Marvel Rivals has a reputation for appealing to its players' baser instincts: It had people saying 'thick thighs save lives' at one point, and Elie recently described the shooter as 'digging its heels into the gooner dirt' when it added a cache of new swimsuit skins. Despite my best efforts to escape this discourse, I've been drawn back in, as creative director Guangyun Chen has finally addressed Marvel Rivals' reputation as a "gooner game."
"Because our design, as mentioned earlier, is inspired by classic comic themes, including some very outstanding skins like Mantis, and also Psylocke's Venegeance, these all come from classic comic designs," Chen told the Rivals Assembled YouTube channel (via Kotaku) when asked for his response to people who call Marvel Rivals a 'gooner game'. "We take those classic comic designs and create some more fashionable designs based on them, to gain players' appreciation."
