I'm glad I'm not the only one who has absolutely no interest in Multiversus so far. The roster we've seen so far is about the safest, most bland thing I can imagine for a WB crossover game, and
what we've seen in the datamines frankly doesn't give me any confidence. Maybe if they actually showed us some
gameplay, I would be driven to care just a tad.
Honestly, I think MV is gonna do way better for itself than NASB is simply because it's free-to-play. I mean,
Brawlhalla's basically the only platfighter to pull anything resembling Smash numbers, and that probably owes mainly to the fact that it's free and has a bunch of random brands attached to it (y'know, like Multiversus). That said, if the devs don't start actually marketing the damn thing, interest is gonna fizzle out
FAST - if anything, I'd argue it already has, seeing how barely anyone brings it up these days except to dunk on NASB (which would make it SUPER funny if it just dies in a month like NASB did).
This is exactly where I've been with MV since day 1, and the leaks have done nothing to convince me otherwise. There's no theme here, it's just an incoherent mishmash of random **** that WB owns - and even stuff that it
doesn't own, if the datamines are to be believed. And even despite this, the actual variety in terms of character choices is just terrible; almost all the characters that we know of are protagonists, and every single character in the known roster is either super current and "marketable" or they're so iconic that it doesn't even matter. Where are all the weird picks? You're telling me that
Velma is as adventurous as they're willing to get with these roster picks when NASB was willing to reveal
Powdered Toast Man before the stars of the series he's from? I said when this game was first announced that if you're not into DC, Game of Thrones, or post-2010 Cartoon Network, there just isn't much of anything here for you, and that's still like 90% of the problem I have with this roster. And then there's the fact that they're already adding a bunch of random OCs to the mix when they're only barely dipping their toe in the practically endless well of WB properties as-is. Freakin'
YAWN. It's to the point that even if I did try and pick up Multiversus, I legit don't know who I'd play. Nobody stands out to me as a "yo I wanna main that guy!" pick so far, datamines included. A game focused around a specific brand or series that I like (like, say, Cartoon Network!) wouldn't have this problem.
This is why I say every crossover needs to have a cohesive theme to it. You can't just make "a crossover," otherwise you fall into the Fortnite syndrome where you're just throwing a bunch of random popular things at the wall and seeing what sticks. When Multiversus is apparently already adding characters like
Godzilla and goddamn LeBron James, that's what I see happening here. It also just makes discussion surrounding the game super tiring, where you could say anyone from TF2 Heavy to ****ing Al Roker has a chance of being in the game and nobody would be able to argue with you because it's just true. They've already established the precedent that they're just adding whoever the hell they feel like, so what's the point of even speculating?
Like imagine if we didn't have NASB, but instead we had Paramount+ Pummel or whatever. We'd have SpongeBob in there,
maybe Patrick if we're lucky, but beyond that, what hope is there for fans of other Nickelodeon shows, let alone deep cuts like Aaahh!!! Real Monsters and The Wild Thornberrys? If you're a fan of Nickelodeon, but don't care about any of the other stuff Viacom owns, you're not gonna care unless you're willing to buy the game just because SpongeBob is in it. Now imagine that game ALSO had a bunch of random OCs in it, plus a bunch of characters not even owned by Viacom, plus a cameo from Jerry Seinfeld. Not very appealing, is it?
Honestly the lack of CN reps is the main thing preventing me from giving Multiversus a shot at the moment. There are only four
(five?) CN characters that we know of, and they're all from the same two
(three?) series and we've got nothing from before 2010 (ok, the pilot for Adventure Time technically aired in 2009, that still hardly counts). Are you honestly telling me you couldn't swing a Grim or a Dracula, a Johnny Bravo, an Ed, Edd, and/or Eddy instead of adding your ninth ****ing DC character? As someone who was actually interested in the prospect of a potential Punch Time Explosion 2, Multiversus is a SEVERE disappointment in that regard since it not only has barely any CN content as-is, but it also effectively shoots down the idea of another PTE game happening within the next century. Simply put, when the devs have already set the precedent that they're only adding characters that are iconic and/or current, what hope is there for people who like things that are neither iconic nor current, like any of the Cartoon Cartoons? Shows like Ed Edd n Eddy, Samurai Jack, and The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy are important to the Cartoon Network brand, but they aren't important to a massive conglomerate like WB, which is why they aren't getting in until way later, if ever.
I remember saying when MV was first revealed that it would probably be the Space Jam 2 of video games. Seems I was more right about that than I ever could've known
Uhh, dude, Aether Studios is RIGHT there. (Also Fraymakers, which is going to be an ABSOLUTE banger.)
