Is Marvel’s Wolverine PS5 game too violent?

Cliff Notes – Is Marvel’s Wolverine PS5 game too violent?

• Concerns have been raised about the level of gore and violence in the upcoming PS5 Wolverine game, with some players feeling it strays too far from the character’s comic origins.
• The desire for more family-friendly content in gaming is highlighted, particularly among parents who may be put off by graphic depictions of violence.
• There is a call for more innovative and unexpected game announcements, as players express fatigue with familiar franchises and live service models.

Games Inbox: Is Marvel’s Wolverine PS5 game too violent?

Has Marvel’s Wolverine gone too far? (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

The Thursday letters page worries that the new PS5 Wolverine game is not family friendly, as one reader is pleased not everyone gave Hades 2 10/10.

Berserker barrage
Pretty impressed that the reader the other day predicted the PlayStation State of Play pretty accurately, even if there was no Intergalactic or other surprises. I thought it was solid overall, and Deus Ex Remastered was definitely nice to see, it even seems a bit overdue now you come to think of it.

I haven’t played Returnal so there’s not much I can say about that, other than GC seem dead keen, but obviously the Wolverine game is pretty easy to grasp the idea behind. I don’t know if I’m getting old, or it’s just because I’m a dad now, but am I the only one that was kind of put off by all the gore and violence?

It’s a guy in a ridiculous, colourful costume and he’s running around slicing people’s faces off. I’m surprised it upset me, but it just seemed too much. Maybe it was when they were saying it was just like the comics, when I’m sure there are plenty, probably the majority, when he never does anything like that.

I’ll see how I feel nearer the time but seeing other silly stuff, like the giant robots, with it seemed really out of place. Maybe I will give Saros a go instead.
Cranston

Maybe next time
It’s not happened as I write this, but I agree with the Reader’s Feature at the weekend, who said all they want from the State of Play is something new. I know Intergalactic is technically new but it’s Naughty Dog, so I feel I already have a pretty good idea how it looks and plays. And since I’ve never particularly liked their stuff I’m really not that bothered.

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I’ve never played Returnal either, so I don’t know about that, but I guess a new God Of War would be interesting if it’s a new setting or style of game. As I do feel that’s Sony’s best franchise at the moment.

But please: something new, something unexpected, something that is not a live service game. I’m asking for a lot, aren’t I? Oh well, maybe the one after will be the ‘big one’.
Call

United opinion
I’m beginning to feel a bit out of it with some of this year’s indie games. I didn’t particularly like Hollow Knight when it came out and I didn’t especially like Hades either, so you can imagine how excited I am to play Hades 2, which looks literally identical.

I’m not complaining but I do wonder how these become popular but others that are just as good don’t. We all know it’s just marketing when it comes to triple-A games but how does an indie game actually become well known?

I think maybe it’s the early access side of things, that lets them build up an audience over time, but that’s no good because I hate the idea of playing an unfinished game. I dunno, I’m beginning to feel I’m not made for the modern indie world.
Tacle

Not a horrible idea
With Silent Hill f apparently turning out well and everyone looking forward to Resident Evil Requiem it really does feel like we got our survival horror renaissance after all, just incredibly late and without any new franchises making an impact. Oh well, I guess you can’t have everything.

By in that spirit, I wonder why it is that Square Enix hasn’t tried to bring back Parasite Eve yet. For me that was only a notch or two behind Resident Evil and Silent Hill, back in the day, and I think could become something really special with a remake.

I’m going to guess the problem is that it was quite long for a game of the time and that may make it too expensive to make, given the smaller audience for it. I hope they change their mind though because you can’t really remaster it, given it was all pre-rendered backgrounds.
Paulie

Nintendo edutainment
I saved my paper round money and pocket money to buy the N64 at launch, it cost me £250 from Mr Disc. I, however, wanted Turok with it so had to sit with it with no games for three days until it was released, just holding the controller and staring at the console, which at 13 was quite hard. Not sure why it wasn’t out the same day, as what difference does three days make?

That cost me £70 and that’s all I had so I couldn’t afford a memory card either, so I left it on where possible or had to replay from the beginning every time for about a month until I could afford a one. I then swapped my SNES and a few games for a copy of Super Mario at my local game shop. Happy memories, it also helped teach me the worth of things I wanted and a lesson in patience too.
Philly b
PS: Oh, and I forgot to mention, when the price dropped £100, literally a month later, my sister wrote Nintendo an angry letter and they sent me a black controller and an apology letter.

Very Japanese
So have we got any kind of hype for Tokyo Game Show this year, which I believe starts on Thursday? Sega have four secret games, which I think we now know two of them are Yakuza. But that still leaves two chances for something good.

Capcom, I believe, are expected to show Leon Kennedy off in Resident Evil Requiem for the first time, or at least have some kind of new trailer. I’m in Team Jill on this one but as long as it’s not Chris I don’t really care.

I assume Bandai Namco and Square Enix will be there but I’m not clear what they might be showing. Maybe Kingdom Hearts 4 for Square? I hope it’s good though, as I’ve always preferred Japanese games and while they are certainly doing better now than they were during the Xbox 360 period, I feel they do still get overlooked a bit.

I’d like to see Tokyo Game Show become a bigger deal overall. but I don’t believe it has much in the way of new announcements nowadays, other than very Japanese things and new trailers for games we already know about.

I’m not saying Geoff Keighely should do a show for it, I would hate that, but it seems way behind Gamescom nowadays, which is a shame.
Badgerman

I want to believe
If Hideo Kojima turned round and said everything he’d ever said was just a joke, I would believe it in an instant. I’d also believe it if it turned out he can speak English perfectly well and just pretends he can’t. After all, I don’t see how he keeps all his celebrity fans if he’s got a translator following him around all day.

Given what Kojima thinks is funny, based on all the fart and poop jokes in his games, I’m not sure whether the joke is on him or on us. But he’s getting to do what he wants and I can’t fault him for that.
Shaggy
PS: I also don’t believe he believes in ghosts. But I do believe he’d say he believes in ghosts, because he thinks it’s funny.

Used like a Snuffuzz
I don’t think Pokémon Legends: Z-A is going to be very good. I know the previews were okay this time round, but I haven’t been impressed by any of the trailers and I’m talking in terms of the graphics, the gameplay, and the general vibe. I’m not entirely against the idea of a real-time spin-off but to me this just looks like an excuse to experiment with a system they can then use in the mainline game. We’re being used as guinea pigs for a completely different game and having to pay for the privilege.

Turn-based is having a real moment right now. If I was Nintendo, I’d double-down on something that looked and felt as old school as possible. Maybe even a demake of one of the modern games. Something to revel in the old school feel of the originals, when the series was the biggest thing around and didn’t just look like a cheap indie game.

Given it’s the 30th anniversary of Pokémon next year I hope that something like this might even be possible. I’d also welcome it if it came on its own mini-portable console. I really liked the idea a 3DS/DS hybrid that could play any Nintendo portable game. Slap a flip-top on that and I’d be it in a heartbeat.

I feel if they’re not going to spend a ton to make Pokémon look like a big budget game they should go in the opposite direction and make it as old school as possible. I feel like that’s how a lot of people secretly prefer it anyway.
Thompson

Inbox also-rans
Never heard of a game being cancelled so close to its release date before, like Borderlands 4 on Switch 2. If the game runs this bad on PC just imagine how bad it must be on Nintendo’s console!
Ghloa

I really don’t feel that Mario Kart World update is that big a deal. It’s mildly helpful but it’s still all on you to cross-reference the locations with some kind of online map on a website or something. Why couldn’t that have all been done inside the game?
Loaf

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