Marvel Midnight Suns Review: Xcom meets Slay the Spire gone wrong. (It's even bad as a dating sim)

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Күн бұрын

Deckbuilding - 6:58
Tactical Turn-based Gameplay - 16:28
Secondary Mechanics - 22:27
Story & Lore - 29:51
Presentation - 49:51
Performance & Stability - 53:31
Other Consideration & Final Thoughts - 54:02
You'll get your Knights of the Old Republic review soon, I promise (and the other RPGs I promised)... but I need to get this out of the way... I played Marvel Midnight Suns... And... well... Remember The Wall by Pink Floyd? This game makes me feel like the protagonist of that story... only the world I'd rather isolate myself from is the AAA game space.
Marvel Midnight Suns fails as a Card Battler, it fails as a tactical turn-based game (It's supposed to be in the same cam as X-com Enemy Unknown). But worst of all... it makes a mockery of classic heroes like Dr Strange, The Ghost Rider (The OG Johnny Blaze one) and The Hulk.
Short Story... You want a good card game?
Go play Monster Train, Tainted Grail: Conquest or Beneath Oresa.
Want a good Tactical Turn-based game?
Go play Xcom Enemy Unknown or Xcom 2 or Phoenix Point.

Пікірлер: 41

@GamerGarm 28 күн бұрын

This was an awesome review. It wasn't just shitting on a bad game, but thorougly explaining why its garbage. I can pass on a game due to bad mechanics or cringe writing as "not for me" but doing the heroes dirty just to prop up the writer's pet is a sin that I cannot forgive. And its very indicative of writing done to attract the mythical "modern audience". Dunking on Johnny and Hank is the same. Mean spirited and petty like them saying "your heroes were garbage. Ours are so much better!" Great video, Alex! Thanks so much for suffering through this shite for our entertainment.

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

Thanks, my man! And yes, it's "your heroes were garbage. Ours are so much better! but... we are still going to use your OG heroes to bait you into buying our game" Like The Ghost Rider says... (Johnny, not this token impostor) --> When you make deals with the devil... you end up with him.

@mguerra0503 Ай бұрын

Hey new look and intro! Niceeeee

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@TheRenZoG Ай бұрын

Added to my playlist!! I'm eager to hear your opinion on this one 🔥🔥🔥

@videoclipuploads1412 28 күн бұрын

What is the game your showing at 13:30?

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

Beneath Oresa.

@videoclipuploads1412 27 күн бұрын

@@YeOldEntertainment thanks

@Lulasz Ай бұрын

"All in all, you're just another brick in the wall"

@armelior4610 28 күн бұрын

You know what isn't wrong, though ? Using Depeche mode music - well except for your monetization I guess... Nice new intro too ! I don't care about superheroes or card games so this game didn't particularly disappoint me, but learning that Jake Solomon wants to make more dating sims instead of more tactics game feels like that time Michael Jordan tried to become a baseball player (boomer reference)

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

#datjordanreference By the way. I'm making ZERO money on any of my videos. (It's a long story part-technical issue part country-issue, but I'm not making a penny out of these videos).

@DionysisVg 28 күн бұрын

No Wand on Wand-a

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

Wanda Wasn't having it, no...

@billyb4688 27 күн бұрын

I absolutely hated everything you had to do in the Abbey (besides petting your dog and Agatha's cat) and if I could JUST play the missions back to back to back, I'd have LOVED this.

@YeOldEntertainment 27 күн бұрын

THAT game would've been a solid 8 out 10 (and yes, I would've kept the petting part hehe). But with the abbey part, it's a 5.

@billyb4688 27 күн бұрын

@@YeOldEntertainment Absolutely agree. Not an all time great game, but a very good/fun one. As it stands, easily a 5 on it's best day. A major letdown. IDK how the MCU could be so dominant for a decade+ and have SO MANY terrible games in that time frame. Guardians, the Spiderman games and my favorite MUA3 being standouts, but most of it trash like this, Avengers, most of the actual MCU movie games.

@samuelschwager 28 күн бұрын

buying the infinity engine and og fallout games was the best investment I ever made :P

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

Hehe, so you are one of those XD.

@patrickclark9430 27 күн бұрын

Welcome to the club

@Ocean5ix 22 күн бұрын

Gameplay in this game is great. The rest is aight. The card aspect is barely there at all since decks are so small that you will always use everything you want, even more than abilities in XCOM since that game has a lot of cooldowns. Comparing it to Slay the Spire doesn’t make a lot of sense because that’s a deck builder mixed with a rogue lite, meaning you might go 20 hours without being able to make a deck/strategy you want to make because of RNG. In Midnight Suns you will always have multiple chances to use every card in your deck.

@patrickclark9430 27 күн бұрын

These people pull down statues of great men. Of course theyd destroy our fictional heroes as well.

@YeOldEntertainment 27 күн бұрын

But like The Ghost Rider (the OG, not this token soy boy) says... Hell is coming...

@hineighbor 28 күн бұрын

I farted and pooped my undies

@YeOldEntertainment 27 күн бұрын

Mr president! It's an honor that you decided to drop by our humble channel.

@stephanebottet5846 28 күн бұрын

I can't wait for you to review Dragon Age Origin 3 XD

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

I'm sorry but Dragon Age 2 and 3 won't be getting a review... I can't subject myself to play through those games again.

@stephanebottet5846 28 күн бұрын

@@YeOldEntertainment ah sorry I meant to said Dragon Age Origin, the Veilguard, as the third was called inquisition. The trailer for Veilguard seems to suggest that it would be -again- a game not for us. Watching it I was really sad to see were went in the video game industry. If you want to changed the univers of a game that much, just create a new IP. As was Happy to see with that review, I m not alone. (And you review of the OG, cheffe kiss btw) Also,as far as video game History goes, DAO2 was one of my worst deception. I wanted to see what happened with Morrigan and my character's child after ending the extension. What we add was, DAO2. Never fail that kind of betreyal after that until the end of Mass effect 3. Well that BIOWARE for you. Keep the good work YOE.

@YeOldEntertainment 27 күн бұрын

@@stephanebottet5846 Well there is a Dragon Age Origins review on the channel! It says "best game I've reviewed so far!" I think you mean the new fanfic mobile game that Bioware is working on, veilguard or some sh1t. If so, nah... not gonna waste my time with that one.

@guywhoneversleeps 28 күн бұрын

2:20 I felt that one to the core

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

Hehe. I know my people XD.

@Marinanor 26 күн бұрын

Wow. I am hearing such mixed reviews, praise and criticisms for this game.

@YeOldEntertainment 26 күн бұрын

It could've been an 8/10 game without the dating sim BS mechanics and if it hadn't made the OG heroes look incompetent every chance they had.

@XenosImplyer 28 күн бұрын

I would also add fire emblem to the description but more of a dollar store version of it that was written by A.I.

@belhaddim5116 28 күн бұрын

Still, you gotta give it to Marvel. They have massive fandoms, great universes to work with, but they still manage to consistently release mediocre products.

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

I gave it to them... until 2017.

@supportarts6152 28 күн бұрын

Awe! Wanda doesn't like you!

@YeOldEntertainment 28 күн бұрын

No :(

@Dermetsu 27 күн бұрын

It's clear you desperately want to make political videos, but are constrained to an audience that wants to hear about CRPGs, so you have to insert it to some degree into seemingly every video. I don't disagree with all your points, in fact I agree with many of them for both the gameplay and the politics within, but it's very off-putting that you cant even escape politics and the culture war in a video about a shitty Marvel Xcom-lite card battler. I will concede that this game does make it more difficult than most to refrain from commenting on modern audience tropes, but sometimes a man wants an escape from the eternal culture wars.

@YeOldEntertainment 26 күн бұрын

I'm not constrained by anything. I make the videos that I want to make, especially because I don't monetize my channel. If you have been following the channel you know that I only bring up these points in games that bring them up themselves. And I will ALWAYS do it because it pisses me off every time I see an agenda-driven subtext or premise as it happened in this game. You didn't hear anything culture war related in my Dragon Age video or in my Sovereign Syndicate video or in my five-in-one video, because these games don't have an agenda-driven subtext. But 100% of the times a game has these themes I WILL bring them up. Because I detest when other reviewers complete avoid mentioning this... Because then you go out and buy a game and BOOM there it is... the flag planted in the name of their tribe that you don't want to see but you didn't get warned about. Coming up next you will have videos on Skald, Knights of the old Republic and Beneath Oresa. There won't be any mention of any of these topics simply because none of these games are contaminated with any of this crap. (Maybe I will crap on the current state of Star Wars for a bit in KOTOR, but it won't be the focus of the video).

@NefariousKoel 26 күн бұрын

If it's inserted into the game then I view it as very relevant in a review. I mean, if you want to escape from the culture war, wouldn't you want to know whether a game you were considering to buy has just such inserts in it? I definitely want to know that in a review rather than buy the game and find out afterward.

@Mesterlock 23 күн бұрын

Fucking woke garbage games.