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Marvel's Wolverine was supposed to have a version of Stellar Blade's most viral feature

Highlights

  • Marvel's Wolverine has the potential to offer a more mature gaming experience compared to Insomniac's Spider-Man titles.
  • Insomniac could incorporate successful mechanics from Stellar Blade into Marvel's Wolverine, including a unique cosmetic option.
  • Wolverine could have a challenging gameplay option just playing his adamantium skeleton, similar to Eve's skin suit in Stellar Blade.


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Of all the upcoming Marvel games is Marvel's Wolverine has the potential to be the most intense given the character's history of grisly battles and features a healing factor that can heal even the most severe injuries. This aspect of Logan should make a difference Marvel's Wolverine a much more mature experience compared to Insomniacs Spider-Man title, but it could also give the game the perfect excuse to include one of them StarbladeThe most viral features. How Starblade, wolverine could greatly benefit from having its own version of EVE's Skin Suit costume for players to play in hard mode when wearing it.


Although some of Insomniac's in-development recordings of Marvel's Wolverine Already leaked in December 2023, the game is likely still a long way from release and will undergo changes during that time. This development period also gives Insomniac the chance to integrate successful mechanics from other recent titles such as Starblade into it Marvel's Wolverine as they are appropriate. With this in mind, Insomniac should follow in the footsteps of Starblade and the popularity of EVE's Skin Suit cosmetics and the application of a similar mechanic to Wolverine, but perhaps not in the way players would expect.

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Marvel's Wolverine Needs His Own Version of Stellar Blade's “Skin Suit”


A nice detail included Starblade is the ability to change EVE's outfit through unlockable suits. However, one of the most popular outfits for EVE to wear is the flashy Skin Suit, which is not unlocked by finding it in the game world or purchasing it from a merchant, but instead requires players to simply take off the outfit EVE is currently wearing. While the design of the skin suit in Starblade may seem scandalous, but it has the major downside of disabling EVE's shield, meaning players are far more vulnerable to damage if they choose this cosmetic option.

Given Insomniac's history with tons of unlockable suits Spider-Man Title, that's very likely Marvel's Wolverine will see a similar number of cosmetics for Logan to wear. However, Insomniac could give the character a cosmetic option similar to EVE's skin suit, literally stripping Logan down to his most basic outfit. For wolverineInsomniac, the skin suit's version, was intended to allow players to control Logan as just his adamantium skeleton, providing both impressive visuals and a more challenging gameplay experience.


How Wolverine's adamantium skeleton could work as his version of Eve's skin suit

Wolverine adamantium skeleton

One of Wolverine's most iconic features is the adamantium that coats his skeleton as a result of the Weapon X experiment and gives his claws their signature metallic appearance. What some fans may not be aware of is that in the past, Wolverine only appeared as his naked adamantium skeleton Civil War storyline, when the villain Nitro dropped a bomb on Logan that melted all of his flesh from his bones, leaving him as a metallic skeleton. As a nod to this incident, Insomniac should include the option to have Wolverine appear without his skin and simply be a playable skeleton made of adamantium.


How StarbladeBy selecting this cosmetic option, players would be able to access a hard mode that can reduce the overall damage they take thanks to Adamantium's durability, but prevents them from healing as Wolverine's healing factor would normally repair his body around his skeleton. It is unclear what role this healing factor will play in this context Marvel's Wolverineis the gameplay, but Insomniac could still use that adamantium skeletal version of Logan to denote hard mode. How cruel Marvel's Wolverine Perhaps this cosmetic design seems to fit right in from both a visual and gameplay design perspective.

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