Though Marvel has been making a giant identify for itself within the console video games house with pretty latest hits like Guardians of the Galaxy and Insomniac’s Spider-Man saga, the comics writer nonetheless has a foot within the cell sport market. It’s Second Dinner’s Marvel Snap that’s at present received over the hearts of followers following its launch on telephones and PC (through Early Access) again in October, and appears poised to be one of many model’s strongest releases with future content material updates.
As a part of Snap’s latest “Hype the Hero” occasion, Second Dinner and writer Nuverse collaborated with animation studio The Line to launch a music video for Martin Garrix and JVKE’s new single, “Hero.” Animated music movies for well-liked video games aren’t something new; it’s possible you’ll not play League of Legends, however its yearly Worlds tournaments have music movies which might be really one thing and helped inform the Arcane Netflix sequence. But Marvel Snap doesn’t use the video as a strategy to showcase some card-dealing motion. Cards are featured within the video, however the music video is as a substitute used as a spotlight reel of the writer’s most well-known romantic entanglements as JVKE contemplates answering a textual content from his ex.
Cheesy because it sounds on paper, the execution of it really works surprisingly effectively. Each relationship has a unique artwork fashion—Daredevil and Elektra are completed in 8-bit just like an old style online game, Spider-Man and Mary Jane are in a chibi fashion, and so forth—they usually all really feel like they match the actual couple featured. It even makes use of to a phase to present a quick shoutout to Angela and her spouse Sera, a pairing that hasn’t been seen within the comics in a while. For as a lot turbulence as Marvel likes to place its {couples} by means of on occasion, watching a few of these love tales play out to explain an precise relationship in a two-minute music video is oddly efficient. And it doesn’t damage that the only itself is nice, so far as pop songs of this kind are involved.
Between this and the animated shorts for Marvel’s Midnight Suns, it’s good to see the corporate department out and do extra with the medium. Maybe future collaborations like these may very well be completed for the extra Marvel video games coming down the road?
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