Marvel's Midnight Suns Is Stealing Fire Emblem's Best Feature
Besides the two games being tactics games, Marvel's Midnight Suns and the Fire Emblem series share one key feature. Developed by XCOM development team Firaxis Games, Marvel's Midnight Suns is a strategy game exploring the more magical side of Marvel. This side of Marvel comics, while recently explored in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, has been a mostly untapped topic in Marvel video games. At Summer Game Fest, Marvel's Midnight Suns got a release date of October 6, 2022.
While the game is, at its core, a tactical RPG, Marvel's Midnight Suns has shown changes to the formula that make the game far different from XCOM's gameplay or other similar titles. The game focuses on turn-based combat still, but it's all card-based. This card-based combat takes the emphasis away from movement and cover, and more on showing off the heroes' super powers in attacks that are sure to be spectacles.
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However, one feature from Fire Emblem making the jump over to Marvel's Midnight Suns is a version of Fire Emblem's support conversations. In Fire Emblem, support conversations are ways for the player to get to know characters better, and grant bonuses in combat for paired-up characters with a deep bond. This mechanic was expanded on in Fire Emblem: Awakening, which helped save the franchise. In Marvel's Midnight Suns, developer Firaxis is putting its own twist on this mechanic, and maybe even doing it better than Fire Emblem.
One factor that may help Midnight Suns'support conversations surpass Fire Emblem's is nostalgia. In Fire Emblem games, players are introduced to a completely new set of characters in each game. In Midnight Suns, however, with popular
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