Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: 10 MAJOR Issues Team Ninja Must Fix

Any players who finally get sick of their AI partners' stupidity, but who don't have the luxury of actual real-life friends at their beck and call 24 hours a day, can always venture online to find fellow lonely souls with whom to team up.

Unfortunately, MUA3's online offering is threadbare and often more trouble than it's worth, so at least it's consistent with other Nintendo exclusives.

Anyone looking for help on a specific story chapter or trial are largely out of luck, as the online matchmaking usually fails to make any matches whatsoever unless you throw all your preferences out the window.

Worse, on the rare occasions you manage to find a game with other humans, the extremely basic communication tools mean that it's near impossible to tell them what level you'd like to do next, or how to beat the boss you're all stuck on.

This might be more a failing of the Switch itself than of MUA3, given that it notoriously outsourced online communication to a barebones mobile phone app. However, there are surely some things Team Ninja can do to ease the pain.

Even a small tweak to the matchmaking and a simple chat box would work wonders.