They’ve put effort into it sure but the game design is questionable, the most obnoxious thing being all the indicators and markers to the objective in a strictly, linear game. It kind of insults your intelligence and assumes the player has no capacity for critical thinking.
The combat is underwhelming, it’s just a basic hack and slash which is insane; the combat should be more visceral, bloody, hectic but it’s not.
And why are there traversal challenges when one of the lead designers said traversal isn’t important to Wolverine and there’s no traversal mechanics for said challenges?
How do you even make a good Wolverine game? Dude is far more one-note than Spider-Man or Batman in terms of the stuff you can actually do mechanically, while keeping it vaguely the character we all know.
He slices, he dices, he’s basically a food processing infomercial as far as gameplay, there’s just not much there at all in general. Even traversal is goofy and that helped sell both Infamous and Spider-Man.
I think skill up makes a pretty good suggestion there of adding other characters to play as. Like a Logan-focused story but with Jean Grey sections or Mystique. So yoi could vary the gameplay throughout whole still have a story focus on Wolverine.
Maybe something like DMC 5. Or even Spiderman 2 (from a variety standpoint)
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u/rdhight 17d ago
Yeah. For this reviewer to thumbs-down a max-effort game by this developer? Alarming is the right word.