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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: FREE GAME: Marvel’s Midnight Suns
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2024 12:20:21 -0400
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Thursdays may not spark the same excitement for me as
first-Tuesdays-of-the-month but it's hard not to feel joyful at an
opportunity to add yet-another game to the library. So, fill us with
joyfulness, Epic Games! Tell us what freebie we get today!

This week's consumerist pleasure is:

* Marvel’s Midnight Suns
https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/marvels-midnight-suns
   Conceptually, Marvel Comics meets X-COM, except without 
   the solid gameplay and a lot more monetizations. It's 
   not a terrible game but the randomization and RNG make 
   it a lot less fun than it could be, and it lacks the 
   earth-shattering combats you'd expect from watching 
   superhumans pummel one another (it's all very flashy, but 
   in the end your guys don't have much more effect on the 
   world than do XCOM troops, which feels very limited 
   and un-comicbooky.  And, yeah, there's a lot of MTX. If 
   you just want some brief spectacle and bombast, it's fine, 
   but this isn't a game you want to spend a lot of time 
   with. Shame; it really looks like it could have been 
   a contender if more effort had been put into making it 
   a game and not a profit center.


Seven days, as usual. Also: Ha, Epic! You keep trying to make next
week's game a mystery, but Internet sleuths always out you ahead of
time! I wrote this post 24 hours early!