We know next to nothing about Insomniac's Wolverine game right now. We know it's being made by Insomniac, that it stars Wolverine, and, um... well, that's about it. A CG trailer for the game showed Wolverine sitting alone in a bar in the aftermath of a brawl, hairy arms stained with other peoples' blood. The famous claws snikt out, and the trailer ends. It'll be a year before we see anything more, and closer to three or four before we ever get to play it, but it exists. That's enough for now.

It also means speculation over who should play Wolverine (David Hayter, right?) and what the game should look like is rampant. Insomniac has been a hit factory lately. 2016's Ratchet & Clank was decent, but since then the studio has pumped out Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, three of the most energetic and engaging games of the past decade. The studio can do no wrong right now, and I don't expect it to falter with either Spider-Man 2 or Wolverine, but I do have one thought I want to manifest out into the universe - please don't let it be like Logan.

Related: Insomniac's Wolverine Shouldn't Be An Open World GameI like Logan, for what it's worth. I've seen it twice, and I think it’s one of the most affecting and human superhero movies ever. Hell, thanks to The Last of Us, I've played Logan. This is the issue. It's natural to seek comfort in the familiar, and if Logan is your favourite Wolverine flick - likely, given the up and down quality of the rest - having that film made into a game seems like a dream come true. But Logan itself is clearly inspired by a video game, and even with that, it doesn't have the typical superhero beats that make it a natural fit to be pasted back into the medium. Hold X to have an existential crisis. Press B to worry about your mentor. Not quite the same as 'hold R2 to thwip', is it?

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Insomniac has shown us with both Spidey games that it does best when it’s allowed to be original, and that's exactly what it should do again. I know you like Logan, but you've seen it. The masses have an issue with pushing the familiar to the point of stifling creativity. Every fancast for the past five years that has called for a teenage girl with dark hair has either featured Logan's own Dafne Keen or Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown. It's why there's weird outrage every time the cast of anything is revealed and the actor in question has the wrong hair or skin colour. A human being is the most wonderfully imaginative creature on Earth. Human beings as a collective mass share the creativity of a gnat.

A Logan Wolverine game would feel like a focus-grouped Wolverine game, and who wants that? It might seem like going back to the less worn down and world-weary Wolverine would negate the development of Logan, but we need to remember that a) Insomniac's version of Wolverine is a different character existing in a different world, and b) Hugh Jackman was never a ray of sunshine in the role, even back in the first movie. He meets Rogue having just won a series of cage fights and, finding himself in the middle of a bar brawl, begrudgingly and brusquely takes her along with him. He always had a bit of Joel Miller in him.

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Of course, by the time Insomniac's Wolverine arrives, dollars to donuts we have an MCU Wolverine by then. If I had to take a stab right now, I'd say Taron Egerton gets the role, but then that's another piece of hideously obvious fancastery. Who knows, maybe it'll be Mille Bobby Brown? Actually...

There's also the small matter that Wolverine's stories have been told several times in multiple different ways in the comics, and he retains massive popularity. I don't even think a Logan game would be that good, but even if it could be, it would lose the frenzied energy Insomniac is known for, and would be a story I've already seen before. An older, more haggard version of Wolverine could work, but there's so much more to the character than his recent movie everyone maybe puts too much emphasis on. It's a great superhero movie, but there's more to Wolverine - more to Logan - than the film Logan. I hope Insomniac knows that.

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