“I assume the game defaults to having these indicators appear still, but you'll be able to go into the pause menu and turn them off now.“

It’s good, but should’ve had this at launch. Those play testers must’ve lied to some extent or was just ignored 🤔👀

It's fitting for the fart trails to be the butt of all jokes.

Too little too late, the damage has been done already and you can't reverse that without pulling a CP2077/NMS levels of commitment, but those games also had a solid base to work upon, Wolverine has nothing because the core elements suck.

I don't really get the issue. My experience so far has been they don't seem very invasive or annoying. In fact, a small handful of times they were quite helpful.

Now if you don't want them at all no matter what, then yeah, sure. An option to toggle on/off is never a bad thing. But complaining about it at all just feels weird.

@get2sammyb this is so true! The way I’ve seen every game do the exact things Wolverine does but have never been criticized for it. But I’ve noticed that when gamers want to hate something, everything that something is becomes an issue. It also works like this with human interaction. When people hate someone, everything that someone does is a problem.

@get2sammyb Truer words were never spoken, obvs people can have their opinions on games, but I feel like a lot of criticism for Wolverine was band wagon behaviour.

Insomniac really are proving that they know how to listen to the people who bought their game, good on them.

@get2sammyb I agree, but it seems like the easiest thing in the world to have implemented a toggle from the get go. The mass appeal of Marvel will obviously draw players of all experience, but there’s definitely an appreciable overlap between video game and comic book culture such that plenty of players will be well familiar with how games work. So they really needed to cater to both groups of players. Ergo: a toggle.

@Rhaoulos That’s a little on the nose, don’t you think?

@get2sammyb If there's one thing in the video game industry that I detest and that many people don't have the courage to talk about... it's the double standards. I'm not even talking about Wolverine, which I haven't even played yet... but I've seen many games being exhaustively analyzed in detail where you realize they're really trying to find some flaw or something less good... and then there are others where there isn't that requirement. I just remembered RE9 Requiem where I heard people and critics saying "RE never had good stories and doesn't need to, I don't even take that into account in an analysis/review." Anyway... I could talk a lot about this subject.

We know that there are franchises, studios, and publishers that are more beloved than others, right?

Sometimes people don't even try to hide it...

I just wish some people/critics would look more at the game itself than at what surrounds it (known IP, studio, publishers...).

Obviously, we're not blank slates when we play games...we have our preferences...but some people could be more honest with themselves.

I wonder if complaining about the excessive hand holding is a way people are trying to get across that they find the game mediocre but don’t know exactly why, so they highlight the symptom rather than the cause.

Looking back at gaming history, FF13 was lambasted for its linearity, even though most FF games are linear. I think the linearity of 13 got slammed because that game failed in so many aspects.

Is the excessive handholding complaint people not realising that their issues lie in underwhelming combat and a story that felt empty to them?

Not making judgement by the way. Still yet to play Wolverine.

"I assume the game defaults to having these indicators appear still, but you'll be able to go into the pause menu and turn them off now."

Just wait for the complaints that say the toggles aren't easy enough to find in the menu's! Lol.
Maybe they should have put trails to the trails toggles...

@ShadowRJ I honestly think 13 gets way too much hate, while far from perfect it's still a great game, now if SE got around and did a remaster trilogy (hint hint) they could do a lot of QoL with it... I don't know, maybe I'm just a defender of the downtrodden, much like with 15 🥀

@get2sammyb
I'm really enjoying Onimusha at the moment (Wolverine is ready to go next), but an awful lot of the criticisms levelled at Wolverine, I could easily level at Onimusha.

Personally, I think this has been the very definition of a "storm in a teacup' - people actually playing it, seem to be enjoying it, and the review here summed that up well.