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You Are Not an Employee and Games Are Not Your Job
I have two devices on which I play video games: a Nintendo Switch and a low-to-moderately powerful laptop. This puts me in the privileged position of being a gamer who is able to keep up with modern trends from the relative safety of machines that couldn’t run most big-budget AAA titles if they wanted to. Over the last few years the graphical ineptitude of my Switch and laptop have protected me from my own morbid curiosity towards a number of notorious gaming disasters such as Fallout 76, Anthem and, most recently, Marvel’s Avengers.
Marvel’s Avengers is The Muppets, except it’s the Avengers and not the Muppets, as well as being a game and not a movie. Kamala Khan stars as Walter, a Muppet who grows up as a lifelong fan of The Muppet Show (The Avengers) and goes on an adventure to reunite his childhood heroes, including The Hulk as Kermit the Frog and Iron Man as Fozzie Bear, in order to bring them back to their former glory. The ancillary plot details are faithful to the film and comics universe they’re based on — by which I mean they’re extremely complicated while also being too stupid to give a shit about — but the core story does an admirable job of adapting the Muppet reboot into a new medium, and I’m sure Jason Segal is nothing but pleased with all the residuals he’s certainly received from Square Enix by now.
