, Spider-man, Venom, and light side Hunter were my favorite characters to use. Midnight Suns it deserves more love in spite of its flaws.
I just got into this game, glad to see you review it!
This dude is COOKING on RUclips rn. He’s breaking free from the avengers game sub to him
out of curiosity, are you planning to make a rating suit video (like the ones you did for Marvel's Spider-Man & Square enix Avengers) on the IRON MAN VR suits? because that game have such an awesome variety of suits worth of commenting on
Specially the Gunsmith variants
Also, i think that a big reason so many people dislike the card aspect for Midnight Sons is due to it being a $70 game at launch with multiple deluxe editions. Whereas in SNAP its a ftp mobile game with a monrtization scheme that isnt actually awful. But overall i gotta say Midnight Sons is my favorite Marvel game to date.
I’ve never really been into strategy games, but it’s kinda fun once you get the hang of it.
I loved this game SO much. A bit of the modern slag is weird, but aside from that, this game was insanely good and I'm so happy to see other people talking about it cause i feel like this one kinda flew under the radar for most people
its interesting to me that you list Nico as one of the weaker characters. she's a must-have on my team and has cleared entire levels on her own. she's fun and powerful to me!
Her problem is that her initial deck is pretty weak and heavy RNG dependant, you need to get her good cards to get her rolling unlike lets say Ironman who has all he needs from the get go.
I disagree about Nico. I think she's pretty valid on complaints. The Avengers came into their home, had war meetings without them about the state of things, and were giving orders. The Midnight Suns were supposed to work with the chosen on this. And honestly with them we were able to pull back Hulk and Scarlet Witch from Mother's control. Let's not pretend Tony and Strange weren't super pretentious to them throughout the story.
Nice Dr.Strangelove reference ❤
8:43 All the YuGioh refence in other videos make so much sense now lol
I wonder if Deadpool could have been improved if his en fuego provided an additional bonus when the level went down. Lets say to get to Level 3 en fuego you'd need to kill 3 enemies, or go back down to level 1 if you take maybe 1/3 your health in damage in exchange for a different but equally strong bonus. Or perhaps he has two stats that scale based on how much en fuego, one scales upwards and one that scales downwards. This would encourage a reckless and carefree playstyle but I feel that's more appropriate for the character
He's fine the way he is. Just adapt to his playstyle
@@SimonPeter-g2x It's not that his playstyle is hard to adapt to it's just that it doesn't fit the character very well.
@@tTaseric What would be better?🤷
@@SimonPeter-g2x Well, I suggested what I think could be better in my original comment.
@@tTaseric Honestly, kinda useless. The current IS RISKY: play your abilities well while trying to K.O. with Deadpool abilities and keeping him untouched. Get good🤷
I revisited it recently after initially playing it for only about an hour because of your costume videos, and man I'm so mad I didn't stick with it initially. This game is great and sucked me in big time
I honestly very much enjoyed the game, the story, and the camraderie between the characters. I wish there’s more especially with the cliff.
I love this game, I don't usually want DLCs but this is the type of game where I would absolutely pay for more DLC since more characters would give me a reason to replay the game again. It sucks that the game didn't do better because it really is a good game.
It’s funny I never heard of magic before this game and the fact she’s closed off made me want to get to know her more lol
Got the game last week, and it's great, I put it off for so long as I thought some of the characters looked weird, but that will teach me to judge a game by its cover lol
To address the alignment friendship thing - I wouldn't worry about the friendship being "dramatically" effected by your alignment choices; Any given dialogue choice (alignment based or not) will give approximately +1 to +2 at most with few exceptions; Training/complimenting/bringing on missions do that in a repeatable capacity and hangouts/hangs/gifts give WAY more than that. the 1 or 2 points from dialogues in a drop in the bucket
I only just heard about this game in passing a couple years back, and watched a friend play it recently and I had to get it myself.
Absolutely addicting to play through and there's always something to do in the Abbey alone.
Games that are just chock full of endless things to do is something I enjoy since it keeps me invested in spending time playing them.
The game is free on Epic Game until June 13 btw
It's funny you said what you did about exploring the Abbey Grounds, cause that's my favorite part of the game. This is probably one of my favorite hubs in a game
It took me like two hours of feeling like quitting the game to become addicted to it and put in about 500 hours, I wish this game still got support or a second character pass considering big MS characters like Daredevil and Moon Knight didn't make it in
Venom was portrayed better in this game than he was in Marvel Spider-Man 2.
Oh sure, the cliché where Eddie is a loser trying to convince himself a hero. Annoying and washed take on the character
You mean how he’s an unimportant character here?
I waited a long time to play this game...and it's been worth the wait.
Only thing that would make this game better is the ability to smooch Tony Stark
7:02 Personally I just don't like those types of games because I find them sorta boring, I enjoy strategy and I'm fine playing turn based games but I'd much prefer to just play other games
11:57 Damn, haven't heard that name in ages. Genuinely my only exposure to him is through the lego games haha
Also, as someone else pointed out midnight suns is free on epic games store from now till 13th June, I literally just got it rn coz why not 🤷♂
Hulk being unlocked at the end just killed the hype for me 💔
I’d like a link to that google doc that you mention at the end, please.
It’s a complete pipe dream, but I hope that a spiritual successor to this game using the same gameplay but starring the X Men gets made.
Maybe lean full into the X-Com influence and have it be set in space among the backdrop of the “Shi’ar-Brood war” that is mentioned by Storm.
I'll admit that I was extremely disappointed when I found out about the card aspect. I love Xcom games and was hoping for that, but Marvel. I saw it for super cheap with all DLC and decided to give it a shot. I was wrong about the cards. They work really well. I had an absolute blast with this game and I wish more people would play it so we could potentially get a sequel. The only thing I would really change is adding romances. Comic accuracy be damned. And I would make the party 4 people instead of 3.
I liked the Abbey but yeah, they should have added a shoulder button prompt to zip to another vendor as long as you've interacted with one to be in the menu at all. That way you'd just have to run to your left to speak to Blade and then you can just do everything with no running around the house.
This video taught me not to judge the game on what I wish it was but for what it actually is
In other words putting aside the game I want and enjoying the game I have
This game is genuinely amazing I still play it
Title referencing Dr. Strangelove? Big W.
1:37 my one complaint is EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME POSE. they made so many cards, voice lines, and outfits. They couldn't add about 1 custom idle pose for each person?
I liked magik. I got her max friendship first, her story on the daily missions felt the most natural as it went along with mephisto as I faught Dracula along the same time and he made an appearance or two
As a huge magik fan, I was pleased with her outfits, I'm used to her in the classic New Mutants yellow uniforms. Obviously I wish we got both, but I'm not upset.
Thank you Dorito God. I saw this video and made me wishlist it. I'm a fan of card games and those older Ultimate Alliance games. This scratched an itch I never knew I had. The game is a lot of fun and got me hooked, however I agree with you on the story. It's serviceable but not great but helps with the relationship building of the game. Funnily enough Magick was my first maxed out friend because I simped for her.
thanks for informing my decision in buying this game, picked it up for 20 bucks with all the DLC.
Just have to say, this video encouraged me to buy the game (I did it on sale for about $20, which is one hell of a deal) and I’m having a blast! Thank you for that.
That being said, I didn’t really get what you meant by “Sonic Frontiers-y” until I played the game lol. “Man, (character) would love this!” “Hey, you should meet (character)!” “Haha, this reminds me of (character)!” I do like that it clearly comes from a place of love and not “I clapped when I saw it!” though.
0:20 dude.... how does that even happen as an animator, how on earth do you even???? im speechless
What? It looks fine what are you on about?
@@pokemontrainer5678 look at his neck, dawg its 2 dimensional his helmet clips through his collar
I think it's funny how my opinion on magik is total opposite of yours, since I like her a lot in this game to the point of her being my first maxed friendship character, even tho I'm way more of Spider-man fan and he got second maxed out (but I agree on her costumes tho)
Something I find odd is Doctor Strange place in the story, he's sometimes treated as part of the Avengers by the Suns which is weird since I don't see him as part of the avengers and while he's not a core midnight sons character in the comics to my knowledge, he helped build the midnight sons team in Damnation and it was gonna lead to a midnight sons book after with him on the team so I don't understand why he is treated as part of avengers and cast out even tho he's part of the emo kids side plot
As I said, I'm not very familiar with Magik, so it's nice to hear the perspective of someone who is. Also glad to hear I'm not alone in regards to her costumes😅
Yeah Doc Strange being associated with the Avengers is odd for sure, but that can be chocked up to MCU synergy.
@@DoritoGOD2811 unfortunately MCU synergy will always be in other medias even if just by a little, like Peter in this game feels like it's leaning towards more of MCU Peter than 616 Peter but not a big deal
The review is great, and I want to know if you have plan on doing more Midnight suns videos, like the concepts you had for other Marvel characters in this gameplay style or even a video ranking all of the suits in the game at least for all the Marvel heroes
@@gz207 I'll make videos on the costumes for sure. I'll have more details in a community post in the next few days.
Yeah, magics comic suit gives her a GREAT “personality”
Magik was my favorite character in the game! She was awesome!
My only disagreement really is the characterisation, I think these are some of my favourite renditions of some of these characters ever. They clearly show an understanding of the character and their comic book counterparts but are just different enough to feel unique without ruining what makes them special. Whilst I do think some characters (like Magik, Iron Man and Blade) are written better than others (like Dr Strange and Bruce Banner) I think for the most part everyone is written spectacularly. I especially don't understand the Magik hate perosnally Although I do agree the boring plot, and lack of urgency regarding the plot holds some of these characters back. I also think the main story does them less justice than the side content, events like the Book Club, have some amazing characterisation, and show the characters off better than the main story ever does in my opinion.
Awesome video! Keep it up!
3:51 All I hear is Rigby from Regular Show
A bug I found on the ps4 version that was funny was when I played the dlc missions with the introductory characters. They immediately defaulted to their Midnight Sun outfits. But when I looked at the suit selections, they were still locked. So when I switched to another skin, I couldn’t select them again so I had to progress through the game to get the outfits I started out with. How does a bug like this exist?
Dude this game was so underrated, I really enjoyed it. It's always nice to play as a faceless character that actually speaks. My only gripe was it wasn't long enough and there wasn't more base characters in the game itself. The gameplay is awesome, it really makes you think and strategize and it makes you wanna keep playing because of all the different characters and abilities, the battles are always fresh.
The other thing i think was overlooked was the relationship system. I know everyone likes to dog on romance-like mechanics but with this world, it works. You already know these characters so you know who you'd like to get closer to and getting more relationships leveled up, unlocks more content in the game so it gives you reason.
This game wasn't perfect but it was sure as hell better than The Avengers game lol I hope this game someday gets the recognition it deserves and they make another game like this. I personally think the bones of this game would work great for an X-Men game. Live at the school, go to class, train your powers for missions and get to know the teachers and classmates.
I tried this game recently, and just like Xcom 1 and 2, my family had to put out a missing persons report due to all my time being spent by this game.
I bought the game last year second hand for 30 bucks and despite its shortcomings i loved every second of it
I had shoulder surgery last year and discovered this game. I was only able to use one hand while healing. This game kept me sane from boredom. I fully enjoyed the game. I loved Hulk, Deadpool, Dr strange and Wolverine. I wish we got Punisher and more DLC.
Midnight Suns is an underappreciated gem
To this day I always see "watch it be a card game 😂💀" in the comments of superhero game trailers. They'll never know how good this game was. Admittedly I was one of them until I got it on a sale.
Anyone who doesn’t like card games are just unlucky, I know this because I’m the unlucky guy.
I did see comments of people complaining it’s a card game and not an action game, which seeing how mediocre the recent action games for the last few years feels like dead end
Also, why is the best and most comic accurate Eddie Brock Venom adaptation in this of all things?
Got this game for free from epic game. Wasn't really a big fan of card game until I actually playing and Ooh boy, I'm so glad they made this a card game. An rpg would made it really difficult for you to fully understand how to control a character, and balancing. I mean, how would you make Magik's portal functional as a focus for fighting style? And how would other character interact with the same situation? Making it an rpg would massively increase the time, resource and effort needed to put into a solo game. One more thing I love is the game doesn't have any micro transaction, if you want you can pay $23 for the season pass dlc but that's it. And the dlc really worth the money. The Deadpool mission was the best for me, Morbius and Venom are nice too, while Storm basic deck was a bit under whelming until you unlock her stronger card and make her a literal force of nature
Holy hell…I remember the trailers but didn’t know it already came out lol.
I really enjoyed this game when it came out. I love the Abbey and walking around talking to characters, I love my Hunter the customization options of the game. The story was okay, frankly. The gameplay itself is fun, though it has its flaws. I recognize its not perfect but I don't suspect they'll have a chance to make another. So this game, while not a diamond in the rough, certainly will hold a special place in my heart and my Steam library
I platinumed this game. Did like two and a half playthroughs I think. So I wholeheartedly agree with pretty much all the positives and negatives brought up in this review :P
Honestly, it really plays like a modern JRPG. But, with card
This was my goty 2023
While the complaint about magiks default suit is warranted, she has on several occasions worn a similar looking costume that was chosen as the default skin (I’m assuming it’s a nod to when she was apart of the new mutants group who all wore the standard X-men outfit initially)
Also yeah the Abby isn’t the best, honestly it would a much better hub if you were only required to use the mission select station
Little late to this video but the disdain for Magik caught me really off guard. For me, she was the only character that actually believably developed throughout the story and beyond their surface level traits. She was the first person I maxed out and her interactions were always engaging to me. As many others have pointed out, Nico was the character that got on my nerves because of her constant complaining.
I tried to play Midnight Suns recently on EGS but it wouldn't start even with changing the launch options and manifest
Your opinion on the avengers A day spiderman combat mechanics would be amazing
I think making Scarlett witch have the glass cannon buffs that Deadpool has and then DP should get a strong self destruct where he revives after 2 battles or something and then wolverine’s taunts
I just beat this game on full difficulty after preordering the game years ago... i took breaks, tried not to get burnt out, but again and again I found so many gems. This game was amazing and weird... Triple A needs more games like this!
All i can do is hope for a sequel... gambit is an obvious choice for a new character ;)
About Magik, I don't know what they have done with her since child Illiyana died to the Legacy Virus, but old Magik isn't supposed to be like that. She hid pretty well how she was f-ed up most of the time, and used many different diversions if people got too close to the truth.
Kinda wishing I watched this video earlier, I just got the game like an hour ago and I got it on the PS4 so we’ll see how that goes with the glitches and whatnot (I’ve got such great timing) (edit: ok, haven’t run into a lot of glitches, the textures keep blurring not long after I start the game up when I go back to it but my main problem is that every time I get on, like an hour or two in, the freaking thing crashes and it’s never consistent on when or why it happens, it’s so annoying, especially since the game sucks at auto-saving so I usually lose a little bit of progress whenever it does crash meaning I keep manually saving and I don’t want to play a game while constantly wondering every second when it’s gonna crash, seriously how did this get made to work so badly on the PS-freaking-4 of all things?!). But after this and all the gameplay I’ve seen, I’m looking forward to playing it especially since I got the Legendary Edition since it’s on a 75% discount right now so it was $25 and I figured “why not” (definitely gonna put Iron Man in the Bleeding Edge armor as soon as I’m able to, not big on that main suit)
Honestly I just loved this game.
I love card games so this game just clicked for me immediately, put 400 hours into it in several playthroughs and I want a sequel that’s even better
I tried to get my friend to try the game and he just kept saying he wouldn't try a card game
Now that I think about it, are there plans for Gambit to be a playable character?
The game sold poorly, so there will not be any future plans for it.
I paid £15 for the deluxe edition, been chipping away at it slowly over the last few months. For that price I've already easily got my money's worth, and I feel like I've barely gotten started with it. It's not perfect but the combat is extremely satisfying when things fall into place.
Listening to this while playing midnight suns.
1:52 Whedon-itis
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this game
Upload the video of the characters that could’ve worked in this game/combat system
Dorito God your opinion is sacred to me and therefore use this as my excuse to finally give this game a chance
YEAAAAH MORE CONTENT FROM YOU
I’m actually playing this game now and it is such a good game
I love the dr. strangelove reference lol
10:06 or an X-Com game with cards as the main abilities