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17.) Wolverine I honestly didn't particularly dislike it, but I've never been a huge X-Men person in the first place and most of what I know is via the old 90s cartoon or the various movies. As such, a lot of it didn't feel worn out to me beyond the super obvious villain "reveals". But yeah they definitely could have used some comic writers on the team because the conceit of the entire thing basically just felt like someone's shipping fanfic even if it had some decent moments mixed in there. That whole part came so out of left field that I was mostly confused by it. I loved the little references that were mixed in there like they did with the Spider-man games, and some of the costumes they had but when those things are some of the few standout features it doesn't really leave a great impression. For a character so combat focused, they REALLY needed to work on the combat system a lot more instead of designing 20+ bespoke whiskey bottle labels. The game was a bit of a slog by the end and all of the boss fights were parry-fests that did't feel particularly interesting for the character. I did 100% it but I switched to Easy for some of the combat stuff because quite frankly the combat at least felt more appropriate for the character when your dropping everyone that much faster. 6 or 7 feels like an appropriate score for what it was. I might have been more impressed if this came out like 10 years ago but most of what they were doing in it was too little, too late and worn out stuff done in a dozen other games.

Marvel's Wolverine Mediocre is the best description. Story was bewildering. You can tell they just wrote a story they wanted to write and slapped these X-Men characters on it wherever they could fit. None of them are actually proper characterization and the world they've built here is just kind of stupid for a multitude of reasons. I was not surprised to find that there were literally no comic writers involved with this at all in contrast to the Spider-Man games that actually did get some. Gameplay was pretty fun but the original review I saw that said it wears out it's welcome by the end was 100% on the money. When I first started I was like oh man no way but by the end, I was like christ how much of this shit is left can we just end it (or as someone expertly put it, like checking how many pages are left in a book). You're zoomed in way too far, the actual fighting eventually just ends up being button mashing because it's just messy, and by the end I didn't even want to go back and finish the challeneges that involved fighting because that was cancer and I knew each one was going to take like 30 fucking minutes even if I did it first attempt. Definitely one of the worse Insomniac games. I'd give it a 6 or 7 at best. Meh. Insomniac should go back to their own games with good gameplay because these Marvel games (at least storywise) keep getting worse and worse. Spidey 2 gameplay was peak and this entire game was just a big wet fart. I really went into this thinking oh people are whining about it not being open world (totally fine with that, preferred even) and other dumb things but came out like yeah alright this is kind of ass though lol. Go make a new Resistance game. I miss that shit. Let's these sleep a while or something.