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I hope i disagree with you on Kuro/Daybreak 2 - haven't played that one yet. What i love about this series is the rankings from fans are all over the place. I've seen CS2 ranked high like here, I've seen it ranked low, even last. I've seen CS4 ranked 1 and even Sky FC ranked 1 by another channel. So it's all personal preference. My personal top 2 are Daybreak and Azure, not sure which one I'd put #1.

narrativly cold steel games are the low point.

This man had this S-tier courage required to take on all the fandom naysayers and recognize Cold Steel II as the best entry of an all-games-are-great series. I salute your brave and correct never-seen opinion sir.

The Sky Trilogy soundtrack will always hit hard. That rustic feel when it all began on FC with my favorite duo just starting out as bracers that turned into a dimensional mess that Kevin and the group faced on The 3rd.

What was the name of.the ninth one man

Thanks so much for this, many of my favorite games were actual movie tie in games, i loved those like batman returns, star wars revenge of the sith, harry potter chamber of secrets

I think the reason the game feels so cluttered was because originally they wanted to show peter trying to help harry, mentor miles, love MJ, pay morgage, and hunt kraven at the same time. Here he fails to balance his life trying to do everything himself like stated in the beginning. But I think somehow the story splintered because messy stories are hard to juggle. So i guess they tried to make it work the best they can.

Amazing video. Would you ever consider doing a review of the story of the game as well or are you mostly focused on the gameplay aspects only?

Wow, I actually miss delivering pizzas now.

I am on Chapter 1 of trails in the sky, and am thinking it’s pure fucking gold so far. So seeing it listed as the lowest spot on your list is HYPE for me, a lot to look forward to 😊

"Visually interesting than mechanically deep" you just succinctly said what ive been trying to express since insomniac started their franchise. To me the games were lazily made and had no depth in swinging or gameplay. The upgrade tree was 90% fluff. In 2024 and i cant do what older games did when it comes to web swinging or combat?!

Insomniac's Spider-Man games are average at best. They are not even close to the standard of the Arkham games. Insomniac is simply not fit to he making superhero games.

Miles missions are sooo pathetic I don't even know where to start😭 So I'll just put it like this. Name me ONE Superhero media where the TEEN hero's school is NEVER attacked!? I just want ONE Comistorian(RIP) said that they couldbe easiy added a low level villain like Gjost and implement it into an overarching plot. Personally I wouldbe gone with FROST PHAROAH Its HILARIOUS how they want Miles to be the next Spidey yet have used NONE of his ORIGINAL villains from the comics. STARLING could EASILY be his Black Cat equivalent...why tf does he have a mission with felicia!? And Felicia doesnt interact with symbiote Peter AT ALL. Seriously WHO WROTE THIS CRAP😐!? Starling couldbe easily been implemented into the game as someone taking on the hunter bases as well in order to get revenge for her Grandfather vulture and Miles who is ALSO looking for revenge has to overcome it because hes a HERO and he sees what this did to Starling FUNNY thing is...Starling is IN THE PREQUEL NOVEL for the Miles Morales game. And dont even get me started on how the Prequel Novel characters cant be used as bosses. Blood Spider couldve WASILY been a boss for Miles as well. He HATES Spiderman and wanted to replace as bim as the "real" spiderman. Imagine him seeing how Miles got accepted when he was rejected, it would further feed into his MADNESS. Let alone giving him a SYMBIOTE for a second boss fight

11:23 I've been SAYING this. This game has ZERO connective tissue tk the first game. My GOD they mention doc ock ONCE and its HARRY who brings it up It does a POOR job at showing us that Peter is DEPRESSED. The lack of proper writing in this game really pisses me off I might playthrough this all of once and refund it cause how it treats Peter and the rest of the cast is as ANNOYING as it is DISAPPOINTING😐😔

FINALLY someone who talks about how BAD as Kravens character was. He has as much depth as a SLASHER MOVIE villain😑 OH MY GOD the POTENTIAL here was INSANE. They couldve given him a heart to heart with Vulture a man ALSO dying from a sickness he cant stop. Vulture breaks down after fighting coming to terns with his death and lamenting how Doc Ock and Spidey left him to die Kraven kills him and you can see the sorrow on his face cause he's envious of being able to provide vulture with something he may never get. Implement his FAMILY into the game and let us see through them how this great man is now spiraling Kraven couldve become Venom and it couldve been great cause Peter doesnt kill him he becoms infuriated and the symbiote preys on this insecurity. Short timeskip and Peter learns that all his friends have been kidnapped after Krenom suprise attacks him and he uses his Shocker Gear to fight him off. Krenom tells him to come for his family and Peter teams up with Mr Negative to take him down. Hell you can even still give Peter Anti Venom in this route while still keeping the values intact that he is SUPPOSED to learn after the symbiote arc which is that he does NOT need a symbiote

This whole ranking is whack.

Lol people complain about dumb shit lol

Haven’t played reverie yet 9. CS1 8. CS4 7. CS2 6. CS3 5. ZERO 4. FC 3. 3RD 2. AZURE 1. SC

Bad take on Olivier and also bad take on not having to finish Sky 3rd doors but I'm always happy to watch a new Trails ranking. Just glad you can explain why you dislike what you dislike and like what you like.

Spider-Man 2 is The Last Jedi/Halo 5: Guardians of the franchise.

how dare you neglect my beloved spider-man 2

haven't play reverie, but this is my ranking 9. CS1 8. CS3 7. sky FC 6. CS4 5. CS2 4. sky SC 3. Azure 2. sky 3rd 1. Zero there's no bad Trails game, but IMO Sky shines the best in SC and 3rd. They alse delve in deep themes like trauma, brainwashing, Child abuse and war casualty. Crossbell saga is smaller in comparison but had the best story. it also still really mature , capable of telling a completely geopolitical problem, tragedy and child experimentation by the some Cult. Cold steel is the most shonen. Rean is not bad, I like him, but he's really your shonen protag crank to eleven. too much power of friendship talk and not enough casualty for "the bigest conflict in Zemuria". The cast can feel bloated and the romance somewhat uneven. Still like it tho but I hope falcom tells more mature story again in the next entry

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I liked this game imma be honest, but it was inferior to the first one. They handled they whole being spider-man has negative consequences well and i enjoyed the hell out of the gameplay which was an upgrade to the first one. But the story was really messy. Kraven was dissapointing. The whole point of Kraven is being this rutheless hunter stalking you, feeling his breath at the back of your neck at all times. All we got was 2 boss fights if i remember correctly. Instead we keep fighting his goons which do most if not all the hunting work for him, which imo is really out of character. I liked the concept of Harry being Venom. We had it coming tho from the post credits scene. But the whole symbiote alien invasion apocalypse thing didnt do it for me. I really disliked that they took it that way. Also i wanted more developement for Bully Lowenthal. His growth into a corrupted piece of shit by the symbiote was really incosisent. But i liked the popping pills scene, neglecting his dying friend over keeping the suit for himself, but again, incosistent and could've be done better. The Miles colgate suit at the end was really bad. The Miles Morales original concept happened in the Miles Morales game where Miles grows past being Spider-Man's Robin, making his own suit and being his own hero. Growing into a man. A Spider-Man. What disturbed me most was when i found out that the suit was placed just for an ADIDAS sponsorship. Even if they had to put it in, they should've approached it differently. Also they were bugs and glitches made the experience worse even after the updates. The game felt really short, i finished it quite fast and went platinum too. I've played the first game so many times i can't get enough and i am never bored of it. That's not the case here. While a good game gameplay wise, it doesn't have much more to offer. Also the crime fighting theme is so reused, it feels lazy and super repetitive. Unlike the first one, here i didnt even bother with crimefighting. It felt more like a chore to me. But the sides missions where really good and done exceptionally well. Oh and the black cat mission was so meh. Besides all that i believe Insomniac had a vision and good intentions for this game. They put their hearts in this and you can see their love for spider-man and his mythos. Besides it's problems it somehow still works and makes it a solid game. Can't wait for the 3rd one tho.

You missed 0% Swing-Assist.

I somehow got done with all social links and link episodes in one playthrough

my ranking to the end of cold steel arc (I haven't played Reverie yet) is: 9. Trails from Zero 8. Trails of Cold Steel 7. Trails to Azure 6. Trails of Cold Steel IV 5. Trails of Cold Steel III 4. Trails of Cold Steel II 3. Trails in the Sky FC and Third Tied for Second 1. Trails in the Sky SC Decent list but what an utterly cursed take on Sky Third. Kevin's story is probably the deepest and most genuinely compelling in the series and the way the gameplay actually helps to tell it is brilliant. Its anything but an afterthought. I think most of the minigames are fun too lol, I appreciate them putting them in.

I agree wholeheartedly it was ass. They didn’t improve shit besides the swinging, the story went downhill too

its honestly a skip, if u never played P3, don't play this from censorship, localization changes, sanitization of its cutscenes and imagery (not even smoking allowed now) so much is a step away from the vibe and feel for broad appeal design yeah that issue of game design is apparent, wants the player to always feel happy, everything "annoying" is removed leading to a boring over powered game with nothing to hold it down even the pretty looks gets in the way of the tone of the game, dreary, depressing and disorienting is completely lost if u never played P3, don't play this

Have you tried turning swing assist off? It’s on 10 by default

I Hate that the idiots at insomniac changed Petes face made him look like a boy and not a man

Came to watch a spider-man 2 video and got jumpscared by fucking "Haha" guy, Rean Schwarzer from class 7.

I like them all and as long as you like them... rankings dont matter. Although the Cold Steel games will forever hold a wonderful place in my heart.

The overall game is really good but like many games nowadays the story has many flaws because it tries to do so many things (which eventually leads to a lack of depth in many areas) and I actually did think exactly what you thought about the ideas that they should have “swapped plots” with the two characters, sort of like they were trying to checkmark everything they wanted to do in a single game. Honestly I think they just wanted to get the story bits done and out of the way to get into a broader world with many super heroes 🦸‍♀️ unfortunately

I hope they release a director’s cut so they can fix the game and make a 9 or even a 10/10

Grown up swin and nadia looks cool

I've so far played Crossbell, Cold Steel, Hajimari and Kuro 1, a bit of FC but too little to count. My ranking: 1. Azure 2. CS III 3. Zero 4. CS IV 5. Kuro I 6. Hajimari 7. CS II 8. CS I

Wow, i disagree completely with your criticism about the social links and city being empty. I think the social links in the original game added to Makoto's personality as a loner. He didn't hang up with his besties, he would spend time with other people he really didn't had a connection to in search of purpose and motivation. The monk link still one of my favourite of the series. And about the city, it really didn't felt lonely for me. It felt like a real small city with everyone doing their daily stuff. Are you a extrovert or something? I think the protagonist and this setting didnt click with you. Also, i disagree with your criticism of linked events in Reload. "The perfect run" forget about this bullshit when you play persona, play according to your feelings then watch the extras on youtube like everyone else. I can't even understand why would someone ruin their Persona game with minmaxing instead of playing the game as it is intended, following your heart. Fixing this would just make the game even more linear, which I think is the opposite direction to what Persona needs to evolve to now that the franchise is so huge.

BEST REVIEW OF THE GAME. The story, characters, world building, execution, story telling and treatment of Peter (so basically everything) is terrible.

CS3 is a crime against humanity simply for making me listen to Sword of biting Gale every 3 minutes

Watch him get flamed

Yo I just randomly came across your channel and saw this video, never even heard of WitchSpring and Fate Samurai games, but played the demo of Fate and it's visually stunning. Thnx for recommending. Liked n subscribed bruv

This game coming out the same year as Across the Spider-Verse did it no favours as far as its treatment of Miles lol

I really enjoyed Spiderman Web of Shadows. A really cool and original use of the symbiote. Having essentially a zombie Apocalypse, but with everyone being infected with the symbiote. It was so fun and epic.

The symbiote part of the story was so rushed. Instead of a good build up, Spiderman just becomes a complete POS so fast when he gets the black suit.

“I’m ashamed to say I got into the megaten series through persona 5”🤓👆

I didn't play sky yet or that Y-something series, only 1-4 Cold Steel, and I agree that 2-nd is the best. 1 - student life with good characters development, tho the story; progression feels boring, well, thats just life of a Student and it feels good actually; 3 - new graphic, characters and more. Epic stuff but lack content (gameplay) IMO; 4 - Has TOO MUCH content and too many characters, like damn. The ending is kinda weak and wierd to me tho. Loved playing as grandma vampire and Golden Rackshasa; 2- best at everything. Content is big enough. Mech battles I personally liked. Music is banger. Story is neat. Chase scene with Rean&Alfin was cute and epic. Having you own airship as base is awesome. As soon as I saw Altina - I wanted her playable so bad, and in the final dungeon players can get her with one item, and she was OP. Bunny outfit is peak, best character in the whole series.