Region 1: Canada

Marvel's Wolverine begins in the Canadian wilderness, years after Logan walked away from Team X. Pulled back in by Nathaniel Essex to investigate the abduction of displaced mutants, the Canada act is where the game teaches its entire kit: light-and-heavy claw combos, the Tornado Spin special from the prologue, parries against blue-glowing attacks, scent tracking, and stealth takedowns. The missions move from backcountry tracking to an industrial park, a Reaver-controlled refinery and a highway chase that ends with the wheels coming off — literally.

This act also seeds the systems that carry the rest of the game. The suit-crafting tutorial lands during Mission: Homecoming — the same mission that hides the second Nightmare Gate you need for mission select to unlock. Callisto's Vancouver garage holds her journal, Omega Red falls at the end of the early going, and the Sentinel Prototype encounter reveals how serious the mutant-hunting operation is. Jean Grey, the red-haired mutant you track here, becomes your companion for the team-combo system.

Three habits formed here pay off for the whole campaign. First, parry everything that glows blue — the Parry Perfected trophy wants 500 parries and combat on higher difficulties lives on them. Second, kick enemies into environmental hazards whenever claws are not enough; the impale and molten-metal kills count toward trophies. Third, open every Material Crate you pass: 68 of them ship your suit-crafting materials, and suits crafted from those materials are what upgrade your health bar.

• Craft your first suit in Homecoming (Suit Up trophy, unmissable)
• Grab the second Nightmare Gate so mission select unlocks early
• Read Callisto's journal in the Vancouver garage (Greased trophy)

The Canada arc is anchored by Logan rejoining his former unit to run down the mutant abductions. The story beats are automatic — every trophy in this act is unmissable — but the optional content (journals, crates, whisky) is where the completion progress hides. Nothing here can be permanently missed: every mission stays replayable from the Nightmare Cabin after the story.