Marvel Cosmic Invasion

A acceptable marvel beat em up

Game no: 567

Genre: Action (beat-em-up)
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Release Date: 2025

Beat em up were very popular in the 90s. In fact you will waste a lot of quaters going to the arcade by yourself or friends just to play a game where you can beat other senseless. Marvel cosmic invasion tends to give that nostalgia back by letter you play as 14 different Marvel heroes across the story that expands the entire Marvel universe. 

Let's dive in the review

Booting up this game you are treated with very beautiful pixed art. Each characters are hard drawn beautifully and their animations are very fluid in motion. The colours all pop out and there is even an effect to put a 90s crt filter to give that old school effects. As for the characters there are 15 playable characters to choose from. From fan favourites such as Wolverine, Captain America and Spiderman to obscure heroes like Beta Ray Bill, Cosmic Ghost Rider and Phyla-Vell (No idea who she is). Each of them has an attack button, a jump or fly button, a block or dodge button and a special button. You can mix and match the inputs for devasting 100 hit combos. Frankly not all of the characters controls great. The heavy characters does give a lot of power but they are slow to dodge so I stick to the small fast charactters since the enemies are always moving on the screen a lot

Speaking of enemies. This game has a lot of them. The main bad guy in this game is Annihilus. From what I can understand he is part robot and part bug. So most of the bad guys that rush you are usually bug based. You do get a Sentinel and dinasour as well as a symbiote here and there. As for the bosses, all of the big bads are here from Thanos to Galacus. Each of the boss has their own unique pattern which takes a couple of tries so its fairly straight forward. 

What I liked about this game besides the art sytle is the combat. It plays like an old version of a 2D fighting game which isi fun to control. But the thing that I don't like is that it gets too repetitive after a while. The stage really don't offer any much variety in gameplay. You go from point A to point B. Fight some bad guys and the boss and you move. It gets to repetitive for a while. Lastly the bosses are so freaking hard. One wrong move you will have to restart the game again. I think it would be easier if you play it with a group. 

In the end this game is fun and I would recommend anyone to play it if they have friends. So I give it a good 

A-Rank