David Blue's review of Champions Online
6/10
SO you want me to review *Champion's Onlihne*, virtually unprompted, in 2024, eh? Well, I loved and was very invested in Cryptic Studios at the time (see: Star Trek Online,) and Champions was already regarded - ijn a very misty-eyed, not very practical sense - reverently as very much *their baby* by the time I arrived ~2009. I think it was 2011 or so that I decided to commit to Champions - despite how thoroughly uninteresting and unintelligible I found the whole idea of comic book superheroes. In contemporary language, yes it was absolutely *super cringe*, but I remember admiring how well-established (in a very practical sense) the identity of this title was compared to the product they were building on the same platform with identical tooling that was *Star Trek Online* at the time.