Hero or Villain: Genesis

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Episode 1 of Hero or Villain
2019
Superhero
ChoiceScript

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Hero sandbox with huge power variety but weaker story, April 8, 2026
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This game is a superhero Choicescript game whose main draw is that it lets you deeply customize your character’s superpowers through a point based system with different difficulty levels. You can be a super intelligent rich person with a robot suit, or a speedster with time powers, or a psychic with mind control, or combinations of the above. Or you could fly or have huge armor or all sorts of things.

More than that, you can choose to be good or evil! You can use violence to get what you want or peaceful ways. You can stop villains or join them, attack heroes or befriend them.

Customization-wise, this game is deeply impressive. However, I felt the story, while competent, was weaker. I remember thinking “this dialogue is stilted”, and when I searched other reviews they said the dialogue is stilted as well, so it’s not just me. And the story arc feels a bit flat. I beat the game after an event that just felt like another chapter, not a culmination of things.

But it wasn’t unpleasant or bad. The sandbox aspect was fantastic and I can heartily recommend this to people as a superhero wish fulfillment game with strong mechanics.

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