White Spiderman (Peter) can't do anything right and needs Black Spiderman (Myles) and woman (MJ) to save him. Yeah, this is definitely done on purpose.
first game also didnt focus on pandering to ppl who didnt play the game either, its one thing to have a pride flag in the first game which is like oh well I guess, but the second game like triple downed on that type of stuff instead of just giving us a good story and good side missions....
the "yeah right" at 17:09 💀 i love how mj can one hit one of these buff guys with a single kick but if spider man volleys a drain lid off their skull at mach 10 they're completely fine
Her power is womb. Increased strength, increased pain resistance, increased feminism. Just be thankful she keeps it covered. Otherwise, you wouldn't be playing Spiderman at all, it'd just be the MJ game.
nah, they changed it to focus on melee combat, and it definitely worked. the combat has much more depth and feels much harder to master. in the first game the gadgets were a straight up cheat code that would one shot most enemies, now they assist the melee combat, which is a much better choice.
@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy u do feel powerful? Yall confuse me bc yall hated on the first game for being too easy, and then they fixed it and made the combat 10x better and made u have more abilities. And now people r complaining about it being too hard, like dawg stop whining☠️
@@shafialanower3820 I say this as a massive Spider-Man fan. Miles is stronger than Peter in most aspects outside of intelligence and experience, and some minor differences in physical strength and speed. I don't mind Peter being less powerful overall since it's simply a accurate depiction of both characters as a whole.
Also, another thing regarding "taking the ranged enemies out with one hit," I have no idea why this was taken out in this game, but in the previous two games, you could unlock a skill called Webstrike Takedown, where if you perfect-dodged a ranged enemy, you could use your webstrike to immediately take them out. Like, THAT would certainly have come in handy!
But wouldn't that make all ranged enemies a joke, even more than they are now? It's already a pretty easy game and one hitting certainly doesn't help imo
@@warpitexis2341 the problem as mentioned in video is how spongy enemies are having the ability to just delete annoying enemies is not a minus its a plus. its not like it stops them from doing damage or being hit sponges it just benefits playing the game well
@@sdbzfan1 but being able to one hit every enemy isn't a good option too. Besides when I played on spectacular no enemy besides the symbiotes, heavys and those flame thower guys. And even those can be easily killed with your abilities, gadgets or smart use of focus. There are suit mods that make attacks in the air more leathal and there are mods or abilities that make you gain focus faster too
@@warpitexis2341 like i said its not a negative because it benefits playing smart If someone is terrible at dodging then they would still have to deal with the ranged enemies as is, and its not like having specific ways to deal with enemies is a negative either, symbiotes are weak to anti venom for example plus the colored enemies give you hints at how to beat them, the green ones die in one hit to anti venom webs, why do you want to keep attacking an enemy 8 times before it goes down outside of hard mode, dude was playing on easy and enemies still took the same amount of damage from hits, that just sounds like terrible balancing
@@sdbzfan1 having different tactics for different enemies is good, but when the tactic is that you just do what you already did 2000 times to one hit the enemy it's not really good, especially if it's not even a risk reward system like parrying, where you get damaged if you don't time it right, the only thing that happens is that you dodge the attack and can't one hit the enemy. And as I said even the higher difficulties you shouldn't have those problems, you can web them up close to an object, try to get them on a wall to kick them until they die you can use your abilities to get them in the air and increase your damage output and be a lot safer. You can use the grappling gadget to get them in one place and hit more enemies with one special attack etc. You can use the super jump followed with a ground pound to get a horde of enemies away (if you put the super jump on the d pad it goes of instantly btw) etc. You can combine a lot of things to get rid of enemies faster. I don't like saying it because it's annoying but that really is a skill issue if you take that long to kill normal enemies, even if you upgrade
The worst thing in my opinion has got to be how annoying it is that it forces you to change in to the games symbiote suit so you can’t use the classic or webbed black suits in the cutscenes and gameplay, really don’t know why they did that
@captainsimp8864 actually, if you start Spider-Man 1 and Miles Morales on a completely new save, you can choose your suits for pretty much every single cutecene in the game, aside from Marvel Spider-Man 1's final fight
The entire last part of the game was literally Web of Shadows. Insomniac tried to condense an entire game into a small part, thats why you feel the way you do about it. I would recommend Web of Shadows if you can find it. Web of Shadows had an Infamous style morality system, you have the option to use the black suit or not. The black suit made combat much easier with it increasing your damage and giving you access to alot of AOE tendril attacks. Web of Shadows was the power fantasy Spider-Man game.
@@frogglen6350 not really. Web of Shadows just isn't padded with a bunch walking talking missions and a collectathon. Also it had some replayablitity to it to get the 4 endings.
Oh God I thought I was the only one that felt the enemies were very spongey. Especially the symbiotes. Fighting them is such a chore EDIT: For everyone saying skill issue and whatnot, I don't mean that the enemies get difficult or it becomes too hard. I just mean that it gets boring. Fighting the symbiotes, for example, gets boring, and upping their defense to make them spongey just makes fighting them even more boring. I enjoyed the game, but it definitely has flaws. Having the symbiote fights feel like a boring chore is definitely one of them.
The funniest part about the story isnt just that it's super inoffensive but it's more the fact that they are trying to push that prison ever reformed psychopathic criminals.
@@abem6020yeah, I don’t know what these people are talking about when they mention reformed villains. The only villains reformed were Martin Li and tombstone. The other villains were still evil.
@RMMonster01 People can’t comprehend nuance. Rhino broke out twice (three if you count the hidden wall mount that implies Kraven killed him) and he’s still evil. Same goes for Scorpion and Electro. Vulture was always looking for a way to cure his cancer and Shocker wasn’t really “evil” either. Both of those guys are dead. Otto is still evil. Tombstone is the only guy who just… decided to go straight. Martin Li was never really evil. He did evil things, deserving of punishment, but that’s mainly due to him feeling wronged by Osborne and his literal powers of Negativity. He acknowledges that he did insane things to justify his seeking revenge. That’s not impossible. The discussion around this game are so irritating because people on opposite “sides” always go too far in their observations or criticisms and are either purposely blind to nuance or are just not that intelligent
Exactly. It's like people have to get angry at everything. You see a vid you don't like? Either don't watch it, try to have a normal debate or dislike and move on. Simple as that.
You guys probably hate metal gear solid games and probably gonna hate hellblade 2 as well. I don't know y people are excited about the kojima Xbox game as well. " It's too cinematic " lol the salt.
Hes gotten make some actual gaming content after covering an aquistition for 2 years. Dudes gotta at least play some games. Why not make a an hour long video about a game we know hes going to hate. Xbox fanboy seeking attention.
I think you will find more and more of us who might have been impressed by Sony's polished but mediocre releases in the past are now pointing out how tired, outdated and bland their releases now are.
You are right man. At this point I treat these PS5 releases like free 10-15 hour movies you can watch on youtube. Their stories are written for mass appeal and the gameplay is watered down to casual level with little to no skill progression on the player's part. They are basically somewhat interactive movies with gameplay mimicking mechanics slapped onto them, instead of being video games first.
A story game focusing on story😱 also u do know abt the lizard boss fight, leaven, venom, and more right💀 they have specific patterns the player has to follow in order to dodge/parry them. If u want a shitty campaign play COD. There is player skill progression in the form of combos and trying to get ur focus bar high enough without getting to much damage to heal so u get pull off a finisher
couldn't have said any better. Still currently waiting for Coryxkenshin's playthrough of the game 😎. Sony really needa change they formula up or deadass their games will remain interactive free movies I watch on TH-cam lol
@aviciousfridge aren't they just bullet sponges tho :/. I don't know if that equates to harder gameplay. More just turning up health and damage numbers...
By the way, thank you so much for commenting on the lackluster combat. Enemy types even on a base level were spongey and I never truly understood how Spider-Man’s powers could be watered down that much.
Uppercut, web, web yank. Done in less than 5 seconds. He's SPIDER-man. Use the webs. Plus Spider-Man has allowed people to injure him in order to spare them broken bones. He goes really easy on human enemies in the comics, because he could easily wreck them for life with no effort if he didn't. He's not a brawler. He's a dancer.
This games feel like they are trying to push Peter Parker out, and Miles in. While playing, all I wanted to do was switch back to Peter. I hate Miles, his character is so annoying.
@@brunettebird57it depends. They both had a role and I enjoyed that. Miles is really cool to me but that doesn’t take away from Peter in any way imo. In fact, I think miles makes Peter’s character and story even better in this game.
Hot take, maybe: Web of Shadows still has the best combat system in any Spider-Man game to date. That game REALLY made you feel like you were a superhuman wailing on people, and the moves were flashy, fast, and satisfyingly brutal, especially with the symbiote suit. When your game allows you to literally surf on someone’s face and chest, before kicking them 20 feet away, or pinning them to the ground to wail on their face, picking them up, choking them, and then punching them away… You know the combat is cracked. The Arkham games have the best combat experience for this kind of system/gameplay that the Insomniac games have taken. As Batman and the other playable characters, you FELT like you were actually hitting people and hitting them hard. I know Spider-Man outclasses Batman in strength, but the latter actually makes you feel like you’re beating the shit out of the people whom are trying to kill you. Let’s not even get into how much better the stealth in the Arkham games are, also. I really enjoy the Insomniac Spidey games, despite me having not played SM2 yet, but I also won’t pretend like there aren’t other super hero/comic book games out there that do particular things considerably better than them.
People only like web of shadows because of nostalgia. Emulate the game now, and it's a mess......I can see why the newer spiderman amd arkham games are more successful 😅
Considering how much padding they added instead of Harry breaking the symbiote out of it's container, while it's in Spider-Man's hand. They could have easily manufactured another threat peter has to deal with and this makes him leave the symbiote with Dr. Connors. This would make it more reasonable for harry to break it out and become venom. In face I like this solution because It would add another activity to the open world. Which was another aspect that lacked variety.
Well Cletus Kasedy already had another sample from Oscorp. I'll be honest people may not want to hear it, but insomniac is reaching to get Knull and war of symbiotes in Spider-Man 3 the final chapter with Dr Oct and Harry Osborn. Rather you want to know or not. The plan is Norman and Otto is going to make New York turn against both Spiderman and reveal their identity to the world. Otto saw the whole plot including with sandman who's an anti hero now. Both Spiderman will face NYPD Police department, Carnage unleashing the Knull portal on New York, Peter will die, Miles Morales mother will be in jeopardy of Death, and Harry or Norman will die. Somewhere in this story we will get Wolverine, black cat, silver sable, Yuri, Silk, avengers and Dr strange. Yes the goal is that Otto and Norman are going to team up with Cletus I already know from story plots and details. They will show clues in the future DLCs
"they literally had a talk no jutsu, and these people can immediately take the symbiote off" bruh even in spiderman 3, peter parker needs to use the bell on the church to pull it off despite having consciousness lmao .... during the final fight, peter has to use those metal poles to pull venom out of eddie brock 😂 the movies made it clear that taking of the symbiote isnt as easy as you think haha
Yeah I found it weird how easy it was for MJ when Peter absolutely struggled. He even points it out so I guess it’s because he had the symbiote longer than everybody else did. They had to absolutely wear Harry and Peter down in order for them to take it off tho. Everybody else were minor symbiotes so I guess they expected that to be self explanatory
@@Peter_ParkedCar I'm actually talking about the movie.. in spiderman 2 the game, everyone get out of the symbiote so easily without needing some help (like a large high pitched sound) meanwhile the movies spiderman 3 - peter parker, despite knowing that he had his consiousness now and not affected by the symbiote had to use the church bell (a high pitched sound and vibrations) to remove it .. venom - both venom and riot had to use a speaker that emits high pitched noise to remove it.. its funny really haha
Tbf Miles had used the bell multiple times before Pete took the suit off. He was even gonna hit on more time but didn’t wanna see him like that, then Pete takes off the suit
I don't get why Spiderman and Miles don't just make more of those OP guns MJ uses, it would've saved them a lot of time and effort. Hell Spiderman and Miles should've just stayed home and let MJ handle it, she seems far smarter and more capable than those two
spiderman 2 literally had the same formula for the first game. 1 - villain that (is supposed) to be main threat 2 - friend becomes foe 3 - new foe makes the city ill/destroyed and peter needs the super Mcguffin to save everyone. The pacing was so horrible that the whole thing about peter "being a better spiderman" with the symbiont suit was just dumb, there was no reason for that because conflict just magically resolved itself. Mid af.
What the fuck did you expect? What do you want from this game? What do you want from insomniac games? They made an amazing game with a brand new story, new fighting mechanics, new gadgets and new villains, and blind, whiny, singular brain cell people like you still keep complaining about the game. Do you understand the concept of a sequel? By your logic, God of War Ragnarok and legends of zelda: tears of the kingdom are also "mid af" because they're the same game too. But noooo, only spiderman deserves the hate because it was loved by everyone, so you have to hate the game to be "different" 🤓. This is giving "I'm not like other girls" energy. And the game bias with you people is crazy. You people judge a game and dont judge the other one, even though both are practically the same. Why cant you love both the games? I swear, you people are so spoiled that nothing can satisfy you anymore
Idk man. I feel like if he had the symbiote in SM1 he would have been able to save Aunt May and other ppl he nearly let die in SM2 if he didn’t have his friends. It’s a good way of showing his need for the symbiote. Also why wouldn’t Spider-Man want to be a better Spider-Man💀Do u even know the character💀
@bryanjavid2274 of course, you spider cucks believe their game review journalists are giving a fair take on the game no they are just pandering to Sony and insomniac that's all
@@Belligerenntimagine being such a loser “90 on meta critic” 🤓🤓, acting like sony aint a multi billionaire company capable of paying for reviews.. disney does the same for rotten tomatoes
It’s hilarious when the best part of the entire game was when you play as Venom instead of Spider-Man or Spider-Man. All it did was make me want a standalone Venom game.
@@Ralphunreal Yeah playing as Venom in this game is like playing as Hulk in the Avengers game vs playing as Venom in the Ultimate Spiderman game and playing as Hulk in the Ultimate Destruction game. Night and day difference.
@@shortyg1018 to be fair in this game he was made specifically for this one level alone. Venom with this gameplay wouldn’t work in open world. Ultimate Venom gameplay was made for the open world.
Peter was sidelined way too much, never been a fan of miles. Also mary jane couldve been taken out of the game entirely and the game would've been better.
I had the opposite impression, it felt like Miles got the short end of the stick; felt to me like he was put into this game just to boost the ESG score at the cost of making him completely irrelevant to the story.
Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and Sony Santa Monica's design philosophy is the polar opposite of Fromsoft's or Nintendo 1st party's. It's very curated with lots of cutscenes and QTEs, apparently it's what's worked for them over the last decade+ and they're probably not gonna change that anytime soon.
I give up on Spiderman that is not the same anymore thanks to fucking Hollywood California shit even when I used to be a huge fan of Spiderman back in 2002 when I was only 10 years old of the first movie before the game on the first Xbox and thank god, just thank god I did not waste my money on this before watching Griffin play it on live because the ending was dogshit when you see Harry Osbourne died that Miles tried to save thinking he is Jesus or God. He gave up his friend to save his own city of NYC where all the Muslims from Israel are coming to our country in our today's society. Seriously, what a joke this was even it was a disgrace to the fans who loved the original Spiderman like me after all those years ago. I mean the Spiderman games or not the same when I really loved in back 21 years ago when the first Spiderman game came out after the movie came and it was perfect just like Spiderman 2 in 2004. I did not get the chance to play Spiderman 3 in 2007 but I got to see the movie and the franchise of Spiderman should of ended with that. I mean its just these Hollywood bastards who take our heroes and put politics into them and they can't handle to shovel their own dogshit n' fucking crap. Unbelievable I mean I used to be a huge Spiderman fan before they spread the LGBT flags in NYC like I was "WTF is this??" when Spiderman came out in 2018 but the story was okay.
Hopefully not cuz thats 1 thing that makes them so good😉, btw i love Sonys games as much as i love from soft games...all these hate here is so redicolus
Kind of amazing how the Batman Arkham franchise is still the gold standard of superhero games that hasn't been beat. Even a weaker title like Origins is objectively vastly superior and deep than Marvel's Spider-Man.
@@theamazingangstyteen-man3535I’ve played both asylum and city but knight will always have the better stealth and more fluent combat and origins had the best boss fights in the series
Word of advice if you find the enemies: use the uppercut on the enemies, web them and slam them on the ground so that they stay down, using your gadgets more also helps allot but the combat did get nerfed you got a good point there I remember the focus bar filling up faster when you hit them mid-air but now I feel like they fucked that up to and enemies also get stuck in buildings which really annoyed me but still fun video griffin take good care off you and your dog
@@dapperfan44 it still feels way slower that the first game I don't know what the hell they were thinking it feels a little more pointless to fight in the air
Im lvl 28 and i like it so far. - But im getting really fucking sick of all the DEI/Alphabet Ideology they're Forcing in EVERYTHING nowadays. - It seems they Must Force Literal Racism and Something Gay into it, when that shit just needs to Vanish. - Theres ZERO NEED to have missions that Force you to help a dude propose to his boyfriend in a Spider-Man game. - Theres ZERO NEED to have missions and broadcasts telling us that BIPOC people should be celebrated. -- Just leave everything NEUTRAL as its ALWAYS BEEN. There was Nothing Wrong with Spider-Man Ps4 and it didn't have ANY of that woke shyt.
Sony out here basically copy/pasting the same game four times in five years. They've already suckered me three times. I'll wait till this is deep discounted.
Yep. Almost always Sony exclusive is cutscene ridden, freedomless thing. I just don't know why, aren't consoles stronger now to handle something more complex ?
Laughed my ass off when Venom just lightly caressed MJ and she magically turned into Scream.... Yeah I don't think that is anywhere near how it works Insomniac
The way they try so hard to make Miles seem cooler than Peter just pisses me off. Miles saves Peter from the symbiote by beating him up and telling him he's being a jerk? Peter should've gone overboard, had a moment of self realization, then went to the church to rip off the suit! And don't even get me started on how Miles defeats Venom single handedly! So stupid! And lets not ignore all the pandering and propaganda. Little kids are playing this game! But yea okay, lets just introduce 5 to 8 year olds to homosexuality!(They shouldn't even know about heterosexuality yet!)
It doesn’t take that long if you just upgrade your damage. It genuinely takes a few hits for any standard thug especially when incorporating gadget aoe
can apply your same garbage reasoning to any fromsoft game lol. what a terrible take. if it really bothered you that much you could always lower the difficulty
Resident evil 4 remake made me really wish that mor games would utilize chapters. Intro cutscene hours of gameplay chapter end cutscene repeat, flows so much better than this “cinematic” design
I pity those poor suckers who undoubtedly received this malicious pile of filth for Christmas from 80-year old grandma Betty who doesn’t know any better. She saw the “game”, thought “oh little Timmy loves Spider-Man!”, purchased the game, wrapped it up for Christmas, and little Timmy was traumatized for life for receiving this miserable pile of garbage on perhaps the worst Christmas in history.
This was easily the worst “Black Suit” story ever told. The gameplay is better and the websuit dynamic is cool but the storytelling & decisions made were awful - Harry over Eddie?? Biking when I’m Spiderman?? Kraven not feeling like a hunter at all.. I could go on but Sony should’ve let Insomniac Games finish the game before putting out that mediocre mess that was just a money grab. I was disappointed after all the hype they built for it
uhhh amazing lucas got trashed for trashing it and then when the game came out, He is loving it. Every single complaint of his was fixed. He's not the best example.
The thing I hate about this game is that by the end of the game, Miles and MJ are the ultimate MVP and Peter is the biggest loser cause he's not a diverse person or a woman. Peter got so shafted compared to Miles, constantly apologizing and people not giving him a break even thought it was the Symbiote doing it and all of them have seen the black suit. That voice mail to "Harry's" phone was so stupid. I'm just glad that no one is in charge of writing a bad Batman game like this. Batman can't do what Catwoman and Batgirl don't or something.
They completely took out all the interesting gadgets that made stealth fun, setting up traps and picking apart enemies one by one rather than boring stealth takedown after boring stealth takedown. There was far more variety in the first Arkham game let alone Arkham city in terms of fluid combat, stealth mechanics, etc. They even got rid of the perfect dodge, which was a feature that rewarded finesse.
It's a shame. I feel sorry for Griffin because his community post made it seem like he was excited to play the game. I'm sure he's not trying to hate on the game, and that he was genuinely hoping that the game was great. However, it's nice to get a fairly honest review of the game since I had some of these problems with the first two games (repetitive combat (although this was slightly alleviated by the use of gadgets), and the story taking up too much prominence) and it's a shame it wasn't fixed this time around. Between this and the AC Mirage review, I am really enjoying Griffin's reviews, and hope he continues making them! Also, Harry's "Spider-AIDS" killed me lol.
Respectfully, how can you not expect the story to take up a majority of the game when it is clearly marketed as a narrative spiderman experience? I don't care for what I have played of spiderman 2 yet but, you should expect a story based game. It is a first party sony game after all.
@@crutchddaddy95 Today I learned that the "Spider-Man experience" is sneaking around with th exaggerated swagger of a redheaded girl with huge ego issues and a plot armor thicker than Peter Parker's **little Pete** when he sees other, actually attractive females that he's currently not in a relationship with..
The genre fatigue is real if you've played either of the other two within the past year. I'm content to wait for the PC release because by then I'll probably want to play another game like this.
@RJRigs. What context is there to give? He grew wings…that’s it. Sorry Venom didn’t just stop the climax of the game to give a slideshow presentation on how his wings grew.
One something I wanted to point out is when you mentioned the archers having high health, the thing about that is that they are meant to be webbed not punched hence why they hang on walls
In spiderman miles morales I felt that the combat felt more brutal and punchy than spiderman 1. I was hoping to see more of that heavy hitting feeling. I do like the very smooth transitions and flow of movement visually speaking.
You know youbare absolutely right, i bought spiderman 2018 on pc immidiately refunded it because of its obnoxious game choice and combat feel. miles game was short and better made than 2018 where combat was satisfying.
Im surprised you didnt mention the mission where you play as Miles and have to help a gay kid ask his gay boyfriend to their gay prom. And when he pops the question the game forces your camera to watch it
@ExProductions95. You mean in that one side mission you can completely skip? Also what’s wrong with it? Gameplay wise it’s not as fun but it doesn’t effect the story whatsoever, it’s not even that long and if they weren’t gay it magically would’ve be an issue. If you have an issue with that I think that’s just on you
@@FujiMezu don’t ruin the children? Lmao, like a kid is going to play that mission and immediately go “I’m gay now”. Like I said tho, it’s such an insignificant section of the game you can completely skip it and nothing will change. The point of those missions is to show Miles interacting with people of his school showing his “friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man” aspect. And if he helps someone who so happens to be gay then that’s whatever
Lets be honest here, the Metacritic is only as high as it is because of the very preachy, in your face political bent it has. MJ is out here one shotting the enemies Peter and Miles have to hit 12 times to put down. She is tanking hits from symbiote drones and had the easiest time overcoming her symbiote infestation. All the main character men are emotional wrecks that are hugging all the time and screaming "they don't understand me!" and "you hang out with miles more than me!" This is especially out of character for both Osborn men of whom greatest character flaw from the comics was their excessive macho personalities. If this was a normal game and not a ESG Special it would have been low to mid eighties max.
yeah these games just fundementally misunderstand everything about spider-man. But people will applaud because it looks glitzy and expensive. The dramatic cutscenes are so bizarre, its like a spidey story written by aliens.
@@Zezinizzle I understand that this is an adaptation so creative liberties are bound to happen but just about every character is off and seems to miss the struggles that were inherent to their characters. Even the Venom Symbiote went from a irreverent, morally questionable by earth standard, Klyntarian outsider in the comic boos; to a hive mind inducing megalomaniac thrown in at the 11th hour of this game.
@@chrissears5482 Review lofting. PlayStation fans much like PlayStation division of Sony itself is the most rabid about review scores and brand quality perception. Whenever, I see really high user score count on Metacritic (3500+) I am almost sure the fans are coming out in force to protect "Their" game. This fact is further substantiated by the dog piling of anyone who has any criticism of the game on social media. It is a Metacritic 90 rated game why are PS fans so sore? Spider-Man 2 has a more dedicated defense force than even Starfield. The Starfield fans weren't as successful in review lofting however, because Xbox simply has a smaller dedicated fan base than PlayStation. RoboCop just showed what happens when you do not tow the line on political message. It is getting review bombed by the press; but look at that user score and that the user review number is not in the stratosphere.
Love Kraven and thought he was portrayed well, but the lizard boss fight pales in comparison to fights like Killer Croc or Solomon Grundy where the phases at least with Grundy felt unique and meaningful, hell even killer croc’s fight was more narratively well-portrayed than Lizard’s.
Why would you want to refund such a great game lmao? Watch some gameplay before deciding if you wanna buy it or not. I swear you people are braindead and trying to just complain about anything.
@@Ntwadumela89 it’s not impossible but I don’t see it Sony love to keep the price high to buy their first party exclusives because they know the fanboys will continue to buy it
I sold my PS5 several months ago, I liked the first game but I knew the second one wouldn't really do that much new so I felt like I wouldn't miss out on much. I'll get it on PC years down the line. Not to sound like a Batman simp, but at least the Arkham games all had a different setting and all excelled at something different. Asylum - Atmosphere City - Story Origins - Boss Battles Knight- Combat
@@gangstagummybear3432Yeah... That's not happening. Sony got a taste of that extra easy revenue putting their games on PC. They won't stop doing it. Especially when so many people like myself see no value in having a glorified paperweight for months on end when they could just wait a few years and still give Sony money years later.
@@route77productions Then it should be happening faster, if what you say is true, they would simply have released their last 3 or 4 titles day one on pc, if the "special factor" leaves first party games on playstation only, and the playstation fanbase falls off, Sony will withdraw from the pc venture, Sony was scared of a simultaneous release of Spiderman, else the sales might fall short like FF16, which I theorize didnt sell as well as projected simply because the playstation owners didn't see it is exclusive for playstation, that will get even worse come a new gen, playstation fans might not even buy the new playstation if they felt there is a likelyhood that games are going to inevitably go to PC in the future, thus the games aren't true exclusives, don't be too confident in your invisible PC releases yet, you should be content with your own exclusives for pc, whatever Microsoft gives you, and multiplats, quit dreaming about other platform's exclusive games.
@@gangstagummybear3432The reason they don't put them day one on PC is to maximize their earnings from the Playstation platform first so when they put their games on PC years later, they would have already made the most money they felt the game could do on that platform and people on PC could go ahead and spend basically full price for the same game that came out a few years back. It's more of a financial decision and no, the casual gamers which is the vast majority of gamers don't care if Playstation or Xbox have "exclusive" games that are on PC day one. Exclusives aren't the driving force of the vast majority people to get a console, with the only exception here being Nintendo.
@@route77productions You don't know the average person on gaming platforms very much, I assure you the Xbox crowd would give anything to take their games off of pc and make them only be on xbox, why? Because it is a bragging piece, you can't brag about any game, if it is assured that the game will atleast, other than your platform, also be on the stupid pc. The games no longer have that, "only on this platform" feel anymore. I truly miss when every platform had their own stuff, Nintendo seems like the only one that hasn't followed the "leader" in jumping on the dumb pc bandwagon. IF they release some of their current, and future games on pc, I am certain the timeframe will be pushed back very far from anywhere near launch day on Playstation, as you pc nerds don't know how to keep your mouths closed, saying dumb stuff like, "Im going to skip this, and get it later on when it comes out on pc" that is a threat for the future of their next platforms, and next games on the schedule, if it comes to a point that these games are seen as, "oh, skip the playstation ____ version, wait for pc" if that becomes a new narrative, which is what it seems to be headed to now, Sony will stop the venture. You forget that unlike Microsoft, Sony doesn't truly consider PC as a competitor, PC can never be to Sony, what it is to Microsoft, and now that Call of Duty and other Activision/Blizzard titles are in Microsoft's hands now, there is far more reason for them to bring all of their games back to only Playstation. The other option is to make another game system that is only for people that would want to go premium on their gaming, but were normally stuck in that $400 or $500 budget hardware threshold of game systems, a new platform outside of "playstations" that don't have to stay in the confines of the "$400" price ceiling, a platform that assures the best version of their game is on their platform, if that happens, then they don't have to worry about the game being on pc at all.
@@foulXDYou just did the same thing (I did too I guess) AI’s been pretty bad in games for a long time though, it’s not just Sony and at least it actually functions in Spiderman 2
@trent7736 of course Sony ponies are more concerned with grammar over the actual argument just like you're more concerned with the cinematics and graphics over the actual gameplay
Instead of using the stungun I suggest MJ to just send it to Peter. To be honest the stungun is better than any other gadget. Instantly one shot everything, realiable, its power is magically infinitely.
Don't understand why people need to fanboy over games now days. The only thing that matters is your own personal enjoyment of a game. I like this review you made Griffin, and it feels a lot better than those bloated review scores that games get now days, as if 7 is what average should be.
@@mikeoxlong6410 Just because you feel that cod has no value, doesn't mean others don't. I for instance enjoy playing LoL, granted only with friends. Does that make it a good game? Not by any means, but that doesn't stop me from liking and enjoying it.
Yeah I agree. I absolutely loved this game and it’s easily my favorite spider man game now, but it’s not perfect and I like hearing legit criticism. I strongly disagree with a lot of his points though, but I don’t think he’s the worst person on the planet like the other ponies would
Pete: hey MJ that gun you got with stun attack is so OP, I should make a gadget out of it that can ko everyone in single hit, instead of beating the shit outta normal goons. The end.
I feel like a lot of y’all didn’t use gadgets or upgrade your damage in the suit upgrade sections. Gadgets plus abilities was such a good combo to beat enemies quick in this game. r1+square whichever gadget pulls them in together>>>>> that one was SO good for crown control omg
lol there would be so many times where I was one hit from death, and using a single gadget saved my skin so many times🤣😂🤣. I kinda appreciate becoming op in the game too, especially when the game just tanks 3 to 4 waves at you which is annoying, way to many, but the gadgets for real speed the process up, which I why I liked Miles the most since he has the best area radius attack with the Mega venom blast. Peter not having an big area attack like web blossom from the first game was just something else🙄😂.
@@Pokemonboy245 lol yeah, not sure what the timer is on them, but you can’t just spam them, it feels like you have to wait 5 minutes just to get them back so. In the other hand in Web of Shadows you can just spam web blossoms, and Peter can do 100 punches in 2 to 3 seconds.
@@elpepo0 brother you need to step off. I’ve platted every soulsborne/sekiro game. My issue isn’t with the challenge; it’s with the extremely repetitive combat that doesn’t require any adaptation that will rando kill you because you’re swarmed with 55 enemies and 5,000 things packed on to the screen all at once. That’s cool that you wanna flex that you play Sekiro but that doesn’t make you seem elite just saying…
Yeah bro don’t you realize they gotta make the strong female character that somehow has the leg force of a jet at Mach 12 instant knock out the heavily trained soldier dude but the super human spider guy can’t even make him fall to the grown when he throws a manhole directly into his face at 400 mph
Spamming gadgets in the latter half of the game really helped me, especially with the symbiotes. You can kill the green ones just with webs. They annoyed the shit out of me at first until I realized that I was relaying too much on physical combat skills. The combat loop encourages more use of gadgets than the previous 2 games.
I loved the game. But I am definitely with you when it comes to the combat and the stealth. The Arkham games are the perfect example as to how combat SHOULD be.
If you are having trouble with "spongey" enemies then you aint playing right, do more damn combos, web up enemies against walls and for gods sake use your tools
Idk if anyone’s ever told you this, but Batman is not Spider-Man. These are 2 completely different games. If you refer to that braindead take of “oh Spider-Man takes a long time to KO his enemies” then I don’t know what to tell that. BATMAN IS A DAMN HUMAN, HE DOESNT NEED TO HOLD BACK, SPIDER-MAN IS A SUPER HUMAN, WHO NEEDS TO HOLD BACK
I agree with Griffin on the part on how it seems like somehow a normal human enemy requires multiple attacks or combos as spiderman of all people. Isn’t spider man strong physically because the spider that bit him besides giving him spider sense and wall climbing also buffed his anatomy which would make his strikes capable of caving someones skull in? Hell even the spider man song from the 60s kinda alludes to the idea that he has radioactive blood or something that makes him a bit more tougher and stronger than the average person?
To answer you question about Spider-Man and stealth, yes he is very stealthy. Because he is so strong he would rather avoid combat to avoid accidentally killing regular people, even against other superhumans he still usually pulls his punches. I know you don't care and asked a retorical question but I still thought I should provide an answer. I agree though that regular enemies are 2 spongy.
Grif complained about everything during his stream. He's just trying to find negatives to say and hope it sticks. Spider man doesnt do stealth? Wtf is this guy talking about
@@jacobmcklowski4428 stop coping. It's okay. This movie, I mean game, isn't everything you wanted it to be. It's okay to be disappointed... You're either disappointed or delusional. Your choice.
@@Nonx47 i dont own a PS5 and don't plan on buying the game. Im simply pointing out Griffin has no clue what he's talking about. He def was complaining the entire stream, i watched most of his gameplay.
"Now the gameplay is like you love it or hate it or somewhere in between where certain aspects you either enjoyed or other aspects which you didn't enjoy that much" The most thought provoking parts of school essays
I mean it is true in some degree, MJ isn’t a big girl, if she was she would look like half the women developers that made the game, aka the land whales.
My game kept crashing A LOT! Also, prompts like "Press L1 and x to galvanise" didn't work for me, so I had to restart the mission. Same with that stupid puzzle in Dr Connor's house!
Spiderman is strong enough to throw cars, hold a crane, pull a truck, etc. But it takes him 20 punches to take out a normal human. But wait MJ can easily takes out these same enemies in one shot. Like bruh
Im pretty sure Spiderman is stronger than a female with a taser💀 Like bro fights a guy that shoots lightning and can move as fast as a lightning bolt. Insanity
I'm a huge fan of Spider-Man ps4 and I've been eagerly waiting for this games release. Looked up this video to get a less glazed take on the game. As a self-proclaimed fan boy, respect to you for being willing to criticize a game most audience members will praise to the heavens.
I heard there was heavy handed political commentary in this game. Had to watch a dozen reviews before I found your that discusses them. Thank you for not being a blind fanboy.
@@brunoctavioPeter being a Cu*k. MJ uglification. LGBT. BLM. I even heard Ukraine flags. Gun control. Gender. Then there's the whole everyone looks too happy. MJ whining at Peter like they're going through a divorce.
@@brunoctaviopick your poison, it was loaded with different leftist talking points. Insomniac literally hired Sweet baby Inc to be a DEI/ESG writing consultant. You have to have your eyes shut and ears blocked to ignore it.
Kraven's plan was to find his equal and an worthy opponent and he chose all supervillians but not Spider-man who defeated every single one of them. 100% goty material.
I literally thought Kraven would be on Spider-Man (Peter) heavy literally terrorizing him and the black suit saves him when Kraven eventually kills him not like how we got but a good fight between them, and not trying to hunt someone like black cat lol I get sand man and lizard they briefly showed taskmaster on the tablet but taskmaster wasn’t even in the game I thought he would return from the trailer but nope
Kraven was going to go after Spider-Man as well. He just didn’t really care to have him as a priority because Spider-Man doesn’t kill his enemies. Once he sees the power and rage of Spider-Man in the symbiote suit, that’s when Kraven gained interest.
Kraven knew the spidermen didn't kill. So he wanted the villains more because they were killers. When peter got the symbiote and showed more brutality and aggression kraven took interest in him. That's why he didn't really care for miles as he didn't have a symbiote
While I've been playing this, my wife will watch me from time to time and has no shit said "it's like watching a movie." At first I thought this was a good thing, but then I started to notice just how many lengthy cutscenes there were. And why didn't they learn their lesson in the first game with the whole "forcing you to play as MJ" segments? I bought Spider-Man 2 to play ONE OF THE TWO SPIDER-MEN.
I’m gonna say this right now, I don’t own a PS5, and have not played the game. However, I’ve seen a playthrough of it. I can safely say that yeah, most people bought the game to play as SPIDER-MAN in the SPIDER-MAN game with TWO SPIDER-MEN.
In terms of graphical issues (and they'll probably patch this), Peter's head is too small for his body in several scenes. It's very noticeable in the first scene he is in when he is teaching. This happened in the remaster as well, but I thought since they changed the face altogether, it was a consequence that they just had to deal with. This game was built from scratch, so there isn't a lot of excuses for it. His lips don't match up with what he is saying quite a few times, in fact sometimes they don't even move. This happens with quite a few characters, actually. Jonah's web conversation with MJ is by far the worst example of that. In fact, it comes across as if that scene was re-scripted and they tried to re-animate around it last minute. The character models, themselves... at some points look great, but most of the time, look underwhelming. It isn't a big step up and maybe that wasn't the goal, but whereas I think the PS3 was more than capable of handling the cutscenes from the first Spider-Man, this game's cutscenes could have easily run on the PS4. Battle scenes are a bit too chaotic at times. It's still has enjoyment value as did the last one and it is a spectacle to look at, but there's almost too much going on on-screen at once. Kingdom Hearts 3 had this same issue. Cool combinations and battle sequences, but man is it noisy. With multiple people fighting on screen, this happens. Spider-Man 2 is not to the level of chaos Kingdom Hearts 3 is, but I can definitely see it trending int that direction. I definitely agree about the number of hits it takes to take down the bad guys. I wasn't the biggest fan of it in the first game and they went harder on it in this version. It winds up being artificial difficulty because they didn't make the enemies more challenging, they just gave them longer health bars so that they stick around longer. This was a MAJOR issue I had with DBZ Kakarot. There was ONE very difficult boss battle and all the other ones were just take out 15 life bars while you have 1. Spider-Man 1 & 2 are lesser versions of that, but I can't stand that when fighting enemies. It creates drag on the game, I think and it get very boring very quickly which says a lot with all the things on screen happening. If I can compare the first game to the second, the battle with Lizard is much like the first battle with Mr. Negative. Li had 3 phases: 1 where you just fight, 1 where you learned his first pattern and 1 where you learned his second pattern. None of them dragged though. They made the health bar for him make sense to keep the player engaged. They didn't make you fight him for any extended amount of time. Lizard repeats the same pattern over and over from the jump and you have to fight him 3 times in 2 different areas and that kind of stuff makes it drag, especially with the massive life bars. I didn't mind the MJ missions from the first game. I was moreso irritated with her for getting herself into these situations in the first place because it was VERY stupid coupled with the fact that they basically... didn't write Mary Jane well at all. She's probably the farthest removed in terms of accuracy, and she makes VERY dumb decisions and is just not a character you can get behind at all But I didn't mind the MJ missions, mechanically. Having to sneak around and not get caught, knowing you can't take them out, it made sense. It really felt like this role was suited for someone else, but yeah... she got some boxing lessons from Silver Sable so yeah, she can now take these guys down. Tasing is one thing, but she is outright beating them up. It's like "... ok whatever" The "Save the Supervillains" arc would have meant more if... well... they tried to keep them as villains. Li, I understood after the previous game. They kept Scorpion as a bad guy, but the others... just didn't make a lot of sense. I think it was to make Kraven look like more of a bad guy, but... the other bad guys don't have to be bad for Kraven to be worse. Kraven is REALLY wasted in this... he's built up to be this super bad, but he's really just a plot device. He's the one that's just setting the table for Venom... I HATE Venom. You'd think after several attempts someone would get the Venom storyline right. But no... we have to go with the Disney XD Ultimate Spider-Man storyline of Harry being Venom and it isn't even built up that well. Also Harry has the symbiote and is fine. Pete has it for a day or so and turns evil. Then Harry gets it back and suddenly "We are Venom!!!" People might think I'm crazy, but Spider-Man 3 did it better. I, honestly, was thinking that Miles was going to get the black suit, not Peter. I'm not a fan of Miles at all but given how they were telling the story (and they aren't going for comic accuracy anyway so that's out the window), it just makes more sense for Miles to get the symbiote and become the temporary bad guy, rather than Peter. Heck... what if he became Venom and was the final boss?? It makes way more sense vs. Harry given what was happening with him earlier in the game. It wouldn't solve the rules of symbiosis, but still. Venom's end goal is to infect everything on the planet, by the way. There's a scene where he's talking to Harry as his mother and they hint at that is what it wants. Think Riot from the Venom movie if that makes any sense. Anyway, what they did was basically combine elements of the Spider-Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man 2 movies along with The Disney XD Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon and they could make that work, but they failed. It honestly suffers from a lot of what movies and shows suffer from today, bad writing and often lazy writing. This story, obviously, should have been spread across 2 separate games. I can look past some of the irritating woke stuff. There are elements of that in the first one too, but it's pretty in your face in the second one. I don't hate the game. It has its merits, but I was massively disappointed.
@@0N0B_0 I didn't. I literally said I looked past it. It was so minor when these moments occurred it didn't have any real impact except for an occasional eyeroll. There are other far more glaring issues than that.
Curb your comic shit the Spider-Man 2 game is full of bugs horrible sjw bad writing probably written by Dhar Mann himself and they claim it to be ( CoMiC AcCuRaTe) , the game is shot their side missions are like way worse than the Spider-Man 1 ps4 , the fighting is horrible especially the symbiote part and all bosses are the same and there is still more to discuss about this shitty expensive dlc MuH ExClUsIvE that costs 70 bucks not 60
That “Leaving Mission Area” screen might have been a misfire. I never ran into that throughout my entire play-through and I’m always swinging around aimlessly while those exposition calls play out. I had two game breaking glitches during the Coney Island section that no one else seemed to run into either.
All he had to do was pick up the spider bot and he'd be free to go wherever he wants, that part of the video alone was enough for me to know this review is nonsense for clicks
He's talking about the beginning where, instead of wandering around the city like you just got off a speed bender, you're actually supposed to be cleaning up the city in the wake of Sandman's rampage
@xSERGEDxT. So they start the game with a huge Sandman boss fight but the second it goes back to character development for Peter and Harry there isn’t “enough Spider-Man”? Sure…
Anyone else felt annoyed playing Peter Parker missions? I felt they were distraction to the main story of Miles and MJ. How dare they waste 50% time on Peter's missions when they should be giving us the og spider-man Miles.
I didn't expect that Spider-Man 2 would be the game that nailed the coffin shut for my interest in modern video games. I remember I was so pumped to see what Insomniac would have in store for us, I even pre ordered the collector's edition, which was practically a scam (an empty steelbook with just a code, not even a disc and a statue). Long story short, I cancelled my pre order, bought the game second hand and after finishing it all I felt was disappointment. The story was rushed, empowerment and wokeness was thrown to my face and the main character whose name is literally in the title was nerfed to high heavens.
Elden ring is a modern video game buddy. Stop coping. Gamings easily the best its every been rn. How was peter nerfed when he literally has 2 seperate playstyles and easily the most screen time in the game 💀💀. This is literally cope from someone who took griffiths opinion as the word of god and judged a game not even giving it a chance
@@Yes-cj6vr and Peter still can’t beat anyone on his own with all the “buffs”, after he 1v6’d the sinister six in the first game. Then cries and retires. This game sucked ass.
@@cSoZen Did we play the same ps4 game? Peter got slammed by Scorpion and only lived because he “Would get payed more” 💀💀💀 and as we know Peter couldn’t even beat Dock Ock without buffing himself. 99% of the fights he won in that game were merely based on terrain advantages. In that “1v6” they were all taking turns hitting him as opposed to actually working together. As for Spider-man 2, Venom had to call in for help from other Symbiotes, and when they actually had their 1v1 Peter had 2 separate opportunities to kill Venom. It’s just clear you’re media illiterate.
yes but that's not to say spider-man comics are good lol they're ok at best especially the older ones but modern spiderman comics are just trash spider-man is carried by the movies.
You know, Insomniac had their solution for including a playable female character that would've been some fun and that was Black Cat. Maybe they didn't want to do it because Arkham City and Knight both had Catwoman be a playable character and they didn't want to feel like they copied those games, even though they already kinda did.
Is that why she basically gets a glorified cameo like I was disappointed with how they included Felicia at least the first game we knew she was going to be in upcoming DLC but here? Doubtful
Its insane how much this studio doesnt listen. Latinos do not like per names latinx. They literally colonized a language as they made up their own non genered version of words instead of using the feminine "La Doctora" or masculine "El Doctor" they proceeded to make up "Le Doctore" ignoring all feedback from the spanish speaking community
About your point with the tanky enemies / their health I agree. I was playing on very easy difficulty and the whole time even after upgrading my suit to 150% damage on the Suit Tech page, it takes me about 6-7 attacks to defeat a normal enemy except for the sandman clones.
Yeah, not only that but after every 3rd attack the enemy gets launched back 900 ft and when you try to web back onto them you just lock onto some other character. Utter cancer playing on spectacular difficulty.
Peter got saved by other characters almost every time, got his ass kicked nearly every time. Peter getting done dirty in modern marvel
That was absolutely done purposely, it's ridiculous.
White Spiderman (Peter) can't do anything right and needs Black Spiderman (Myles) and woman (MJ) to save him. Yeah, this is definitely done on purpose.
They're assassinating the characterization of Peter Parker
@@mortemtyrannus8813why does race factor and gender need into this? They only help with the symbiote.
@@t-dawg-qc1ushow exactly is that the case?
The story was absolutely disappointing and felt disjointed. The first game felt much more focused.
first game also didnt focus on pandering to ppl who didnt play the game either, its one thing to have a pride flag in the first game which is like oh well I guess, but the second game like triple downed on that type of stuff instead of just giving us a good story and good side missions....
sweet baby inc thats why
Since Sony wanted to milk Spider-Man so fucking fast...
@@Practically_Dripku it took 5 years for this game to come out though.
@bigkmoviesandgames they were gonna finish around early 2024 but Sony wanted it to be out by Winter 2023 for Christmas sales
the "yeah right" at 17:09 💀 i love how mj can one hit one of these buff guys with a single kick but if spider man volleys a drain lid off their skull at mach 10 they're completely fine
Exactly this.
"sTroNG FMalE KaRActer"
Mary Jane has that girl boss energy that why 🤣🤣 i dont know how people play these garbage movie games
Feminism is a superpower
Her power is womb. Increased strength, increased pain resistance, increased feminism.
Just be thankful she keeps it covered. Otherwise, you wouldn't be playing Spiderman at all, it'd just be the MJ game.
They got rid of gadgets from previous game. Bad decision. They actually made combat so much more fun and unique.
nah, they changed it to focus on melee combat, and it definitely worked. the combat has much more depth and feels much harder to master. in the first game the gadgets were a straight up cheat code that would one shot most enemies, now they assist the melee combat, which is a much better choice.
the comabat is dogshit@@grannyperson
@@grannypersonthe enemies are just spongy and the gadgets feel incredibly weak imo. I think they overcorrected
@@grannypersonyeah who would want to feel powerful as Spider-Man
@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy u do feel powerful? Yall confuse me bc yall hated on the first game for being too easy, and then they fixed it and made the combat 10x better and made u have more abilities. And now people r complaining about it being too hard, like dawg stop whining☠️
My biggest issue is how badly they nerfed Peter. He was more than capable
Yep.
This must be a joke
@@DwillGame it’s the truth. They buffed miles way too much conveniently
@@shafialanower3820 I say this as a massive Spider-Man fan. Miles is stronger than Peter in most aspects outside of intelligence and experience, and some minor differences in physical strength and speed. I don't mind Peter being less powerful overall since it's simply a accurate depiction of both characters as a whole.
@@thewolfman1202No one likes Miles, fuck Insomniac for shoving this garbage character down my throat.
Also, another thing regarding "taking the ranged enemies out with one hit," I have no idea why this was taken out in this game, but in the previous two games, you could unlock a skill called Webstrike Takedown, where if you perfect-dodged a ranged enemy, you could use your webstrike to immediately take them out. Like, THAT would certainly have come in handy!
But wouldn't that make all ranged enemies a joke, even more than they are now? It's already a pretty easy game and one hitting certainly doesn't help imo
@@warpitexis2341 the problem as mentioned in video is how spongy enemies are
having the ability to just delete annoying enemies is not a minus its a plus. its not like it stops them from doing damage or being hit sponges it just benefits playing the game well
@@sdbzfan1 but being able to one hit every enemy isn't a good option too. Besides when I played on spectacular no enemy besides the symbiotes, heavys and those flame thower guys. And even those can be easily killed with your abilities, gadgets or smart use of focus. There are suit mods that make attacks in the air more leathal and there are mods or abilities that make you gain focus faster too
@@warpitexis2341 like i said its not a negative because it benefits playing smart
If someone is terrible at dodging then they would still have to deal with the ranged enemies as is, and its not like having specific ways to deal with enemies is a negative either, symbiotes are weak to anti venom for example plus the colored enemies give you hints at how to beat them, the green ones die in one hit to anti venom webs, why do you want to keep attacking an enemy 8 times before it goes down outside of hard mode, dude was playing on easy and enemies still took the same amount of damage from hits, that just sounds like terrible balancing
@@sdbzfan1 having different tactics for different enemies is good, but when the tactic is that you just do what you already did 2000 times to one hit the enemy it's not really good, especially if it's not even a risk reward system like parrying, where you get damaged if you don't time it right, the only thing that happens is that you dodge the attack and can't one hit the enemy. And as I said even the higher difficulties you shouldn't have those problems, you can web them up close to an object, try to get them on a wall to kick them until they die you can use your abilities to get them in the air and increase your damage output and be a lot safer. You can use the grappling gadget to get them in one place and hit more enemies with one special attack etc. You can use the super jump followed with a ground pound to get a horde of enemies away (if you put the super jump on the d pad it goes of instantly btw) etc. You can combine a lot of things to get rid of enemies faster. I don't like saying it because it's annoying but that really is a skill issue if you take that long to kill normal enemies, even if you upgrade
The worst thing in my opinion has got to be how annoying it is that it forces you to change in to the games symbiote suit so you can’t use the classic or webbed black suits in the cutscenes and gameplay, really don’t know why they did that
I mean isnt that kinda selfexplanetory ? He needs to be in that form to fit in the story you dumb ?
That's every game bruh... You are only allowed to use suits you pick for cutscenes in the new game+ mode
@captainsimp8864 actually, if you start Spider-Man 1 and Miles Morales on a completely new save, you can choose your suits for pretty much every single cutecene in the game, aside from Marvel Spider-Man 1's final fight
This is hopefully something that can be added in patches and updates.
Are you sure? Yesterday I was using the back webbed suit & Peter had it on at all times in the cutscenes
The entire last part of the game was literally Web of Shadows. Insomniac tried to condense an entire game into a small part, thats why you feel the way you do about it. I would recommend Web of Shadows if you can find it. Web of Shadows had an Infamous style morality system, you have the option to use the black suit or not. The black suit made combat much easier with it increasing your damage and giving you access to alot of AOE tendril attacks. Web of Shadows was the power fantasy Spider-Man game.
Trueee I thought the same, web of shadows was excellent
Web of shadows is literally shorter than this game
@@frogglen6350 not really. Web of Shadows just isn't padded with a bunch walking talking missions and a collectathon. Also it had some replayablitity to it to get the 4 endings.
Web of shadows is dmc spider man and that just makes it superior
We of Shadows sucked, so opinion discarded
I lost it when mj just pulled out the taser and just starts shooting 😂
She pulled out that taser like Kim Potter lmao
Lol
Insomniac is a woke company . They have destroyed spiderman
@@iceking2135😂😂😂😂
Is snony game all their garbage movie game are woke speaking of woke when Alan wake 2 coming out again?
You'd have to pay me to play this garbage.
I fuckin wish I didn’t own it, just got my ps5 and was hyped for this game, didn’t watch shit about it this whole time, I’m disgusted tbh
Garbage? Are you high?
Making superheroes weak is part of the corporate masculinity debunking woke agenda
Oh God I thought I was the only one that felt the enemies were very spongey. Especially the symbiotes. Fighting them is such a chore
EDIT: For everyone saying skill issue and whatnot, I don't mean that the enemies get difficult or it becomes too hard. I just mean that it gets boring. Fighting the symbiotes, for example, gets boring, and upping their defense to make them spongey just makes fighting them even more boring.
I enjoyed the game, but it definitely has flaws. Having the symbiote fights feel like a boring chore is definitely one of them.
Get gud
Aren't the symbiotes supposed to be spongy
They are sponges until you unlock anti venom suit.
that’s the whole point. peter literally said it’s like punching molasses
@@ClavinZKLeven on friendly the enemies are spongey lol
The funniest part about the story isnt just that it's super inoffensive but it's more the fact that they are trying to push that prison ever reformed psychopathic criminals.
Exactly this! 👍
If that’s what you got from what the story was saying then I feel bad for you
@@abem6020yeah, I don’t know what these people are talking about when they mention reformed villains. The only villains reformed were Martin Li and tombstone. The other villains were still evil.
@RMMonster01 People can’t comprehend nuance. Rhino broke out twice (three if you count the hidden wall mount that implies Kraven killed him) and he’s still evil. Same goes for Scorpion and Electro. Vulture was always looking for a way to cure his cancer and Shocker wasn’t really “evil” either. Both of those guys are dead. Otto is still evil. Tombstone is the only guy who just… decided to go straight. Martin Li was never really evil. He did evil things, deserving of punishment, but that’s mainly due to him feeling wronged by Osborne and his literal powers of Negativity. He acknowledges that he did insane things to justify his seeking revenge. That’s not impossible. The discussion around this game are so irritating because people on opposite “sides” always go too far in their observations or criticisms and are either purposely blind to nuance or are just not that intelligent
@@kingkocoa4467this is a surprisingly good take for a TH-cam comment
The fact you have to point out your opinion on a video game doesn’t matter really says a lot about people these days
You know what I am saying dude. This is sad but oh well
GRIFFINS OPINION IS THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS STFU 😡
Exactly. It's like people have to get angry at everything. You see a vid you don't like? Either don't watch it, try to have a normal debate or dislike and move on. Simple as that.
You guys probably hate metal gear solid games and probably gonna hate hellblade 2 as well. I don't know y people are excited about the kojima Xbox game as well. " It's too cinematic " lol the salt.
@@utsavpradhan2754 I do hate both of those
1 hour video criticising a sony game? Man's got a death wish
Yeah the fanboys will come here defending the game
@@Overkill2008Must be another Sunday ending in Y
Yeah people are already coping like crazy in the comments
Hes gotten make some actual gaming content after covering an aquistition for 2 years. Dudes gotta at least play some games. Why not make a an hour long video about a game we know hes going to hate. Xbox fanboy seeking attention.
I think you will find more and more of us who might have been impressed by Sony's polished but mediocre releases in the past are now pointing out how tired, outdated and bland their releases now are.
You are right man. At this point I treat these PS5 releases like free 10-15 hour movies you can watch on youtube.
Their stories are written for mass appeal and the gameplay is watered down to casual level with little to no skill progression on the player's part. They are basically somewhat interactive movies with gameplay mimicking mechanics slapped onto them, instead of being video games first.
A story game focusing on story😱 also u do know abt the lizard boss fight, leaven, venom, and more right💀 they have specific patterns the player has to follow in order to dodge/parry them. If u want a shitty campaign play COD. There is player skill progression in the form of combos and trying to get ur focus bar high enough without getting to much damage to heal so u get pull off a finisher
Clearly you haven't played it on the hardest difficulty. See if it's a "movie game" then lmao
@@aviciousfridgethe best difficulty setting is when there is no “difficulty setting” lol
couldn't have said any better. Still currently waiting for Coryxkenshin's playthrough of the game 😎. Sony really needa change they formula up or deadass their games will remain interactive free movies I watch on TH-cam lol
@aviciousfridge aren't they just bullet sponges tho :/. I don't know if that equates to harder gameplay. More just turning up health and damage numbers...
By the way, thank you so much for commenting on the lackluster combat. Enemy types even on a base level were spongey and I never truly understood how Spider-Man’s powers could be watered down that much.
theres a setting to lower the health of the enemies in the settings man i could be mean but i feel like telling you seriously
Uppercut, web, web yank. Done in less than 5 seconds. He's SPIDER-man. Use the webs. Plus Spider-Man has allowed people to injure him in order to spare them broken bones. He goes really easy on human enemies in the comics, because he could easily wreck them for life with no effort if he didn't. He's not a brawler. He's a dancer.
he is not using 1 gadget at all so stop crying and learn how to play
@@DA_BOID plus use gadgets
@@SuperHns nigga spiderman is superhuman he shouldnt need to have bullshit stuff to take out goons
This games feel like they are trying to push Peter Parker out, and Miles in. While playing, all I wanted to do was switch back to Peter. I hate Miles, his character is so annoying.
Straight filler character
huh, what's wrong with playing as miles, and here we go again with "pushing Peter Parker out" :/
@@brunettebird57it depends. They both had a role and I enjoyed that. Miles is really cool to me but that doesn’t take away from Peter in any way imo. In fact, I think miles makes Peter’s character and story even better in this game.
100%. They will no doubt kill Peter off in SM3.
@@SlingMeAWeb nah
Hot take, maybe: Web of Shadows still has the best combat system in any Spider-Man game to date. That game REALLY made you feel like you were a superhuman wailing on people, and the moves were flashy, fast, and satisfyingly brutal, especially with the symbiote suit. When your game allows you to literally surf on someone’s face and chest, before kicking them 20 feet away, or pinning them to the ground to wail on their face, picking them up, choking them, and then punching them away… You know the combat is cracked.
The Arkham games have the best combat experience for this kind of system/gameplay that the Insomniac games have taken. As Batman and the other playable characters, you FELT like you were actually hitting people and hitting them hard. I know Spider-Man outclasses Batman in strength, but the latter actually makes you feel like you’re beating the shit out of the people whom are trying to kill you. Let’s not even get into how much better the stealth in the Arkham games are, also.
I really enjoy the Insomniac Spidey games, despite me having not played SM2 yet, but I also won’t pretend like there aren’t other super hero/comic book games out there that do particular things considerably better than them.
Tbh no, it was very basic and easy
@@Daniel-Rain-YT fuck no. WOS shits on insomniacs combat
Hell no. Web of shadows has zero challenge and the voice acting is terrible
People only like web of shadows because of nostalgia. Emulate the game now, and it's a mess......I can see why the newer spiderman amd arkham games are more successful 😅
He really threw Web of Shadows in there like that? 🤦🏾♂️
Considering how much padding they added instead of Harry breaking the symbiote out of it's container, while it's in Spider-Man's hand. They could have easily manufactured another threat peter has to deal with and this makes him leave the symbiote with Dr. Connors. This would make it more reasonable for harry to break it out and become venom. In face I like this solution because It would add another activity to the open world. Which was another aspect that lacked variety.
Well Cletus Kasedy already had another sample from Oscorp. I'll be honest people may not want to hear it, but insomniac is reaching to get Knull and war of symbiotes in Spider-Man 3 the final chapter with Dr Oct and Harry Osborn. Rather you want to know or not. The plan is Norman and Otto is going to make New York turn against both Spiderman and reveal their identity to the world. Otto saw the whole plot including with sandman who's an anti hero now. Both Spiderman will face NYPD Police department, Carnage unleashing the Knull portal on New York, Peter will die, Miles Morales mother will be in jeopardy of Death, and Harry or Norman will die. Somewhere in this story we will get Wolverine, black cat, silver sable, Yuri, Silk, avengers and Dr strange. Yes the goal is that Otto and Norman are going to team up with Cletus I already know from story plots and details. They will show clues in the future DLCs
Eh too each their own but this was quicker I feel maybe have the thing be cracked after the fight with Peter and once Harry hits it then it breaks
Lmao someone was just saying this was one of the "best written games" of the year..
What’s a better written game this year I guarantee you won’t be able to name even 2
@@mr.sir155 Alan Wake 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Jedi Survivor.... And I liked the story on a few others the same or more.
😂😂😂 fr?
@@mr.sir155any game that didn’t involve sweet baby Inc in narrative development wins by default.
"they literally had a talk no jutsu, and these people can immediately take the symbiote off"
bruh even in spiderman 3, peter parker needs to use the bell on the church to pull it off despite having consciousness lmao ....
during the final fight, peter has to use those metal poles to pull venom out of eddie brock 😂
the movies made it clear that taking of the symbiote isnt as easy as you think haha
Yeah I found it weird how easy it was for MJ when Peter absolutely struggled. He even points it out so I guess it’s because he had the symbiote longer than everybody else did. They had to absolutely wear Harry and Peter down in order for them to take it off tho. Everybody else were minor symbiotes so I guess they expected that to be self explanatory
@@Peter_ParkedCar
I'm actually talking about the movie.. in spiderman 2 the game, everyone get out of the symbiote so easily without needing some help (like a large high pitched sound)
meanwhile the movies
spiderman 3 - peter parker, despite knowing that he had his consiousness now and not affected by the symbiote had to use the church bell (a high pitched sound and vibrations) to remove it ..
venom - both venom and riot had to use a speaker that emits high pitched noise to remove it..
its funny really haha
Tbf Miles had used the bell multiple times before Pete took the suit off. He was even gonna hit on more time but didn’t wanna see him like that, then Pete takes off the suit
The symbiote had been bonded with Peter and Harry way longer than it did with Mj, it makes sense why it was harder for them
I don't get why Spiderman and Miles don't just make more of those OP guns MJ uses, it would've saved them a lot of time and effort.
Hell Spiderman and Miles should've just stayed home and let MJ handle it, she seems far smarter and more capable than those two
spiderman 2 literally had the same formula for the first game. 1 - villain that (is supposed) to be main threat 2 - friend becomes foe 3 - new foe makes the city ill/destroyed and peter needs the super Mcguffin to save everyone. The pacing was so horrible that the whole thing about peter "being a better spiderman" with the symbiont suit was just dumb, there was no reason for that because conflict just magically resolved itself. Mid af.
What the fuck did you expect? What do you want from this game? What do you want from insomniac games? They made an amazing game with a brand new story, new fighting mechanics, new gadgets and new villains, and blind, whiny, singular brain cell people like you still keep complaining about the game. Do you understand the concept of a sequel? By your logic, God of War Ragnarok and legends of zelda: tears of the kingdom are also "mid af" because they're the same game too. But noooo, only spiderman deserves the hate because it was loved by everyone, so you have to hate the game to be "different" 🤓. This is giving "I'm not like other girls" energy. And the game bias with you people is crazy. You people judge a game and dont judge the other one, even though both are practically the same. Why cant you love both the games? I swear, you people are so spoiled that nothing can satisfy you anymore
90 on metacritic so ur opinion is irrelevant lmao
Idk man. I feel like if he had the symbiote in SM1 he would have been able to save Aunt May and other ppl he nearly let die in SM2 if he didn’t have his friends. It’s a good way of showing his need for the symbiote. Also why wouldn’t Spider-Man want to be a better Spider-Man💀Do u even know the character💀
@bryanjavid2274 of course, you spider cucks believe their game review journalists are giving a fair take on the game no they are just pandering to Sony and insomniac that's all
@@Belligerenntimagine being such a loser “90 on meta critic” 🤓🤓, acting like sony aint a multi billionaire company capable of paying for reviews.. disney does the same for rotten tomatoes
It’s hilarious when the best part of the entire game was when you play as Venom instead of Spider-Man or Spider-Man. All it did was make me want a standalone Venom game.
the venom gameplay is watered down as well, i dont think its good.
@@Ralphunreal Yeah playing as Venom in this game is like playing as Hulk in the Avengers game vs playing as Venom in the Ultimate Spiderman game and playing as Hulk in the Ultimate Destruction game. Night and day difference.
@@Ralphunrealagreed, Venom gameplay was absolute trash
Venom gameplay was horrendous
@@shortyg1018 to be fair in this game he was made specifically for this one level alone. Venom with this gameplay wouldn’t work in open world. Ultimate Venom gameplay was made for the open world.
i feel like graphic expectations ruined modern day gaming
Peter was sidelined way too much, never been a fan of miles. Also mary jane couldve been taken out of the game entirely and the game would've been better.
I personally prefer Miles Nowadays. Especially in movies (Spiderverse >>> Tom Hollands movies)
I had the opposite impression, it felt like Miles got the short end of the stick; felt to me like he was put into this game just to boost the ESG score at the cost of making him completely irrelevant to the story.
This was miles's game to me, he arc is way better and fleshed out than peter
@@cynthiaandoh9575facts, SpiderVerse is sheer cinema
@@daRealB-Rex Facts
Naughty Dog, Insomniac, and Sony Santa Monica's design philosophy is the polar opposite of Fromsoft's or Nintendo 1st party's. It's very curated with lots of cutscenes and QTEs, apparently it's what's worked for them over the last decade+ and they're probably not gonna change that anytime soon.
I give up on Spiderman that is not the same anymore thanks to fucking Hollywood California shit even when I used to be a huge fan of Spiderman back in 2002 when I was only 10 years old of the first movie before the game on the first Xbox and thank god, just thank god I did not waste my money on this before watching Griffin play it on live because the ending was dogshit when you see Harry Osbourne died that Miles tried to save thinking he is Jesus or God. He gave up his friend to save his own city of NYC where all the Muslims from Israel are coming to our country in our today's society. Seriously, what a joke this was even it was a disgrace to the fans who loved the original Spiderman like me after all those years ago. I mean the Spiderman games or not the same when I really loved in back 21 years ago when the first Spiderman game came out after the movie came and it was perfect just like Spiderman 2 in 2004. I did not get the chance to play Spiderman 3 in 2007 but I got to see the movie and the franchise of Spiderman should of ended with that. I mean its just these Hollywood bastards who take our heroes and put politics into them and they can't handle to shovel their own dogshit n' fucking crap. Unbelievable I mean I used to be a huge Spiderman fan before they spread the LGBT flags in NYC like I was "WTF is this??" when Spiderman came out in 2018 but the story was okay.
Hopefully not cuz thats 1 thing that makes them so good😉, btw i love Sonys games as much as i love from soft games...all these hate here is so redicolus
Play Last of us on Grounded or God of War on GMGOW against the Valkyries and then tell me it's nothing but QTE's
@@Hunterese123Play a real game like DMC3SE on normal and tell me, those two aren't QTE simulators
Also a series I love and has a bunch of cutscenes as well and your point?@@regular4634
Kind of amazing how the Batman Arkham franchise is still the gold standard of superhero games that hasn't been beat. Even a weaker title like Origins is objectively vastly superior and deep than Marvel's Spider-Man.
The only Arkham games worthy of that amount of praise are the first two. Origins was underwhelming and Knight was just trash
@@theamazingangstyteen-man3535I’ve played both asylum and city but knight will always have the better stealth and more fluent combat and origins had the best boss fights in the series
@@theamazingangstyteen-man3535 there's no way you said Knight was trash. If it was trash you must have played it on a toaster.
@evolve8446 knight was pretty terrible I have to agree. It really didn't live up to the expectations of asylum or city
7th gen overall was a generation that can be summed up with "We didn't know what we had until it was gone"
Word of advice if you find the enemies: use the uppercut on the enemies, web them and slam them on the ground so that they stay down, using your gadgets more also helps allot but the combat did get nerfed you got a good point there I remember the focus bar filling up faster when you hit them mid-air but now I feel like they fucked that up to and enemies also get stuck in buildings which really annoyed me but still fun video griffin take good care off you and your dog
The focus bar filling faster in mid-air is now a suit tech upgrade.
@@dapperfan44 it still feels way slower that the first game I don't know what the hell they were thinking it feels a little more pointless to fight in the air
Im lvl 28 and i like it so far.
- But im getting really fucking sick of all the DEI/Alphabet Ideology they're Forcing in EVERYTHING nowadays.
- It seems they Must Force Literal Racism and Something Gay into it, when that shit just needs to Vanish.
- Theres ZERO NEED to have missions that Force you to help a dude propose to his boyfriend in a Spider-Man game.
- Theres ZERO NEED to have missions and broadcasts telling us that BIPOC people should be celebrated.
-- Just leave everything NEUTRAL as its ALWAYS BEEN. There was Nothing Wrong with Spider-Man Ps4 and it didn't have ANY of that woke shyt.
I can't believe that the state of New York has so many symbols. Almost like real life....
Sony out here basically copy/pasting the same game four times in five years. They've already suckered me three times. I'll wait till this is deep discounted.
Facts
Yep. Almost always Sony exclusive is cutscene ridden, freedomless thing. I just don't know why, aren't consoles stronger now to handle something more complex ?
Not all consoles can handle the loading screens every 5 feet of Starfield
Laughed my ass off when Venom just lightly caressed MJ and she magically turned into Scream.... Yeah I don't think that is anywhere near how it works Insomniac
Yeah, that is a power Venom does not have. They made homeboy into Knull the Symbiote God. 😀
I started dying of laughter when venom grew wings 🤣
@@TheGhost20978he literally grows wings in the comic book in the king in Black story
@@TheGhost20978i urge u to pick up a comic book bc venom has done that multiple times…
@@Bushyyy it just seemed odd but not as odd as Spider-Man having spider sense when facing venom apparently yeah that makes no sense
The way they try so hard to make Miles seem cooler than Peter just pisses me off.
Miles saves Peter from the symbiote by beating him up and telling him he's being a jerk?
Peter should've gone overboard, had a moment of self realization, then went to the church to rip off the suit!
And don't even get me started on how Miles defeats Venom single handedly!
So stupid!
And lets not ignore all the pandering and propaganda.
Little kids are playing this game!
But yea okay, lets just introduce 5 to 8 year olds to homosexuality!(They shouldn't even know about heterosexuality yet!)
Miles didn't defeat venom? Peter did, did you play the game, the only reason venom lost was cause of the antivenom suit and Harry wanting venom off
Also there was one 5 minute mission in the game about 2 gay characters who had zero impact to the story and completely optional
@@clarity-argent2913 only optional on subsequent playthroughs and you know that
I wouldn’t call it “propaganda” but ig it’s a little annoying sometimes but i honestly didn’t really care about it at all while playing the game.
Your Damm right!!!
The reason it takes so long to defeat enemies is to extend the time it takes to finish the game
L
It doesn’t take that long if you just upgrade your damage. It genuinely takes a few hits for any standard thug especially when incorporating gadget aoe
skill issue, they die really fast half way through the game
can apply your same garbage reasoning to any fromsoft game lol. what a terrible take. if it really bothered you that much you could always lower the difficulty
Skill issue.
Resident evil 4 remake made me really wish that mor games would utilize chapters. Intro cutscene hours of gameplay chapter end cutscene repeat, flows so much better than this “cinematic” design
Why lie? Theres a ton of cutscenes throughout the game, replay it and write down just how many time you press pause to skip cutscenes.
One of the more-based reviews I’ve seen keep it real🎉🙏
PS Tobey Maguire the goat, Andrew and Tom are twinks
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
Hey man, Andrew is chill and I agree Tobey is the GOAT.
I pity those poor suckers who undoubtedly received this malicious pile of filth for Christmas from 80-year old grandma Betty who doesn’t know any better. She saw the “game”, thought “oh little Timmy loves Spider-Man!”, purchased the game, wrapped it up for Christmas, and little Timmy was traumatized for life for receiving this miserable pile of garbage on perhaps the worst Christmas in history.
Arkham knight is only like £5 for me. MUCH better game in my opinion lol
Jefferson Davis was a hero -Miles Morales
Gone but not forgotten 🙏🏿🕊️🙏🏿
@@GriffinGamingWho?
Which is a very unhinged way to name a black character. Imagine naming a Jewish character Adolf Hitler.
@@nont18411Insomniac didn’t name hime, gtfoh
I do not understand why they didn’t just keep the name Jefferson morales.
Ponies are coping hard to defend this game 😂
They defend how ugly MJ looks too 😂
Damn y’all really don’t let people have opinions these days huh 💀💀💀
Nah they don’t 😂😂
When he's blatantly wrong or misrepresented the game. And saying dude and bro 100 times.
@@whodatninja439this is actual cope
@@callmepsycho3132 and constantly complaining the combat is too hard 😂
@@callmepsycho3132 or complaining that he doesn't understand the story or characters when he hasn't played the previous games. 💀
This was easily the worst “Black Suit” story ever told. The gameplay is better and the websuit dynamic is cool but the storytelling & decisions made were awful - Harry over Eddie?? Biking when I’m Spiderman?? Kraven not feeling like a hunter at all.. I could go on but Sony should’ve let Insomniac Games finish the game before putting out that mediocre mess that was just a money grab. I was disappointed after all the hype they built for it
The 3 main components of a video game are visuals , combat and story . So if combat and visuals are improved how is it a downgrade?
You know this game is bad, when Amazing Lucas of all people, who was hyping this game for years, trashed it. 🤣🤣
Who?💀
Doesn't everyone hate that guy for his weird stances on shit?
uhhh amazing lucas got trashed for trashing it and then when the game came out, He is loving it. Every single complaint of his was fixed. He's not the best example.
the amazing lucas likes the game 😂
@@ajjones6682and even if he didnt like the game he generally has a negative mind about most things thats just the way he is.
Batman doesn't throw "normal" punches, he throws Bat-punches.
I'll see myself out.
Because he’s BATMAN. Lol
The thing I hate about this game is that by the end of the game, Miles and MJ are the ultimate MVP and Peter is the biggest loser cause he's not a diverse person or a woman. Peter got so shafted compared to Miles, constantly apologizing and people not giving him a break even thought it was the Symbiote doing it and all of them have seen the black suit. That voice mail to "Harry's" phone was so stupid. I'm just glad that no one is in charge of writing a bad Batman game like this. Batman can't do what Catwoman and Batgirl don't or something.
They completely took out all the interesting gadgets that made stealth fun, setting up traps and picking apart enemies one by one rather than boring stealth takedown after boring stealth takedown. There was far more variety in the first Arkham game let alone Arkham city in terms of fluid combat, stealth mechanics, etc. They even got rid of the perfect dodge, which was a feature that rewarded finesse.
It still has perfect dodge, and it has a parry now
@@chrissears5482 I'm talking about the instant kill perfect dodge perk from the 1st game.
It's a shame. I feel sorry for Griffin because his community post made it seem like he was excited to play the game. I'm sure he's not trying to hate on the game, and that he was genuinely hoping that the game was great. However, it's nice to get a fairly honest review of the game since I had some of these problems with the first two games (repetitive combat (although this was slightly alleviated by the use of gadgets), and the story taking up too much prominence) and it's a shame it wasn't fixed this time around. Between this and the AC Mirage review, I am really enjoying Griffin's reviews, and hope he continues making them! Also, Harry's "Spider-AIDS" killed me lol.
I couldn't stand his live streams he called everything on screen cringe. Edgy teen shit.
Respectfully, how can you not expect the story to take up a majority of the game when it is clearly marketed as a narrative spiderman experience? I don't care for what I have played of spiderman 2 yet but, you should expect a story based game. It is a first party sony game after all.
@@crutchddaddy95 Today I learned that the "Spider-Man experience" is sneaking around with th exaggerated swagger of a redheaded girl with huge ego issues and a plot armor thicker than Peter Parker's **little Pete** when he sees other, actually attractive females that he's currently not in a relationship with..
The genre fatigue is real if you've played either of the other two within the past year. I'm content to wait for the PC release because by then I'll probably want to play another game like this.
@@TheDravicyou literally sound 12 😂
The Venom comics explain the wings, but Insomniac left out all the context. Story is an absolute shit show.
Exactly. And some buffoons actually defend this game. 🤦♂️
@RJRigs. What context is there to give? He grew wings…that’s it. Sorry Venom didn’t just stop the climax of the game to give a slideshow presentation on how his wings grew.
@@saiyanhashira3445 that’s not how context works, but okay
One something I wanted to point out is when you mentioned the archers having high health, the thing about that is that they are meant to be webbed not punched hence why they hang on walls
In spiderman miles morales I felt that the combat felt more brutal and punchy than spiderman 1. I was hoping to see more of that heavy hitting feeling. I do like the very smooth transitions and flow of movement visually speaking.
You know youbare absolutely right, i bought spiderman 2018 on pc immidiately refunded it because of its obnoxious game choice and combat feel. miles game was short and better made than 2018 where combat was satisfying.
@@Dkm337I find them purposely making Miles swinging and combat more interesting than Peter's
Im surprised you didnt mention the mission where you play as Miles and have to help a gay kid ask his gay boyfriend to their gay prom. And when he pops the question the game forces your camera to watch it
@ExProductions95. You mean in that one side mission you can completely skip? Also what’s wrong with it? Gameplay wise it’s not as fun but it doesn’t effect the story whatsoever, it’s not even that long and if they weren’t gay it magically would’ve be an issue. If you have an issue with that I think that’s just on you
@@saiyanhashira3445it’s the fact it’s in the game at all. No reason to have it there, don’t ruin the children
@@FujiMezu don’t ruin the children? Lmao, like a kid is going to play that mission and immediately go “I’m gay now”. Like I said tho, it’s such an insignificant section of the game you can completely skip it and nothing will change. The point of those missions is to show Miles interacting with people of his school showing his “friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man” aspect. And if he helps someone who so happens to be gay then that’s whatever
Lets be honest here, the Metacritic is only as high as it is because of the very preachy, in your face political bent it has. MJ is out here one shotting the enemies Peter and Miles have to hit 12 times to put down. She is tanking hits from symbiote drones and had the easiest time overcoming her symbiote infestation.
All the main character men are emotional wrecks that are hugging all the time and screaming "they don't understand me!" and "you hang out with miles more than me!" This is especially out of character for both Osborn men of whom greatest character flaw from the comics was their excessive macho personalities. If this was a normal game and not a ESG Special it would have been low to mid eighties max.
yeah these games just fundementally misunderstand everything about spider-man. But people will applaud because it looks glitzy and expensive. The dramatic cutscenes are so bizarre, its like a spidey story written by aliens.
@@Zezinizzle I understand that this is an adaptation so creative liberties are bound to happen but just about every character is off and seems to miss the struggles that were inherent to their characters. Even the Venom Symbiote went from a irreverent, morally questionable by earth standard, Klyntarian outsider in the comic boos; to a hive mind inducing megalomaniac thrown in at the 11th hour of this game.
Then why is the player score also really high?
@@chrissears5482 Review lofting. PlayStation fans much like PlayStation division of Sony itself is the most rabid about review scores and brand quality perception. Whenever, I see really high user score count on Metacritic (3500+) I am almost sure the fans are coming out in force to protect "Their" game.
This fact is further substantiated by the dog piling of anyone who has any criticism of the game on social media. It is a Metacritic 90 rated game why are PS fans so sore? Spider-Man 2 has a more dedicated defense force than even Starfield. The Starfield fans weren't as successful in review lofting however, because Xbox simply has a smaller dedicated fan base than PlayStation.
RoboCop just showed what happens when you do not tow the line on political message. It is getting review bombed by the press; but look at that user score and that the user review number is not in the stratosphere.
@@chrissears5482because most people are normies.
Love Kraven and thought he was portrayed well, but the lizard boss fight pales in comparison to fights like Killer Croc or Solomon Grundy where the phases at least with Grundy felt unique and meaningful, hell even killer croc’s fight was more narratively well-portrayed than Lizard’s.
Sony needs a Game pass competitor so people can try out these games without dropping 70 bucks on it with no way to refund
They won’t do it
Why would you want to refund such a great game lmao? Watch some gameplay before deciding if you wanna buy it or not. I swear you people are braindead and trying to just complain about anything.
@@Overkill2008right especially now since Microsoft owns COD
@@Ntwadumela89 it’s not impossible but I don’t see it Sony love to keep the price high to buy their first party exclusives because they know the fanboys will continue to buy it
I sold my PS5 several months ago, I liked the first game but I knew the second one wouldn't really do that much new so I felt like I wouldn't miss out on much. I'll get it on PC years down the line.
Not to sound like a Batman simp, but at least the Arkham games all had a different setting and all excelled at something different.
Asylum - Atmosphere
City - Story
Origins - Boss Battles
Knight- Combat
I hope sony cancels the entire pc gaming venture.
@@gangstagummybear3432Yeah... That's not happening. Sony got a taste of that extra easy revenue putting their games on PC. They won't stop doing it.
Especially when so many people like myself see no value in having a glorified paperweight for months on end when they could just wait a few years and still give Sony money years later.
@@route77productions Then it should be happening faster, if what you say is true, they would simply have released their last 3 or 4 titles day one on pc, if the "special factor" leaves first party games on playstation only, and the playstation fanbase falls off, Sony will withdraw from the pc venture, Sony was scared of a simultaneous release of Spiderman, else the sales might fall short like FF16, which I theorize didnt sell as well as projected simply because the playstation owners didn't see it is exclusive for playstation, that will get even worse come a new gen, playstation fans might not even buy the new playstation if they felt there is a likelyhood that games are going to inevitably go to PC in the future, thus the games aren't true exclusives, don't be too confident in your invisible PC releases yet, you should be content with your own exclusives for pc, whatever Microsoft gives you, and multiplats, quit dreaming about other platform's exclusive games.
@@gangstagummybear3432The reason they don't put them day one on PC is to maximize their earnings from the Playstation platform first so when they put their games on PC years later, they would have already made the most money they felt the game could do on that platform and people on PC could go ahead and spend basically full price for the same game that came out a few years back.
It's more of a financial decision and no, the casual gamers which is the vast majority of gamers don't care if Playstation or Xbox have "exclusive" games that are on PC day one. Exclusives aren't the driving force of the vast majority people to get a console, with the only exception here being Nintendo.
@@route77productions You don't know the average person on gaming platforms very much, I assure you the Xbox crowd would give anything to take their games off of pc and make them only be on xbox, why? Because it is a bragging piece, you can't brag about any game, if it is assured that the game will atleast, other than your platform, also be on the stupid pc. The games no longer have that, "only on this platform" feel anymore. I truly miss when every platform had their own stuff, Nintendo seems like the only one that hasn't followed the "leader" in jumping on the dumb pc bandwagon.
IF they release some of their current, and future games on pc, I am certain the timeframe will be pushed back very far from anywhere near launch day on Playstation, as you pc nerds don't know how to keep your mouths closed, saying dumb stuff like, "Im going to skip this, and get it later on when it comes out on pc" that is a threat for the future of their next platforms, and next games on the schedule, if it comes to a point that these games are seen as, "oh, skip the playstation ____ version, wait for pc" if that becomes a new narrative, which is what it seems to be headed to now, Sony will stop the venture. You forget that unlike Microsoft, Sony doesn't truly consider PC as a competitor, PC can never be to Sony, what it is to Microsoft, and now that Call of Duty and other Activision/Blizzard titles are in Microsoft's hands now, there is far more reason for them to bring all of their games back to only Playstation.
The other option is to make another game system that is only for people that would want to go premium on their gaming, but were normally stuck in that $400 or $500 budget hardware threshold of game systems, a new platform outside of "playstations" that don't have to stay in the confines of the "$400" price ceiling, a platform that assures the best version of their game is on their platform, if that happens, then they don't have to worry about the game being on pc at all.
Sony Pony's gonna be pissing their pants reading the title of this video
“Sony pony”🤡
@@Wholesome_videos675looks like a nerve was struck with you
@@foulXDYou just did the same thing (I did too I guess) AI’s been pretty bad in games for a long time though, it’s not just Sony and at least it actually functions in Spiderman 2
Ponies*
It's not that hard to pluralize
@trent7736 of course Sony ponies are more concerned with grammar over the actual argument just like you're more concerned with the cinematics and graphics over the actual gameplay
Instead of using the stungun I suggest MJ to just send it to Peter. To be honest the stungun is better than any other gadget. Instantly one shot everything, realiable, its power is magically infinitely.
Don't understand why people need to fanboy over games now days. The only thing that matters is your own personal enjoyment of a game. I like this review you made Griffin, and it feels a lot better than those bloated review scores that games get now days, as if 7 is what average should be.
Your own personal enjoyment of a game that is garbage affects everyone else and garbage starts being the norm take a look at call of duty
@@mikeoxlong6410 Just because you feel that cod has no value, doesn't mean others don't. I for instance enjoy playing LoL, granted only with friends. Does that make it a good game? Not by any means, but that doesn't stop me from liking and enjoying it.
@@mikeoxlong6410that's not his problem though. He's not gonna stop liking a game just because some neckbeard is angry about it.
You're absolutely right. But shitty misinformed opinions should still be called out and mocked. Just like how Act Man roasted griffin gaming
Yeah I agree. I absolutely loved this game and it’s easily my favorite spider man game now, but it’s not perfect and I like hearing legit criticism. I strongly disagree with a lot of his points though, but I don’t think he’s the worst person on the planet like the other ponies would
MJ looks like Peter's mom with how old they made her look
Pete: hey MJ that gun you got with stun attack is so OP, I should make a gadget out of it that can ko everyone in single hit, instead of beating the shit outta normal goons.
The end.
I feel like a lot of y’all didn’t use gadgets or upgrade your damage in the suit upgrade sections. Gadgets plus abilities was such a good combo to beat enemies quick in this game. r1+square whichever gadget pulls them in together>>>>> that one was SO good for crown control omg
Gadgets and abilities made the game far too easy, if you did side stuff along the way you become way too op with both the abilities and the gadgets.
lol there would be so many times where I was one hit from death, and using a single gadget saved my skin so many times🤣😂🤣. I kinda appreciate becoming op in the game too, especially when the game just tanks 3 to 4 waves at you which is annoying, way to many, but the gadgets for real speed the process up, which I why I liked Miles the most since he has the best area radius attack with the Mega venom blast. Peter not having an big area attack like web blossom from the first game was just something else🙄😂.
@@ayzeeB Peter had 2 area attacks they’re both symbiote ones. L1+O and L1+X
@@Pokemonboy245 lol yeah, not sure what the timer is on them, but you can’t just spam them, it feels like you have to wait 5 minutes just to get them back so. In the other hand in Web of Shadows you can just spam web blossoms, and Peter can do 100 punches in 2 to 3 seconds.
@@MikeJones-rh4xkyeah but wasn’t he just complaining that spider-man should feel op which what gadgets and abilities just do
Never been on this channel before. My man completely nails my frustration with the combat. 10/10
get good, and never play Devil May Cry or Sekiro if you have trouble with SPIDERMAN😂😂
@@elpepo0 brother you need to step off. I’ve platted every soulsborne/sekiro game. My issue isn’t with the challenge; it’s with the extremely repetitive combat that doesn’t require any adaptation that will rando kill you because you’re swarmed with 55 enemies and 5,000 things packed on to the screen all at once. That’s cool that you wanna flex that you play Sekiro but that doesn’t make you seem elite just saying…
@@elpepo0I already beat them ez.
Im so confused tho he claimed he was on easy mode id assume its nothing I played on hard so i loved it even tho I died every 3 seconds
@@SuperBeasto303 same though i have to finish dante must die campaign with V and Nero
So MJ can knock a hunter out by kicking a car door at them but if Spider-Man whips a manhole cover at their head they’re completely fine
Hell yea, female empowerment is better than some radioactive spider bitten dude with super strength as one of his powers :D
Yeah bro don’t you realize they gotta make the strong female character that somehow has the leg force of a jet at Mach 12 instant knock out the heavily trained soldier dude but the super human spider guy can’t even make him fall to the grown when he throws a manhole directly into his face at 400 mph
@@Ghosty09 You see, its called MANhole. If Spidey was throwing a womanhole. It'd be over for his enemies.
@@reitoyohisaman nyc really needs to install those
Spamming gadgets in the latter half of the game really helped me, especially with the symbiotes. You can kill the green ones just with webs. They annoyed the shit out of me at first until I realized that I was relaying too much on physical combat skills. The combat loop encourages more use of gadgets than the previous 2 games.
The gadgets are overrated, especially when you realize that Spider-Man is supposed to be much smarter and stronger than he is represented in the game.
@@reproman695 he used gadgets in the comics tho, but your right
I loved the game. But I am definitely with you when it comes to the combat and the stealth. The Arkham games are the perfect example as to how combat SHOULD be.
If you are having trouble with "spongey" enemies then you aint playing right, do more damn combos, web up enemies against walls and for gods sake use your tools
Arkham batman works because it's batman. I'd go insane playing a spider-man game that plays like that lmao.
@@smolltaco5667that's kinda the problem, why do you have to do combos when spiderman have the strength to crush the enemy skull with one punch?
Idk if anyone’s ever told you this, but Batman is not Spider-Man. These are 2 completely different games. If you refer to that braindead take of “oh Spider-Man takes a long time to KO his enemies” then I don’t know what to tell that. BATMAN IS A DAMN HUMAN, HE DOESNT NEED TO HOLD BACK, SPIDER-MAN IS A SUPER HUMAN, WHO NEEDS TO HOLD BACK
Miles Morales was literally put in this game for diversity 😂
And a deaf girl
they couldn't let him be in his own game omfg
bruh so you telling me that spider man steals hunter bidens laptop in this game?
If it was a flash drive, then they clearly went to get Randy Pitchford's flash drive for the magic trick squirters at the Medieval Times.
That's the only thing Sony is making nowadays. Walking simulator X and walking simulator Y
You're obviously a fortnite player
You literally can swing on webs daufc you talking about
@@anubisshadowreaper8808stay mad these movie games suck why aren’t you playing spooderman2?…excatly
@@CosmicVoid_119maybe he just saw the review and wanted to watch it
@@CosmicVoid_119 It's cute that he assumes that I play Fortnite. When I don't even like Fortnite
"You'll either love it, or You'll hate it or somewhere in between"
I mean, what other options are there?
I agree with Griffin on the part on how it seems like somehow a normal human enemy requires multiple attacks or combos as spiderman of all people. Isn’t spider man strong physically because the spider that bit him besides giving him spider sense and wall climbing also buffed his anatomy which would make his strikes capable of caving someones skull in? Hell even the spider man song from the 60s kinda alludes to the idea that he has radioactive blood or something that makes him a bit more tougher and stronger than the average person?
See, people claim to be fans but don't even know this fact, thanks for this@@overlandconch7
You do know you have an option in settings to reduce enemy health, without affecting anything else, right?
Should just buy a stun gun😂
No one has a problem when the Arkham games did this with Batman. Just suspend your disbelief a bit for the sake of gameplay.
So you want to one hit ko everyone 💀
To answer you question about Spider-Man and stealth, yes he is very stealthy. Because he is so strong he would rather avoid combat to avoid accidentally killing regular people, even against other superhumans he still usually pulls his punches. I know you don't care and asked a retorical question but I still thought I should provide an answer. I agree though that regular enemies are 2 spongy.
Nah was genuinely curious. Thanks
Grif complained about everything during his stream. He's just trying to find negatives to say and hope it sticks. Spider man doesnt do stealth? Wtf is this guy talking about
@@jacobmcklowski4428 stop coping. It's okay. This movie, I mean game, isn't everything you wanted it to be. It's okay to be disappointed... You're either disappointed or delusional. Your choice.
@@Nonx47This GAME is everything I was hoping it would be. Something that builds on the foundation laid by the first two games. Absolutely love it.
@@Nonx47 i dont own a PS5 and don't plan on buying the game. Im simply pointing out Griffin has no clue what he's talking about. He def was complaining the entire stream, i watched most of his gameplay.
"Now the gameplay is like you love it or hate it or somewhere in between where certain aspects you either enjoyed or other aspects which you didn't enjoy that much" The most thought provoking parts of school essays
18:06 The fact that he called MJ a little girl is hilarious to me😂💀
I mean it is true in some degree, MJ isn’t a big girl, if she was she would look like half the women developers that made the game, aka the land whales.
The all mighty PS5 has to downgrade graphics to hit a framerate ? XD
The graphics aren't downgraded much
@Frinsky we knew from 2020 both consoles would drop underpowered whats even the point you’re making?
people really believed consoles can do actual 4k huh? lmfao
I mean it's pretty much marketing, some people knew this, some are delusional really.
@@thatonefoofrumlongbe The Xbox technically more powerful and we ainn really see anything from that
They'll do green goblin next? Won't the air pollution from his glider trigger their core audience too much?
“Jefferson Davis” Bruh you cant make this shit up.
My game kept crashing A LOT! Also, prompts like "Press L1 and x to galvanise" didn't work for me, so I had to restart the mission. Same with that stupid puzzle in Dr Connor's house!
Yep same issues here
I don’t get how anyone thought a dlc on the same map with one or two things added was gonna be good 🗑️
You haven't played the game. Stop lying to yourself.
@@Ye_B0i yeah no shit you clowns don’t need anything extra I know lmfao 😂 DLC wait …18 hour playtime? Cyberpunk is longer than that
@@raiden8063 Is this 2005? You know the full playthroughs are everywhere on TH-cam right ? LMFAOOO dumb f-
@@trashboat5388 is a good game.
Now I’m worried about Insomniac’s upcoming Wolverine game.
Don't be it will be great griffin has just become another youngdefiant knockoff play the game and judge for yourself
@@anubisshadowreaper8808You are hard on copium bro
@@anubisshadowreaper8808I liked the first game but I didn’t really enjoy this sequel.
@@anubisshadowreaper8808sit down Sony
@@DOOMStudios do you not enjoy it because of what this goofball says or do you not enjoy it for your own reasons?
They should make a new spiderman game every year, like fifa to milk the R-word people who like this boring game.
Why did you censor yourself 😂
@@nufrequency84 Won't the comments be deleted or made invisible, if there are swear words in it? 😅
Spiderman is strong enough to throw cars, hold a crane, pull a truck, etc. But it takes him 20 punches to take out a normal human. But wait MJ can easily takes out these same enemies in one shot. Like bruh
Im pretty sure Spiderman is stronger than a female with a taser💀 Like bro fights a guy that shoots lightning and can move as fast as a lightning bolt. Insanity
So you want every enemy in the game to get one shot? Then you would complain about that
I can't wait for that teen rated wolverine game about Logan's feelings lmao 😂😂
I'm a huge fan of Spider-Man ps4 and I've been eagerly waiting for this games release. Looked up this video to get a less glazed take on the game. As a self-proclaimed fan boy, respect to you for being willing to criticize a game most audience members will praise to the heavens.
From one fan boy to another, if you loved spiderman ps4 and love that “song studios” formula, you’ll love this. If not, you won’t.
Same homie. Haven't played 2 yet tho (since I don't have a PS5)
I heard there was heavy handed political commentary in this game. Had to watch a dozen reviews before I found your that discusses them. Thank you for not being a blind fanboy.
What was the political commentary
@@brunoctavioPeter being a Cu*k. MJ uglification. LGBT. BLM. I even heard Ukraine flags. Gun control. Gender.
Then there's the whole everyone looks too happy. MJ whining at Peter like they're going through a divorce.
@@brunoctaviopick your poison, it was loaded with different leftist talking points. Insomniac literally hired Sweet baby Inc to be a DEI/ESG writing consultant. You have to have your eyes shut and ears blocked to ignore it.
Finally someone who isn’t throat deep on this game😭
Kraven's plan was to find his equal and an worthy opponent and he chose all supervillians but not Spider-man who defeated every single one of them. 100% goty material.
I literally thought Kraven would be on Spider-Man (Peter) heavy literally terrorizing him and the black suit saves him when Kraven eventually kills him not like how we got but a good fight between them, and not trying to hunt someone like black cat lol I get sand man and lizard they briefly showed taskmaster on the tablet but taskmaster wasn’t even in the game I thought he would return from the trailer but nope
Tell me you didn’t play the game without telling you didn’t play the game
kraven dying by spiderman is literally his entire goal. its the perfect ending to his story. idiot. next time play the game before you talk
Kraven was going to go after Spider-Man as well. He just didn’t really care to have him as a priority because Spider-Man doesn’t kill his enemies. Once he sees the power and rage of Spider-Man in the symbiote suit, that’s when Kraven gained interest.
Kraven knew the spidermen didn't kill. So he wanted the villains more because they were killers. When peter got the symbiote and showed more brutality and aggression kraven took interest in him. That's why he didn't really care for miles as he didn't have a symbiote
Sony needs to bring back their Japanese studios for more variety.
They shut all of them down
@@the25viole42 I know, that's why I'm saying it.
@Soup-man their not gonna do it. Because that would cost them money. They would rather lock up third party deals.
@@the25viole42 I know.
They desperately need something like Starfield. An actual interactive world to explore, not a 20 hour cutscene
While I've been playing this, my wife will watch me from time to time and has no shit said "it's like watching a movie." At first I thought this was a good thing, but then I started to notice just how many lengthy cutscenes there were. And why didn't they learn their lesson in the first game with the whole "forcing you to play as MJ" segments? I bought Spider-Man 2 to play ONE OF THE TWO SPIDER-MEN.
I’m gonna say this right now, I don’t own a PS5, and have not played the game. However, I’ve seen a playthrough of it. I can safely say that yeah, most people bought the game to play as SPIDER-MAN in the SPIDER-MAN game with TWO SPIDER-MEN.
Really wild how NYC does not have cops anymore
In terms of graphical issues (and they'll probably patch this), Peter's head is too small for his body in several scenes. It's very noticeable in the first scene he is in when he is teaching. This happened in the remaster as well, but I thought since they changed the face altogether, it was a consequence that they just had to deal with. This game was built from scratch, so there isn't a lot of excuses for it. His lips don't match up with what he is saying quite a few times, in fact sometimes they don't even move. This happens with quite a few characters, actually. Jonah's web conversation with MJ is by far the worst example of that. In fact, it comes across as if that scene was re-scripted and they tried to re-animate around it last minute.
The character models, themselves... at some points look great, but most of the time, look underwhelming. It isn't a big step up and maybe that wasn't the goal, but whereas I think the PS3 was more than capable of handling the cutscenes from the first Spider-Man, this game's cutscenes could have easily run on the PS4.
Battle scenes are a bit too chaotic at times. It's still has enjoyment value as did the last one and it is a spectacle to look at, but there's almost too much going on on-screen at once. Kingdom Hearts 3 had this same issue. Cool combinations and battle sequences, but man is it noisy. With multiple people fighting on screen, this happens. Spider-Man 2 is not to the level of chaos Kingdom Hearts 3 is, but I can definitely see it trending int that direction. I definitely agree about the number of hits it takes to take down the bad guys. I wasn't the biggest fan of it in the first game and they went harder on it in this version. It winds up being artificial difficulty because they didn't make the enemies more challenging, they just gave them longer health bars so that they stick around longer. This was a MAJOR issue I had with DBZ Kakarot. There was ONE very difficult boss battle and all the other ones were just take out 15 life bars while you have 1. Spider-Man 1 & 2 are lesser versions of that, but I can't stand that when fighting enemies. It creates drag on the game, I think and it get very boring very quickly which says a lot with all the things on screen happening. If I can compare the first game to the second, the battle with Lizard is much like the first battle with Mr. Negative. Li had 3 phases: 1 where you just fight, 1 where you learned his first pattern and 1 where you learned his second pattern. None of them dragged though. They made the health bar for him make sense to keep the player engaged. They didn't make you fight him for any extended amount of time. Lizard repeats the same pattern over and over from the jump and you have to fight him 3 times in 2 different areas and that kind of stuff makes it drag, especially with the massive life bars.
I didn't mind the MJ missions from the first game. I was moreso irritated with her for getting herself into these situations in the first place because it was VERY stupid coupled with the fact that they basically... didn't write Mary Jane well at all. She's probably the farthest removed in terms of accuracy, and she makes VERY dumb decisions and is just not a character you can get behind at all But I didn't mind the MJ missions, mechanically. Having to sneak around and not get caught, knowing you can't take them out, it made sense. It really felt like this role was suited for someone else, but yeah... she got some boxing lessons from Silver Sable so yeah, she can now take these guys down. Tasing is one thing, but she is outright beating them up. It's like "... ok whatever"
The "Save the Supervillains" arc would have meant more if... well... they tried to keep them as villains. Li, I understood after the previous game. They kept Scorpion as a bad guy, but the others... just didn't make a lot of sense. I think it was to make Kraven look like more of a bad guy, but... the other bad guys don't have to be bad for Kraven to be worse. Kraven is REALLY wasted in this... he's built up to be this super bad, but he's really just a plot device. He's the one that's just setting the table for Venom... I HATE Venom. You'd think after several attempts someone would get the Venom storyline right. But no... we have to go with the Disney XD Ultimate Spider-Man storyline of Harry being Venom and it isn't even built up that well. Also Harry has the symbiote and is fine. Pete has it for a day or so and turns evil. Then Harry gets it back and suddenly "We are Venom!!!" People might think I'm crazy, but Spider-Man 3 did it better. I, honestly, was thinking that Miles was going to get the black suit, not Peter. I'm not a fan of Miles at all but given how they were telling the story (and they aren't going for comic accuracy anyway so that's out the window), it just makes more sense for Miles to get the symbiote and become the temporary bad guy, rather than Peter. Heck... what if he became Venom and was the final boss?? It makes way more sense vs. Harry given what was happening with him earlier in the game. It wouldn't solve the rules of symbiosis, but still.
Venom's end goal is to infect everything on the planet, by the way. There's a scene where he's talking to Harry as his mother and they hint at that is what it wants. Think Riot from the Venom movie if that makes any sense.
Anyway, what they did was basically combine elements of the Spider-Man 3, Amazing Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man 2 movies along with The Disney XD Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon and they could make that work, but they failed. It honestly suffers from a lot of what movies and shows suffer from today, bad writing and often lazy writing. This story, obviously, should have been spread across 2 separate games. I can look past some of the irritating woke stuff. There are elements of that in the first one too, but it's pretty in your face in the second one.
I don't hate the game. It has its merits, but I was massively disappointed.
Yapping
Lost me when you complained about woke
@@0N0B_0 I didn't. I literally said I looked past it. It was so minor when these moments occurred it didn't have any real impact except for an occasional eyeroll. There are other far more glaring issues than that.
Yappsville called they want their mayor back
@@Oilupimtherein5 Hey... put some respect on my name. I'm the guvna mother fuggah!
Spiderman 2 PS5 is just a shitty version of web of shadows
Nah
Curb your comic shit the Spider-Man 2 game is full of bugs horrible sjw bad writing probably written by Dhar Mann himself and they claim it to be ( CoMiC AcCuRaTe) , the game is shot their side missions are like way worse than the Spider-Man 1 ps4 , the fighting is horrible especially the symbiote part and all bosses are the same and there is still more to discuss about this shitty expensive dlc MuH ExClUsIvE that costs 70 bucks not 60
That “Leaving Mission Area” screen might have been a misfire. I never ran into that throughout my entire play-through and I’m always swinging around aimlessly while those exposition calls play out.
I had two game breaking glitches during the Coney Island section that no one else seemed to run into either.
It happened to me once or twice but it wasn’t a big deal at all.
It’s only on certain missions. It happened to me once and never did again lol
All he had to do was pick up the spider bot and he'd be free to go wherever he wants, that part of the video alone was enough for me to know this review is nonsense for clicks
Bro is hating just to hate.
He's talking about the beginning where, instead of wandering around the city like you just got off a speed bender, you're actually supposed to be cleaning up the city in the wake of Sandman's rampage
the game was super boring. played 3 hours and havent went back
True the first few hours are just cutscenes and not enough spiderman in my opinion.
@xSERGEDxT. So they start the game with a huge Sandman boss fight but the second it goes back to character development for Peter and Harry there isn’t “enough Spider-Man”? Sure…
Its just Arkham with a worse story, worse combat, worse characters and VA work, and better traversal.
Whoa..Hold up bud. Arkham is tank fights and no.bosses! 😅 Arkham knight has god awful writing. Arkham City too
@@frogglen6350 Arkham City had great writing, Arkham Knight had mediocre writing.
@@Ye_B0icity had a great story but the part of Batman nearly dying in a night can be chalked up to incompatible blood.
The voice work here he top tier shit
@@kwayneboy1524 Idk i cant stand MJ or Miles, and Yuri's best days were definitely as Sasuke.
Seeing griffin upload is so uncanny
Anyone else felt annoyed playing Peter Parker missions? I felt they were distraction to the main story of Miles and MJ. How dare they waste 50% time on Peter's missions when they should be giving us the og spider-man Miles.
Lol
Because it was a mix of both their stories.
We love a bit of trolling don't we people?
I didn't expect that Spider-Man 2 would be the game that nailed the coffin shut for my interest in modern video games.
I remember I was so pumped to see what Insomniac would have in store for us, I even pre ordered the collector's edition, which was practically a scam (an empty steelbook with just a code, not even a disc and a statue).
Long story short, I cancelled my pre order, bought the game second hand and after finishing it all I felt was disappointment. The story was rushed, empowerment and wokeness was thrown to my face and the main character whose name is literally in the title was nerfed to high heavens.
Elden ring is a modern video game buddy. Stop coping. Gamings easily the best its every been rn.
How was peter nerfed when he literally has 2 seperate playstyles and easily the most screen time in the game 💀💀. This is literally cope from someone who took griffiths opinion as the word of god and judged a game not even giving it a chance
@@OknahidwinAgreed, Peter now even got amped by 100%, he has Mr.Negative’s powers, a bit of Miles’s powers, Spider powers, and Symbiote powers
@@Yes-cj6vr and Peter still can’t beat anyone on his own with all the “buffs”, after he 1v6’d the sinister six in the first game. Then cries and retires. This game sucked ass.
@@cSoZen Did we play the same ps4 game? Peter got slammed by Scorpion and only lived because he “Would get payed more” 💀💀💀 and as we know Peter couldn’t even beat Dock Ock without buffing himself. 99% of the fights he won in that game were merely based on terrain advantages. In that “1v6” they were all taking turns hitting him as opposed to actually working together.
As for Spider-man 2, Venom had to call in for help from other Symbiotes, and when they actually had their 1v1 Peter had 2 separate opportunities to kill Venom. It’s just clear you’re media illiterate.
the sony bots are gonna hate this one
The salt is dangerously high in comment section.
This game shits all over the comics. As a comic fan i will not buy this
yes but that's not to say spider-man comics are good lol they're ok at best especially the older ones but modern spiderman comics are just trash spider-man is carried by the movies.
You comic nerds are miserable. Bet if it followed the comics it would be "copying"
As a comic reader I don't care as non of the media is like the comics but we still love em
You know, Insomniac had their solution for including a playable female character that would've been some fun and that was Black Cat.
Maybe they didn't want to do it because Arkham City and Knight both had Catwoman be a playable character and they didn't want to feel like they copied those games, even though they already kinda did.
Eh, Arkham copied spiderman 2 on the ps2
@@phatymcdaddyI need you to elaborate on the Arkham games being similar to spider man 2 from the ps2 days
@@phatymcdaddyOnly thing I remember was the cue to counter attack or dodge with the Spidey sense, to me that really ain't enough to say they copied.
Is that why she basically gets a glorified cameo like I was disappointed with how they included Felicia at least the first game we knew she was going to be in upcoming DLC but here? Doubtful
@@phatymcdaddyand they did it better cope harder
Its insane how much this studio doesnt listen. Latinos do not like per names latinx. They literally colonized a language as they made up their own non genered version of words instead of using the feminine "La Doctora" or masculine "El Doctor" they proceeded to make up "Le Doctore" ignoring all feedback from the spanish speaking community
About your point with the tanky enemies / their health I agree. I was playing on very easy difficulty and the whole time even after upgrading my suit to 150% damage on the Suit Tech page, it takes me about 6-7 attacks to defeat a normal enemy except for the sandman clones.
Yeah, not only that but after every 3rd attack the enemy gets launched back 900 ft and when you try to web back onto them you just lock onto some other character. Utter cancer playing on spectacular difficulty.
@@Hiro_515 FACTS and holy shit I bet
@@Hiro_515u just might be shit or didnt use gadgegs
@@Hiro_515fight in the air then