Itâs only been 24 hours since I started playing Marvel Snap, and like everyone else who tries their hand at the free-to-play card battler, I am completely enamored by it. Itâs simple, itâs colorful, itâs freeâand it offers ample opportunity for you to act like a total asshole in matches without ever having to speak a word. But sometimes, after a win, all I want to do is speak a wordâor several.
When my opponent snaps (doubling their bet that theyâll beat me) and I snap back and win, or when I correctly guess what move theyâre going to make and stack my locations to circumvent that, I want to be able to rub it in their stupid little face. Marvel Snap doesnât really give me that luxury.
Players can communicate via rudimentary, comic book-style zingers like, âI donât believe you,â and, âWhat just happened?!â or throw a Deadpool emote up near their icons, but itâs not enough. There could be more emotes, more zingers, more chances to be a little bit annoying, a little bit Star-Lordy, if you catch my drift.
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Technically, itâs possible to back up and look at the board after you win a match and throw out an emote. Iâm not sure most players know you can do that, and the gameâs UI is designed so that the glowing âcollect rewardsâ button beckons you forward. The best time to throw a little barb at an enemyâs retreating back is at the end of the match, and since the lobby doesnât immediately close (you need to select âcollect rewardsâ to back out), it should be more clear that you can hang out and gloat for a moment.
Marvel Snap should also give us more phrases to throw out there; imagine how angry youâd make an enemy player if you dropped a âFine, Iâll do it myself,â after sweeping the board? And if youâre really feeling bold, Second Dinner, give me a chance to type a quick little âezâ in a chat box like Iâm playing Overwatch 2. There arenât any phrases that feel specific to post-match interactions, even if players stuck around. But if you donât want to participate in the back-and-forth, you can get out of there faster than Quicksilver, and leave me to emote into the abyss.
Maybe this desire to taunt with emotes or gloat in my own words is just a symptom of an FPS player entering the card battling space. This genre is fairly new to me, and in the day or so since I downloaded it, Iâve found myself mumbling taunts and curses under my breath while on the couch, in the subway, or at my desk.
Itâs not like the Marvel Snap devs didnât add some form of taunting and playfulness into the gameâwhen utilized correctly during a match, a Deadpool emote can send me into a frothing rage. And since the creator of the game also doubles down on the âdickwadâ behavior (see the link above), letâs give players a proper chance to engage in some playful ribbing after the dust has settled and the cubes have been exchanged.
