Topic: Spider Man

@KilloWertz Don't worry, it was always the plan. The game's story and set-piece craftsmanship was too important to me. No way I was gonna be freezing it every ten seconds.

But I appreciate your comedic concern, all the same!

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@oliverp Here's hoping for some decent discounts, for you and everybody else waiting for 'em. I doubt it'll be included in anybody's Black Friday / Cyber Monday listings, but maybe the January Sales might see it shave a tenner off its asking price? Best of luck dodging spoilers in the meantime!

@RogerRoger You're kind of welcome then.

I suppose you'll go through and get your usual screenshots in a second playthrough. I can definitely relate to not getting many screenshots in a game as I got hardly any in Horizon Forbidden West because it was such an important game for me.

@KilloWertz Well, in true Sony first-party fashion, its NG+ mode will be a little late to the party. I'm itching to restart its story all over again, but doing so in a new file would lose my hard-earned Spidey suits (which the Photo Mode allows you to freely switch between, once you've unlocked 'em) so I'm gonna have to wait. But then yes, rest assured it'll be business as usual.

You can't even change the time of day in the post-story city yet (assuming they do the same as before and add the feature in a future update) so my "let's go back in and mess around for a few snaps" plans have been rather limited, too. [sighs] Who will play me in the movie?!

Roughly 50 percent of the way through. Overall, I am very... whelmed by this, overall. I thought with time things would get better, and they did a little, but I still think the controls are overdesigned. I wouldn't have minded the parry if it was optional, but in an already really messy control scheme, throwing in attacks that can only be parried and can't be dodged just tips me over into frustration territory. Especially against bosses or large groups of enemies where you may be facing three or four types that all have to responded to very specifically.

It is a well told, well presented, story with regular breath taking set piece moments but... I dunno. Maybe it just an oversaturation of Spider-Man over the last three or so decades, but outside of a few fresh spins, this is like 'a Spider-Man story 101' and I guess there is nothing wrong with that, but at least for me it isn't much to really get all that excited about either.

The novelty of having you be able to play as both Spider-Men with slightly different ability sets is cool, but honestly fairly pointless. At least so far this has been Peter's story, the symbiote abilities are by far the most fun to use and Miles side content feels the most like filler. I am swapping to Miles when you get those missions that let you play as either Spider-Men, just because if I didn't I think I'd forget he is in the game. Who knows, maybe this changes in the back half.

I'm jealous of you all getting to play this! I very much enjoyed the first one back in the day on my PS4, but I do not currently have a PS5 and don't think I would be getting one any time soon. I might just have to wait a few years for it to come to PC. The first one is actually the only game I 100%'d (that took any effort, Telltale doesn't count). It's been funny seeing some of the online clips of this sequel though. The whole wingsuit seems like... an odd choice and very reminiscent of Just Cause. Not sure I'll be a fan of using that, but I'm sure it feels amazing to control either way judging from how Insomniac nailed the gameplay last time around. On the bright side, I still haven't actually played the Miles Morales standalone expansion or whatever you would like to call it and that's come to PC by now. Maybe I'll just play that and pretend like I'm a part of the party.