Playable characters inMarvel’s Midnight Suns’ base game roster have interesting chemistry based upon which characters speak to one another in club meetings or during pivotal narrative moments. This roster includes a makeshift Midnight Sons group of angsty characters with particular supernatural abilities who must get along with iconic members of the Avengers. Not every character within a niche clique is entirely copacetic with others, like Doctor Strange and Iron Man butting heads on several choices that are being made. Still, this creates a fun dynamic inMarvel’s Midnight Suns’ Abbey.
The player’s interactions with each character are phenomenal since there is always something to learn about different heroes as friendship levels are increased. Hanging out with characters like Magik or Wolverine is rewarding since certain dialogue options earn Light or Dark balance points for the Hunter, and choosing appropriate gifts nets players with even more friendship XP. Deadpool arrived as a DLC character and sadly had no interactions with characters he is commonly paired with, butVenom’s own DLC chapterthankfully rectified that with a fulfilling character pairing.
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Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ Deadpool DLC Lacked Iconic Character Interactions
One of the most exciting parts aboutMarvel’s Midnight Suns’ DLC characters is imagining how they will interact with other playable characters from the game’s roster. It was unfortunate, then, to see thatDeadpool shares no scenes with either Wolverine or Spider-Man in his DLC story missions.
Having him interact with either of these characters is obviously not necessary for the DLC to have been received well, but it was a missed opportunity regardless since they are all living under the same roof together. In fact, there may have been a legal reason as to why these characters could not all interact. Instead, Michael Jai White’s Blade is given even more screen-time since he played a huge role in Deadpool’s DLC and has returned again with a big role inMarvel’s Midnight Suns’ Morbius DLC, which recently shadow-dropped.
Deadpool’s interactions with the Hunter are a great way to dissect Wade Wilson’s deeply insecure and walled-off character, though it leaves a fairly large hole to not have him play any genuinely large role in the Abbey. Indeed, fans were hopeful that Deadpool’s fourth-wall-breaking antics would liven up the Abbey in exciting ways, but he is hardly the center of attention outside his scripted story missions.
Marvel’s Midnight Suns Cherishes Venom and Spider-Man’s Bond
In a great turn of events, Venom’s DLC story missions revolve almost entirely around his interactions with Spider-Man and the past they share. Venom and Spider-Man are both introduced inMarvel’s Midnight Suns’ base game, where Spider-Man is eventually recruited onto the playable character roster and Venom is given the moniker of Fallen Venom since he is an antagonist corrupted by Lilith.
Venom sort of disappears at one point in the narrative, and it is not until his DLC story missions that he is seen again, but it is here that his character is enriched by a newfound partnership between him and Spider-Man. Peter Parker shows a willingness to help Eddie Brock Jr. after seeing how he had been manipulated by Lilith and then Mephisto, and both Peter and Eddie work together to eliminate the vampyre threat led by none other than Dracula.
This is all scripted within cutscenes, butthe bond that Peter and Eddie share extends to the Abbeyas well. Peter will lament about Eddie and how he wishes to help him, while Eddie will gradually reveal the devastating circumstances that led to him and Peter meeting within his hangouts and friendship level increases.
Marvel’s Midnight Sunsis out now for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S, with PS4, Switch, and Xbox One versions coming later.
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