Marvel's Wolverine might be a bloody mess, but it doesn't have to be!
Logan's claws come with optional sheaths in Insomniac's upcoming Marvel's Wolverine.
The latest trailer for Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine is here to show off a slew of cool new features like cosmetics, skill trees, New Game+, and accessibility options — including family-friendly toggles!
There's a good amount of people that have fallen in love with Insomniac's version of the Marvel Universe thanks to their three Spider-Man games across the PS4 and PS5 generations. These games capture Spider-Man in a way that we haven't seen in gaming in a long time; whether it's the satisfying swinging that hits right in the heart of our nostalgic heart strings for the Spider-Man 2 movie tie-in game back on the PS2, or the heart wrenching story told over these three chapters so far. Even the MJ missions, love 'em or hate 'em, have lived with all of us.
So when Insomniac confirmed that Marvel's Wolverine would exist in the same world as the more "T for Teen" rated Marvel's Spider-Man games, I was curious how they would be able to reconcile such a tonal shift. Obviously things like the MCU and DCU film universes have gotten far more experimental lately with what content they bring to their silver screen series', but in the world of video games, a T-rating or an M-rating can make or break a parent's reluctance to allowing little Suzie or Timmy to play.
This was something that Insomniac obviously considered, too.
In an effort to continue to one-up themselves, Marvel's Wolverine is going to include some of the most interesting additions to Insomniac's already impressive slew of accessibility features: toggles for Dynamic Blood, Dismemberment, Visceral Healing, and Adult Language.
These features allow players to completely remove blood, dismemberment, and the visible damage on Logan both in gameplay and cutscenes, whenever you want, creating a much more family-friendly experience. While Adult Language was also mentioned in the trailer, we didn't get to see the breakdown of whether it'll include cutscene dialogue as well as in-game dialogue, or just one or the other.
While myself, a 31 year-old adult man, have had nothing but excitement for Wolverine, I was worried about my friends who have played Spider-Man with their kids. Or the kids out there that have played all of the Insomniac Spider-Man games and were looking forward to this one. Or the parents with little kids around the ages of 2-18 that like to repeat everything they hear (and they seem to only hear the bad stuff).
Either way, Insomniac recognizing that the target audience for this game will below to a wide berth of people, many of whom are going to be children, this is an extremely cool step in the direction of inclusion that — to be completely honest — I hadn't really considered that much before today. This is just another win for Insomniac in the name of accessibility and I can't wait to see fans of all backgrounds, ages, and reservations draw their claws.
