I bought Spider-Man 2 even though I wasn’t hyped nor excited for the game. After both the first and standalone Miles DLC were at best alright games.
The gameplay when swinging through NYC is brilliant, it’s fun and I can easily see myself just playing for the sake of swinging around. The combat is fluent and well crafted, I don’t find it as engaging as that of the Arkham series. Overall the gameplay can feel tedious and formulaic, due to every encounter is just another combat arena. The Arkham games, did the same. But it felt more fresh and natural. If the game was just this, I could rate it as a 8/10 game.
However the game is full of tedious side missions and mini games dressed up as character building. I don’t mind character building and walking around as Peter or Miles, if it was interesting and fun. But running around a virtual carnival or science HQ to kill time isn’t my idea of fun.
I didn’t buy Spider-Man 2 to ride bike cycles as Peter Parker multiple times, shoot holograms with a bee drones and water plants. It’s some of the most unexciting busywork I have ever done and I have yet to play the M.J stealth sections.
To me it’s at a best 6-7/10 game. It’s alright, it’s fun when you are actually playing as Spider-Man.
I’ll complete the game and I will probably sell it off along with the Miles DLC and buy Alan Wake II instead.
Also Kraven is extremely cringe and in general the most boring Spiderman Villain. Imagine having the Condiment King as Main Antagonist in an Arkham Game.
Just a few hours ago I’ve fought the Lizard in Spiderman 2 - its the highlight of the game so far and will probably stay.
Night of the Lizard from the animated Series is the best piece of Spiderman content ever made. Unlike Kraven, who is just a boring Asshole, the Lizard has a Plan to make the world a better place and Spiderman is clearly on the wrong side here.
I hope it isn’t turn everyone into lizards just like his boring plot in the turgid Amazing Spider-Man.
And in the comics The Lizard is just a boring Jekyll and Hyde character whose every appearance can be summed up as “This chill scientist guy has turned into a savage monster out of hubris, I must bring back the nice guy underneath” which is A) boring every time, B) describes around half of Spider-Man’s much more compelling villains and C) something they do better with one of their own fucking heroes (The Hulk)
But you know which Spider-Man villain has one of the defining Spider-Man stories of his time? The one that actually inspired the game you are currently playing? Let me give you a hint: The story isn’t called Kurt Conners’ Last Hunt now is it?
Something that really grinds my gears about Spider-Man 2 is the immersive controller speaker. I hated it the first time I experienced it in a game. I turned it off immediately in the system settings.
Apparently it’s still active in Spider-Man 2, even with it turned off in game settings and the system software.
There is nothing immersive in an awful sounding mini speaker playing from the controller. It breaks all immersion.
EDIT: just finished the game, almost 100% it in one go. Not the greatest game of all time or anything, but its decent enough for me as a casual Spiderman Fan.
The section with the Lizard was my personal highlight and the Bossfight against Venom was cool too. I think the game is a 7/10.
I’m around 22 hours into the story and I have gripes with the game.
There’s our moments in a nursing home that the game cranks jump scares up by eleven. And I mean a jump scare will happen and then immediately follow up with another one. This segment of the game has an over reliance on it for some reason to where the scares becoming more annoying then unnerving.
Writing has a certain level of Remedy Quality… but Saga Anderson as a Character doesn’t feel layered outside the mysterious past, has the ability to distinguish fact and fiction, a family, and works for the FBI. There isn’t an undesirable traits about the character especially as someone who is meant to be the hero of the story with it border-lining the Mary Sue Archetype when it comes to writing fiction. I suppose you can say the characters “flaw” is that the horror story made the investigation personal which shifted her motivations, but even then the shift in motivation to solve the case doesn’t make her compulsive or desperate with her decision making given her “Seer” abilities.
I don’t know given this is a character we spend a majority of our time with (arguably more than our titular title card writing hero). I just wish when writing this character they gave her an additional undesirable layer that could play into the games Psychological Horror themes.
The game has a series of visual bugs also for the Map which can get annoying if you’re trying to get every piece of evidence and of course resources to survive, but it doesn’t hinder the games progression and I expect it to be patched.
Game also for a survival horror has an issue with resources where I found myself needing to discard resources cause I either don’t have space in the shoebox or in my on-hand inventory. It’s just a personal issue I suppose since resources are RNG. But it makes me wonder why they didn’t just have pre selected amounts to balance out the game.
I love the game, but it has issues. It’s better gameplay wise compared to Alan Wake and it’s everything I hoped for in terms of a sequel so far. I have yet to roll credits, but I’m enjoying every minute and look forward to the expansion DLC’s.
I love how the bigot brigade are having a meltdown over Spider-Man 2 because there’s a handful of LGBT and disabled characters in the game and a few rainbow flags scattered around NYC.
Deal with it fuckers.
I haven’t actually finished it yet -currently at around 72% of the main story but so far its a solid 8/10.
Graphics are stunning as you’d expect with the PS5’s capabilities and the traversal is super satisfying… Web Wings are life changing lol.
Im playing Hitman: Blood Money. Man, this game is worth playing just for listening to the soundtrack alone, Jesper Kyd is one of the greatest Videogame composers of all time.
Blood Money ain’t bad, I’ve said this countless times: there are no bad Hitman Games.
Blood Money for me is just the weakest Game in a very, very good series.
The Game is alright but the Hitman Community treats it like this perfect game it just isn’t - just like Zelda Fans won’t shut the fuck up about Ocarina of Time, when Link to the Past is the game that actually defined what a Zelda Game is.
