u/WhyPlaySerious

Hello everyone, I've been gone for a bit and busy with work, but in that time, I was able to get my hands on an early key for Wolverine and complete it. With that said, I don't really have good news.

The best comparison I can give about this game is that it's similar to watching the Supergirl movie after reading Woman of Tomorrow.

I fully understand that this game was their spin on the property, but as it kept going on I couldn't help but feel that there just seemed to be a complete lack of understanding of the X-Men characters and their lore by Insomniac. At least, there were no signs that Insomniac understood each character and their lore enough so that they could then use it as a foundation to subvert things.

Jean Grey needs a special shout out for being completely butchered. I don't know what Insomniac was thinking with how they portrayed and wrote her. I feel really sorry for her fans.

Mystique feels hollow and wasted.

Essex is by far the best character. He is a lot closer to older style Sinister than modern Sinister.

As for the overall plot... I said before the game came out that I was worried it was going to feel like something out of Chuck Austen's X-Men. It does.

It's performed really well, though. Cutscenes and voice acting are high quality. Mocap is pretty good, too. But I find the faces to look a bit off, and im not a fan of a lot of the character designs.

If you have only a baseline knowledge/no knowledge or even love for the X-Men, you will probably have a decent time due to the pure production value behind it. If you are an X-Men comic fan, this is painful.

There's plenty of other reviews out talking about the gameplay, so I won't delve on that. Just felt like sharing my impressions of the story as a comic reader to other comic readers.

I saw someone mention that it feels like Carol Danverse has effectively stagnated right now and that besides being in the Avengers books (including the up coming Chip run), she hasn't really had much solo success post Kelly Thompson and overall feels like she has declined through all parts of Marvel media.

It also has me looking at the MCU (which was a large reason for the repackaging in the first place), and it really feels like Carol is effectively done there as well. The Marvels was a colossal failure, whether she's in Doomsday/Secret Wars is a toss up (Disney+ research order for Doomsday omits both Captain Marvel movies), and with the X-Women coming in her place at the 'top' doesn't feel like it's there anymore.

Video game prescence wise, she has also reportedly been delayed a bunch of times for Marvel Rivals, with rumours stating she is months if not a year away from joining the roster.

Its also not any true gauge of health, but I feel like the overall amount of fan art, merch, and just overall zeitgiest for the character has diminished, too. No one is really talking about her as much or drawing fan art of her and if they are, I have noticed they seem to gravitate towards her in the Ms. Marvel outfit rather than her Captain Marvel one. Even Marvel themselves with Captain Marvel: Dark Past had a very prominent disparity between covers of her in the Ms. Marvel suit vs her in the Captain Marvel one. The second print of Dark Past #1 was just straight up a cover of her in the Ms. Marvel outfit.

Overall, though, I am curious what everyone else thinks. Both thoughts on the repackaging itself, as well as where Carol Danvers is right now in 2026 and what her future looks like?

Please feel free to share your thoughts. Im hoping to bring about a discussion. Hot takes, cold takes, short takes, long takes, agrees, disagrees, and everything in between. Thoughts on the questions asked or even thoughts on the character in general. Let's get some good discussion going on in this comic forum!