When Marvel's Midnight Suns was revealed today, one of the featured elements was the Abbey — a home base where you can carve out time to hang out with your favorite superheroes.
The mechanic bears more than a little resemblance to the one found in Persona. First, you choose a character that you want to spend time with, be it Wolverine or Captain Marvel; then you need to choose the right activity, like playing video games. Doing so will raise player-created Hunter's relationship with the hero in question.
But don't get any ideas about the Hunter falling in love with, say, Ghost Rider, creative director Jake Solomon tells IGN in a new interview. You will just be "very, very, very good friends," emphasis on the "very."
In a separate interview, Solomon characterized it as "math" and "decidedly not romantic." However, it will be as "deep as friendships go." Cap and Bucky deep? We'll see just have to see.
"The idea is that by the time you maximize your friendship with these characters, you are as close to them as anybody else in the Marvel universe. But yeah, not romantic," Solomon says. "[T]rust me, if I could romance Blade, I would But yes, it's more a case of these are very well-defined characters. So instead it's deep, deep friendship."
Marvel's Midnight Suns will seek to adapt Marvel's characters within Firaxis' popular XCOM formula, which it revived back in 2012. The Abbey will be a key component, with the heroes you invest time into having the potential to unlock special powers that can "change the battlefield" along with a unique costume.
Midnight Suns will be a fast-paced tactics game that seeks to flip the traditional XCOM formula. Instead of soldiers facing overwhelming odds, it will feature powerful superheroes, necessitating major changes to the overall gameplay. We'll get to see what that will entail for ourselves when Midnight Suns' gameplay debuts exclusively on IGN on September 1.
Overall, Marvel has offered Firaxis Games a relatively free hand in how it has shaped Midnight Suns' depiction of the Marvel universe. While Marvel is "pretty involved" in the creative process, they haven't mandated any of the story elements, Solomon says. Marvel was even amenable to a customizable character despite the obvious difficulty of being able to create a unique hero who could stand next to Iron Man and seem like an equal.
Ultimately, Midnight Suns will seek to adapt the original early '90s story, which put the spotlight on Marvel's supernatural heroes.
"For us, it's fun to take the established characters and pull them into the dark side of Marvel," Solomon says.
Marvel's Midnight Suns is under development for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It is slated to arrive in March 2022. For more news and info on Gamescom 2021, check out our Gamescom 2021 hub.
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The mechanic bears more than a little resemblance to the one found in Persona. First, you choose a character that you want to spend time with, be it Wolverine or Captain Marvel; then you need to choose the right activity, like playing video games. Doing so will raise player-created Hunter's relationship with the hero in question.
But don't get any ideas about the Hunter falling in love with, say, Ghost Rider, creative director Jake Solomon tells IGN in a new interview. You will just be "very, very, very good friends," emphasis on the "very."
In a separate interview, Solomon characterized it as "math" and "decidedly not romantic." However, it will be as "deep as friendships go." Cap and Bucky deep? We'll see just have to see.
"The idea is that by the time you maximize your friendship with these characters, you are as close to them as anybody else in the Marvel universe. But yeah, not romantic," Solomon says. "[T]rust me, if I could romance Blade, I would But yes, it's more a case of these are very well-defined characters. So instead it's deep, deep friendship."
Marvel's Midnight Suns will seek to adapt Marvel's characters within Firaxis' popular XCOM formula, which it revived back in 2012. The Abbey will be a key component, with the heroes you invest time into having the potential to unlock special powers that can "change the battlefield" along with a unique costume.
Midnight Suns will be a fast-paced tactics game that seeks to flip the traditional XCOM formula. Instead of soldiers facing overwhelming odds, it will feature powerful superheroes, necessitating major changes to the overall gameplay. We'll get to see what that will entail for ourselves when Midnight Suns' gameplay debuts exclusively on IGN on September 1.
Overall, Marvel has offered Firaxis Games a relatively free hand in how it has shaped Midnight Suns' depiction of the Marvel universe. While Marvel is "pretty involved" in the creative process, they haven't mandated any of the story elements, Solomon says. Marvel was even amenable to a customizable character despite the obvious difficulty of being able to create a unique hero who could stand next to Iron Man and seem like an equal.
Ultimately, Midnight Suns will seek to adapt the original early '90s story, which put the spotlight on Marvel's supernatural heroes.
"For us, it's fun to take the established characters and pull them into the dark side of Marvel," Solomon says.
Marvel's Midnight Suns is under development for PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. It is slated to arrive in March 2022. For more news and info on Gamescom 2021, check out our Gamescom 2021 hub.
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