Marvel's Ghost Rider Would Be Dark Souls With Motorcycles
If Marvel ever attempted to make a Ghost Rider game again, it should be in the style of FromSoftware's Dark Souls (but with motorcycles). In the Marvel Universe, Ghost Rider makes the perfect candidate for a dark, atmospheric title based around difficult boss battles and deep lore. There are plenty of other supernatural characters in Marvel's library, but tonally, Ghost Rider has was it takes to be the star of a soulslike superhero title.
In fact, Marvel has attempted to make a Ghost Rider game on several occasions. Long before the Nicolas Cage Ghost Rider films, Crystal Dynamics was slated to make a game based on the character on the PlayStation in 1996. Unfortunately, this Ghost Rider game was canceled, as well as later attempts to make a title centered around the beloved character.
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None of these abandoned projects would have been on the scale of a Ghost Rider-Dark Souls hybrid, though. The demons that comprise Ghost Rider's long list of enemies would make for an excellent cast of villains for a game in the FromSoftware style: frightening entities with hints of Bloodborne's body horror and Dark Soul's demonic undertones could be populated around every corner. Add on top of this a hell-torn map in the scale of Elden Ring's Lands Between that would be made traversable not with the trusted steed Torrent but a motorcycle, and a potential Ghost Rider game would be incredible.
In the past attempts to make a Ghost Rider game, characters such as the vampire goddess Lilith have been selected as potential villains for Johnny Blaze to face off against. A Ghost Rider title made in the vein of Dark Souls should see her return as the mother of demons, fulfilling a
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