MARVEL SNAP

Let’s start with the negative: Every update rolls out with dozens of new bugs that stay around for months at a time. Over time, they have worsened the rewards for free-to-play users and reduced the rewards for paying players. The publicity team and the devs openly mock the player base through there comments online AND various in game titles. Second Dinner recently split from its publishing company and this has marked a much more predatory change in how they view monetization. The company has absolutely no respect for the people that enjoy their product, and incredibly bad communication skills to pair it with. Battle pass rewards, game mode rewards, and limited time mode rewards have only continued to worsen with each event. If you have problems with excessive spending or a gambling problem, DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME. Now for the positive: I have been playing for years, spending money occasionally and I can commend that the game is fun and engaging with lots of potential. Plenty of lovely art and fun interactions between cards and decks to explore. No two matches are the same. Casual players will enjoy it especially if you are fans of Marvel. Free-to-play players will have lots of fun if they are patient gamers. Battle Pass purchasers will enjoy a bonus card each month but rewards were slowly downgraded until they eventually released a Super Battle Pass that is twice the price but not twice the value. If you have a lot of extra money there is a lot of enjoyment to be had unlocking cards and cosmetics and gaining the competitive edge through your hard earned money.

I’ve been playing marvel snap consistently for 2 months now and it is very fun! The idea of the game is incredible and I love the creativity you can have within the game. This game has the works of one of the best mobile games of all time, except for one aspect: the luck factor. Of course there is luck in every game and for the most part it doesn’t the gameplay at all. What I dislike about the luck is with the collection. I haven’t had an issue with collecting series 3 cards since I don’t have to worry about potentially collecting another copy of the same card. But the same can’t be said about series 4 and 5 cards. When you open a spotlight cache, there is a chance to get one that isn’t in the spotlight which I like. What I dislike is how those cards have the chance to be one of the series 4 and 5 cards that you already have. And these random ones are the worst in the game. I have collected Kang 3 times out of 25+ other series 4 and 5 cards I still need to collect. The odds of this happening are so low and it makes no sense why my luck is this bad. I have also collected 2 kitty prydes and 2 hit monkeys which is super disappointing. For compensation they give you 1000 collectors tokens which don’t even mean much to me at this stage since I don’t even have all the series 3 cards so I need to get those. This is the only problem to me which might seem like me just ranting but it really discourages me from continuing to play this game.

I’ll start off buy saying this game is lots of fun but there’s an issue when it comes to acquiring cards especially when your collector level gets higher. I have to spend credits (that take forever to earn or can be paid for) or gold (that take forever to earn or can be paid for) to upgrade my cards and open Collector’s Reserves and they don’t even guarantee new cards you don’t own yet. If you just happen to get collector’s tokens from the Collector’s Reserves you only get 100 and the cards in the shop cost approximately 5000 of them. There is clearly a huge incentive to pay for gold and credits in order to attempt and acquire new cards but yet it’s still not guaranteed even if you spend your hard earned money. We don’t want to have to play or pay to potentially earn titles or cosmetic variants (especially for cards we don’t use) from these packs that cost tons of credits to achieve. I think it makes much more sense that you should earn cards for increasing your collection level, and then be able to get cosmetics from Collector’s Reserves after you have obtained all the cards in the game. The only guaranteed way to earn cards are the Spotlight Caches which equals 1 cache every 120 collectors levels (It costs $30-$35 just to upgrade a card from common to infinity which would get you 31 levels so you would have to pay minimum $120 just to get a guaranteed card)

I have had a really fun time with this app, and have put countless minutes into it (the matches are only a few minutes long). I only paid about $3 after I determined I liked it, which got me some Captain America-related items that I pretty much never used. So, that is to say, I could have paid $0 and been in the same position I am in now. So, what's the deal with the in-app purchases? In this game, as in real-world collectible card games, you can get a lot of enjoyment for little or no money. But you do hit a point where you are at a disadvantage not having spent money to obtain certain cards. To the Snap team's credit, it takes a while to hit that point each season, which for me arrives when I hit around level 50. Theoretically you could grind your way over days and months to get the cards you need to battle with the card collectors without spending. But ultimately it's a losing battle. So, for me so far, each season (before a level reset) I battle my way up to level 50, then start losing against card combos I'm not willing to pay the price to obtain. And that's good enough, though it is a lttle dispiriting when you hit that wall. Everything in this game is I think just about as well done as you could possibly imagine. The Marvel chaarcters are true to form, the animations are fantastic. The abilities and locations are so fun in gameplay. Expertly done and with love for the Marvel universe. I highly recommend trying it out, even if you have no wish to drop any cash into it.

When I saw this game advertised I told myself that it was just another card game for me to spend a lot of money on, and the advertisements were so annoying with how they were everywhere. Eventually I decided to get the game and I was actually surprised to find that it’s nothing like other card games that I have played, to be completely honest I wish it was like Yugioh and Magic, however it is unique and I like the play style for what it is. If you are looking for an easy to learn game, this is a perfect game, you don’t have to pay money to win, in fact I have done really well and I haven’t spent a single dollar on the game. However there are some things I did not like about the game… For example: I feel like the abilities of the cards don’t match the characters sometimes, another problem with the card effects is how some cards are extremely useful while others are pointless and a burden to put into your deck. Another thing I don’t like about the game is how it is very luck based, if you get a bad starting hand there is little you can do to recover, also I feel like making decks that follow a certain gimmick is difficult because of how luck based the game is. There are certain effects that you can’t control like the Sword Master card which destroys a random card in your hand, I think it would be better if cards like that gave you the ability to choose which card is destroyed, then cards like Apocalypse would be so much better. However, even with all those complaints it’s a solid game and I will keep playing it.

I’m new to this genre of game (card battle), so it took me a bit to really “get it”. For the first 10-15 matches, I felt like I was just tossing random cards with no real intention and just seeing what happened. But I slowly started learning what the different cards do, and how to use them to my advantage. I found myself strategizing and thinking 2-3 moves ahead. I had several matches that were downright exciting seeing what would happen. I did not expect to get that kind of rush from this game. But if you give yourself even a small chance to learn the cards, you’ll experience the same. Absolute best is when your opponent “snaps” you thinking they’ve got the match locked, and you turn the tables and defeat them. Only recommendation…I wish the deck of cards itself was more interactive when you’re NOT actually in a match. For the sake of nostalgia, I want to just flip through the deck, look at the cards, interact with them. I want to spin them around and look at the BACK of the card, maybe read about the character’s lore. When you’re IN a match, the cards have amazing effects, like Cyclops. But outside of a match, the cards are just static, and you can just barely tilt them from side to side. Make the deck of cards just as enjoyable to interact with outside a match as in.