Daredevil (2023 PS5 Video Game)

Daredevil is a 2023 action-adventure, detective, thriller, noir video game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 5, serving as a continuity to the Marvel's Spider-Man franchise, which ended the trilogy on the PlayStation 4, but is having another trilogy developed on the PlayStation 5. This game went into development in 2019 and is one of the biggest superhero video games ever made; the game was originally supposed to release in 2022, but with the PlayStation 5 debuting that year, Insomniac Games decided to wait a little bit and polish this game even further. The game's initial release date to PlayStation 5 consoles on October 20, 2023.

Rating
M (Mature) for Blood & Gore, Strong Sexual Content, Nudity, Intense Violence, & Use of Drugs and Alcohol

Gameplay Dynamics/Features

 * 1) This game continues on the advanced and unique combat dynamics of Daredevil's from the Spider-Man games and improves upon them even further; giving Daredevil access to ten times more gadgets and upgrades, as well as further exploring his blind ability
 * 2) The map includes of the entirety of Manhattan, which looks even more alive and realistic due to the massive development time of this game and because of the PlayStation 5 engine. The map and game feels bigger because unlike Spider-Man, Daredevil cannot swing; he can jump around buildings and do parkour, but not swing; that way, the map feels bigger
 * 3) The maximum level cap is a whopping 100; players must complete daily objectives, side quests, and keep Matt Murdock updated on his life to level up, as well as play the game on different skills and combat to enhance a certain skill tree and therefore, level up Daredevil
 * 4) There are a total of 15 (vanilla base) game suits in the game, however; they all take skill to unlock; as the player must explore the city and do certain objectives to unlock the suits; complete difficult investigations or court cases. The developer has tested out the difficulty and to unlock the Secret Wars Daredevil suit, it took him five hours to grind for the suit by completing a long court case involving domestic abuse
 * 5) The game explores the lives of both Matt Murdock and Daredevil
 * 6) The game is very dark and explores dark themes such as rape, domestic abuse, the criminal empire, and murder; very contrary to the tones of the Spider-Man PS4 games
 * 7) There are five different difficulties to the game- Easy (the easiest), Lawyer (the second easiest), Fighter (normal), Devil (hard), and Survivor (very hard). Survivor mode makes it so that the player is so limited and that enemies are much, much smarter and can kill you easily; also, the survivor mode makes it so that if the player dies, the game restarts from the beginning
 * 8) The game provides a vast amount of endgame content; more court cases, more side missions, secrets, and investigations to act upon

HLTB
Main Story (alone): 31 hours

Main Story (plus a few extra activities): 62 hours

100% Completion: 89 hours

Playable Characters

 * Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Robin Atkin Downes)
 * Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin (Travis Willingham; playable in four giant missions)
 * Frank Castle/The Punisher (Jon Bernthal; playable in separate story DLC)
 * Luke Cage (CeeLo Green; playable in separate story DLC)
 * Danny Rand/Iron Fist (Josh Keaton: playable in separate story DLC)
 * Jessica Jones (Tara Platt; playable in separate story DLC)

Protagonists

 * Matt Murdock/Daredevil (Robin Atkin Downes)
 * Elektra Natchios/Elektra (Maaya Sakamoto)

Main Story Antagonists

 * Lester Poindexter/Bullseye
 * Alexander Bont
 * Melvin Potter/Gladiator
 * The Fixer
 * Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin
 * Lady Bullseye
 * Bakuto
 * Nobu
 * Leland Owsley/The Owl
 * Frank Farnum/Masked Marauder
 * Daniel Brito/Fancy Dan
 * Mary Walker/Typhoid Mary

Side Story Antagonists

 * Lawrence Cranston/Mister Fear
 * Tony Masters/Taskmaster
 * Frank Simpson/Nuke
 * Wilbur Day/Stilt-Man
 * Arcade
 * Montana
 * Jonathan Powers/Jester
 * Coyote
 * Phineas Mason/Tinkerer
 * Alexander Bont
 * Carl Burbank/Bushwacker
 * Joseph Manfredi/Blackwing
 * Carl Creel/Absorbing Man
 * Hammerhead
 * Davis Lawfers/Copperhead
 * Ape-Man
 * Bird-Man
 * Cat-Man
 * Dragonfly
 * Frog-Man
 * Ma Gnucci
 * Pig-Man
 * Kirigi

Supporting Characters

 * Foggy Nelson
 * Karen Page
 * Ben Urich
 * Maggie Murdock
 * Melvin Potter
 * Stick
 * Dakota North
 * Kirsten McDuffie
 * Milla Donovan

Synopsis
Two years after the Devil's Breath was unleashed onto New York, Matt Murdock returns to his normal life; to his job as the lawyer of Hell's Kitchen with his non-blood brother, Foggy Nelson, and mixed in his feelings about whether or not to approach Karen Page, after their nasty disagreement on whether or not Matt being the Devil of Hell's Kitchen would effect their relationship. Hell's Kitchen witnesses as the oldest Kingpin known as Alexander Bont rises from the ashes to restore his power, in which Matt must put an end to. After two years of being locked in Ryker's Island, the notorious Wilson Fisk has created his own crime operation and has been pulling the strings even behind bars, eventually breaking out, knowing the city has finally labeled him as corrupt and even evil. Matt does his best to go after Fisk. With Foggy and Karen increasingly worried about Matt's health, the Kingpin sends the most dangerous assassin, and Daredevil's arch-nemesis, Bullseye, to go and ruin Matt's life, piece-by-piece. With Bont and Fisk at war for power and Matt's life, sanity, and conscious slowly being pulled apart, this is a war Matt must fight to end; a war that has been brewing his entire life...