With great power, comes great responsibility. The phrase might cause you to think of Spider-Man, but it definitely applies to Phoenix. She is a hero capable of completely losing the game by unleashing her full power at the wrong moment. Phoenix switches between being Restrained and Unleashed. Both have benefits and drawbacks.
When rumors first started floating around that a Marvel X-COM was in the works, I was ecstatic. When it was revealed that Midnight Suns wouldn’t share anything in common with X-COM. I deflated. That bias stuck with me for so long that I even threw a tiny bit of shade at the game in my Phoenix Point review.
In Fire Nation Rising, you take on the role of protagonist characters from the popular animated series, Avatar: The Last Airbender. After choosing between Aang, Katara, Zuko, Toph, or Sokka, you must gather a team of allies to prepare for the Day of the Black Sun and the battles that follow after.
Cyclops is intriguing because while he does have a solid hero kit, most of his power comes from deck building. Cyclops can take X-Men allies from any aspect when deck building, and that opens him up to all sorts of combinations that other heroes can’t have. The more X-Men that release, the more his options deepen.