Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. This week, we are joined by PCGamer's

Global Editor-in-Chief, Evan Lonnie. Welcome back. Good to be here. And PC Gamer's online

editor, Fraser Brown. Hello. You know him. You love him. I am former PC Gamer intern, Len Hafer, and I'll be your host for this week.

And we're talking about Marvel's Midnight Suns from Fraxas, from the XCOM team, specifically at Faraxas.

It's a tactical card battle RPG thing.

Evan, what, yeah, Evan, how would you describe Midnight Suns to like somebody who's never seen it before?

So, and I'm sure we'll get into this more deeply and its influences because its influences are many.

But I've been comparing it to a Mass Effect game

in terms of the non-combat experience.

There really isn't a good comparison in terms of its combat, right?

Because it's sort of got the movement stuff

and the perspective of an X-Com a little bit,

but it's obviously very different. I mean, I haven't played

a action card game in this form before. So it's quite unique. It's a hybrid of a few different

things. And I think persona is one of them as well as well as Firemblmble. I haven't played those games.

It's just kind of what I've heard. So yeah, it's interesting how, you know, to feel the way that

Praxis has been paying attention to these different studios and influences,

to feel it so prominently in this game.

Yeah, I definitely see the Mass Effect comparison.

And it's, it's weird because the, the two sides of it are, are fairly disconnected.

Like, they're very different games.

Like, you're not, you know, you've got like this 3D, like, uh, BioWare-esque running around the abbey in the forest, but then you're not going to

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