Yeah, they're kinda running it into the ground. It shows that the writers either are hacks or have 0 experience with superhero stories because very little of this shit makes any sense. The conflict was hammered in with the subtlety of a bulldozer.
AND they fuck up the manager too with that "Are you a good player? Okay, we're introducing thresholds and they are ridiculously low lol have fun gambling". Every time a game has RNG it becomes about risk mitigation and the game has the brass balls to say "You'll take our gambling and LIKE IT." Yeah, they're getting an earful on social media over that one. I figure they'll cut it out of the final two. It's a good player penalty, and it fucking sucks, like getting a team of retards on a MOBA after winning one game.
On that note, I don't know how hamhanded the average player for this is but 0,something percent of people managed to do the latest hack segment and it's just... Not very difficult at all.
The determinant stuff is pretty important FOR GAMEPLAY and NOTHING BUT. Realistically if your team is just a bunch of dudes, I'd understand Blonde Blazer not okaying the operation at the end of chapter six, but when you have The Human Torch, The Thing, and Omniman... I dunno man, maybe it's not THAT outside our reach, considering that fucking Invisibitch+Robert came REALLY close to soloing it and I don't see how anyone in the god damn warehouse could have stopped Malevola porting in, grabbing the thing and porting out.
Phenomaman carries pretty hard and you can lean on him in the tougher moments, which is good. The story makes more sense if you pick Waterboy, I think. Blazer being a wet blanket can be either a pretty reasonable reaction or utterly fucking nuts, depending on who's on your team at the time. Cause your team is either 60% immensely powerful metahumans or 60% slightly-above-average dudes, but the gameplay never really bleeds into the story which I feel is the problem many people have with it. Compounded by the fact that there's a bunch of characters and not enough screentime to go around. So far Robert, Visi, Blazer, Chase and Royd take up 99% of it and there's about one or two lines for everyone else.
I mean, I liked it up until now... But I would have liked it significantly less had I paid for it. The writing's getting BAD, too, not just in the superhero stories making no sense way, like Robert is actually now acting like a fucking retard when before he was Mr Socially Adept. Asking established turboslut Visi completely flabbergasted if "Is ThIs AbOuT SeX?" Yeah man, it's about sex, I'm like... 99% sure.
The management if properly balanced and less gambling dependent could be a pretty good game for 2-8 bucks, I think. These last chapters took a pretty big nosedive though. I guess they can still finish okay, but they're probably overestimating the impact of the couple twists most people have spotted.
