Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite (Apparently Not)

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite is a fighting game at its core. It has always been. I remember playing MvC 2 at an arcade many years ago, being fascinated by the fact taht Megaman is fighting along side a cute lego-looking Servbot. It was simply amazing, but I never had enough quarters to play it. Then Marvel Vs Capcom 3 came out, and it was great to play with friends. You can pull off some lengthy combos with all of your favorite characters like Dr. Doom, Deadpool, Wolverine, Zero (Megaman wasn't in it for some reason), Frank West, Phoenix Wright it was crazy!

Then I saw footage of Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite and I liked the features, liked the fast-paced character switching to pull off cool-looking combos, and I liked some of the characters. Then the game came out.

Holy Crap! The game has only 30 characters in its roster! That's is less than what MvC 3 had when it first started with only 36 characters. So I thought about it at first, and thought that maybe some of the newcomers were added, like the Monster Hunter and Black Panther would be cool to play as. Since they were pushing the Marvel film franchise to the series, I would see the likes of Starlord, Drax, Daredevil, Punisher, even Iron Fist. I even thought since it looked like they were reusing some characters from the previous installment, I would think it would make sense to see Phoenix Wright, Amaterasu, Felicia, Hsien-Ko, and Tron Bonne. Guess what, they're not in the game.

First off, I actually thought, since people talked about Monster Hunter and Black Panther so much, they would be release characters. I have no Idea how Monster Hunter would be played, but Black Panther makes sense to replace Wolverine since the X-Men characters aren't around for release, including Deadpool, who has Gamora kind-of replacing him. You see them in the story mission expecting a fight, but they don't even give you that. They are future DLC characters along with Venom, Black Widow, Winter Soldier, and Sigma. You may wonder if you cared about the story of the game at all, why Sigma wasn't playable at the start? He's in the game, he's half of the main villain, Ultron Sigma, who fused together with the power of Marvel's Power and Space Stones. I don't have a real answer for why the roster is ending up like this. I don't know why the roster is going to be mostly Marvel characters even though in the past, it has always been an even number on both Marvel and Capcom sides.

Readers, I don't have an answer for why characters are straight up left out from the last game to this one. I can't find a reason for why some characters didn't get replaced with new ones, with the exact same moveset. I also have no idea why they decided to actually leave out Deadpool, who is arguably one of the best characters in the game, other than Sony owns him. I also can't tell you why Infinite's collector's edition is a pile of easter-eggs. I can tell you readers, that I am not happy with this game. I'll complain about the story some other time, I'll talk about Online fighting later too, but right now, the game stinks.