Rating: 4/5 Marvel Avengers Academy is a free app available for both iOS and Android devices, released on February 4th, 2016, by TinyCo. In this tap and wait game, you get to build your own Academy of young heroes and villains from the Marvel Universe. Under the watchful eyes of Professor Hank Pym, Director Nick Fury, and Odin All-Father, no less, they study and train to fight A.I.M. and Hydra, which run two rival schools. According to rumours, there is an intergalactic academy, too; maybe a hint at the Guardians of the Galaxy? By completing short missions, you earn rewards: Coins to buy upgrades, buildings, and decorations for the campus; Shards to purchase special equipment and bonus characters; and other tools, needed to upgrade or unlock new recruits. Quests – series of short missions, that is – help you progress the story. You carry out each mission by assigning your characters a number of required tasks, which have hilarious names like “Plot world domination” or “Practice pick-up lines”. At the same time, you have to investigate the mystery behind the “timefog” that clouds some areas of the campus, looking into what Fury, Pym, and Odin are hiding from the students. Soon to come is also a dating feature, Save The Date, a novelty for both city-building games and Marvel games. According to an interview with Jeremey Horn, General Manager of TinyCo., we will be able to send our favourite characters on dates and get them a boyfriend or girlfriend. The game is still in its early stages, therefore you may experience some awkward glitches or get stuck at the same level until the release of a new update. For instance, as of today you can only get up to level 29, after which missions and quests stop giving experience points until the developers introduce new levels. It’s my favourite video game-slash-obsession. One of its best aspects is the high quality of overall graphic and animations. Quests and missions are varied and fun, while the interactions are amusing and sometimes provide priceless fangirl material. For example, if you are a FrostIron fan, get ready for some very juicy dialogue and a “Study together” quest that looks a lot like a date in disguise. The potential couples, anyway, are many more, at least given the number of ambiguous interactions the students share: just to name a few, Black Widow and Iron Man, Falcon and Kamala, and Amora and pretty much every boy in the game. Whereas some may find the waiting annoying, I believe it’s a good stratagem to engage with occasional, busy gamers like me. That way, I don’t have to spend hours playing, but I can just hop in occasionally to check up on my heroes. Less commitment, same amount of fun. Convenient, isn’t it? Whether you are a long-time Marvel fan, a city-building games aficionado, or a sucker for dating games, Marvel Avengers Academy will have something for you. But Nick Fury’s patience is notoriously low, so sign up soon!
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