Marvel's Midnight Suns is brilliant fun
This is Marvel's Midnight Suns, a game to be excited about because it's also Firaxis' Marvel's Midnight Suns. It's a tactics game in which you pick Marvel heroes and engage in turn-based, card-heavy battles against Hydra and whoever. But it's also a game about cementing the friendships of a bunch of disparate, bickering super-people, who have been brought together by the threat of ancient evil and forced to live outside of time and space in a mysterious abbey.
The Hunter's a new character and a bit of a blank slate for you - she is revered and feared in equal measure. Venom shows up pretty early. Captain Marvel's photon beam is endlessly satisfying. The game's graphics have a kind of action figure charm to them - clarity is paramount. Throw in those special mission types - actually even the procedurally generated missions are pretty entertaining - and Midnight Suns is a proper bit of a delight on the battlefield. Last night, for example, I had an absolute peach of a mission. Rather than kill everybody or collect a doodad, I had to just survive against waves of enemies for four turns. But the twists: low level enemies gave me back a card play when killed, while high level enemies gave me new cards.
On the most basic level, it's about making friends. The stronger your bond with another hero, the more special moves you might be able to play on the battlefield. Playing as Hunter, and working out what to do with your downtime each day, you make friends by complimenting heroes and spending the evening with one in a hangout - maybe playing pool, maybe looking for mushrooms in the grounds. I am not here to judge.
This is a great tactical and strategic game, in other words, a game in which everything does something useful somewhere else in the stats table. But it's also a great game in general because it is in love with its surface interactions, its friendships and movie nights and sudden blow-ups. It makes this stuff more than superficial due to the love and craft with which it's all handled.
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