Retro Corner: Marvel Superheroes in War of the Gems (Super NES) Review · 3:24am Apr 23rd, 2018
A new edition of Retro Corner is up and we take a look at one of Marvel's best games of the 16-bit era. The title is called War of the Gems and it got developed by Capcom and released in 1996 for the Super NES. The game follows the Infinity Gauntlet comic from 1991. The Infinity Stones have crashed on to Earth and Adam Warlock the Infinity Being has asked the warriors of the planet to retrieve the gems. The heroes of Iron Man, Spider-Man, Captain America, Wolverine, and the Hulk get tasked to find the gems. However, Thanos also is on a quest to retrieve the stones so he could use their power with the Infinity Gauntlet to become nearly an omnipotent being. Despite it bearing a resemblance to Capcom's Vs series from the Arcades, this game is not a port and it's a standalone title.
Avengers: Infinity War releases tomorrow in theaters and it too will be following its own version of this arc. It isn't the first time Marvel has made a story arc of this scale before as they have done something similar in the past. In the Avengers: Assemble cartoon, they faced Thanos using this plot in Season 2. I mentioned in another review how crappy Marvel has gotten with its films and cartoons. Well this episode and a couple of others involving Thanos proved that Marvel doesn't care anymore. The fact they written Episode 13 from Season 2 with Ultron draining the Infinity Gauntlet was the dumbest thing they could do. That should obviously be impossible as they are well...infinite in power but yet an android from a Type 0 civilization can easily do it. That's among the reasons I won't see Infinity War because some how they are going to screw it up. The cartoon for years as well as their comics from the last two decades proves this more then ever.
