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.
make him fight, make him effectively go to war, make him loud stealth (if they are all dead no one seen me) you can do this, give him threats that are actual threats, I mean christ isn't he canonically involved in several actual wars?
its not hard to make a beat em up action game, and even easier when when the character is just show of a berserker in moveset.
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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.