Capcom: Infinite’s design is the decision to replace each team’s third character with your choice of six Infinity Stones that augments your characters with two new abilities. It’s really wormed its way into my brain. At one point, I became so obsessed with creating new combos that I awoke in the middle of the night and scribbled ideas for Zero combos on a nearby sheet of paper in half gibberish before passing out. Between that and things like completely overhauling the old “off the ground” mechanics, removing the time-honored Assist system, and letting you use multiple launching attacks in the same combo, there is an admirable willingness here to take risks and push boundaries, and those bets have paid off well. Things like being able to tag in your partner at any time, even while in the air or in the middle of a Hyper Combo, give a level of creative freedom in constructing combos that is truly refreshing. It’s impressive just how aggressively it completely upends traditions fans have known since X-Men vs Street Fighter in 1996. However, where it fails to deliver on story and in its use of beloved characters, Marvel Vs. Comic book characters aren’t known for their realistic proportions, but this is a ridiculous mess. Even characters from the same universe, like Jedah and Morrigan, look odd next to one another. Worse, there’s no uniform direction for the art style, as some heroes’ designs seem to aim for photorealism while others are heavily stylized. Mike Haggar’s head protrudes out, not up, from his shoulders. Capcom: Infinite manages to make Dante and Chun Li look like the counterfeit action figure versions your grandmother bought you for Christmas (even after Chun Li’s redesign). Spencer’s wide, dead eyes and odd teeth make him look like a jack o’ lantern. Captain America’s shoulders look like they’ve liberated his head from his oppressive neck, which is nowhere to be found. Capcom: Infinite is definitely a strong fighting game deep down, it’s hard to get past just how distractingly bad and stiff the character design is. Even though its mixed cast of comic book and video game characters often look like they’ve been whacked with the ugly stone, the bold reinvention of this decades-old fighting game series’ tag-team mechanics is inspired.While Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite, looks aren’t everything.
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