Journey

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (2023)

Played on PlayStation 5

I went into this thinking that it was going to be another fun spidey adventure that was going to be just fine. What I got was a game that makes the previous two entries completely obsolete. Spider-Man 2 capitalizes on everything that made those games good without any of the weaknesses. (In a way though, it makes some new ones).

1 & Miles Morales are very easy games, even on the hardest difficulty. Those games give you gadgets and abilities out the ass, to where the game becomes a cakewalk. The new combat balancing in 2 is much more challenging and isn’t reduced to just relying on your gadget wheel. There’s this new emphasis on the parry mechanic which forces you to think before you mindlessly press the dodge button, as well as moves where you have to dodge versus parrying it. Bosses this time around are also much more exciting and show off what the PS5 is truly capable of.

Side content was the weakest part of the first two games, but they made some huge improvements to make them much more enjoyable and interesting. Not all of it is perfect, as Peter’s side (and main) content has a lot more going for it than Miles does. While Peter & Wraith team up to takedown The Flame, Miles is…recovering stolen music instruments? Really? Peter gets so much in this game and the best we got for Miles is that?

Like I said though, this is something the extends to the main story of the game. Peter is still grieving May, has gotten back together with MJ but things are still not at 100%, tutoring Miles, dealing with Harry entering his life again, Kraven, & then all the black suit shenanigans. Miles spends so much of this game pulling his hair out over Martin Li/Mr Negative, a character who BARELY gets a mention of emotion in Miles’s own game. Where was this energy and feeling before? It’s something that’s never really explored in that game and yet it’s so drilled in here.

When Miles isn’t talking about how much he hates Martin Li’s guts, what’s he doing? Either focusing writing a essay or…doing nothing. There’s so many main missions where Miles isn’t playable or even related to what is even going on. There were times where I was playing the MAIN MISSIONS and I forget that Miles was even a thing until the game would jump cut to him after a mission. For a character who’s own game was about him coming into his own and being able to stand next to Peter as Spider-Man, Miles just sits in Peter’s shadow the majority of the way through. For a guy who’s on the box too, that’s majorly disappointing. There’s other things about the story that bother me, but that’s spoiler territory. (But there’s stuff I really like too).

There’s features that were in the other games missing like selfie cam, the ability to change the time of day, traversal challenges and more. It seems like a slam dunk to have these things in the game again but they are just gone with no explanation. This combined with the amount of bugs/glitches this game has, you can tell that this was being pushed out the door. I think it’s a crazy exaggeration to call this “Broken” or “unplayable” though. It does need some fixes and it’s kinda sad that a heavy hitter like Spider-Man couldn’t just get a lil extra polish before it dropped.

All in all, Spider-Man 2 is a very good game and with some updates, It can truly be a great experience.

8.5/10

Going back to play Fallout 3 again i’m sick of multiplayer and need the nostalgia trip

Outer Wilds; I cannot stop thinking about this game

The backlog isn't bad at all idk how people have so much

I guess you impulsively buy a lot

• The Callisto Protocol (cause of PS Plus monthly games)

• The Witcher 3 (Had it for years I just didn't play it cause I wanted to wait for PS5 version)

• Final Fantasy VII Remake (cause of PS Plus monthly games)

I just claimed this so idk if I'll even play Final Fantasy like that

That's it. I don't have a huge backlog, I never played a From Software game either and I wanted to see Armored Core but seems too fast for my taste, always on movement like DOOM so idk

I'll see about that

Alan Wake 2 already platinumed

Spider-Man 2 already platinumed

I always wanted to platinum MGSV cause I did Death Stranding already and I didn't expect to

MGSV although hard, it's a challenging and interesting platinum

I heard there's some animal collectibles that are horrible but f*** it what can you do, getting a platinum usually is tedious anyway

I'm 9 trophies away from platinum on MGSV so we'll see

100% Spider-Man 2

B2G1 on Amazon. Scooped up Final Fantasy XVI, Elden Ring, and Assassins Creed Mirage.

Just beat GOW 2018 I was sleep

finishing off cyberpunk, playing ds1 now

gonna binge play dark souls games onto the the lead up to elden ring dlc. Never played 2 or 3 before

P5 Royal (ps5)
GTA SA Definitive Edition (Switch)
Playing Animal Crossing very casually
COD 4 Remastered campaign (ps5)

Never played Persona and I never will but Persona 5 soundtrack for a sampler like me is amazing

I love beautiful music

i tried playing final fantasy 10 but tbh its so f***ing slow and it requires a controller for certain parts, i need a game i can play without a controller like a strategy game or a turn based rpg

thinking about trying warcraft even tho its been like 10 years since i played it. something about that idea just sounds depressing, like that s*** is so old

What parts do u say need a controller? I can't seem to think of any besides maybe certain overdrives that require you to use the a***og sticks? Otherwise u can just map ur keyboard like a controller no?

Yea the overdrive and also the soccer bs lmao, I forgot what they call it exactly but u gotta use a stick for that part I think. Doesn't help my left hand is disabled, can't rly do some of the inputs on keyboard

Oh that sucks, yea i can imagine some of it might be a bit unplayable then. If it helps the blitzball is completely optional whether u win or lose and doesn't appear anymore in the game after that and the overdrive with the a***og stick is only tied to Lulu's! It rlly is an amazing game despite its slow moments but im hella biased lmao.

I think older FFs fit more of what ur looking for or perhaps the Persona series as well.

Thanks yea I have been thinking about trying persona. I played a quarter of FF7 and lost my save file it took me like 20 hours to get that far smh

I'll probably just follow your advice and keep playing FFX, I really like certain aspects of it and after beating skies of Arcadia its a natural progression I think

You never will???

I dont like these type of games

What do u want me to do

I got all the achievments on steam.
There's good guides online of the exact areas to find the animals.

Worst part that made me go insane for a couple of hours tho....
the common animals that you havent found will show up in the name list, but their picture won't.

thought i got 100% of them and it was bugged... which sucked cause it was my last achievement to get.

Just beat mafia 2 broksi they don’t make classics like this any more

my favorite mafia game, they need to make more story heavy open world games like those.
Remake of 1 is also very good

Broksi first half of the game in the winter snow was sooo legendary. I don’t know why rockstar games don’t make winter based settings. Mafia 1 had more variety of missions and better story line but the setting for mafia 2 was beautiful

Tears of the Kingdom
It's never gonna stop