- Points were too low. I full-cleared 3x each sub and ground out the CPs in each, and I was still 10K short of the LT.
- The story was awful. I don’t know if I just haven’t read recent comics or what, but the first 1.8 subs were literally “It’s the Hood! Now he’s getting away, after him!” The end of sub 2 was “you wanted a lot of power, you got a lot of power, but you had to sacrifice a small non-descript town and you let open a portal to hell” to which Hood’s response was essentially “worth it.” Sub 3 was then just a collection of three of the “shadier” characters (Daredevil was a bit of a stretch) half-reflecting on their pasts.
The Inferno storyline from the 80s or any of the old Ilyana Rasputin stories were far stronger demonic stories than the one presented in the game, and given the length and depth of Ghost Rider material I was really expecting something more than “Catch the Hood! He sent a bunch of people to hell, let’s see if we can get them back. Nope, they’re dead, back to our regular realm. Ghost Rider got corrupted, let’s beat him down until he’s sane again. Ok, he’s back.”
My favorite line was Wolverine’s “talk or I’ll give you 5 minutes with Punisher,” which makes the guy talk and then Wolverine calls himself the “good cop.” When you say “talk or you’ll be tortured then shot” you’re not the good cop!
Granted, comics (at least before I stopped reading back in the early 2000s) have rarely been the source of good writing material, and this story hits most comic tropes I can remember. So maybe it isn’t a fault of bad writing, so much as it is hitting common denominators.
2a) What would have been more interesting to me is if on the “woe is me the tortured hero” nodes, they forced you to use a weakened version of the character in question (and the enemies would likely have to be scaled down for some to compensate) to actually reflect their “woe is me” state. Though for Punisher… how many people get the opportunity to kill people who seriously wronged them once, let alone twice? Could have just made Punisher fight his family while they taunted him for not protecting them.