Ever since diving into the world of through the animated series’ exceဣllent first season in 2021, I, like many of you, have been eagerly waiting for the day that Mark’s epic struggꩵle with balancing a secret identity, learning the superhero ropes, and going toe-to-toe with his tyrant father gets turned into a video game.
Surprisingly, more than two years after the show first debuted and turned Omni-Man into the hottest name (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and hottest ass) in recent supervillain history, we still don’t have that big adaptation. We’ve got a mobile game coming out in the ♉formꦅ of Guarding the Globe, but anyone wanting to don the yellow and blue spandex of Invincible has to hop o♓ver🙈 to Mortal Kombat 1 and get his dad in cosplay.
Although a triple-A adaptation of Mark's adventures doesn't yet exist, it seems likely to as Skybound🍒 previously confirmed th🎶at video games were in the works.
As much as I want a full-scale gaming adaptation of Invincible (which is about as much as I don’t want a mobile idle RPG), I&rsq🗹uo;m okay with waiting a bit longer if it means that we get to see more inventive adaptations that let us play through things we’ve already seen and read.
, a visual novel featuring turn-based RPG combat that shines a spotlight on one of the series’ best characters during her formative years. I had the chance to play through two of the game’s early chapters ahead of its release next week and despite not being a massive fan of visual novels, I was surprised at just how much sense it makes for🐽 the series.
The preview I got to play through included the game’s second and third chapters, which mostly just followed Samantha as she went about her day-to♐-day life as a normal kid going to school and interacting with classm🧸ates (including fan-favourites like William, who is just as sassy as he is in the show), and her life as a superhero along with the rest of Teen Team.
As you’d expect from a visual novel, most of your time is spent talking to other charact🔯ers, choosing between different dialogue options, and deciding how to spend your time. Some of these decisions are minor and just dictate what is being said to certain characters, but ꦯa fair few of them actually have an impact, like the choice to look at college applications in my free time becoming a topic of conversation later.
I’m not sure how much of the game’s story can be changed or influenced by these decisions as there does seem to be a set narrative in place about a mysterious girl in green, but it was still great to see more of Atom Ev🔯e’s interactions with characters we know and love from the show. Since Invincible Presents: Atom Eve takes place before the events of the comics and TV series, we also get to see things that have rarely been explored before, like her and Rexplode’s relationship.
Out of curiosity, I decided to spend time with Rexsplode and be a bit flirty with him (despite knowing how that relationship eventually turns out), which was a really interesting side to see for the first time. Of course, once Sam met Mark I did what any good Invincible♏💟 fan would do and set the course of history in motion by calling him hot. No regrets.
These character interactions were the highlight of my time with Atom Eve, but that’s not all there is to the g๊ame, as it also has combat encounters that play out as turn-based battles. Although they’re pretty easy and didn’t put up much of a fight for anyone who’s played an ꧑RPG before, they’re a nice break from chit-chatting.
There’s a surprising amount of depth to them, as well. I only played through a few fights in the two chapters I saw, but Atom Eve has a chunky skill tree with a bunch of different moves and modifiers that affect combat. Some꧟ are just number-based, but you can also unlock a bunch of different special moves to spice things up.
I definitely preferred♛ the talking and decision-making side of the game from what I’ve seen so far, but the combat has some promise and the dialogue sequences lovingly represent the series. As much as I want to spend all my time setting Mark and Sam up, Atom Eve spends an equal amount of time fighting baddies and so should I.
My time with Invincible Presents: Atom Eve was incredibly brief at just under an hour of playtime, but I was impressed at🦂 just how much it feels l🅠ike an adventure in the Invincible world. If its combat gets more challenging and deep and its dialogue options continue to pay off and affect the story, then it looks like it’s going to be a great expansion of the comics and show.