@@joycongod4831you don’t have to do something insane to be a Gary sue, he can simply do everything and the game seems to make him perfect and not give him consequences.
Im not a power scaling guy, but even a kindergartener would be confused as to how miles beat peter when he got no diffed by kraven and peter did that exact same thing to him.
Is it so difficult to imagine that peter is constantly holding back? Peter's spent ten years fighting people who disintegrate if they take a straight-up punch from him. Obviously Kraven would be a surprise when the most comparable person to him in size is the Kingpin, not Rhino. And if you're going to say that even with the black suit, Peter would go all out against Miles Morales, who's maybe a year older than he was when he started, you're buggin.
Peter didn’t WANT to actually hurt Miles it was the suit amping his anger and emotions….how is there any fair comparison because Miles was struggling to get peter to listen to him at all but he couldn’t beat him that was shown in the cutscenes and you can hear how peter hesitates and struggles with himself till he got just enough will power to reject the suit
@@SleepingSoulK you can’t reason with these meatheads who cry and whine whenever they don’t feel like their fave character is being shown as the biggest strongest most unbeatable boy 🙄
I've finally found the sane Spiderman community! why is every other creator glazing this game so hard? the vibes r different with this one im pretty sure everyone can feel it its just not as sound as the first one in some pretty disappointing and surprising ways, I'm glad there's a sizable percentage of players that are angry about peters role, behaviour and general competence in the story, i honestly dk how i feel abt this game. (as a story at least)
Multiple things. It’s Spiderman. It’s a sequel to a good game. It’s extremely woke. All of these lead to people self censoring, excusing and coping to where people aren’t as hard on it.
This guys gonna slowly become a big player if he keeps posting regularly This is good shit man. You could quit your day job if you get this channel big enough and monetized
Someone that doesn't try to sugarcoat the fact that this game was full of shit story wise or the fact that beyond some small innovations the entire game feels way too much the same and Peter is just another case of Jake Skywalker. Also I like the style of criticism you made for this game. Too bad we have another way-fu writer that wants to promote his dream character while butchering the other characters, sure he's passionate but in all the wrong ways.
He is just obsessed with Mary Jane lmao. And now we're gonna have to listen to her shitty podcast in the next game too. I feel like modern writers don't understand that a female character can be strong without being as action focused as the other leads. Look at the original snow white for example. She actually got the dwarves to step up their act BECAUSE of her more feminine style. Just because you aren't a fighter doesn't mean you can't impact the story.
1:06 "I really like character writing. Its one of my favorite things in stories. I can forgive plot problems for GOOD. STRONG. Character Writing" I have found...MY PEOPLE😭🙌💯🔥🔥. That ALONE may have earned you a new sub😂🤝
Mj was bad in the first game too, but they tried to massively course correct her by the end of it. Everybody remember her trashing on peter in the first game?
Oh I definitely remember. She was hella bitchy. The dlc SLIGHTLY changed that but she was still bitchy when he was eating pizza while she (unknowing to Peter) was sneaking through a maggia base. I was like, girl, if you don't shut up. No one asked you to do something so stupid.
i fully believe the theory that they actually wrote Peter to strike Standish as he landed into that sable tent (he literally even has an OBVIOUS PUNCH cocked back and ready to throw in the pose he’s shown flying into the tent with)-but it got such negative reactions during player testing/feedback that a producer made the call to change it to Peter simply landing in between them and having Standish bizarrely trip over nothing and somehow instantly KO himself on the floor instead 🤣 obv a TERRIBLE DECISION to make because then instead of MJ's angry reaction making sense ("you knock a man out, destroy my research…") and fitting into the whole arc of their relationship throughout the story, it’s just outright dishonest and wildly unfair/mean to Pete.
@@princssnasty The first game made a lot of weird writing choices with MJ. "I never got the whole hero with a mask thing" she said at the museum. Which like, makes no sense? MJ is supposed to be relatively smart, good hearted and used to be in a long-term relationship with Peter. You'd think if anyone would "get the mask thing" it's her. She then adds "to me a part of being a hero is showing everyone 'it was me, I did that!'". It really painted her as caring more about the glory of heroism than doing the right thing, even if the writers didn't intend that. The game also weirdly took her side a lot even though much of her behaviour was self-centered and unreasonable. She insisted on investigating a potential terrorist threat by herself cause she didn't want Peter telling her what to do, and she didn't even notify the police. But when crap hits the fan, MJ calls Peter for clean-up, and Peter never calls her out for it. Instead Peter has to "learn to see her side of things". I just don't like this MJ one bit.
@@kwk111 I think we can all blame sam raimi's Mary Jane for this character assassination of MJ. As good as the two movies were Mary Jane was the worst character in the movie and was the start of the character's downfall in comics and other mediums.
If the first game managed to bring in amazing emotions throughout the story and brings me to tears at the end, this one managed to dissapoint me at most turns, the only way to build up the supporting cast was by putting Peter down, and even then they underutilised Miles, but the ending is the worst thing, the boss fight lost all emotional value when you switch over to Miles, because there has been one conversation before, so its just two guys fighting only because evil vs good, and then Harry is kept alive for no real reason ruining the emotional inpact completely, so from a story standpoint it really dropped the ball and deserved to go 0/7 at the game awards Fantastic video by the way🙏
They intended to show the emotional conflict between Miles and Venom by making Harry be KKK levels of racist against black puerto ricans specifically. He would use every slur and culture specific criticism against Dominicans to exist. Then halfway through the fight Miles points out he is Puerto Rican, not from the Dominician Republic, with Venom saying "I know, I always knew" mirroring the scene where Otto reveals he knew Peter was Spiderman the entire time. Sadly this got cut alongside everything else in the 3rd act.
@@jeffreyali1456 that could be true but bad script and story direction would still unfortunately undermine Yuri's performance. Imagine what he COULD have done with PROPPEE Story Direction and more subtlety in Peter's descent
The biggest thing about the story with the symbiote and anti-venom is that. If they were going to have Peter wear it and give the "healing" properties with it. Then during the final scene with Peter saving Harry by healing him from the symbiote. He should've and would've cured him of his illness. Especially since he already rids civilians from symbiote possession. I would assume Peter would be curious as to what else anti-venom can do.
The suit also presents a problem for the next game. Peter has a symbiote now that even in the game he says “has all the power but not the bad influence” so how on earth do you have him get rid of it without it seeming too inorganic or without raising the power of villains to a level where Peter shouldn’t have ever won so the out it?
@chandllerburse737 he also with that suit is just as powerful as he is with the Anti-Venom suit. Symbiote Peter beat Kraven with no sweat, who himself beat every other villain of Peter’s and called it easy. How do you make a good villain without making him as strong as Venom?
@@VisForVindetta That is a good question to thinking about as unless Peter willingly gives up anti-venom in a hand wavy explanation that suits the plot and gameplay of the next game. It'll be tough to really have Peter continue using it without making the next main Villian very high in scale. Unless they do something like making the Green Goblin as strong as his Ultimate counterpart. I don't really see how Insomniac can really use anti-venom unless Carnage is involved.
I think the crazy part about this is the fact that we’re getting a third Spider-Person Silk that means we could have 4 playable character so how they want to write her when they can’t right Miles or MJ right is insane to me but the crazy part is Silk wasn’t even in the original plan they just threw her in there just ‘cause they could this shows that they don’t know what they’re doing they don’t have a complete story they just have a few bits of cool moments.
See I knew something felt off after I played this game. The only thing I was sure about was how disappointing the miles vs Peter fight was and how the game clearly ended hinting at the green goblin being the next villain, also Peter’s most iconic villain, yet giving him to Miles to fight instead (or at least that’s how the ending portrayed itself to me). Like dude has no emotional resonance to the Goblin or Harry and they want to try and make Miles the main Spiderman? I would’ve been cool with it as the ending of the next game because it just makes more sense but doing it here is just kinda weird.
Peter is def gonna be the Main Protagonist of Spider-Man 3. I think his “retirement” is to say, his time is coming to end, which honestly, I do not like at all either
Peter will be playable in Spiderman 3. He might not be playable right away but he certainly will be by at least the halfway point. We're probably getting a Silk spin off game where she gets trained by Miles then the two of them are the protagonists in Spiderman 3. Once stuff starts getting crazy, Peter joins in. Then maybe he dies at the end. Wouldn't shock me.
I would also argue that they hate Venom as well. Every other villain is portrayed faithfully to at least some extent, here Venom is in name only and the interviews showed they did know better but decided to go this route anyway. If were to hazard a guess why its also tied to Miles. Venom in the comics did not stay a villain and was Spider-Man's original spin off character. (a popular one at that outsells Miles' books) The game's plot is actually one Venom tends to stop in their own comics, but more importantly portraying the character properly would require Miles to not be pushed up, not be the new "main" Spider-Man, as its a far more personal tale for Peter and Eddie, that requires a lot of character development for Peter, the symbiote (which did not start out as evil and only wanted to help Peter) and Eddie.
@chandllerburse737 You say that but then entirely miss the point and the fact both are spin off characters. If Eddie was brought in but things were kept the same it still wouldn't be Venom. SM2 Venom is Venom In Name Only. Yes, everyone knows that already. What did you think did not stay a villain was referring to? Their brief time where they fought Iron Man? What are you on about? I did not mention a single other anti-hero. The point was both were Spider-Man spinoff characters that require a lot of time and investment to do properly. Time that was clearly given to Miles.
@chandllerburse737 At this point you're just being disingenuous, its undeniably clear my comment was made in reference and in addition to the arguments made by the video itself. Not that I randomly decided to pick on Miles.
Thank you for this video. I doubt the writers will ever acknowledge any of this for the sequel (watch them kill Peter or at best remove his power), but it's nice to see people actually pointing out the stupidity in this game.
To be honest. They dhould have donr one thing that could have made the boss fights so much better. Make you lose. As in like the Venom boss fight. Have the player struggle against Venom so much for long enough that you just lose to Venom. Miles eill do his best but you as the player eont get far down the healthbar while Miles is just losing. Then have the Spider-Men team up and fight Venom. It can be co op. Or you can have the ability to switch from them at certain points to get some attacks in. For example. Peter could get some licks in even throws a piece of the roof at Venom. But then he is grabbed by the throat and choke slammed to the ground. You switch perfectly to Miles who attacks Venom who frees Peter by accident and boom! The fight continues on. Maybe even tear their suits hard enough that healing won't repair the suit. Healing in the first place shouldnt repair the suit. But it is what it is. The fight should show that Peter and Miles are better foghting Venom together. Not separately. The duo would die before they individually beat Venom. But together. Together they are Stronger. Together they can Beat Venom. I dont really like the whole Anti Venom here. But do the same thing as in the game and Harry dies. Give Norman a actual reason to Hate Peter and Miles. Even blame them for not trying to save him
I had a bit of skepticism in the first game since silver sable managed to trap and kick Spidey's ass twice in a row despite him having spider sense and MJ just goes on and puts herself into a deathtrap and GETS MAD AT PETER for saving her AND PETER JUST APOLOGIZES TO HER INSTEAD OF STANDING HIS GROUND. I thought maybe I am just too oversaturated with modern "writing" and just imagine things, but second game... oh boy.
@@weemeatheadmiles wasn’t important at all he wasn’t even in the story mj is doing to much tho i agree on that, also miles being more powerful makes more sense idc bout the bull shit he is a nuke
what really irks me is Martin Li being let off Scott free and now is a Lowkey reformed good guy. Like he didn’t kill off majority of NYC int the first game. Indirectly killing Aunt May. Like cmon now
@@weemeatheadhe didn’t serve his time though, I feel like they should’ve had some part where he goes back to Raft and the workers there realize he’s good and shorten his sentence
Yeah that bothered me too lol. Like during that cutscene I was thinking “wait, shouldn’t you go back to jail?, didn’t you murder a bunch of innocent people?” Feeling bad about it isn’t enough lol
Just seeing the first 2 hours of the gameplay told me I shouldn’t get this game. Based on how Peter and Miles took hits. While Peter gets hit and either takes a bit to get up or get restrained, Miles bounces back quick and gets back into the fight. I don’t understand why the hell writers nowadays need to make characters people generally love look stupid and incompetent. Another example of this is technically in Boruto. Spoilers!!!! Naruto is fighting a character named delta who he should, in all intents and purposes, able to one shot. But he’s trying to get information out of her. “Cool great idea.” But all of that should immediately be thrown out of the way when Delta goes for one of your kids. Naruto out classes Delta in all stats except tech, because he doesn’t need tech. It’s frustrating seeing dumb decisions made for plot. This is why I’ll stand by that Spider-verse miles is still the best Miles. Doesn’t drag down character that people love. Still able to tell a story with new likeable people and showing characters being incredibly competent. Look at Peter B Parker!! Man is able to keep up with the other spider-people while carrying a baby and was able to sneakily grab miles while others weren’t able to.
“i don’t care?” that’s insane i probably wouldn’t have bought the game knowing the devs are so self centered at times like that, hopefully the update has everything promised, cuz insomniac CAN listen to the fans they just choose not to
@@boryontotheleader2328 I see nothing stupid about telling a bunch of whiny bitches to fuck off so you can do what you think is best for the game. If anything I respect it. It seems fame companies are always on two extremes. They either don't listen to their fans at all and see them as nothing more than walking wallets or they fold to their fans forsaking any semblance of artistic vision. Both are equally bad. Insomniac is one of the few who hears the criticism and responds accordingly. If they think it's valid, they'll improve or scrap it. If they don't think it's valid, they'll ignore it
I’m glad that someone else was noticing the problems to the game. I started to notice half way through the story how they were doing Peter dirty and it made me sad to see. Still really fun gameplay wise, but the story was very lacking. Great video!
Thank you for your video and pointing out the many, many... MANY problems of the game. You are right when you point the writing problems, the dialogues and the characters as a whole are so... boring. Spider-Man stories should always have energy, just compare to Spider-Man 1. I will never understand how Spider-Man fans can be cool with Spider-Man 2 and praising this mess. And yeah, I also can't say enough how much the "Why would this city need me when it has you?" is a pathetic line, so out of character and so much disrespectful for Peter. They undermined and humiliated him so much just because they wanted people to love Miles and to have him as the new main character... The funny thing, I also liked Miles, but after Spider-Man 2, I really don't want to hear about him because of how bad they handled the two. People must understand something very important : Miles in himself is not the problem. The problem is the lack of respect for Peter, the OG. Miles is just a variant of Peter, he wouldn't even exist without him. So, if they really want games with Miles as the main character, it's ok, but at the very least, don't nerf or undermine Peter Parker. Complete Peter story, let him deal with HIS problems and HIS enemies, and give him a satisfying conclusion. Basically, a Peter Parker trilogy. Then, you can have a satisfying passing of torch that feels natural, with Miles as the new Spider-Man who will live HIS own adventures and dealing with HIS own problems and enemies, not Peter's one. Because yeah, at the end of Spider-Man 2, they officially announced that Miles is the new main character, while also announcing that the next big bad is the Green Goblin... For the people who say "you don't understand ! Peter will be back !" Sure, we know that he will be back, be not as the main character in a story with his two biggest enemies, and even if I'm sure he will be playable, it will not be enough, and after Spider-Man 2, I know that he will be nerfed and undermined, again. It's not respectful for Peter who is the OG who always was strong and dealt with his own problems when he was the only Spider-Man, AND for Miles who can't have his own stories, only taking Peter's ones. On a side note, Cindy Moon as Silk will completely replace Mary Jane as the female hero. It will erase the problem of a badass female civilian nonsense. I just hope they will not make Cindy too overpowered for her very first appearance but I'm sure they will overdo it, like for MJ they will not give a shit. I hope they will not make me dislike her, she is my favorite Spider-Woman. I really hoped that Insomniac Games would be a series with two awesome character being Spider-Bros. But no. The "Be Greater. Together." was a lie. Peter Parker, the OG, is sacrificed for his variants. To bad for me I guess. I have to live with it. It's not easy as a 40 years old Spider-Man fan, but well... Insomniac lost my faith and my money. It's a bitter medicine but a necessary one, the "new normal" we could say.
10:02 I didn't even THINK of that😭🤦♂️. HOW TF did Harry hit the cannister that someone with SUPERSPEED was HOLDING!? Also HOW TF PART 2 did a cane swung by a SICKLY PERSON....BREAK an Oscorp built CANNISTER...CAPABLE of holding an ALIEN SUIT that gives you SUPERPOWERS!!!???😭
A much better approach to the Venom transformation would’ve been something more like Spectacular Spider-Man. Have Peter explain the suit is sentient and dangerous, and tell Harry he’s going to get Dr. Connors to help get rid of it. He leaves the suit as Oscorp in the tank because it seems it’s the only place that can hold it reasonably. Harry agrees, clearly scared and distraught he has to stare at the thing that can save him. Peter leaves. Harry then has a moment talking to what he now learns is a sentient alien suit. He puts his hand to the glass, and much like Spectacular, the suit follows. This makes him believe the suit really wants him back because it likes him and not for revenge. It doesn’t make Peter look weak by getting knocked out in one move and it makes Harry look more like a addict to the suit than malicious in his anger towards Peter
This is my first video i've seen of you and i really liked it. Everything you said was on point. Was surprised you didnt even have 1000 subs. Keep at it man
Thank you for actually explaining the problem! I've tried to look for the answer before, but I ended up getting opinions on people that haven't even played the game! I'm so glad you actually broken down the problems instead of blindly blaming it on politics like others do... In fact, you are one of the only people that can actually break down why a story's writing is bad or not, which makes me want to subscribe to your channel! If you keep doing this, then you've got a good thing going! (P.S. You don't have to, but a think piece on why Minecraft Story Mode's writing is bad would instantly win me over. I have tried to find specific answers to my question like this video, but the only thing I've found is that "the writing is bad." WHY?!? That's what I want to know! I know that getting the game can be difficult, due to bankruptcy, but yeah... that would be fun!)
So basically the Arkham Knight of Spider-Man games. Perfect gameplay and a sleek new suit that makes you stronger than ever before, but a story that forgets everything about the characters.
@@Kitty255Againstill batman's character was pretty much the same as before, he wasn't suddenly useless and stupid like peter and he still beat almost all of his villains and a whole army mostly by himself
Arkham Knight's story wasn't perfect by any means but it at least felt fully fledged out and felt like there was some form of effort put in. SM2 is just shallow
Im glad someone actually put this all together in one video. Everything here was so apparent when i played through the game that it was so damn hard to enjoy the experience. Like peter was just destroyed in this game. To the point where idk if i even want to get the dlc or third game when they release. Conplete assassination of his character. Ive been saying this to a couple people but im happy to finally have other people who can see how poorly it was done. The first game clears so hard in every aspect aside from gameplay mechanics. But they cant save the story and writing, or the lack of post game content. PS, love the charisma and editing in the video. Looking forward to seeing more from you my guy :)
To me, it sounds like the director (or whatever he is, I honestly couldn’t care less about this game) just wanted to get points or maybe his privates touched. I get wanting to tell your story, but there are cheaper ways to do that. It’s called writing a novel or a comic book, or even cheaper, a fan fiction that you post online. Not this. Not wasting millions of dollars. The devs are lucky that the game sold so well, because they’d be the ones losing out while the execs pocket what little they make back. Apparently this game’s sales were the best for the company by far.
At 27:30 I’m just now realizing how goofy Peter saying the symbiote is the reason why he was able to take down the Lizard as if he hasn’t beaten him before in this universe. It was already established how Connors became the lizard and was stopped and now Peter is acting as if this suit is why he’s able to beat him the second time around?!! WHO WROTE THIS
You forget this lizard mutated and got way bigger because of kraven than the lizard in the lab coat peter fought in the past?? That line does make sense
If anyone also remembers didn't mj said Peter had been cut pretty much open form king pin when they were in high school so how he gets stabed and almost dies is like wtf
25:12 Ultimate Spider-Man from the cartoon and Spider-Man in the Renew Your Vows comics show EXACTLY how a Peter Parker WOULD and SHOULD handle this situation Peter in the cartoon didn't care that Harry was in the suit. He fought the SYMBIOTE in order to SAVE HIS FRIEND cause he KNOWS how DANGEROUS the symbiote IS Peter in Renew Your Vows saw Venom holding his family hostage and IMMEDIATELY LEAPED ACROSS THE ROOM and BROKE Venom's Jaw. Sending him THROUGH the window behind him Idk about everyone else but I do NOT care if we came out of the SAME WOMB at the SAME TIME. You THREATEN MY FAMILY? You'd be LUCKY if TEETH were the ONLY thing you LOST that day🤷♂️
@chandllerburse737 Ultimate Cartoon Spidey didn't have to kill Harry to save him...but he saved him from the symbiote...SEVERAL times. And Yes Renew Yours Vows Venom was Eddie so I guess theres less resistance. But even in the Spectacular spiderman cartoon, where Eddie was his friend, as soon as he threatened May's life, their friendship didn't matter Peter doesn't play around with May or MJ. Harry is a threat, nothing more or less, so Peter's reluctance will get people KILLED, INCLUDING his other loved ones. Plus its not like beating Venom's a$$ would automatically kill Harry, as long as the symbiote isn't removed. Venom is NOT invincible, so Peter would just have to find a way to keep him contained until he figured out a safe way to remove the symbiote But just STANDING THERE while MONSTER infects your girlfriend and threatnes the lives of EVERYONE ON THE PLANET is utter STUPIDITY and nothing less
I was watching this video when i wondered why i havent found your channel earlier and i saw your channel and was super surprised as this video (also your AC Mirage video) are quite good/high quality in my opinion with the editing and video structuring, so keep up the good work man and cant wait until the next video!
Peter is the Damsel in Distress in this story. They need him to be this way so Mary Jane becomes the mentor for Miles to replace Peter and this is why those 2 saved the day in the end instead of the actual Spider-Man. He won't be in the next one.
Yo they honestly should have made venom fight spiderman as a boss in the mission where we get to play as venom to make it more believable that venom knocked out peter before he got the anti venom
I'm not gonna lie... I was so caught up in the hype for this game that I never realized how incredibly bad the writing was lmao This game was still fun af to play, but honestly... I probably would have a hard time getting through this story with open eyes on a second playthrough
Honestly I'm now more excited for the future non-Insomniac Spider-man games. I had some issues with character writing in the first game but it was terrible in SM2, and the face changes of Peter and MJ exacerbate the problem. Besides a clean slate, what the next iteration needs is an injection of "keeping it real", and some rule of cool attitude. I think Sucker Punch is the no-brainer choice. While Insomniac produces high quality, Sucker Punch games just have more flavor and personality in my opinion, with high quality on top of that.
The fact that anyone is surprised by the story ending up this crappy proves that most "spider-man fans" are tourists. Miles Morales, just like Ben Reilly, was created with the sole purpose of replacing Peter. If you're looking at the MCU and noticing that all the Ironhearts, all the She-Hulks, all the Kate Bishops, all the Yelena Belovas, are being shoved in to tear down the heroes in order to prop up the newer-er, better-er, stronger-er heroes, and then see Miles as anything but the exact same thing, you haven't been paying attention.
I love this game still but they really did do some unforgivable, egregious things with the characters. The end ruins this version of Peter for me and I hope they can fix it in the next games
Also every hunter that was in the steel factory, when they saved tombstone, is 100% dead at least 20 people died and no one even mentions it. It’s just completely forgotten about
@@bullylowenthal2683 spiderman is the epitome of resilience and carrying on even when shit gets hard, I thought this version of spiderman embodies that so well in the first game my man fought the sinister 6 all at once got broken bones and just got straight back out there and carried on, his mentor and person he looked up to turned evil and he lost him and then lost aunt may and he still carried on and took a student on and trained him up while still being spiderman on his own. Now because they need miles to be the favourite/ main spiderman they take that trait away from him and it sucks. I don’t want something to complain about I’ve been spiderman fan since I was a little kid he’s my favourite fictional character of all time and I wanted nothing more than the end of this game to have been perfect but it just weren’t. No I don’t just want something to complain about but I DO have something to complain about so shullup man
I loved the game but after thinking on the game more I realized that this game actually was a slap in the face to Peter. He couldn’t even beat venom by himself and miles had to get the final fight. He couldn’t even beat a fridge 😂
You obviously know your shit in terms of writing. I don't, so I never could put in terms why I fucking hated the last two Spider-Man games. Well, I hated the story and writing. I couldn't skip trough every interaction fast enough to get back to the gameplay. Amazing video! Feels great to find another channel to to slot into the old fav slot
I always knew this game was flawed - but why does the gameplay gotta go so hard. And getting rid of the gadgets was not a good play. So many things felt so forced when playing this game. Like why is MJ so important when its a Spiderman game about Spiderman😑
If they added a quickfire mechanic like in the Arkham game that'd be nice but I definitely prefer what we got over the gadget wheel Also why is MJ so important? It's like you said. This is a Spider-Man game. Unless you're Rami's bastardized version, MJ is important
MJ an untrained unqualified civilian with little to no combat experience, becomes the strongest member of the team after being armed, making a pretty great albeit majorly unintended argument in favor of the second amendment. Looking at the way they write they are I'm sure vehemently against the right to bear arms and yet they made a piece displaying the true equalizing capabilities of guns. Well done.
@@Crocc101 The city where she went on vacation with peter, and exactly how much experience are you proposing she got over Christmas break while she was with spider man who, lets be honest, would still be doing most of the fighting and again lets be honest, would still be nothing compared to the lifetime mercenaries shes fighting. Shes still untrained, she didn't go to military school, she is still an untrained civilian.
@@acewmd. you remember sable? In the comics silver sable comes from a made up City called Symkaria. She says in the game that she was trained by sable and shown how to drive a motorbike
I guess I got past the black suit Peter vs Miles because after a certain point they’re both fighting against the symbiote. But I’ve only played through ounce so idk maybe I missed something on that fight I’m totally with you on everything else, the thing that saves it for me is how fun the game is to play. Nothing can beat the swinging and gliding combo for me right now
the comics understood this problem very well actually. so in the spider man comics you have the main book which is called "the amazing spider man" which focuses on peter's adventures and his main points in life however it diminishes the side cast's character development. Marvel at the time understood this problem and created a sister book called "spectacular spider man" which gave more time for the side cast. Miles's game did the same thing sort of. i really don't understand why the supporting cast took away so much from Peter in this game
Honestly I liked the story but you made some really good criticisms. The andor comparison feels unfair because Andor is one of the best modern shows made, and it’s hard to convey the same slight emotion in a game. Your criticisms about the character writing is true tho.
I'm glad you also think andor is one of the best modern shows, the comparison might be a little unfair but I do think games are capable of subtle story telling, they even had a smidge in this very game when Martin li had that really good facial animation when miles said "you don't know what you took from me"", games of this level are perfectly capable of it I think anyway
Glad to see other people loving Andor like I do. Also you don't need to compare it to Andor, just compare it to the first game's story. Because the first game's story was on Andor's level of quality writing-wise.
Prediction: In the next Spiderman Game Miles will be the main character, Peter will be barely or not in it at all. But we will of course get an MJ Mission! For some reason Game developers really like to ignore gamers Feedback.
The director of this game sounds so self centered and just not humble at all, which makes him a bad writer at the end. A story isn’t about what you, the writer, wants, but what your characters with their individual lives, personalities and goals lead them to.
I am BEYOND BURNT on discussing this GARBAGE HEAP of a story...which my Community Tab since October 20th has been a TESTAMENT TO and I didn't cover EVERY bad thing on there so that should let you know how luch of a FUMBLE this story was😐... But I'll just say this vid was amazing and even brought up points I never thought of💯🔥🔥🔥
Well Bryan Intihar admitted that this game didn't meet the intended quality bar in an interview alongside Ted price especially the atrocious 3rd act. Now the fanboys have no defence for this crap.
Because insomniac is woke. Instead of choosing to follow the miles from spiderverse that actually has a well written story and character development they decided to go the route of the original comics where he’s just a black Peter that’s perfect. Spiderverse miles > woke miles
You pointed out a good portion of the problems i have with this game's narrative. The gameplay would be good, If this wasnt a Spiderman game. How can Peter Parker do eletrical jumps and impulses without ever touching the ground or trhowing a web? There are só many unSpiderman things in the gameplay that make me feel this isnt a Spiderman game.
Great video bro. This really opened my eyes to why I felt so weird towards this Peter. I thought I was being biased and him looking so different appearance wise was the reason why he felt so disconnected to who he was in the first game, but damn they had the character writing thrown out of the window for this game.
We need to remind ourselves that Sweet Baby Inc was involved. A bunch of weirdo feminist that hate men and our hobbies got to write a A SPIDERMAN GAME. Never. EVER forget that. Also the Peter vs Miles thing, honestly the excuse that Peter is "Holding back" is pointless. Imagine that you are fighting against MYKE TYSON, and Tyson doesn't want to kill you, does that mean that you can beat MYKE TYSON? WHO IS ALSO BEING POSSESED BY AN STEROID RAGING ALIEN MONSTER? What SHOULD have happened is that Peter COMPLETELY smokes Miles in such a violent and unfair way that makes him snap, kinda like "Holy crap... i almost killed him, what is wrong whit me?!?" Imagine the GoW 3 Kratos QTE against Zeus. You know the one, were Kratos literally beats Zeus to a pulp so damn hard the screen turns completely red. Omniman vs Invincible tier of unfair. When i say that i mean Miles SHOULD have had a few broken bones, and be completely useless gameplaywise for a while, to TRULY show that Peter could have killed him, and to also show that Peter in some way does need Miles (instead of trying to sell the idea that Miles is perfect and can do anything himself) But no, IMAGINE ever making Black Jesus show weakness.
So basically Insomniac is taking the CW Flash route, where it's more about Iris West and the other side characters instead of Barry Allen, just great....
Man. Great video. I haven't seen anyone make a review of this game that voiced almost all my thoughts on it. I've seen many reviews too. Even criticisms of the game have missed the point in my mind. The gameplay/traversal is phenomenal and I really really enjoyed playing, which made experiencing the story and witnessing the portrayal of Peter even more painful. Thanks for presenting these criticisms in a smart, concise, and entertaining way. Hopefully more people see this and also someone in charge of narrative at Insomniac sees this and actually takes it in instead of just brushing it off as "negative" like people seem to do with criticism of this game. My biggest worry is in Spiderman 3 we continue this trajectory and character assassination of Peter. If you go back and look at the first game this was nonexistent, he came across as a competent, smart, strong, and self assured Spider-Man, I'd like this back. I'll even take extra nonsensical MJ missions if they fix Peter lol. Great video man, appreciate you voicing your own honest opinion , it was refreshing when compared to most reviews and recaps of games nowadays. I'll be subbing.
Just finished the vid and the fact you only covered the 3 MAIN characters and they are ALL THIS flawed, making the game as bad as it is ALREADY storywise Without even touching on Venom, Kraven, Norman, Black Cat and Yuri etc is genuinely WILD😭💀 I don't know whether to be ABSOLUTE ASTONISHED or Break Down in TEARS😭😭(this is a hyperbole btw) at how bad this story is. As far as I'm concerned this is the WORST Spider-Man adaptation EVER. All the SPITE for Peter mkaes it so difficult to enjoy in comparison to other spidey adaptations Like WOW...how did they take a game that misused ALL of its cast past the drawing board!??? How do you go through with a story that does NOT PROPERLY EXECUTE....ANY of the ideas you set up!?😭. What Arkham Asylum Escapee did they let into the writing room!?
@@SavageJarJar facts. Christ that mission is the EPITOME of POINTLESS. You can remive it from the game and it changes NOTHING. They forced the equivalent of a BAD side mission into the MAIN story...I dont even know how they pulled that off...
This is incredible editing and such a well thought out video how do you only have 848 subs??? Keep this up and this channel should def blow up (fantastic comic relief too) especially because every point you make is spot on 2018 was FAR superior to this game. I'm just surprised how no one goes into how awful Peter looks compared to last game and how ugly they made MJ compared to 2018. So much of this game made absolutely no sense and it was a huge let down, and if Miles is the new Spiderman I'm out on the next game.
It baffles me how people defend this game story wise. The SPIDER-MAN gameplay is fun, better than any Spider-Man game to date. The NON Spider-Man gameplay is boring. The cutscenes are beautifully designed/animated, while the context of each one SUCKS. This game feels so long to play for such shitty build up and ending. The only exciting parts of this story involve the symbiote (black suit/anti venom transformation and venom playability). I preferred miles base abilities over the new ones he got I literally kept switching back to his OG abilities since the newer ones felt boring and weaker. I’ve lost all hope in future installments of insomniacs Spider-Man unless they manage to wrap up Peter Parker’s arc entirely in Spider-Man 2 which means Norman, Otto, carnage etc. Which isn’t gonna happen they will have miles fight them in Spider-Man 3 because he’s just better right? So much for Miles having his own villains so I can actually get an attachment to the story…. One thing I want to touch up on is that people like to bring up that Pete holds back which is why he couldn’t beat Kraven the first time….So you’re telling me that it took for him to put on the symbiote to not hold back as much? If you look at Spider-Man during those fights he’s clearly not doing enough damage to even come close to killing Kraven. Kraven himself even says “you still hold back.” So how come Peter didn’t just hold back less without the suit? It’s almost like insomniac literally nerfed Peter so that he needed the suit to be stronger 😱. Really awful all around tbh. Great job on everything else though insomniac but the story just tanked in this one. The writers did NOT cook but to all the other devs y’all did a great job.
Agreed also extremely disappointed that yuri was criminally underutilized in this game. Hopefully dlc will shine more light on her charecter she was my favorite in spiderman 1. However in spiderman 2 she just seems like bargin bin batman. I do like the costume though and that she become a vigilante but it barely got any recognition. I know she got more recognition in the dlc of spiderman 1 but I wish she had more of a puropse for her to kill bad guys. It just seems like inconsistent filler I mean yuri was a incredibly important charecter in spiderman 1.
I don't personally agree with some points you make, like the Miles one being "He doesn't have any flawss" when Martin Li escaped he always tries to avoid all his responsabilities with the Collage Easey and school responsabilitys because he was feeling in constant danger that Martin Li would also attack Mile's mom and the reason that his mom doesn't freak out about being spiderman its becouse she had already know in the last game. But thats just what I am seeing in the moment. Because I didn't finish the game, i played it in my brother's house so im still finishing it. Even so, i still really like the story from what i played (Also srry for my bad English, I'm from Spain) And really love your editing
@@weemeathead i get what you say, also nothing related to this but have you tried inFAMOUS Second Son, its one of my fav superhero games and i would love to hear what you think
7:09 While Miles was stuck in Lee…. Peter Parker, the one being the only spiderman for 8 years fighting the criminals and powerful villains alone, that stoped a whole helicopter falling middle the city, couldn’t just think in this normal critical situation for a spiderman, didnt used his new arms or even HIS WEBS to remove the people from the dangerous….. instead, he were CALLING MILES TRYING TO TAKE EACH ONE LIKE A PERSON WITHOUT ANY POWERS…. I think he forget he was powers…..
Told my friend the exact same thing. Its hard for me to root for everyone when spiderman 1 gave us the best story for Peter/Spiderman. No problem with miles himself, love him since his first debut, but the story Insomniac has for Miles makes no sense half the time. They have him in more of a spotlight and him being a better spideman, its wierd since every now and then he can beat rhino but no the thinkerer. And why does peter need MJ, Why does he need Miles, Why does he need ganki. Bro was the one that made a whole suit to fight otto in a matter of minutes by himself, he is able to fight the Sinister by himself(2 v 1 better yet), saved NYC in one night without other heroes; so why does MJ get mad when he takes a small break and is able to fight out grown ass professional hunters, or miles who is inexperienced in the matter of a year or 2, or ganki when peter is one of the smartest characters in Marvel. Other than that Venom not being able to be hurt by fire is mad dumb by itself
I know for a fact that Miles beating Peter with the Symbiote is meant to be an allusion to how, much like in the games, Miles has that “Venom Shock/Touch” ability that Brian Michael Bendis created him with as a means to “make him a different kind of Spider-Man”. In the process, it became this sort of Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card for whenever Miles is in over his head and can easily win by using it. For example, he “beat” Nightmare (son of Mephisto) when the entirety of the Avengers couldn’t in Spider-Man #1 [2015]. JUST BY TOUCHING HIM! Bendis justified it as “Miles having that edge the others didn’t” (not his exact words) and wrote off valid criticisms with “it’s canon, so cry about it” 🤷🏽♂️ So Insomniac, much like Marvel Comics themselves, VERY MUCH HATE SPIDER-MAN and can’t help but to display it at every turn (in the mainstream continuity) except for stuff like the current Ultimate Marvel iteration 😒
Insomniac making harry agent venom is the most brain dead thing I've seen. Flash is Agent venom, that was his arc. Writters nowadays can't seem to be able to bring up characters without putting down other characters. Writers have drastically gone down in quality quality
...She got out of the Scream suit by herself? ...I don't know about that! I think she's moonlighting as Scream without telling anyone! ...That would make an awesome game actually! 😎
The fact that mj is easily able to take out kravens men, this just means that canonically insomniac Peter and miles are the weakest spider-men to ever exist.
So everything this man said is correct and we should be thanking him. I kept telling people that this story was not perfect. It was actually probably the worst story you could have written. Here's how I thought they should have done it personally. We'll start with Peter. This game should have focused on Peter and his relationship with people after the death of Aunt May he should be a mess. He's pushing people a bit more away unless they're like superpowered so him and miles have gotten closer but him and Mary Jane have gotten farther apart which makes a lot of sense Miles the biggest problem with Miles is something that even affects him in the comics. He's too strong. He doesn't need all these powers. He doesn't need all these abilities to be as broken as they are. It should actually make him even out with Peter. Not be stronger than Peter. That doesn't make f****** sense exactly. Why would they need Peter if they have miles? There's plenty of ways you could have fixed this. Maybe that his new electricity is messing with the gadgets and he's putting up so much energy that he's not able to use the same gadgets Peter can use that way Peter can keep his gadget wheel and miles can have his electricity powers and they even the f*** out Last but not least actually yeah at least Mary Jane cut that s*** out. Oh my god cut that s*** out. Please stop trying to make her a superhero stop trying to make her what was Lane. She is not those things. The fact of the matter is Harry had superpowers and we never got to play as Harry before he was venom. That is what the crazy part is. Imagine a whole section where oh hey, they're experimenting on his powers and so they go out and have him start fighting crime and he starts in mimicking. Peter a little bit saying I kind of like how you move around like this and so the suit lets him Nicky Peter's abilities
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MJ has plot armour
Miles has plot sword
Peter is screwed by the plot
So true, even if Miles have both an armour and a sword. That guy should be called Spider-Gary Stu.
@@bluewings2 I mean what was so insane that he did?
I mean, that's Spider-Man in general...
@@bluewings2 how is he a gary stu?
@@joycongod4831you don’t have to do something insane to be a Gary sue, he can simply do everything and the game seems to make him perfect and not give him consequences.
Im not a power scaling guy, but even a kindergartener would be confused as to how miles beat peter when he got no diffed by kraven and peter did that exact same thing to him.
Peter losing to Kraven the first time makes no sense either, he got no diffed by Kraven but Harry with no prior training was beating Kraven so easily
Is it so difficult to imagine that peter is constantly holding back?
Peter's spent ten years fighting people who disintegrate if they take a straight-up punch from him.
Obviously Kraven would be a surprise when the most comparable person to him in size is the Kingpin, not Rhino.
And if you're going to say that even with the black suit, Peter would go all out against Miles Morales, who's maybe a year older than he was when he started, you're buggin.
These people aren't the brightest.@@zacharybosley1935
Peter didn’t WANT to actually hurt Miles it was the suit amping his anger and emotions….how is there any fair comparison because Miles was struggling to get peter to listen to him at all but he couldn’t beat him that was shown in the cutscenes and you can hear how peter hesitates and struggles with himself till he got just enough will power to reject the suit
@@SleepingSoulK you can’t reason with these meatheads who cry and whine whenever they don’t feel like their fave character is being shown as the biggest strongest most unbeatable boy 🙄
I've finally found the sane Spiderman community! why is every other creator glazing this game so hard? the vibes r different with this one im pretty sure everyone can feel it its just not as sound as the first one in some pretty disappointing and surprising ways, I'm glad there's a sizable percentage of players that are angry about peters role, behaviour and general competence in the story, i honestly dk how i feel abt this game. (as a story at least)
Multiple things. It’s Spiderman. It’s a sequel to a good game. It’s extremely woke. All of these lead to people self censoring, excusing and coping to where people aren’t as hard on it.
@@ExpertContrarianit’s not woke there are two missions with a woke stuff
@@Crocc101 Nice doublespeak. Also, those are not the only things in the game. It’s the entire game
@@ExpertContrarian how? tell me
@@Crocc101 let me know when you can be genuine
This guys gonna slowly become a big player if he keeps posting regularly
This is good shit man. You could quit your day job if you get this channel big enough and monetized
Maybe but just looking at the first 3 minutes this editing looks like so much work
thank you for the vote of confidence
@@weemeathead good luck m8!
Someone that doesn't try to sugarcoat the fact that this game was full of shit story wise or the fact that beyond some small innovations the entire game feels way too much the same and Peter is just another case of Jake Skywalker.
Also I like the style of criticism you made for this game. Too bad we have another way-fu writer that wants to promote his dream character while butchering the other characters, sure he's passionate but in all the wrong ways.
It wasn’t full of shit, but it definitely has its problems especially in its final act where things got rushed as hell
He is just obsessed with Mary Jane lmao. And now we're gonna have to listen to her shitty podcast in the next game too. I feel like modern writers don't understand that a female character can be strong without being as action focused as the other leads. Look at the original snow white for example. She actually got the dwarves to step up their act BECAUSE of her more feminine style. Just because you aren't a fighter doesn't mean you can't impact the story.
it was written by sweet baby inc. thats why the story is garbage
@jeffreyali1456 dude stop. It's full of hella shit
@chandllerburse737 no she is not
1:06 "I really like character writing. Its one of my favorite things in stories. I can forgive plot problems for GOOD. STRONG. Character Writing"
I have found...MY PEOPLE😭🙌💯🔥🔥. That ALONE may have earned you a new sub😂🤝
yeh boi
Mj was bad in the first game too, but they tried to massively course correct her by the end of it. Everybody remember her trashing on peter in the first game?
Oh I definitely remember. She was hella bitchy. The dlc SLIGHTLY changed that but she was still bitchy when he was eating pizza while she (unknowing to Peter) was sneaking through a maggia base. I was like, girl, if you don't shut up. No one asked you to do something so stupid.
i fully believe the theory that they actually wrote Peter to strike Standish as he landed into that sable tent (he literally even has an OBVIOUS PUNCH cocked back and ready to throw in the pose he’s shown flying into the tent with)-but it got such negative reactions during player testing/feedback that a producer made the call to change it to Peter simply landing in between them and having Standish bizarrely trip over nothing and somehow instantly KO himself on the floor instead 🤣
obv a TERRIBLE DECISION to make because then instead of MJ's angry reaction making sense ("you knock a man out, destroy my research…") and fitting into the whole arc of their relationship throughout the story, it’s just outright dishonest and wildly unfair/mean to Pete.
@@princssnasty The first game made a lot of weird writing choices with MJ. "I never got the whole hero with a mask thing" she said at the museum. Which like, makes no sense? MJ is supposed to be relatively smart, good hearted and used to be in a long-term relationship with Peter. You'd think if anyone would "get the mask thing" it's her. She then adds "to me a part of being a hero is showing everyone 'it was me, I did that!'". It really painted her as caring more about the glory of heroism than doing the right thing, even if the writers didn't intend that.
The game also weirdly took her side a lot even though much of her behaviour was self-centered and unreasonable. She insisted on investigating a potential terrorist threat by herself cause she didn't want Peter telling her what to do, and she didn't even notify the police. But when crap hits the fan, MJ calls Peter for clean-up, and Peter never calls her out for it. Instead Peter has to "learn to see her side of things". I just don't like this MJ one bit.
@@kwk111 I think we can all blame sam raimi's Mary Jane for this character assassination of MJ. As good as the two movies were Mary Jane was the worst character in the movie and was the start of the character's downfall in comics and other mediums.
If the first game managed to bring in amazing emotions throughout the story and brings me to tears at the end, this one managed to dissapoint me at most turns, the only way to build up the supporting cast was by putting Peter down, and even then they underutilised Miles, but the ending is the worst thing, the boss fight lost all emotional value when you switch over to Miles, because there has been one conversation before, so its just two guys fighting only because evil vs good, and then Harry is kept alive for no real reason ruining the emotional inpact completely, so from a story standpoint it really dropped the ball and deserved to go 0/7 at the game awards
Fantastic video by the way🙏
They intended to show the emotional conflict between Miles and Venom by making Harry be KKK levels of racist against black puerto ricans specifically. He would use every slur and culture specific criticism against Dominicans to exist. Then halfway through the fight Miles points out he is Puerto Rican, not from the Dominician Republic, with Venom saying "I know, I always knew" mirroring the scene where Otto reveals he knew Peter was Spiderman the entire time. Sadly this got cut alongside everything else in the 3rd act.
The gameplay literally made me cream myself, so it at least should've won an award for best gameplay or smth.
It deserves the Voice acting award at least cause Yuri killed it with the suit
@@jeffreyali1456 that could be true but bad script and story direction would still unfortunately undermine Yuri's performance. Imagine what he COULD have done with PROPPEE Story Direction and more subtlety in Peter's descent
@agreatmanlookingtotheright that was a wild read
The biggest thing about the story with the symbiote and anti-venom is that. If they were going to have Peter wear it and give the "healing" properties with it. Then during the final scene with Peter saving Harry by healing him from the symbiote. He should've and would've cured him of his illness. Especially since he already rids civilians from symbiote possession. I would assume Peter would be curious as to what else anti-venom can do.
@chandllerburse737 that's also true
The suit also presents a problem for the next game. Peter has a symbiote now that even in the game he says “has all the power but not the bad influence” so how on earth do you have him get rid of it without it seeming too inorganic or without raising the power of villains to a level where Peter shouldn’t have ever won so the out it?
@chandllerburse737 he also with that suit is just as powerful as he is with the Anti-Venom suit. Symbiote Peter beat Kraven with no sweat, who himself beat every other villain of Peter’s and called it easy. How do you make a good villain without making him as strong as Venom?
@@VisForVindetta That is a good question to thinking about as unless Peter willingly gives up anti-venom in a hand wavy explanation that suits the plot and gameplay of the next game. It'll be tough to really have Peter continue using it without making the next main Villian very high in scale. Unless they do something like making the Green Goblin as strong as his Ultimate counterpart. I don't really see how Insomniac can really use anti-venom unless Carnage is involved.
I think the crazy part about this is the fact that we’re getting a third Spider-Person Silk that means we could have 4 playable character so how they want to write her when they can’t right Miles or MJ right is insane to me but the crazy part is Silk wasn’t even in the original plan they just threw her in there just ‘cause they could this shows that they don’t know what they’re doing they don’t have a complete story they just have a few bits of cool moments.
im saving my 69.99 & not buying the next game 😂😂 complete tra$h
See I knew something felt off after I played this game. The only thing I was sure about was how disappointing the miles vs Peter fight was and how the game clearly ended hinting at the green goblin being the next villain, also Peter’s most iconic villain, yet giving him to Miles to fight instead (or at least that’s how the ending portrayed itself to me). Like dude has no emotional resonance to the Goblin or Harry and they want to try and make Miles the main Spiderman? I would’ve been cool with it as the ending of the next game because it just makes more sense but doing it here is just kinda weird.
Peter is taking a break
Peter is def gonna be the Main Protagonist of Spider-Man 3. I think his “retirement” is to say, his time is coming to end, which honestly, I do not like at all either
Peter will be playable in Spiderman 3. He might not be playable right away but he certainly will be by at least the halfway point. We're probably getting a Silk spin off game where she gets trained by Miles then the two of them are the protagonists in Spiderman 3. Once stuff starts getting crazy, Peter joins in. Then maybe he dies at the end. Wouldn't shock me.
@@donniejefferson9554 Ah. Interesting point my guy. Like where you went with it 💪🏾🔥
@@Goku-fn3qd I hope so. I love Miles man. But Peter is the OG and I have all the love and respect for him too bro
Thank you!!! I also found it frustrating that no one called Miles out for his mistakes!
I was too busy enjoying the actual game to notice stupid details
@@Joshenator-xp1ff get out of here simp
@@Joshenator-xp1ffstupid details like what? It's literally in the main story 💀
@@0xycon and?
What mistakes?
I would also argue that they hate Venom as well. Every other villain is portrayed faithfully to at least some extent, here Venom is in name only and the interviews showed they did know better but decided to go this route anyway. If were to hazard a guess why its also tied to Miles. Venom in the comics did not stay a villain and was Spider-Man's original spin off character. (a popular one at that outsells Miles' books) The game's plot is actually one Venom tends to stop in their own comics, but more importantly portraying the character properly would require Miles to not be pushed up, not be the new "main" Spider-Man, as its a far more personal tale for Peter and Eddie, that requires a lot of character development for Peter, the symbiote (which did not start out as evil and only wanted to help Peter) and Eddie.
@chandllerburse737
You say that but then entirely miss the point and the fact both are spin off characters. If Eddie was brought in but things were kept the same it still wouldn't be Venom. SM2 Venom is Venom In Name Only.
Yes, everyone knows that already. What did you think did not stay a villain was referring to? Their brief time where they fought Iron Man?
What are you on about? I did not mention a single other anti-hero. The point was both were Spider-Man spinoff characters that require a lot of time and investment to do properly. Time that was clearly given to Miles.
@chandllerburse737
At this point you're just being disingenuous, its undeniably clear my comment was made in reference and in addition to the arguments made by the video itself. Not that I randomly decided to pick on Miles.
Thank you for this video. I doubt the writers will ever acknowledge any of this for the sequel (watch them kill Peter or at best remove his power), but it's nice to see people actually pointing out the stupidity in this game.
To be honest. They dhould have donr one thing that could have made the boss fights so much better. Make you lose. As in like the Venom boss fight. Have the player struggle against Venom so much for long enough that you just lose to Venom. Miles eill do his best but you as the player eont get far down the healthbar while Miles is just losing. Then have the Spider-Men team up and fight Venom. It can be co op. Or you can have the ability to switch from them at certain points to get some attacks in. For example. Peter could get some licks in even throws a piece of the roof at Venom. But then he is grabbed by the throat and choke slammed to the ground. You switch perfectly to Miles who attacks Venom who frees Peter by accident and boom! The fight continues on. Maybe even tear their suits hard enough that healing won't repair the suit. Healing in the first place shouldnt repair the suit. But it is what it is. The fight should show that Peter and Miles are better foghting Venom together. Not separately. The duo would die before they individually beat Venom. But together. Together they are Stronger. Together they can Beat Venom. I dont really like the whole Anti Venom here. But do the same thing as in the game and Harry dies. Give Norman a actual reason to Hate Peter and Miles. Even blame them for not trying to save him
thanks man
I had a bit of skepticism in the first game since silver sable managed to trap and kick Spidey's ass twice in a row despite him having spider sense and MJ just goes on and puts herself into a deathtrap and GETS MAD AT PETER for saving her AND PETER JUST APOLOGIZES TO HER INSTEAD OF STANDING HIS GROUND.
I thought maybe I am just too oversaturated with modern "writing" and just imagine things, but second game... oh boy.
its so sad how they messed up Peter and the game's story.
Holy shit how does this banger not even have 100 views? Nah hold on we’ll fix that.
Thanks man
@@weemeatheadYou deserve all the thanks for this banger
Criminally underrated
@@weemeatheadmiles wasn’t important at all he wasn’t even in the story mj is doing to much tho i agree on that, also miles being more powerful makes more sense idc bout the bull shit he is a nuke
This was the most logical review I’ve ever seen. Love it man keep it up this game was absolutely mid and you explained it PERFECTLY.
what really irks me is Martin Li being let off Scott free and now is a Lowkey reformed good guy. Like he didn’t kill off majority of NYC int the first game. Indirectly killing Aunt May. Like cmon now
i think its implied that he is turning him self back in at the end
@@weemeatheadhe didn’t serve his time though, I feel like they should’ve had some part where he goes back to Raft and the workers there realize he’s good and shorten his sentence
Yeah that bothered me too lol. Like during that cutscene I was thinking “wait, shouldn’t you go back to jail?, didn’t you murder a bunch of innocent people?” Feeling bad about it isn’t enough lol
@@SavageJarJarThat's what "turning yourself in" means, turning himself into prison.
@@BeyondTrash-xe1vs oh yeah I misread what he said
This guy rlly proved a lot of great points. Now i cant ever look at spiderman 2's story da same😢
thanks man
Just seeing the first 2 hours of the gameplay told me I shouldn’t get this game. Based on how Peter and Miles took hits. While Peter gets hit and either takes a bit to get up or get restrained, Miles bounces back quick and gets back into the fight. I don’t understand why the hell writers nowadays need to make characters people generally love look stupid and incompetent.
Another example of this is technically in Boruto.
Spoilers!!!!
Naruto is fighting a character named delta who he should, in all intents and purposes, able to one shot. But he’s trying to get information out of her. “Cool great idea.” But all of that should immediately be thrown out of the way when Delta goes for one of your kids. Naruto out classes Delta in all stats except tech, because he doesn’t need tech. It’s frustrating seeing dumb decisions made for plot.
This is why I’ll stand by that Spider-verse miles is still the best Miles. Doesn’t drag down character that people love. Still able to tell a story with new likeable people and showing characters being incredibly competent. Look at Peter B Parker!! Man is able to keep up with the other spider-people while carrying a baby and was able to sneakily grab miles while others weren’t able to.
You watched the game with your eyes closed if you think miles took any bigger hits than Peter
@@joycongod4831but he did
@@arthurlobao2642 like?
22:00 The only way for this to make sense is if the worker was actually the Chameleon and Kraven’s hunters didn’t know about him.
Gotta love that Sweet Baby Inc writing!
“i don’t care?” that’s insane i probably wouldn’t have bought the game knowing the devs are so self centered at times like that, hopefully the update has everything promised, cuz insomniac CAN listen to the fans they just choose not to
They do but y’all are fuckwads and hack them lol
Insomniac listens more than anyone else lol
Seriously? You think having a creative vision is self centered? You must really hate games then
@@connorharnage6697please tell me you're not that stupid
@@boryontotheleader2328 I see nothing stupid about telling a bunch of whiny bitches to fuck off so you can do what you think is best for the game. If anything I respect it. It seems fame companies are always on two extremes. They either don't listen to their fans at all and see them as nothing more than walking wallets or they fold to their fans forsaking any semblance of artistic vision. Both are equally bad. Insomniac is one of the few who hears the criticism and responds accordingly. If they think it's valid, they'll improve or scrap it. If they don't think it's valid, they'll ignore it
I’m glad that someone else was noticing the problems to the game. I started to notice half way through the story how they were doing Peter dirty and it made me sad to see. Still really fun gameplay wise, but the story was very lacking. Great video!
Thank you for your video and pointing out the many, many... MANY problems of the game. You are right when you point the writing problems, the dialogues and the characters as a whole are so... boring. Spider-Man stories should always have energy, just compare to Spider-Man 1.
I will never understand how Spider-Man fans can be cool with Spider-Man 2 and praising this mess. And yeah, I also can't say enough how much the "Why would this city need me when it has you?" is a pathetic line, so out of character and so much disrespectful for Peter. They undermined and humiliated him so much just because they wanted people to love Miles and to have him as the new main character... The funny thing, I also liked Miles, but after Spider-Man 2, I really don't want to hear about him because of how bad they handled the two.
People must understand something very important : Miles in himself is not the problem. The problem is the lack of respect for Peter, the OG. Miles is just a variant of Peter, he wouldn't even exist without him. So, if they really want games with Miles as the main character, it's ok, but at the very least, don't nerf or undermine Peter Parker. Complete Peter story, let him deal with HIS problems and HIS enemies, and give him a satisfying conclusion. Basically, a Peter Parker trilogy. Then, you can have a satisfying passing of torch that feels natural, with Miles as the new Spider-Man who will live HIS own adventures and dealing with HIS own problems and enemies, not Peter's one. Because yeah, at the end of Spider-Man 2, they officially announced that Miles is the new main character, while also announcing that the next big bad is the Green Goblin... For the people who say "you don't understand ! Peter will be back !" Sure, we know that he will be back, be not as the main character in a story with his two biggest enemies, and even if I'm sure he will be playable, it will not be enough, and after Spider-Man 2, I know that he will be nerfed and undermined, again. It's not respectful for Peter who is the OG who always was strong and dealt with his own problems when he was the only Spider-Man, AND for Miles who can't have his own stories, only taking Peter's ones.
On a side note, Cindy Moon as Silk will completely replace Mary Jane as the female hero. It will erase the problem of a badass female civilian nonsense. I just hope they will not make Cindy too overpowered for her very first appearance but I'm sure they will overdo it, like for MJ they will not give a shit. I hope they will not make me dislike her, she is my favorite Spider-Woman.
I really hoped that Insomniac Games would be a series with two awesome character being Spider-Bros. But no. The "Be Greater. Together." was a lie. Peter Parker, the OG, is sacrificed for his variants. To bad for me I guess. I have to live with it. It's not easy as a 40 years old Spider-Man fan, but well... Insomniac lost my faith and my money. It's a bitter medicine but a necessary one, the "new normal" we could say.
I agree with this, but watch they put more of the MJ missions in the third game even with Cindy being in it.
@@SynchroUEHLNFX Anything is possible with them, except respecting Peter Parker, that's too much to ask.
@bluewings2 Exactly, even outside of comics, they don't respect Peter. All he does is suffer. T_T
@@SynchroUEHLNFX Let's hope it's just a phase and Peter will never be forgotten...
@@bluewings2 Agreed. Let's hope for the better. 🤝
10:02 I didn't even THINK of that😭🤦♂️.
HOW TF did Harry hit the cannister that someone with SUPERSPEED was HOLDING!?
Also HOW TF PART 2 did a cane swung by a SICKLY PERSON....BREAK an Oscorp built CANNISTER...CAPABLE of holding an ALIEN SUIT that gives you SUPERPOWERS!!!???😭
A much better approach to the Venom transformation would’ve been something more like Spectacular Spider-Man. Have Peter explain the suit is sentient and dangerous, and tell Harry he’s going to get Dr. Connors to help get rid of it. He leaves the suit as Oscorp in the tank because it seems it’s the only place that can hold it reasonably. Harry agrees, clearly scared and distraught he has to stare at the thing that can save him. Peter leaves. Harry then has a moment talking to what he now learns is a sentient alien suit. He puts his hand to the glass, and much like Spectacular, the suit follows. This makes him believe the suit really wants him back because it likes him and not for revenge. It doesn’t make Peter look weak by getting knocked out in one move and it makes Harry look more like a addict to the suit than malicious in his anger towards Peter
@chandllerburse737How is it a nitpick? How does a disabled man knock something from Spider-Man’s hands?
Attention to detail matters
@chandllerburse737 yes, that is disabled
@chandllerburse737Ok but , can you explain that ?
@chandllerburse737 what do you mean "explain what" ? How does Peter not dodge Harry ?
This is my first video i've seen of you and i really liked it. Everything you said was on point. Was surprised you didnt even have 1000 subs. Keep at it man
thanks bud
Thank you for actually explaining the problem! I've tried to look for the answer before, but I ended up getting opinions on people that haven't even played the game! I'm so glad you actually broken down the problems instead of blindly blaming it on politics like others do...
In fact, you are one of the only people that can actually break down why a story's writing is bad or not, which makes me want to subscribe to your channel! If you keep doing this, then you've got a good thing going!
(P.S. You don't have to, but a think piece on why Minecraft Story Mode's writing is bad would instantly win me over. I have tried to find specific answers to my question like this video, but the only thing I've found is that "the writing is bad." WHY?!? That's what I want to know! I know that getting the game can be difficult, due to bankruptcy, but yeah... that would be fun!)
i think the reason people point to political reasons is due to Sweet Baby Inc, the people who were in lead in terms of story consultation.
I mean, dude, there's a bunch of political bs that shouldn't even be in this game
So basically the Arkham Knight of Spider-Man games. Perfect gameplay and a sleek new suit that makes you stronger than ever before, but a story that forgets everything about the characters.
@chandllerburse737 he really shouldn't have lost to Crane. I get struggling against Jason, but Scarecrow should've been taken down on the airships.
@chandllerburse737knights story lacked everything
B*tch please, Arkham Knights is a Masterpiece compared to Suicide Squad Kills the Justice League.
@@Kitty255Againstill batman's character was pretty much the same as before, he wasn't suddenly useless and stupid like peter and he still beat almost all of his villains and a whole army mostly by himself
Arkham Knight's story wasn't perfect by any means but it at least felt fully fledged out and felt like there was some form of effort put in.
SM2 is just shallow
Im glad someone actually put this all together in one video. Everything here was so apparent when i played through the game that it was so damn hard to enjoy the experience. Like peter was just destroyed in this game. To the point where idk if i even want to get the dlc or third game when they release. Conplete assassination of his character. Ive been saying this to a couple people but im happy to finally have other people who can see how poorly it was done. The first game clears so hard in every aspect aside from gameplay mechanics. But they cant save the story and writing, or the lack of post game content.
PS, love the charisma and editing in the video. Looking forward to seeing more from you my guy :)
To me, it sounds like the director (or whatever he is, I honestly couldn’t care less about this game) just wanted to get points or maybe his privates touched. I get wanting to tell your story, but there are cheaper ways to do that. It’s called writing a novel or a comic book, or even cheaper, a fan fiction that you post online. Not this. Not wasting millions of dollars. The devs are lucky that the game sold so well, because they’d be the ones losing out while the execs pocket what little they make back. Apparently this game’s sales were the best for the company by far.
I love the editing it reminds me of NakeyJakey. Definitely can see you becoming really successful if you keep it up!
Thank you so much!
At 27:30 I’m just now realizing how goofy Peter saying the symbiote is the reason why he was able to take down the Lizard as if he hasn’t beaten him before in this universe.
It was already established how Connors became the lizard and was stopped and now Peter is acting as if this suit is why he’s able to beat him the second time around?!! WHO WROTE THIS
This is the biggest lizard been
You forget this lizard mutated and got way bigger because of kraven than the lizard in the lab coat peter fought in the past?? That line does make sense
No no no no Lizard wasn't that big the first time he fought him. And there wasn't a guy with a whole crew that was going after them.
That’s… kinda the point of the Symbiote. It makes Peter think he NEEDS it.
As most people's complaints with the story are... There are BETTER ways to go about depicting that. @@guspeixoto7740
If anyone also remembers didn't mj said Peter had been cut pretty much open form king pin when they were in high school so how he gets stabed and almost dies is like wtf
them writers are so mediocre
so sick of this mediocrity in all of media
25:12 Ultimate Spider-Man from the cartoon and Spider-Man in the Renew Your Vows comics show EXACTLY how a Peter Parker WOULD and SHOULD handle this situation
Peter in the cartoon didn't care that Harry was in the suit. He fought the SYMBIOTE in order to SAVE HIS FRIEND cause he KNOWS how DANGEROUS the symbiote IS
Peter in Renew Your Vows saw Venom holding his family hostage and IMMEDIATELY LEAPED ACROSS THE ROOM and BROKE Venom's Jaw. Sending him THROUGH the window behind him
Idk about everyone else but I do NOT care if we came out of the SAME WOMB at the SAME TIME. You THREATEN MY FAMILY? You'd be LUCKY if TEETH were the ONLY thing you LOST that day🤷♂️
@chandllerburse737 Ultimate Cartoon Spidey didn't have to kill Harry to save him...but he saved him from the symbiote...SEVERAL times. And Yes Renew Yours Vows Venom was Eddie so I guess theres less resistance. But even in the Spectacular spiderman cartoon, where Eddie was his friend, as soon as he threatened May's life, their friendship didn't matter
Peter doesn't play around with May or MJ. Harry is a threat, nothing more or less, so Peter's reluctance will get people KILLED, INCLUDING his other loved ones. Plus its not like beating Venom's a$$ would automatically kill Harry, as long as the symbiote isn't removed. Venom is NOT invincible, so Peter would just have to find a way to keep him contained until he figured out a safe way to remove the symbiote
But just STANDING THERE while MONSTER infects your girlfriend and threatnes the lives of EVERYONE ON THE PLANET is utter STUPIDITY and nothing less
I was watching this video when i wondered why i havent found your channel earlier and i saw your channel and was super surprised as this video (also your AC Mirage video) are quite good/high quality in my opinion with the editing and video structuring, so keep up the good work man and cant wait until the next video!
Peter is the Damsel in Distress in this story. They need him to be this way so Mary Jane becomes the mentor for Miles to replace Peter and this is why those 2 saved the day in the end instead of the actual Spider-Man. He won't be in the next one.
315 million and not one sensible writer
Yo they honestly should have made venom fight spiderman as a boss in the mission where we get to play as venom to make it more believable that venom knocked out peter before he got the anti venom
The game made hate miles with passion
I'm not gonna lie... I was so caught up in the hype for this game that I never realized how incredibly bad the writing was lmao
This game was still fun af to play, but honestly... I probably would have a hard time getting through this story with open eyes on a second playthrough
Honestly I'm now more excited for the future non-Insomniac Spider-man games. I had some issues with character writing in the first game but it was terrible in SM2, and the face changes of Peter and MJ exacerbate the problem.
Besides a clean slate, what the next iteration needs is an injection of "keeping it real", and some rule of cool attitude. I think Sucker Punch is the no-brainer choice. While Insomniac produces high quality, Sucker Punch games just have more flavor and personality in my opinion, with high quality on top of that.
@@kwk111hopefully wolverine wont be as rushed , and have a great story , good characters with a great wolverine.
HOPEFULLY !
If you read the recent comic lines they really do hate spiderman
They don't hate Spider-Man though. That's false and a complete lie. Have you seen how much care they put into the game into the 3 Spider-Man games.
@@applesaretasty2731 thats false huh? So people complain about that infamous paul guy for no reason?
My main problem was plot in this game for me. The pacing was too fast imo
i didn't mention that but i think things happen way to fast as well
The fact that anyone is surprised by the story ending up this crappy proves that most "spider-man fans" are tourists. Miles Morales, just like Ben Reilly, was created with the sole purpose of replacing Peter. If you're looking at the MCU and noticing that all the Ironhearts, all the She-Hulks, all the Kate Bishops, all the Yelena Belovas, are being shoved in to tear down the heroes in order to prop up the newer-er, better-er, stronger-er heroes, and then see Miles as anything but the exact same thing, you haven't been paying attention.
I love this game still but they really did do some unforgivable, egregious things with the characters. The end ruins this version of Peter for me and I hope they can fix it in the next games
Also every hunter that was in the steel factory, when they saved tombstone, is 100% dead at least 20 people died and no one even mentions it. It’s just completely forgotten about
They never ruined him you just want to complain about something
@@bullylowenthal2683 are u stupid
@@bullylowenthal2683 spiderman is the epitome of resilience and carrying on even when shit gets hard, I thought this version of spiderman embodies that so well in the first game my man fought the sinister 6 all at once got broken bones and just got straight back out there and carried on, his mentor and person he looked up to turned evil and he lost him and then lost aunt may and he still carried on and took a student on and trained him up while still being spiderman on his own. Now because they need miles to be the favourite/ main spiderman they take that trait away from him and it sucks. I don’t want something to complain about I’ve been spiderman fan since I was a little kid he’s my favourite fictional character of all time and I wanted nothing more than the end of this game to have been perfect but it just weren’t. No I don’t just want something to complain about but I DO have something to complain about so shullup man
@AG-sj4om all wrong no facts. You sound like the average spider man hater who claims to be a fan
I loved the game but after thinking on the game more I realized that this game actually was a slap in the face to Peter. He couldn’t even beat venom by himself and miles had to get the final fight. He couldn’t even beat a fridge 😂
You obviously know your shit in terms of writing. I don't, so I never could put in terms why I fucking hated the last two Spider-Man games. Well, I hated the story and writing. I couldn't skip trough every interaction fast enough to get back to the gameplay.
Amazing video! Feels great to find another channel to to slot into the old fav slot
I always knew this game was flawed - but why does the gameplay gotta go so hard. And getting rid of the gadgets was not a good play. So many things felt so forced when playing this game. Like why is MJ so important when its a Spiderman game about Spiderman😑
i also miss the gadgets
If they added a quickfire mechanic like in the Arkham game that'd be nice but I definitely prefer what we got over the gadget wheel
Also why is MJ so important? It's like you said. This is a Spider-Man game. Unless you're Rami's bastardized version, MJ is important
MJ an untrained unqualified civilian with little to no combat experience, becomes the strongest member of the team after being armed, making a pretty great albeit majorly unintended argument in favor of the second amendment.
Looking at the way they write they are I'm sure vehemently against the right to bear arms and yet they made a piece displaying the true equalizing capabilities of guns.
Well done.
If you played the story you will now that she got trained in simcari (what ever the city is calle)
@@Crocc101 The city where she went on vacation with peter, and exactly how much experience are you proposing she got over Christmas break while she was with spider man who, lets be honest, would still be doing most of the fighting and again lets be honest, would still be nothing compared to the lifetime mercenaries shes fighting.
Shes still untrained, she didn't go to military school, she is still an untrained civilian.
@@acewmd. you remember sable? In the comics silver sable comes from a made up City called Symkaria. She says in the game that she was trained by sable and shown how to drive a motorbike
@@acewmd. and to go from MJ doing stealth to just running though and tasing
@@Crocc101 i think you sent that one a bit early, what were you trying to say?
32:58 The sentence “Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” should’ve been applied here
Now You have a new follower, I really enjoyed watching your video bro keep it up 🙌🏼😎🙌🏼
Awesome thank you!
Bro this is such amazing quality?!?! Keep up the good work
I guess I got past the black suit Peter vs Miles because after a certain point they’re both fighting against the symbiote. But I’ve only played through ounce so idk maybe I missed something on that fight
I’m totally with you on everything else, the thing that saves it for me is how fun the game is to play. Nothing can beat the swinging and gliding combo for me right now
37:00 Best villains aren't the ones with direct connect to the hero. Best villains are the one that can challenge the hero.
Ex: Batman and Joker.
This video is just so amazing thank you bro!
we shall watch your career with great interest! :)
hahaha, thanks man
the comics understood this problem very well actually.
so in the spider man comics you have the main book which is called "the amazing spider man" which focuses on peter's adventures and his main points in life however it diminishes the side cast's character development. Marvel at the time understood this problem and created a sister book called "spectacular spider man" which gave more time for the side cast.
Miles's game did the same thing sort of. i really don't understand why the supporting cast took away so much from Peter in this game
Honestly I liked the story but you made some really good criticisms. The andor comparison feels unfair because Andor is one of the best modern shows made, and it’s hard to convey the same slight emotion in a game.
Your criticisms about the character writing is true tho.
I'm glad you also think andor is one of the best modern shows, the comparison might be a little unfair but I do think games are capable of subtle story telling, they even had a smidge in this very game when Martin li had that really good facial animation when miles said "you don't know what you took from me"", games of this level are perfectly capable of it I think anyway
Also thank you for watching
Glad to see other people loving Andor like I do.
Also you don't need to compare it to Andor, just compare it to the first game's story. Because the first game's story was on Andor's level of quality writing-wise.
This guy is a double Dripperoni pizza with extra toppings and his arguments and analysis are also pretty great too 👍🔥
Prediction: In the next Spiderman Game Miles will be the main character, Peter will be barely or not in it at all. But we will of course get an MJ Mission! For some reason Game developers really like to ignore gamers Feedback.
Short answer: Yes
I feel like Harry and Peter had a really real connection and friendship in sm2.
the peter thing aside i really liked the harry and peter dynamic prob a better harry in a long time if you compare the animated shows harry.
The director of this game sounds so self centered and just not humble at all, which makes him a bad writer at the end. A story isn’t about what you, the writer, wants, but what your characters with their individual lives, personalities and goals lead them to.
I am BEYOND BURNT on discussing this GARBAGE HEAP of a story...which my Community Tab since October 20th has been a TESTAMENT TO and I didn't cover EVERY bad thing on there so that should let you know how luch of a FUMBLE this story was😐...
But I'll just say this vid was amazing and even brought up points I never thought of💯🔥🔥🔥
Well Bryan Intihar admitted that this game didn't meet the intended quality bar in an interview alongside Ted price especially the atrocious 3rd act. Now the fanboys have no defence for this crap.
I see you everywhere
@chandllerburse737 Yeah. Why wouldn't he still be running it?
Number one example of why you never have more than two writers for any story period.
Because insomniac is woke.
Instead of choosing to follow the miles from spiderverse that actually has a well written story and character development they decided to go the route of the original comics where he’s just a black Peter that’s perfect.
Spiderverse miles > woke miles
What makes it woke lol
What does that word even mean??
@@Courier_333 it's funny because there were people complaining about how spiderverse was also woke lmao
You pointed out a good portion of the problems i have with this game's narrative. The gameplay would be good, If this wasnt a Spiderman game. How can Peter Parker do eletrical jumps and impulses without ever touching the ground or trhowing a web?
There are só many unSpiderman things in the gameplay that make me feel this isnt a Spiderman game.
Great video bro. This really
opened my eyes to why I felt so weird towards this Peter. I thought I was being biased and him looking so different appearance wise was the reason why he felt so disconnected to who he was in the first game, but damn they had the character writing thrown out of the window for this game.
We need to remind ourselves that Sweet Baby Inc was involved.
A bunch of weirdo feminist that hate men and our hobbies got to write a A SPIDERMAN GAME.
Never. EVER forget that.
Also the Peter vs Miles thing, honestly the excuse that Peter is "Holding back" is pointless.
Imagine that you are fighting against MYKE TYSON, and Tyson doesn't want to kill you, does that mean that you can beat MYKE TYSON? WHO IS ALSO BEING POSSESED BY AN STEROID RAGING ALIEN MONSTER?
What SHOULD have happened is that Peter COMPLETELY smokes Miles in such a violent and unfair way that makes him snap, kinda like "Holy crap... i almost killed him, what is wrong whit me?!?"
Imagine the GoW 3 Kratos QTE against Zeus.
You know the one, were Kratos literally beats Zeus to a pulp so damn hard the screen turns completely red.
Omniman vs Invincible tier of unfair.
When i say that i mean Miles SHOULD have had a few broken bones, and be completely useless gameplaywise for a while, to TRULY show that Peter could have killed him, and to also show that Peter in some way does need Miles (instead of trying to sell the idea that Miles is perfect and can do anything himself)
But no, IMAGINE ever making Black Jesus show weakness.
Real
Why does Insomniac HATE Peter Parker?
For real ever written now day like to fuck up his life for no reason ,but for Real i think they trying to replace him with miles
@@มดบ้าเกมส์yeah nah
So basically Insomniac is taking the CW Flash route, where it's more about Iris West and the other side characters instead of Barry Allen, just great....
But there not
But this couldn’t be further from the truth
True, they are
Grade A S tier retrospective
thank you so much
Man. Great video. I haven't seen anyone make a review of this game that voiced almost all my thoughts on it. I've seen many reviews too. Even criticisms of the game have missed the point in my mind.
The gameplay/traversal is phenomenal and I really really enjoyed playing, which made experiencing the story and witnessing the portrayal of Peter even more painful.
Thanks for presenting these criticisms in a smart, concise, and entertaining way.
Hopefully more people see this and also someone in charge of narrative at Insomniac sees this and actually takes it in instead of just brushing it off as "negative" like people seem to do with criticism of this game.
My biggest worry is in Spiderman 3 we continue this trajectory and character assassination of Peter. If you go back and look at the first game this was nonexistent, he came across as a competent, smart, strong, and self assured Spider-Man, I'd like this back.
I'll even take extra nonsensical MJ missions if they fix Peter lol.
Great video man, appreciate you voicing your own honest opinion , it was refreshing when compared to most reviews and recaps of games nowadays.
I'll be subbing.
This video is my exact thoughts on this games story. You deserve way more exposure and views on this.
Just finished the vid and the fact you only covered the 3 MAIN characters and they are ALL THIS flawed, making the game as bad as it is ALREADY storywise
Without even touching on Venom, Kraven, Norman, Black Cat and Yuri etc is genuinely WILD😭💀
I don't know whether to be ABSOLUTE ASTONISHED or Break Down in TEARS😭😭(this is a hyperbole btw) at how bad this story is. As far as I'm concerned this is the WORST Spider-Man adaptation EVER. All the SPITE for Peter mkaes it so difficult to enjoy in comparison to other spidey adaptations
Like WOW...how did they take a game that misused ALL of its cast past the drawing board!??? How do you go through with a story that does NOT PROPERLY EXECUTE....ANY of the ideas you set up!?😭. What Arkham Asylum Escapee did they let into the writing room!?
He did mention Black Cat once and how it was a useless mission, but yeah. Only good part about this game is the gameplay.
@@SavageJarJar facts. Christ that mission is the EPITOME of POINTLESS. You can remive it from the game and it changes NOTHING. They forced the equivalent of a BAD side mission into the MAIN story...I dont even know how they pulled that off...
How on earth was there any spite for Peter?
@@no.1spidey-fan182 what do you mean it was pointless
You got my sub just for this alone.
yeah the story just feels so absurdly rushed
Banger video
This is incredible editing and such a well thought out video how do you only have 848 subs??? Keep this up and this channel should def blow up (fantastic comic relief too) especially because every point you make is spot on 2018 was FAR superior to this game. I'm just surprised how no one goes into how awful Peter looks compared to last game and how ugly they made MJ compared to 2018. So much of this game made absolutely no sense and it was a huge let down, and if Miles is the new Spiderman I'm out on the next game.
Sweet baby inc wrote this
It baffles me how people defend this game story wise. The SPIDER-MAN gameplay is fun, better than any Spider-Man game to date. The NON Spider-Man gameplay is boring. The cutscenes are beautifully designed/animated, while the context of each one SUCKS. This game feels so long to play for such shitty build up and ending. The only exciting parts of this story involve the symbiote (black suit/anti venom transformation and venom playability). I preferred miles base abilities over the new ones he got I literally kept switching back to his OG abilities since the newer ones felt boring and weaker.
I’ve lost all hope in future installments of insomniacs Spider-Man unless they manage to wrap up Peter Parker’s arc entirely in Spider-Man 2 which means Norman, Otto, carnage etc. Which isn’t gonna happen they will have miles fight them in Spider-Man 3 because he’s just better right? So much for Miles having his own villains so I can actually get an attachment to the story….
One thing I want to touch up on is that people like to bring up that Pete holds back which is why he couldn’t beat Kraven the first time….So you’re telling me that it took for him to put on the symbiote to not hold back as much? If you look at Spider-Man during those fights he’s clearly not doing enough damage to even come close to killing Kraven. Kraven himself even says “you still hold back.” So how come Peter didn’t just hold back less without the suit? It’s almost like insomniac literally nerfed Peter so that he needed the suit to be stronger 😱.
Really awful all around tbh. Great job on everything else though insomniac but the story just tanked in this one. The writers did NOT cook but to all the other devs y’all did a great job.
Amazing, to the point video bruv
Glad you liked it
Agreed also extremely disappointed that yuri was criminally underutilized in this game. Hopefully dlc will shine more light on her charecter she was my favorite in spiderman 1. However in spiderman 2 she just seems like bargin bin batman. I do like the costume though and that she become a vigilante but it barely got any recognition. I know she got more recognition in the dlc of spiderman 1 but I wish she had more of a puropse for her to kill bad guys. It just seems like inconsistent filler I mean yuri was a incredibly important charecter in spiderman 1.
Oh lord please use darker backgrounds 🙏🏽. So glad you highlighted Andor! More people need to watch that masterpiece.
I don't personally agree with some points you make, like the Miles one being "He doesn't have any flawss" when Martin Li escaped he always tries to avoid all his responsabilities with the Collage Easey and school responsabilitys because he was feeling in constant danger that Martin Li would also attack Mile's mom and the reason that his mom doesn't freak out about being spiderman its becouse she had already know in the last game. But thats just what I am seeing in the moment. Because I didn't finish the game, i played it in my brother's house so im still finishing it. Even so, i still really like the story from what i played (Also srry for my bad English, I'm from Spain) And really love your editing
thanks for watching and he does have flaws my problem was they dont result in any conflict, so he might as well not have any.
@@weemeathead i get what you say, also nothing related to this but have you tried inFAMOUS Second Son, its one of my fav superhero games and i would love to hear what you think
i've never played the other 2, i would love to but they aren't anyweare@chandllerburse737
7:09
While Miles was stuck in Lee…. Peter Parker, the one being the only spiderman for 8 years fighting the criminals and powerful villains alone, that stoped a whole helicopter falling middle the city, couldn’t just think in this normal critical situation for a spiderman, didnt used his new arms or even HIS WEBS to remove the people from the dangerous….. instead, he were CALLING MILES TRYING TO TAKE EACH ONE LIKE A PERSON WITHOUT ANY POWERS….
I think he forget he was powers…..
I’m gonna be rewriting this story on wattpad lol
What's the music at 10:33, when Venom appears? Thanks. It plays a few other times in the vid.
under earth - forsaken
Told my friend the exact same thing. Its hard for me to root for everyone when spiderman 1 gave us the best story for Peter/Spiderman.
No problem with miles himself, love him since his first debut, but the story Insomniac has for Miles makes no sense half the time. They have him in more of a spotlight and him being a better spideman, its wierd since every now and then he can beat rhino but no the thinkerer.
And why does peter need MJ, Why does he need Miles, Why does he need ganki. Bro was the one that made a whole suit to fight otto in a matter of minutes by himself, he is able to fight the Sinister by himself(2 v 1 better yet), saved NYC in one night without other heroes; so why does MJ get mad when he takes a small break and is able to fight out grown ass professional hunters, or miles who is inexperienced in the matter of a year or 2, or ganki when peter is one of the smartest characters in Marvel.
Other than that Venom not being able to be hurt by fire is mad dumb by itself
I know for a fact that Miles beating Peter with the Symbiote is meant to be an allusion to how, much like in the games, Miles has that “Venom Shock/Touch” ability that Brian Michael Bendis created him with as a means to “make him a different kind of Spider-Man”. In the process, it became this sort of Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card for whenever Miles is in over his head and can easily win by using it. For example, he “beat” Nightmare (son of Mephisto) when the entirety of the Avengers couldn’t in Spider-Man #1 [2015].
JUST BY TOUCHING HIM!
Bendis justified it as “Miles having that edge the others didn’t” (not his exact words) and wrote off valid criticisms with “it’s canon, so cry about it” 🤷🏽♂️
So Insomniac, much like Marvel Comics themselves, VERY MUCH HATE SPIDER-MAN and can’t help but to display it at every turn (in the mainstream continuity) except for stuff like the current Ultimate Marvel iteration 😒
A kid's cartoon handled the black suit way better
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Insomniac making harry agent venom is the most brain dead thing I've seen. Flash is Agent venom, that was his arc. Writters nowadays can't seem to be able to bring up characters without putting down other characters. Writers have drastically gone down in quality quality
...She got out of the Scream suit by herself?
...I don't know about that!
I think she's moonlighting as Scream without telling anyone!
...That would make an awesome game actually! 😎
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The fact that mj is easily able to take out kravens men, this just means that canonically insomniac Peter and miles are the weakest spider-men to ever exist.
So everything this man said is correct and we should be thanking him. I kept telling people that this story was not perfect. It was actually probably the worst story you could have written. Here's how I thought they should have done it personally.
We'll start with Peter. This game should have focused on Peter and his relationship with people after the death of Aunt May he should be a mess. He's pushing people a bit more away unless they're like superpowered so him and miles have gotten closer but him and Mary Jane have gotten farther apart which makes a lot of sense
Miles the biggest problem with Miles is something that even affects him in the comics. He's too strong. He doesn't need all these powers. He doesn't need all these abilities to be as broken as they are. It should actually make him even out with Peter. Not be stronger than Peter. That doesn't make f****** sense exactly. Why would they need Peter if they have miles? There's plenty of ways you could have fixed this. Maybe that his new electricity is messing with the gadgets and he's putting up so much energy that he's not able to use the same gadgets Peter can use that way Peter can keep his gadget wheel and miles can have his electricity powers and they even the f*** out
Last but not least actually yeah at least Mary Jane cut that s*** out. Oh my god cut that s*** out. Please stop trying to make her a superhero stop trying to make her what was Lane. She is not those things. The fact of the matter is Harry had superpowers and we never got to play as Harry before he was venom. That is what the crazy part is. Imagine a whole section where oh hey, they're experimenting on his powers and so they go out and have him start fighting crime and he starts in mimicking. Peter a little bit saying I kind of like how you move around like this and so the suit lets him Nicky Peter's abilities
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