I’ll be so honest, I’m literally just commenting on the miles being called Spider-Man thing. Miles does have his own identity and that identity is literally SPIDER-MAN! Miles isn’t like Robin where you have to differentiate between the 4 robins because miles is literally the most successful modern day iteration of a legacy character. Miles himself is the first and so far the only iteration of a spider character who inherits the mantle of Spider-Man and believing that he needs a name change simply because Peter Parker exists is willfully ignoring the blatant meta textual fight that miles morales as a character has been fighting since his conception “You can’t be Spider-Man, only Peter Parker is Spider-Man, when in canon to the game itself it makes sense. Spider-Man isn’t a mantle that Peter shields like gollum and his precious, Peter 100% acknowledges miles in the game universe as Spider-Man so the rant of “miles needs to be called something else” is just really tone deaf Plus I like how you used the 4 robins to say “oh he’s still in Pete’s shadow if he doesn’t use a different name, but I’ll be so honest with you. Nobody who doesn’t read comics can even differentiate the 4 robins, not because dick & Jason are more recognizable as nightwing & red hood but because no extended media like games or TV until very recently has taken the time to adapt dick Grayson nightwing & Jason Todd red hood Where if you ask someone now who their favorite Spider-Man is they will say either Miles morales or Peter Parker cause now both of them are synonymous with that Name cause miles have fully proved himself through the public zeitgeist (all thanks to the Spiderverse films) that he is Spider-man. Also Barry Allen and Wally west flash exist and Wally himself is a more well remembered flash despite both he & Barry having the same mantle
Great review! I also noticed Miles was literally a side character. His missions contributed nothing to the overall story. It was always Peter’s missions that moved the plot forward. I get this is Spider-Man 2 and not Miles Morales 2, but a big marketing aspect of the game was the fact that both of them would coexist in the same game. Also yeah, Peter was always getting knocked out so easily for some reason. Some of the plot development was sketchy, like Kraven’s ending for example. That was just unacceptable the way they ended his character. To be honest, most of the story’s problems would be fixed if it was just LONGER. Nevertheless, it was fun to play it. This was my first platinum game ever so I’m thankful for that.
Man, your comments section is SO full of those weird folks that think this is the greatest game of all time, somehow. Glad to see someone taking a faurly balanced take on this game, youve got a sub from me ;). I thought the narrative and writing in general were absolutely terrible. Web swinging was great in this one, but fighting felt like Arkham-for-Dummies, it's just button-mashy nonsense. It's just such a painfully uninteresting game, loaded with pathetic political pandering and written by people who seem to totally hate Peter, and the fans, as the creative director made very clear. Plus the whole game is so insanely short, but that ends up being a redeeming quality when you realize just how awful the writing is. Speaking of the length, it felt like at least 60% of this damn game's runtime was CUTSCENES, or those annoying "walk & talk"-missions thst Sony insists on putting in every Playstation game. I really liked the first game, i even liked the Miles game, mostly, but SM2 is ass. They also left out that Sybiote's are weak to fire, which is SO lame. They make Miles come in like Jesus with his lightning, cause apparently *that* is the symbiote weakness in this weird universe. Screw that. They need entirely new writers, and sadly, all this game really did for me is get me really worried about how Insomniac will handle Wolverine.
An excuse ive seen for Miles goimg out without his mask is that his entire neighborhood knows he's "Spiderman" but they dont tell anybody outside of the area. Its a really stupid idea.
Huge disagree on Miles not having the 'Spider-Man' mantle. Miles IS Spider-Man. I feel like the "When you say Spider-Man you think of Peter" argument doesn't really work because that's a personal thing, when I hear Spider-Man I'm thinking of Miles because he has the better comics atm , the better suit (personal preference), arguably the best movies and I find his story of battling with the Spider-Man identity to be much more interesting than what Peter's got going recently. Also the "There's only 1 and his name is Peter Parker." is just not true lmao. Also also Peter Parker has had comics with his real name in the comic's title so I feel like that argument doesn't really work either. Not even just peter, there's been "Miguel O'Hara: Spider-Man" and "Ben Reilly: Spider-Man" so it's lowkey just a thing that happens within Spider-Man media and not an issue with Miles. Miles does need his own villains tho. That VanossGaming joke was too funny 💀💀 Good video man
Maybe Peter doesn’t get big from venom because his muscles are already able to output massive amounts of strength where a normal person would have to be jacked to exert as much strength?
dude finaly someone else talked about this, i hate that thier both called spiderman. literraly my only reson for that is the whole reason names are a thing... to identify between peeople god dammit they be pretending its some smart intellectual thing
Ngl I always thought Peter in this universe was bland, his best joke was “fresh out of honey”, Peter has no charisma especially with his relationship with Mary Jane. And peter whins in this game more than miles did in his own game, the reason I’m not so hard on miles in this title is bc I thought his arc with li was amazing and was one of the only times I got emotional and felt something in this game but besides that, he just has nothing else to do with the story and is basically an after thought also his jokes are just as horrendous as peters and wish they would hire new writers to write there dialogue or just stop writing jokes in general.
He never ever was funny. In his jokes. Even spectacular, he was only funny when something random would happen during one of his fights or something cliche, no media has ever shown Spider-Man to be the next Kevin Hart . He's meant to have corny one liners. Pick up a book. Your reading Spider-Man not Deadpool nor Invincible.
Great analysis ! I seriously hate the game story the more I think about it. Gameplaywise it was okay, but absolutely everything else was underwhelming. I agree with almost all your points. I especially hate the way they missed the Peter and Miles relationship. Instead of having a story where the two of them are being amazing together, you know, their "be greater. Together" tagline, we have a story centered around Peter where he is absolutely incompetent and underwhelmed almost all the time ; and an underutilized Miles who is on the opposite spectrum, the best of the best at everything , praised all the time and never having any bad consequences. And to add insult to injury, the teaser for their next game is about the Green Golblin and the return of Doc Ock, two Peter arch enemies, while Miles is now the official protagonist (so we know that even when Peter's come back, he will take be backseat before probably dying or losing his powers, because fuck him right ?)... It's disrespectful for both of them, but especially for Peter. And yeah, it's stupid that Miles don't have his own super hero name when he is teaming up with Peter. It's ok if he is on his own universe, but they totally should have taken example on DC with Dick Grayson and Jason Todd. I'm so mad because I loved the first game, but this one, man... I try my best to forget about it but it's very hard. They had the opportunity the make one if not the best version of "modern Spider-Man", and they blew it away.
Not close. Especially when the third game drops before the decade ends. It's the best game of 2023-24 though. But I'm not giving you crap firstly, it's your opinion and nothing wrong with it
I.... didn't like the game. COMPLETELY. So yes I was extremely disappointed from a lot of the game basically teasing me with so much more instead of making something for itself. I hope things can move forward story wise but the game play can always be inventive. I want more is basically it. TLDR cool vid I agree mostly and I want more Spider-Man
@globesnow6377 I want more venom more air tricks more combat options. I want more not to be limited to what the game gave me in spiderman 2. I want the fast intense game play of web of shadows or maybe its webstrikes from that game at least. The gadgets from the first game either all have to come back or at least most of them. Also just more time spent on the story tbh. I like the way they showed off all the events in sm2 but it was too fast to really enjoy anything near the end.
@@sickgeezersully8751 idk what to tell you if that's what you think this is. You thought a SEQUEL to an ESTABLISHED game should've been developed from the ground up?
@spystar18 I expect them NOT to take content out like they did, and I expect them NOT to make an awfully paced story which made the combat even more basic and failed to add more mechanics. Look at the way the batman games innovated every game. So do us a favour Sony pony, shut up
Yeah kinda like your recent content. How do you make a breakthrough, and get 70K+ views on a recent video, yet all of your other videos are either around or under 1K views. Clearly instead of hating on games, maybe you should choose a new outlook, like saying why you do and don't like them instead of just the latter.
I'm not hating the game. I praise it multiple times and explain my problems with it. This video isn't 34 minutes of me just bashing the game; a lot of the time, I'm just describing what's happening in the story. And my other videos kind of suck. Bad title or thumbnail, or both, and the insane gap between uploads definitely isn't doing me any favors in the algorithm.
@@SterlingIAm Dude dont beat yourself about your videos wtf man?I get u can see that sum arent performing well but youre a really cool guy keep it poistive
I prefer the sequel over the 1st one. I thought the first one had a cool story but that's about it. The second one actually got me invested and I wanted to find what happens next. Also the Miles Morales vs Peter Parker fight as well as the Venom fight was utterly incredible.
This is satire right? Your points are so bad 🤣 it’s funny idk I hope you’re joking cause if not this is probably the worst TH-cam video I’ve ever watches
I really enjoyed your Mortal Kombat video because it’s a flawed game so you knitpicking makes sense but with a game this good in Spiderman it just doesn’t work. Not being bias towards the game or anything just being honest
Ok I totally respect your take on your game and even agreed with SOME points that were made, however most of what you were saying could easily be explained if you just thought about it just a tad more. But at the end of the day we are all entitled to our own opinions and none of it matters so nice video :)
Good video, I Am Sterling! (I'm new here ^ ^) Really, I'm surprised that you not even talk about the hole woke trash they put into the game. In the end, this game is very mid and the plot is weird. The first game is A LOT better than this one. 1+ sub✌
I was thinking of making a video about Sword Art Online but thought evrything I could say has probably already been said a million times in the last 12 years. I was thinking of making a video about anime only endings but I don't know if there's a whole lot of examples out there I can use for a video.
Wrong bro its not underwhelming if it was it would have got nominated 7 times at the game awards or have a 92 rating on metacritic and most people would be sucking it off calling it a masterpiece but theres always people who can't like good media so whatever
I’ll be so honest, I’m literally just commenting on the miles being called Spider-Man thing. Miles does have his own identity and that identity is literally SPIDER-MAN! Miles isn’t like Robin where you have to differentiate between the 4 robins because miles is literally the most successful modern day iteration of a legacy character. Miles himself is the first and so far the only iteration of a spider character who inherits the mantle of Spider-Man and believing that he needs a name change simply because Peter Parker exists is willfully ignoring the blatant meta textual fight that miles morales as a character has been fighting since his conception
“You can’t be Spider-Man, only Peter Parker is Spider-Man, when in canon to the game itself it makes sense. Spider-Man isn’t a mantle that Peter shields like gollum and his precious, Peter 100% acknowledges miles in the game universe as Spider-Man so the rant of “miles needs to be called something else” is just really tone deaf
Plus I like how you used the 4 robins to say “oh he’s still in Pete’s shadow if he doesn’t use a different name, but I’ll be so honest with you. Nobody who doesn’t read comics can even differentiate the 4 robins, not because dick & Jason are more recognizable as nightwing & red hood but because no extended media like games or TV until very recently has taken the time to adapt dick Grayson nightwing & Jason Todd red hood
Where if you ask someone now who their favorite Spider-Man is they will say either Miles morales or Peter Parker cause now both of them are synonymous with that Name cause miles have fully proved himself through the public zeitgeist (all thanks to the Spiderverse films) that he is Spider-man.
Also Barry Allen and Wally west flash exist and Wally himself is a more well remembered flash despite both he & Barry having the same mantle
Great review! I also noticed Miles was literally a side character. His missions contributed nothing to the overall story. It was always Peter’s missions that moved the plot forward. I get this is Spider-Man 2 and not Miles Morales 2, but a big marketing aspect of the game was the fact that both of them would coexist in the same game. Also yeah, Peter was always getting knocked out so easily for some reason. Some of the plot development was sketchy, like Kraven’s ending for example. That was just unacceptable the way they ended his character. To be honest, most of the story’s problems would be fixed if it was just LONGER. Nevertheless, it was fun to play it. This was my first platinum game ever so I’m thankful for that.
chatter box 🤡
@globesnow6377 alright it's a bad opinion but Don't be mean
Wrong but whatever games great
I mean at the same time Miles lowkey felt like a Mary Sue despite him being pretty great in his own game
Man, your comments section is SO full of those weird folks that think this is the greatest game of all time, somehow.
Glad to see someone taking a faurly balanced take on this game, youve got a sub from me ;).
I thought the narrative and writing in general were absolutely terrible. Web swinging was great in this one, but fighting felt like Arkham-for-Dummies, it's just button-mashy nonsense.
It's just such a painfully uninteresting game, loaded with pathetic political pandering and written by people who seem to totally hate Peter, and the fans, as the creative director made very clear.
Plus the whole game is so insanely short, but that ends up being a redeeming quality when you realize just how awful the writing is.
Speaking of the length, it felt like at least 60% of this damn game's runtime was CUTSCENES, or those annoying "walk & talk"-missions thst Sony insists on putting in every Playstation game.
I really liked the first game, i even liked the Miles game, mostly, but SM2 is ass.
They also left out that Sybiote's are weak to fire, which is SO lame. They make Miles come in like Jesus with his lightning, cause apparently *that* is the symbiote weakness in this weird universe. Screw that.
They need entirely new writers, and sadly, all this game really did for me is get me really worried about how Insomniac will handle Wolverine.
Insomniac really outdid themselves making Spider-man an incompetent hero
Now insonmiac, just five years ago it was the MCU. People make Spider-Man cringe asf lately
@@100_funsshatta Touché
An excuse ive seen for Miles goimg out without his mask is that his entire neighborhood knows he's "Spiderman" but they dont tell anybody outside of the area. Its a really stupid idea.
Totally subbed ! Love your content!
Huge disagree on Miles not having the 'Spider-Man' mantle. Miles IS Spider-Man. I feel like the "When you say Spider-Man you think of Peter" argument doesn't really work because that's a personal thing, when I hear Spider-Man I'm thinking of Miles because he has the better comics atm , the better suit (personal preference), arguably the best movies and I find his story of battling with the Spider-Man identity to be much more interesting than what Peter's got going recently. Also the "There's only 1 and his name is Peter Parker." is just not true lmao. Also also Peter Parker has had comics with his real name in the comic's title so I feel like that argument doesn't really work either. Not even just peter, there's been "Miguel O'Hara: Spider-Man" and "Ben Reilly: Spider-Man" so it's lowkey just a thing that happens within Spider-Man media and not an issue with Miles. Miles does need his own villains tho.
That VanossGaming joke was too funny 💀💀
Good video man
Maybe Peter doesn’t get big from venom because his muscles are already able to output massive amounts of strength where a normal person would have to be jacked to exert as much strength?
he never gets big anyways ,, it’s common knowledge
@@globesnow6377 yeah but originally the Symbiote never made someone bigger, Brock was just muscular as heck.
@@DatClownPrince wished it was explained.
the vanossgaming comment got me dead💀💀
dude finaly someone else talked about this, i hate that thier both called spiderman. literraly my only reson for that is the whole reason names are a thing... to identify between peeople god dammit they be pretending its some smart intellectual thing
im not color blind and had problems to see the difference between the two spider symbols in the subtitle
Ngl I always thought Peter in this universe was bland, his best joke was “fresh out of honey”, Peter has no charisma especially with his relationship with Mary Jane. And peter whins in this game more than miles did in his own game, the reason I’m not so hard on miles in this title is bc I thought his arc with li was amazing and was one of the only times I got emotional and felt something in this game but besides that, he just has nothing else to do with the story and is basically an after thought also his jokes are just as horrendous as peters and wish they would hire new writers to write there dialogue or just stop writing jokes in general.
He never ever was funny. In his jokes. Even spectacular, he was only funny when something random would happen during one of his fights or something cliche, no media has ever shown Spider-Man to be the next Kevin Hart . He's meant to have corny one liners. Pick up a book. Your reading Spider-Man not Deadpool nor Invincible.
The fresh out of honey joke was funny you wilding 😂
Great analysis ! I seriously hate the game story the more I think about it. Gameplaywise it was okay, but absolutely everything else was underwhelming. I agree with almost all your points.
I especially hate the way they missed the Peter and Miles relationship. Instead of having a story where the two of them are being amazing together, you know, their "be greater. Together" tagline, we have a story centered around Peter where he is absolutely incompetent and underwhelmed almost all the time ; and an underutilized Miles who is on the opposite spectrum, the best of the best at everything , praised all the time and never having any bad consequences. And to add insult to injury, the teaser for their next game is about the Green Golblin and the return of Doc Ock, two Peter arch enemies, while Miles is now the official protagonist (so we know that even when Peter's come back, he will take be backseat before probably dying or losing his powers, because fuck him right ?)... It's disrespectful for both of them, but especially for Peter.
And yeah, it's stupid that Miles don't have his own super hero name when he is teaming up with Peter. It's ok if he is on his own universe, but they totally should have taken example on DC with Dick Grayson and Jason Todd.
I'm so mad because I loved the first game, but this one, man... I try my best to forget about it but it's very hard. They had the opportunity the make one if not the best version of "modern Spider-Man", and they blew it away.
Wrong
I'm biased so this is game of the century
I can respect that.
Not close. Especially when the third game drops before the decade ends. It's the best game of 2023-24 though. But I'm not giving you crap firstly, it's your opinion and nothing wrong with it
icl bro I cannot call Martin Li by anything but VanossGaming from now on
Just gained a new sub
I.... didn't like the game. COMPLETELY. So yes I was extremely disappointed from a lot of the game basically teasing me with so much more instead of making something for itself. I hope things can move forward story wise but the game play can always be inventive. I want more is basically it. TLDR cool vid I agree mostly and I want more Spider-Man
what more could you possibly want
@@ultrathagawdbro he don’t what he talkin back lmao
bruv its literally a fucking reskin@@globesnow6377
@globesnow6377 I want more venom more air tricks more combat options. I want more not to be limited to what the game gave me in spiderman 2. I want the fast intense game play of web of shadows or maybe its webstrikes from that game at least. The gadgets from the first game either all have to come back or at least most of them. Also just more time spent on the story tbh. I like the way they showed off all the events in sm2 but it was too fast to really enjoy anything near the end.
@@globesnow6377 perhaps I don't uwu
Never in my life have I ever thought someone's opinion was so wrong
what part do you disagree with?
crazy how bro didn't reply
Huh didnt wanna respond did ya?
True
@@SterlingIAmit's not underwhelming
Idk what this guy is on. This game was amazing. What does this guy see as overwhelming?
the fact its just a reskin...with an awfully rushed story and bang average boring combat
@@sickgeezersully8751 idk what to tell you if that's what you think this is. You thought a SEQUEL to an ESTABLISHED game should've been developed from the ground up?
@spystar18 I expect them NOT to take content out like they did, and I expect them NOT to make an awfully paced story which made the combat even more basic and failed to add more mechanics. Look at the way the batman games innovated every game. So do us a favour Sony pony, shut up
Yeah kinda like your recent content. How do you make a breakthrough, and get 70K+ views on a recent video, yet all of your other videos are either around or under 1K views. Clearly instead of hating on games, maybe you should choose a new outlook, like saying why you do and don't like them instead of just the latter.
I'm not hating the game. I praise it multiple times and explain my problems with it. This video isn't 34 minutes of me just bashing the game; a lot of the time, I'm just describing what's happening in the story.
And my other videos kind of suck. Bad title or thumbnail, or both, and the insane gap between uploads definitely isn't doing me any favors in the algorithm.
@@SterlingIAm Dude dont beat yourself about your videos wtf man?I get u can see that sum arent performing well but youre a really cool guy keep it poistive
@@SterlingIAm I know I'm late but I'm sorry for being a douche, tbh I didn't even watch the full video 😅
I prefer the sequel over the 1st one. I thought the first one had a cool story but that's about it. The second one actually got me invested and I wanted to find what happens next. Also the Miles Morales vs Peter Parker fight as well as the Venom fight was utterly incredible.
The second game was more personal for the characters.
@@SterlingIAm Yeah true
This is satire right? Your points are so bad 🤣 it’s funny idk I hope you’re joking cause if not this is probably the worst TH-cam video I’ve ever watches
I really enjoyed your Mortal Kombat video because it’s a flawed game so you knitpicking makes sense but with a game this good in Spiderman it just doesn’t work. Not being bias towards the game or anything just being honest
Ok I totally respect your take on your game and even agreed with SOME points that were made, however most of what you were saying could easily be explained if you just thought about it just a tad more. But at the end of the day we are all entitled to our own opinions and none of it matters so nice video :)
you should've put "FOR ME" in the title because I don't relate to even 1 second to this video
Just lost a sub 🤧
Yep
If you actually read miles’ comics you’d know he does have his own villains.
That’s his own comic. Not this continuity
@@Yvans1021 oh ok my b then
Game should have been 30 hours
it needs more time to build some things up.
You just lost a sub again bro I have that game and it’s awesome
Imagine having a hard time to respect other people's opinions
You didn't repeat the thing I was already thinking UNSUBSCRIBING
Game was def mid at best
@@Cattos but when it’s the other way around you people are hypocrites
@@extraña_es_la_vida I can respect his decision to go through with it but pointing it out will help someone in their stubbornness.
Nice joke😃
Game sucked dude
@@enol1466 Too broke to play?
I like this game only for the story because the game play is alright at best just because of the gadgets and purely cosmetic suits shit was boring
booo bad take
u know if u didn't like it u can just stop buying it like your point is dumb tbh but i respect your opinion
Good video, I Am Sterling! (I'm new here ^ ^)
Really, I'm surprised that you not even talk about the hole woke trash they put into the game. In the end, this game is very mid and the plot is weird. The first game is A LOT better than this one. 1+ sub✌
Stop liking your own comment lil bro
review another anime like aot or if u want to play games of it get the official one or play fan games
I was thinking of making a video about Sword Art Online but thought evrything I could say has probably already been said a million times in the last 12 years. I was thinking of making a video about anime only endings but I don't know if there's a whole lot of examples out there I can use for a video.
Wrong bro its not underwhelming if it was it would have got nominated 7 times at the game awards or have a 92 rating on metacritic and most people would be sucking it off calling it a masterpiece but theres always people who can't like good media so whatever
i like the boss fights
The boss fights were pretty fire. definitely an improvement from the last game.
this game was terrible, its just an overpriced reskin with venom, and a bunch of woke crap in it
How was this game terrible