Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "SPIDER-MAN 2 ANALYTIC DREAMZ REVIEW"

Episode Date: November 22, 2023

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Analytic In this segment, I will be giving my personal review of Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 after completing the game 100%. I will discuss the story, gameplay, graphics, and overall experience. I will also be sharing my thoughts on the game's strengths and weaknesses.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It is time for me to give my official review of no-lifing Spider-Man 2 the video game. Because when I tell you, this is the sole reason I have a PlayStation, I mean it. Back with 2018, I don't know when it came out. I think it was 2018, 2019. When Spider-Man PS4 came out, I unfortunately had an Xbox. during the lead up to Spider-Man, PS4. So what did I do? Did the old Switcheroo, went to GameStop,

you know, got my return for $9.98 for a whole console, got my PS5, and I was good to go. So from there, I never looked back. I was always like, I am a PlayStation Sony Pony. And ladies and gentlemen, this game right here, From the 2018 Spider-Man PS4 to the 2020 Miles Morales D.L.C. To the 2023 Spider-Man 2 video game, when it comes to trilogies, this is up there with the greatest.

Like the greatest gaming trilogies. Like this is the type of game where you can't even compare it to other superhero games. You have to start comparing it to games like The Last of Us, the game like Uncharted, games like Like, I got to throw some Xbox games in there, so y'all don't think I'm a fanboy for real. The games like, I'm not trying to be funny. I'm trying to think, what the Xbox have? I mean, they just recently have Starfield, so let's stick with that. Games like Starfield. What does Xbox have?

I'm not even trying to be funny. High Five Rush? I'm trying to think about legacy games for Xbox. Yeah, I can't think of any. I'm sorry. Y'all may think I'm a Sony pony, but literally Xbox does not have any legacy games. like what halo like y'all trash that game after a while y'all was like uh infinite's cool but not anymore i was like what what happened so anyways um yeah spider me two is compared to

just games now not just superhero games so insomnia has put spider man on a level where character wise story arc wise it is held up in the highest of highs as far as video game tears, right? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cover Spider-Man 2 from characters, and I'm going to touch on the story as I go from character to character. Obviously, we're going to save the Spider-Men for last, but I'm going to go through characters, see what pops into my mind, give you my thoughts over the gameplay, the story, and that's basically it.

I mean, as far as the sales, I didn't really want to get into that too much. It sold well, I believe. I actually didn't look up to sell That's like the first time I ever didn't look up sales For a video game I'm not trying to like I don't think it was anything bad Like I think I saw somewhere where Mario

Outsold it as far as like A week after Because you know Mario apparently right now It's like one of the greatest games Since the Mario and Yoshi game I forget what that was like Super Mario World Something like that for the Nintendo DS Like now

They're saying like this Mario game is on par with that so that's like outselling spider-man at the moment but if i had to look up sales interesting seems like it's not the greatest honestly i mean first week of course because people got to buy the game but after they bought it oh after they bought it can't tell i can't talk i was playing after they bought it i think the engagement went down it probably had something to do about the game being supremely short i know this is one thing i do want to address a lot of people are like, I don't know if it landed on me, because you know how they say if the shoe fits wear it? Well, I'm wearing it.

People are saying, if you know life the game, how are you going to complain about being short? Well, let me tell you something. I know life Eldon Ring and it ain't take me no two to three days. Like, I beat this game, Spider-Man 2, I'm talking about, and two to three days. Eldon Ring, I've been no-lifing for the longest. Still ain't beat the game. I swear I got like 40 to 50 plus hours on that game. I mean, I'm close to finishing.

I probably will finish it, you know, when their DLC is announced to lead up to it. But you can know life a game and still not finish it. Spider-Man 2 is around 20 to 30 hours full platinum completion, not just beating the main story. I heard the main story is like 20 hours at most. But 30 hours is the most for platinuming the game, which if you don't know, is when you get all the trophies in a video game. It seemed like Insomniac purposely made the trophies easy to get so you would platinum the game so they could be like, oh, y'all not getting your games, platinum like us. Well, that's my first critique. Spider-Man 2 is very short.

It's like they really went in and calculated how much content should we give consumers for $70. It's literally like Insomniac or the higher-ups or whatever went up and was like, hey, $70, how much content should we slice that down to? And if you look at it's like $5 an hour, sorry, I can't do math. Give me a second. Let me see, 20 times five. No, that's not it. Let's see, 70 divided by, let's do, let's say the most. Like, let's give them the benefit of the doubt.

Let's say 30. So you're paying like $3 to $4 an hour on Spotify. I mean, not Spotify, on Spider-Man 2. obviously I rounded up a lot but you know you're good what I'm saying um yeah so the sales aren't really out of this world they basically are saying that starfield picked up and then spider man two broke like his legs as far as like it's rise

and ascension but now it's like kind of leveled out and Mario's kind of overtaking them and they said Spider-Man two sold more on day one than Starfield did it's not a constant debate I'm not into that that's not really my cup of tea i think console debates are set for people who actually get paid by the by either company you know like if um phil spencer came out he was like you know what xbox game pass kind of trash then i'll be like whoa hold up now but you know for a random sony pony to say xbox game pass is trash they have no equity in it they literally are or are

flag or not flag what's it called gang what's it what's it called the rapping for for a gang that they're not even getting paid for. Isn't that crazy? Anyways. Okay, this is the stat I was looking for. So they said, Super Mario Bros. Wonder has topped the UK physical charts for the second week as Spider-Man 2 slips to third.

So obviously people bought the game, day one, and then it started to lessen because they say it hasn't sold more... Let's try to see. They say it was the fastest selling, but as far as longevity, it's not really...

It's doing well because it's Spider-Man, like, come on now. But it's down 69% in physical sales in its second week. So just to put in perspective, Spider-Man 2 is the fastest selling game, but longevity-wise, it's Super Mario Bros took over. And granted, Mario as a gaming character is way more superior than Spider-Man. Like, come on now. So it is surprising to see it drop more than 69% because if you think of it in movie terms,

that basically means people went to go watch the movie the first day and that was it. Because it sold a lot, but that was it. Like, it was no like, oh, only a 20% or 30% drop and people are gradually starting to get acclimated to the game. People knew the game was coming out. People copped the game day one. And now the sales are tailing off

because basically, you know, sales don't drop like that and Spider-Man 2 is. So with that out the way, I did want to get into some stats. So I'm, you know, calling myself analytic dreams. I had to get into the analytics or this wouldn't have been an analytic review. So I'm glad I was able to give you all that. So I'm not saying Spider-Man 2 flop. I'm just saying that it definitely didn't have the legs that we thought it was going to have.

And deservedly so, because as I get into the game, you will understand that even though I'm biased in my infatuation for the Spider-Man character, I will say, From a gaming standpoint, it did seem like they was holding back content to put behind a paywall in the foreseeable future. All right. So with that being said, let's get into Spider-Man 2. No pun intended. It was a little late on that. But so the story, of course, is about Peter and Miles Morales with them coexisting in the same universe, which I think is very interesting because I'm not

going to go on a whole nerd tangent, but usually it's either one or the other. Miles Morales showed up in the ultimate universe. Peter Parker died. Peter Parker has his own universe in 616. Miles Morales does not exist. That's how I was introduced to me. So to see them coexisting is a nice change of pace because I do believe they can both coexist. But some of the problems, even in the comics, is that they will be having issues.

that they could call the other Spider-Man for it, which is why they usually have one and the other. Because if Peter's having a bunch of trouble, you could say, oh, why does he not just call Miles? If Miles is having a bunch of trouble with the villain, he can ask, or people will ask, why he doesn't just call Peter. Like, they literally just blocks away, right? So that's the whole conundrum you find yourself into when,

or you get yourself into when trying to have Peter and Miles Morales in the same universe. So for this game, to execute that perfectly, I think needs to be acknowledged because this could have went horribly wrong as far as having Peter and Miles in the same universe. I will say quickly, and then I get to the rest of the cast, I will say that they potentially, not not potentially, intentionally gave Miles Morales more mesmerizing scenes. And by that, I mean, the way that Mysterio is handled, the way that Martin Lee is handled, that Miles specifically going through those trances

and giving us really picture perfect moments in a Spider-Man game, if that makes sense. also Spider-Man going through that portal for Black Cat where he just ended up in like what looked like a call me ignorant if you want to but it looked like Alaska or something like I don't know where he was at he was in Poland like where was that man at and what was he swinging on anyways so basically they intentionally gave Miles Morales more mesmerizing scenes than Peter I believe that's that's my personal take on that which I don't have a problem with. I'm just pointed out. So I thought it was a good balance because obviously you want to get into the Peter and the symbiostoryline.

So they went to the highest degree to make Miles Morales missions stand out. I mean, the one, okay, I'm getting into the review. So I'm not going to speak too much more on that. But they did a great job on making me interested in both Miles and Peter when it came to being Spider-Man. Because obviously, TV in the past and comments. comics in the past have not done it justice let's say that so all right let's start at the bottom and go up so let's start with aaron davis right Aaron Davis in this game doesn't have much to work with basically he's retired when I retired by choice retired by parole officer you know he's on

house arrest and the biggest surprise also this is a spoiler spoiler review so if you don't want to be spoiled about the game then I would just you know put this in I don't even know what tab you put this in and then come back to it, you know, as, or after you beat the game. So basically, Aeron Davis is playing a small role in an overarching, overarching story line in Spider-Man 2. He's basically there to showcase that he's changed in that he has Miles's back, which is, which is capitalized on what? Capitalize? I think that's right. Basically is capitalized by Miles Morales's mom also changing her thought about his uncle and giving him a place to stay.

That was basically it. So he doesn't have too much to do. I'm trying to think, you mean, you had your Aaron Davis missions where he was going around collecting his tech, but really didn't cultivate into anything except you realize his mom gave him a place to stay close to them. So, yeah, that was basically it. Okay. So getting it to Black Cat. Black Cat is also like Aaron Davis. It's a very small part and doesn't have anything to do with the overarching storyline,

except for she gave the location for Tombstone when he was captured by Craven's villains. So I thought she was pretty used. I think I thought she was used pretty sparingly. I think you could have had Black Cat a lot more in this game. And by a lot more, I mean, forget an MJ mission. Imagine if we had a Black Cat mission. Like, come on now. Like, I feel like it's right there as far as having a lot of characters that are interesting

because, spoiler review, remind you. But remember when you was playing as Venom how crazy that felt, they could have had something like that for Black Cat easily. I mean, she could have been flipping around and had her own move set. But obviously, that takes effort and resources. So they was like, nah, we're just going to have her. game for like two minutes granted that mission that black cat and miles was in was straightfire one of the standouts of the game that's why i pointed it out at the beginning when i said she uh teleported him into

the tundra or whatever um i thought that was pretty funny so anyways what else so black cat had a very sparingly uh she was very uh she was used sparingly and i would say that she pushed forward the storyline and they didn't want to overuse her. So Black Cat is similar to Aaron Davis as they don't have too much to do with the game. All right, so the flame. The flame, if you don't know, Analytic Dreams video,

if you want to see me go through and talk about each and every person on this list. So getting into the flame, which is next on my list, the flame basically was used to set up carnage. And I thought that was pretty cool. because I did not see that twist coming. And you'll hear me say that a lot throughout this review

because I believe a great storyline is one that keeps you guessing. And me being a huge Spider-Man fan, I think I have it pinpointed to the point where I'm predicting the ending, right? I'm just completely wrong. Like, I thought one thing with Miles Morales' boyfriend, I thought she was going to be like a villain

or something like Luke Cage or something crazy, but it ended up being like some random guy, and his daughter was the Easter egg. Like stuff like that, they really keep you guessing throughout this whole storyline and it's very purposely written to throw you off, if that makes sense.

Like, Mysterio. Mysterio, the main guy who's actually Mysterio running, well, I haven't got to him yet. So anyways, the flame is to set up Carnage and they did a great job on that. I think they'll probably use Carnage in Spider-Man 3. Like, I don't think they'll use them in DLC at,

all and we're going to get to the DOC after my review but um they're not going to use him for dLC they'll probably use him for Spider-Man 3 so with that being said let's get into wraith so Raith is basically the cop from the Spider-Man PS4 DOC because that's when she transitions into Raith and you kind of see her motivation and the Spider-Man PS4 DLC so if you didn't play it you won't understand why Raith is the way that she is right you just think that she's just acting crazy. Like how'd she go from being a police officer to a murdering anti-hero, right? So, yeah, it definitely, her character progression in the DOC makes,

Raith makes sense in this game. And the fight with her was great. I liked her performance. Every time she came on the screen, you could tell she was not playing around. Even when you did side missions, taking people out, and then she would join in. when you interacted with her, she wouldn't give you no high five, no nothing. She was strictly business.

And that's another thing. Playing in his game and really taking over the fact that you're a superhero and people can join you. And there's other superheroes in the world. It's just gratis for, it's really satisfying because, I don't know if y'all know,

but most superhero games is only that one superhero in a large city and it's all up to him. But in this game, you get a sense That is just a plethora of other superheroes capable of taking down villains and enemies just like you are. So I like that how you can get into a random crime and another superhero will pop in, whether it's miles, whether it's anti-venom, which if you don't know, anti-venom can pop up in one of the random crimes in the scene, or no, after the mission where you basically rescue tombstone. he could pop up as Agent Venom, but only as Miles. I don't know why it doesn't happen as Peter, but whatever. It has his own animations and everything.

So it's a nice Easter egg to let people know not to rush through the game. Because if you play as Miles, go to a random crime scene, Agent Venom will pop in. They'll have the own unique dialogue, another attention to detail, and it's just straightfire. So, yeah, Rath was fire. I got on the side tangent, but Rath was a great continuation of the story. She was really attached to the flame storyline and she was also trying to catch the leader

which ended up being Cletus Cassidy, which is Carnage. So he got away, of course. He'll be used in Spider-3. But Raith was a great partner for Peter for that whole flame arc. Tombstone. Tombstone was interesting because he was basically used as a damsel in distress,

even though he was holding his own quote-unquote. You had to rescue him out of prison. And I thought that scene was nice because that's where you get introduced to Agent Venom. you get introduced to Harry being or having the symbiote because if you don't know at the ferry at the fair when you're rescuing the people from the roller coaster it starts to fall on Peter

Agent Venom which is Harry has to show up and this is before he's Agent Venom with the suit he just has the symbiote. He has to hold it up for Peter to save the people on a roller coaster. So I thought that was cool how Tombstone was incorporated in a way that not only he pushed the story forward but he was also incorporated.

Some of the villains in Spider-Man from Spider-Man PS-4 is just completely missing. Like, where's Rano? Where is Shocker? Where is Vulture? Obviously, they was killed by Craven, but where are they? Like, you ever heard the phrase, show, don't tell? They had a great moment. Once again, I'm going to keep ragging on MJ side missions simply for the fact that they had so many interesting characters in this game.

Imagine in this game where... Most of the game, you're playing as Peter and Miles, right? But then you're also, instead of the MJ side missions, you're also having Craven side missions where you're going and killing the villains. That would have been so far. Like each and every villain, you would have had a boss fight, and then the ending C would have been craving killing them. Obviously, there's not an R-rated game, so it would have been,

it would have been off-screen, sort of like how he killed Scorpion, how they showed that. Like, that's how the ending scene could have been. But if you was playing as Craven, while you was taking out these different villains, because they literally just said, oh, Rino's dead, Vulture's dead, and then you learn those in the MJ mission. That's why I bring that up.

Rhinos dead, Votra's dead. Oh, he clipped his wings off. Like, you're telling us all this stuff, but you're not showing us anything. The only thing they showed us was Craven taking out Scorpion. And who cares about Scorpion? I want to see how he took out Electro, because he was like, oh, he was the easiest fight.

Yeah, I bet. I want to see it. Just because y'all ain't animated. you know, seeing as believing. So I, like, but honestly, how was Craven going to take out Electro? And how is he going to take out Sandman? He was trying to take out Sandman for the longest. That's why Sandman at the beginning of the game went crazy because Craven threatened his family

or his daughter or whatever. So he was like, I'm going to find you by any means necessary. So then he blew up to that huge monster. So that was wild. I was like, why tell us that all these villains from Spider-Man are dead and not even show us? Like, it doesn't have to be long. on. Like, if you don't want to take my idea about having a playable craven, then at least show us the action because it's like an end game, uh, what's infinity? No, it's like an infinity war when

they said, oh, Thanos already has the power stone. Like, what? You're not going to show us the scene of him going and destroying a whole entire civilization just to get the power stone. Like, it's one of those scenes which is like, come on now. Like, show, don't tell. And we're with Craven and, no, with Ryan, Vulture, and Shocker. I was disappointed by that. I'm not even talking about how Spider-Man could have had that hilarious interaction like he did in the 90s TV show where he's yelling, Shocker, I'll chase him to the end of the earth.

Like, you ever looked that up? That's peak comedy, peak comedy. I ain't allowed. The voice actor for the 90s cartoon, I don't know if he's still alive, but I'm acting like they're super old. but I'm just saying like he just did a tremendous job in that TV show it's just I don't know if it was great or if it was just hilarious I don't know anyways they missed that moment I'm not even mad about that whole shockering the black symbiotein it's just more about show don't tell anyways

um so yeah that's tombstone not really too much important too important to the story then we have haley cooper which is miles is significant other well love interest I don't know one of those and she's deaf, I believe. So she has a disability. She can't hear. There's one scene in the game where she's basically going around and spray painting the walls. And I thought it was a pretty interesting scene because you don't hear anything to mimic her disability. But at the end of the day, I thought it was pretty solid.

I thought it was a nice change of pace and what usually the side missions are. and do I think it went too long? Maybe. I thought it was going to go too long, but then it ended. So it, like, it tests your patience, but it's definitely a pretty nice mission. Because I imagine just listening to silence while doing the mission. Like, come on now. What else?

Dr. Connors, so Kurt Connors, of course, turned into the lizard. That was one of the main villains Craven wanted to hunt down and kill. I think he ended up surviving. So at least he survived. But the thing was. what that was the chase scene and then fighting him was amazing and that's what made me feel like they should have shown the other heroes because i'm like if that scene was so amazing why are we not seeing that more often with the other villains like it was just so many opportunities to implement

villains that you literally have the license to it's almost like it would be different if marvellous like all right we're going to use shocker vultrinos rino in our next avengers game you basically have spider man's whole rogues gallery and you kill them off screen What? Makes no sense. But whatever. Lizard is just a showcase of what Insomnia I can do if and when they choose to show villain

boss fights. So, lizard was a standout in the game. One of the best boss fights. If I had to rank them, I guess I could do that now. I would say Venom, by far. Like, come on now. Number two will probably be boss fights, boss fights.

A lot of Venoms was Venoms was nice. Venom versus Peter on the high school football field made me feel like I was playing Ultimate Spider-Man when at the start of the game you fought Venom on that football field

just 10 times better. So that's by far number one. Number two, it would have to be Venom versus Craven. And then number three, I'll probably say I want to say the Sandman fight. The Sandman fight was a nice start to the game. So yeah, that would be my top three. Yeah, that would be my top three.

And so yeah, Kurt Conner survived. Basically went back into a human form trying to help out Peter with the symbion and things of that nature. But at the end of the day, he didn't really have too much to work with. But, you know, he made the most of it, I guess. Norman Osborne Now that is the main player Because when I tell you his arc made no sense at the end

This man went from begging on his knees For Spider-Man to save his son To seeing his son out of the symbiote And then he's like, what did you do to my son? That absolutely made no sense It was almost like when Star Lord hit Thanos While they was trying to take the glove off

off. It was like, bro, do you not know the main mission? Like, you was told the main mission. You agreed with the main mission. And now you just completely put it in jeopardy simply because of your feelings? Like, I was so confused. Like, the way that he was like, what did you do to my son? It was like, did you not want me to take him out of venom or not? It was like, it would be different if his son died or something, you know, because then I understand, be like, dang, I told you to save my son, not kill him. but his son was obviously breathing and stuff because of Miles like resuscitate him I think that's like I say I don't know but yeah he was still upset over Peter and Miles

and he kind of takes a backseat in this game which makes sense because he's probably going to be not probably he is going to be the main villain Spider-Man 3 it's maybe a spoiler but I can see them going the ultimate comic route where he powers up into not the green goblin with the glider he'll probably have that as well but I think he'll power up in the ultimate Green Goblin way, where he's like a hoking figure, and he'll probably get Peter the beats, and he'll probably die.

I ain't going to allow to you. Like, they'll probably fight to the standstill, and Peter will probably die in Spider-Man 3. Because at this point, they already said Miles is the main villain. So now, you know how Peter was the main villain, main hero of this game? Next game, Miles would be the main hero.

So it's going to have a focus of Miles with side Peter, which is still the same as Spider-Man 2, because I feel like they've really balanced the two. I don't think Peter was the main Spider-Man and Miles was the second. I think they was both really balancing the storyline. So I think that's what they're going to do with Spider-Man 3. They're just doing a publicity stunt saying Miles will be the main Spider-Man.

I think they're just trying to drum up some type of talk over the game because everybody beat it and then it's just like radio silence. So, yeah, with Norman Osborne at the end of the game, he was basically telling Dr. Octopus. It's not Octopus. is Dr. Octavius. Why did I say octopus? Oh, because of the arms. I'm tripping. Dr. Octavius asking him, like, what's the names to the Spider-Man?

He was basically like, you know, I ain't going to tell you. And he's like, my son's dying. And I think he said something like, good or something. I'm like, dang, that boy cold-blooded, ain't he? But anyways, I believe they'll team up begrudently. I think that's how he said. And take out or try to take out the Spider-Man. Because I think Norman and Dr.

Dr. Octavius took a backseat for a reason. Like, I found it strange that Craven didn't go after Dr. Octavis when he was really the main villain, but I don't know. Maybe he just forgot about him? Like, what? It made sense why he didn't go after Spider-Man. That was one thing I was wondering about. I was like, why is Craven not going after Spider-Man?

First, I thought it was just because he was scared of him. But then I realized, oh, he's going after somebody who will kill him if they defeat him. Like if Spider-Man defeats him, he's going to turn him a time. the cops. Like he wanted somebody to kill him, which is why when the venom thing happened, he was like, yes, like, do it. Like, I was like, it was kind of weird. Because he was like dying from some type of illness. So he wanted death by battle. He didn't want death by like incarceration, like dying in prison. You know what I mean? So I think that's why he didn't go after Spider-Man. But anyways, because he always kept mentioning he was holding back. So I was like, why is he not

going? But then it makes sense. So Rio Morales. So basically, she's like the mayor of some I forget, Brooklyn, I think. And this is the one thing I'm disappointed at Asomniak for it. Why not play off the fact that everybody knows in Brooklyn what Miles looks like in Spider-Man? And Miles Morales is the game. At the end, he had his mask off on some train-type moment, and everybody was like, he's a kid and all that good stuff. And then this game, they act like it just never happened.

Like, he's putting his mask on going around. Like, obviously he can just be out willy-nilly. But, you know, at least have some. type of nod that people know you're a Spider-Man. Like, maybe I missed it. I don't know. Maybe I missed it. But people in Brooklyn seem to not know who that Spider-Man was. And I'm like,

in his game, he literally had his mask off and it was like, anyways. So with her, I think she was great to push the emotional plot. The voice actor was amazing. Obviously, going between different languages. It pays to be bilingual. And Rio Morales

is definitely an epitome of that. She delivers some fantastic. lines and languages that in another language I just don't understand. So, hey. Then you got Genki Lee. He was interesting. He was really the guy in the chair. Like, talk about a complete rip-off that MCU did for Peter's best friend.

Like, with Ned Lee, just being a complete rip-off of Genkey Lee, because if you don't know in the comics, Ganky was real popular, which is why the MCU ripped off Ned Lee from him in the comics, because they was like Peter. he's the best friend. Let's take the best friend of Miles and just give it to Peter in the MCU and nobody would notice. Well, guess what? Everybody noticed. It was like, this is a complete rip-off of Genki. So whenever you see the best friend of Peter, Ned Lee, and the Homecoming movies, and you look at this character, just know that character came first in the comics. It wasn't like, oh, Miles then took Peter's best friend now. Like, nah, Miles had that

in the beginning, and then Peter took it. so is that culture appropriation i don't know anyways uh so yeah gangy lee basically was the ultimate guy in the chair really helped out a lot so he helped out a lot with uh peter and myles he was an intricate part of the team and uh i don't know if ganky and my and j had too many interactions but it seemed like they should have talked more but maybe i'm tripping like maybe they should have back and forth like oh i mean i guess they would have been that have been like boring like oh what is your what is your logistics on this

well you know I triangulated the position and I think it's right here well okay let me run that through my system like we ain't trying to hear all that so that makes sense but I feel like Genki and MJ was just as important to the Spider-Man team which is so I am

I am interested how Genki goes forward because I know in the comics he ended up being a villain I don't think that happened here but you never know so anyways um venom venom with uh with the MVP performance i ain't gonna lie to you and venom showed up it was it was it was it was uh it was tumultuous times man it was it was crazy venom showed up and immediately you was able to play as venmo you know what i thought insomnia was going to do and i don't know why they didn't do this. Literally, the opportunity, there's so many opportunities that the

insomnia missed that just seems like they was just rushed throughout the production or maybe just somebody didn't think of it. But I just feel like it's just so obvious. Like having Venom playable is as obvious as having Venom fight Spider-Man. You know what I mean? Like, imagine Venom was playable and you didn't fight Spider-Man. Oh, wait, they actually did happen. So when Venom first shows up, right? I thought we was going to get a scene where so basically Venom eventually well Harry gets the symbiosee back from Peter if you already played the game you already know what I'm talking about got the symbiosee back from Peter then he started to grow into Venom and then once he grew into venom I thought he was going to see a huge life bar pop up and it's a spider-man instead he just flings

him across the room and then he just passed out for the rest of the Venom mission I'm like what in the world is this. I'm like, come on. Like, I feel like the opportunity is right there. I feel like if I was a game developer and I've seen that, I'm like, why not just have Venom, whoop Spider-Man right there on the spot? Like, like, what are we doing? It doesn't have to be no long fight. Like, you could have took out his health bar, his health bar in like three or four shots, but still, like making some type of fight because we had all the mechanics, Spider-Man already has his mechanics. Obviously, we've seen a CPU, Spider-Man help out. I feel like the mechanics already there and they just completely

botched that whole interaction but whatever you got to play as venom and it ended up being one of the better missions in the game as at the end you took out Craven and you bit his head off so he basically gave him the defeat he wanted which is defeat by death so he wanted a death battle type scenario which is why he never went after Spider-Man

he knew if Spider-Man beat him it was just going to be you turn you into the cops. So, yeah, Venom at the end of just running rampant, like Hulk style, just through everything, ended up biting off Craven's head in the middle of Times Square. So there's a scene for you. Speaking of that, Craven. All right, so Craven, obviously, main villain of the middle act,

I think Craven was done to the highest degree to make him a very, intimidating villain. He had his own theme song and everything. And the voice actor was great. I do feel like we should have been able to see, at least see him take out the other villains in Spider-Man PS4. Like it should have been like he took out the villains and then you cut back to the mission. Like you know how there were certain camps where you go to it and you hear voice recording.

of him talking about his family, his family, like, killing each other, basically for the approval of Craven, some sick stuff they had gone on, those voice recordings. But I think they should have also had some type of video recording that you could have seen similar to how they did Scorpion, literally how they did Scorpion. That computer, he could have clicked on another one and seen how he took out the rest of the villains. Because I'm like, I just don't believe he's able to take out Electro. I don't care when nobody say.

Electro is pretty powerful, if I do say so myself. So, you know, not that I'll, you know, fall him or anything because, you know, fictional character. But yeah, got what I'm saying, right? Anyways, all right. Harry Osborne. I feel, I think Harry was lackluster when it comes to voice acting. The voice actor could have been better. I don't know if it's just because he was next to Yuri for most of the game.

But the dynamic was there as far as Peter and Harry's relationship. but when Harry really had to hit home those lines or those vocal those emotional delivery I don't think he really hit it out the park I think it was like bare bones and mediocre so that's just a complaint I had because it was just obvious compared to Yuri

Lone Thal as a Spider-Man it was like dang imagine having to record voice lines against him like you just that man was getting outperformed It was like if Steph Curry was shooting against Jordan Poole, it was like, dang, you really see the difference. And hear the difference.

But anyways, Harry as a character, had a great story arc. And it made complete sense. I'm mad that the developers lied to us about Harry not being Venom. Like, if they're going to lie to us about that, then what else they're going to lie to us about? I'm like, at this point, you can't believe nothing developers said. Like, they pull the oki-doke-doke-on-us. They said, they've been said,

Harry's not going to be venom. So we out here thinking, oh, maybe it's Eddie Brock. Maybe it's Peter. Come to find out, it's actually Harry. Like, what in the world? Like, y'all just going to lie straight to our face? That's crazy. So anyways, as you see in the gameplay,

I have, uh, well, I don't know if this will play exactly when I'm talking. So, but anyways, I'll just tell you in general. I had fall damage off. So some of the gameplay you see, I may run into some stuff. And some of the gameplay also, maybe a little blurry and that's because when it transitioned because i record in 720 at least

but when i transitioned to youtube it only had 480 so i don't know like let me see i don't know why that is honestly i got to look at my youtube settings but yeah they have 480p is like the max so that's kind of weird not going to lie i don't know i don't know why but i'll record and so what i was seeing on my screen in my game cap so what i was seeing on my screen and my game cap was a little different than what you're seeing on here right now but whatever I guess it's a lesson for the future but what else so Harry was good and his voice actor could have been better let me just leave it at that Mary Jane Watson moment of silence man moment of silence for all the constructive feedback we gave to insomnia

after Spider-Man PS4 when I tell you they heard that in it with in one ear and out of the other, I really mean it. Like, they must have really thought that we was joking about not liking those MJ missions. The way that they used MJ in this game was obviously to push the storyline forward and to show us different

plot points that you may have not gotten at Spider-Man, which I completely don't agree with that. But it was very much to the point where they was trying to make you feel like Mary Jane was the second coming of Black Widow. The way that she was taking out professional assassins, the way that she was taking out symbios, mind you, that was

dodging Peter's attacks. Like, you got to the point in the game where you had the only, this is thing in the game where it's parrying. It's a new feature and the insomnia X-Spotterman. It wasn't in Miles and it wasn't in a Spider-Man PS4. Basically, you have to parry attacks, right? If Peter has to parry to hit these enemy types, you're going to convince me that Mary Jane is out here one-shodding symbiotes.

Come on, let's really think about it. Now, obviously, it's a superhero game, so I'm already suspending my belief. But when Mary Jane Watson takes a point-blank, like, dart to the chest and takes it off like nothing happened, I was like, all right, okay, bro, what are you about to tell me next? She's She-Holk? Like, she about to grow into a Hulk or something and start fighting them?

Like, that was just really unbelievable. Like, at some points in the Mary Jane mission, it was just like, it was eye rolling. Like at least last of us with Ellie, they don't have her going through none that's like, oh, wow, she's a superhuman. Like, it's just human stuff, right? She took a whole tranquilizer dart

from a professional assassin and kept shooting like it was nothing. At that point, I'm just like, that's bad writing. Like, it's only so much I could suspend my disbelief in a superhero game, and that's saying something. So the MJ missions was terrible. They could easily replace that with playable craving, taking out,

the villains from the Spider-Man PS4 game or just not having a game like not having any game I'm not saying that but not have her playable like this simple I think it's simple whatever so yeah no more MJ missions please

like I'm begging you and I already know next game they're probably gonna because it's like the double downing on it's like it's almost like when an artist puts out a bad album everybody tells them it's bad or not bad when the artist puts out a bad track on a very good album and everybody tells them the album is phenomenal except for that particular

song and then they go in and they're like oh part two part three on the next album it's like what like am i a joke to you like are we giving feedback or not like oh i'm so confused so mj missions was just too much and the way that they had her playing like ellie from the last of us I feel like in Spider-Man 3, she may literally just be taking out people on some rooftop beat, like some Black Widow Spider-Woman type beat. Like at this point, they may act like she actually has the symbiote still in her. Because if you don't know, she turns into a symbioteau, which is one of the greater scenes in the game reminds me of when Peter from the MCU Spider-Man

was in a car with Volture and his daughter. That's how I felt with Spider-Man, well, with Peter, Harry, and MJ in that, uh, Aunt May house scene. That was fantastic. But anyways, Venom gives MJ some of the symbiote, you know,

not by choice. And she becomes scream. If they work it to where she still has scream in her system, that will make sense. That will make sense. But as of now, she's just a regular human, taking out professional assassins and symbioles.

superhuman symbiote so yeah man I don't know I feel like they're just gonna double down like might as well get some call of duty producers why uh call of duty developers why you add it for the next uh spider man game because mj just gonna be out there

shooting like crazy so anyways miles getting to miles Morales it's simple fantastic amazing story arc I really like how he was factuated on on Lee because that was the killer of his

dad, they really pinpointed that home because in Spider-Man PS4, I feel like a lot of the plot points wasn't built built up upon with Spider-Man 2, but for Miles' dad dying at Spider-Pet's 4, I love how they focus on that, because that's a real driving factor, just like Aunt May is, or Uncle Ben was

or still is, for Peter. So I love how they drove that home. The whole fighting Peter and actually winning with him having the symbiote on. I think that showcased how strong Miles is, at this point in time in his arc and showed that he's capable of becoming

a main Spider-Man, so I really like how they perform that. And then Yuri. Yuri Loenthal, as Peter. If he doesn't get the award for Best Voice Actor, I ain't going to lie. May I have to throw the whole game awards away, because the performance that he gives as Peter, I'm not kidding you when I'm telling you

as night and day compared to everybody else. Like, the only one that's probably close, it's probably the voice of venom which is Tony Todd that's the only person like all of these other actors are good right except for Harry I felt like he could have did better

but all the other voice actors are top notch right even Miles Miles does a great job Najee Jeter he does a great job as Miles but I'm telling you when Yeri Laurentahl starts the voice act

it really is like watching Steph shoot versus watching other people shoot like his range especially not to mention especially when they go to younger missions as younger Peter in the way he changes his vocal inflection

compared to current time Peter classic masterclass I had a voice act in the game I'm not going to lie to you like it's it was really some special stuff and it made even more sense

when they told me he was the voice actor for Saske I was like ah it was anime voice actor you know they have all type of range don't they so anyways he did fantastic and Peter

as a character, I will say that the way that he went throughout the game and kind of dealt with Aunt May's passing seemed to be easier than I thought he would have took it if that makes sense.

I know they showed him flashbacks of him crying when Aunt May died and stuff like that and thinking it was his fault. But I feel like the arc of MJ not moving in with him was weighing on him more than Aunt May dying, which, you know, maybe that was intentional.

but I feel like the odd made part should have been more prominent but maybe some people disagree with me because you know I feel like there was both prominent I'm just nitpicking at this point Peter's storyline in arc along with Miles which is executed just it was just excellent excellent execution with both of their story arcs it's just obvious stuff in this game that they left out that could have been implemented that's already there two playable Spider-Man co-op

that's literally the foundation for co-op You already have the mechanics. If you had co-op with the, I forget what the mode is called, but it's basically when you go to you die. I forget what that's called. If you had that type of mode and had leaderboards, like, that would have been insane. Obviously, it probably would have broke the game

because now that I'm done with the characters. Let's get into the overall game, right? The bugs and glitches are out of hand. Y'all got to stop releasing these games with multiple game-breaking bugs. My game restarted two to three times, and I'm telling you, the amount of bugs that I had where I couldn't advance the mission where I had a three-star checkpoint was more than double digits.

So I'm like, the amount of vitriol that Cyberpunk 2077 got, I'm not saying Spider-Man 2 is on the same level. As far as bugs and glitches and game-breaking bugs, I don't know if people was really pinpointing that like they were for Cyberpunk 277. Now, I think that's a little double, that's a double standard right there. I ain't going to lie to you. Like, imagine any other,

imagine if Starfield had game breaking bugs and glitches that led you to believe that this game was rushed, I don't think y'all would ever let them live that down. So, yeah, the bugs are out of hand. They really do need to fix this game. Like, I thought Jedi Survivor frame rate was laggy at times.

Spider-Man just sometimes straight up just, like, glitches out. like you will be in a mission and one of the last people you got to take out would be like underground and you can't hit them so now you got to restart the checkpoint or one of those birds will fly into a building and now you can't hit it so now you got to restart the checkpoint or you'll defeat all the enemies but the game won't notice so now you're just walking around now you got to restart the checkpoint or you're playing in the game and you do this move and the game completely breaks down blue screen now you got to restart the mission like it's so many bugs and those are you are like only a few of the multiple bugs I ran into.

So for that alone, it definitely can't be game of the year. Like, it's just broken. Game breaking bugs are not really acceptable for me because if it's bugs where you can get past, I don't care. Like if it's bugs where it's clipping stuff like that, I don't care. But game breaking to where I have to restart the checkpoint or restart the entire game multiple times, you can't have game of the year. not for this year for this time span the release window your game was a buggy mess so i still have

jettis survivor is my favorite game of 2023 but from a bias standpoint i would personally prefer to play spider man more but from my game package and from my gamer perspective jetti survivor is still my game at year so i know i titled that for episode 131 and i did that on purpose because i wanted people to think that I was going to say this game was game of the year, but definitely not. I don't even know if it's in my top three, honestly. Like right now, I go off of what I've played and also what I see. So for me personally, for me personally, a Jedi Survivor, it's Baldur's Gate, it's armored core, I would say, let me see, what are the games have I played,

I would say Remnant 2 And then 5th 5th I would either say Zelda or Mario Actually no Change I haven't even thought about this list I'm just going off the top

I would change Zelda and Mario to number 2 So I would say Jedi Survivor Mario or Zelda Because I don't think you can have both From Nintendo in one category Baldur's Gate 3 Armour Corps

and then I would say Remnant 2 So yeah So Spider-Met 2 doesn't even make my list honestly And it's not because it's a bad game It's no even, hey, this game is amazing But it's just the bugs Like from a objective standpoint It's just not a complete game

It's buggy mess A lot of modes are missing Easy implement Like easy mode to Umplom like or some type of local co-op Like you already have the gameplay mechanics. The other Spider-Man already jumps in to save you for different random crimes. It's like, come on, it's right there.

And I feel like they was just, I don't know if they was rush, if they was lazy, I don't know what it was. But it's not in the game. So that's just unacceptable. So with that being said, that is my Spider-Man 2 review. I'm trying to think of anything else. I'll probably just go all over the place at this point. As far as the story, overview, Venom, by far, was to stand out. villain at a game.

Yeah, I like when I go about character because I break it down pretty, I even think, Mysterio wasn't even on this list. That's funny. So Mysterio, talking about him, he was a plot twist that I give credit to the whole writer's staff. The way that they wrote this whole story was fantastic. I would think this will happen, that would happen. I would think C would happen, D would happen.

Like it was just very great with this plot twist to the fact that I thought Mysterio was actually bad, but it was the people he was surrounding himself with that was using his technology against him to take out Spider-Man, I guess. I don't know what they thought they was about to do with that technology. But yeah, so that was a nice plot point, and Mysterio had a pretty nice presence with that. I'm trying to think anything I missed. I think it's basically a Venom. I wish it was more of Venom. That's the only thing I would say.

They obviously took from Spider-Man Web of Shadows as far as inspiration, which is nothing wrong with it. I mean, you know, as long as you're improving upon it, which they definitely did. But I wish Venom, I think Venom's section probably lasts about two hours, maybe three. Could have been longer. Definitely could have had a longer buildup of Spider-Man trying to find Venom and then getting to the point where he's putting the rock together and taking over the whole New York. Because the way that Web of Shadows did it, it was already laid out. for you could have had way more game but like i said i feel like they looked at that total price split it by hours and they was like all right this is as much content we're going to give them and

i was like dang shame on them because i already know dlc is coming apparently is you know i said i was going to speak on that at the end but apparently dear devil dlc is coming so it's going to be completely different from this storyline so none of these plot points are going to keep showing up which is interesting but um so we have to wait to a whole whole another game to get more venom. I don't know about, I don't know about y'all, but I don't know if everybody can wait for that 19, you know what I'm saying? Like, some people fiend for it.

Some people do the unthinkable for that 19. You know what I'm saying? That's how I'm in my review. So anyways, click my link to your in my bio. Let me know one of my social media is. Do you think Spider-Man 2 is the greatest game of 2023? And if you don't, what is your favorite game? that came out this year.