Those readers unfortunate enough to follow me on Twitter know that I have a terrible vice, and its name is Marvel Avengers Academy [Free]. The game's original concept, which sounded like something between a city builder and a dating sim, pulled me in at launch. While it has done an absolutely terrible job of delivering on its initial promises, the entertaining writing and deep character cuts managed to keep me coming back anyway. The game just hit its second anniversary, and to honor the occasion developer TinyCo has brought some seriously big changes to the campus. Good" Bad" I suppose we'll have to see how things play out, but it's certainly different.

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As mentioned, the original idea behind Avengers Academy seemed to be a game where you developed your own campus for training young superheroes. You would send them to do tasks to gather resources to buy new buildings and unlock new characters, gradually ranking them up to resemble their usual adult selves. It was never clear how the game's dating mechanics were going to work, and nothing ended up coming of those early promises. Instead, the game more or less become a series of back-to-back events that involved an awful lot of combat. Not the worst thing in the world, but it doesn't seem like combat was originally meant to be as important as it ended up being. At the best of times it was a game of rock-paper-scissors that had to reset character levels with each e...