lnc0

Assigned Essex Lad at birth

  • Fae/Faer

Sebastiana
In that 3rd Decade cycle
Autistic as in Eat My Ass
Agender / A System / Cute

Currently writing Beastiary Beas


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I'm Victoria and this is my collage of Superhero Games, not games featuring Superheroes mind that's NOT ENOUGH!!!

Like... Fuck lmao


It's like... It's so rare these days that something 100% lives up to the hype and reputation it's generated, especially when we are growing more and more distance from the PS2 and have to wonder what quirks of the era we have to content with to enjoy a game two decades old... God like GGOOOODDDDD haha it's like so perfect.

Listen, there's a few reasons why this has happened. One finally we have a consistent dev with Treyarch between games, they made one Spider and now they're making the next one, so already that's huge for 2004 licensed anything. Second due to needing to release with the movie and not releasing like... Before it or anything, two years have passed between games, like that still very much sucks but it's slightly more normal? And the upgrade is just immense, it's wild Activision went straight back to annual releases after this. Like double the dev time and you've literally changed the landscape of the medium and invented a new genre... Give them three! lmao

Second this is the first game in which it's dev cycle feasibly occurred in a post: Grand Theft Auto III world. There's a lot you can say it took from that game, but for my money it was the knowledge, the reassurance that yes: You can make a game that mainly takes place outside and it'll be fine lol even without an open map just the levels are in The Big Place and you'll be fine. Thus yes this game has a big open map of New York and anything that happens inside is just cutscene stuff or takes place in Big Room and yeah... Literally all the problems with the first three games are gone. You might of thought the Inside-ness might of been a weird gripe to have with those games but no, the source of all the problems and now they're gone and the game is literally perfect now. Like it's wild how much it did solve!

And I don't even need to say it, like you know... But I'll say it: This is like one of the best computer games I've ever played, it's just every second from Doing Things to Just Swinging About from point A to B is so fun, like tickled a child-like wonder I thought long dead. I thought getting here would take like a few games of experimentation but they nailed it immediately. Swinging feels so gosh dang good! The momentum, the jumping, the flying around, it's so good!!! Anything I've loved about Superhero games like I can see the DNA of it in here.

If you've been sitting on this one like I was just go get an ISO and play it now! Like I promise it's so good! aaaaaaaa. I'm almost tempted to like stop this retrospective now lmao cos like what else could their be from here to Sony's Spiderman? Just either This but Not As Good or that they didn't have the confidence to stick with what they were cooking? I am suddenly apprehensive to keep going haha maybe that's weirdly the games biggest compliment: It can only get worse now.

Some other notes on the game that aren't about the gameplay tho, this is probably like the least awful implementation of Black Cat in a Spiderman thing I've seen for a while. In the film the way they did the plot thread of Peter and Spiderman not being able to coexist, is for him to give up Spiderman for a while. In the game tho they made the chefs kiss decision of him to contemplate giving up Peter Parker instead, with Black Cat being the devil in his ear representing the kind of connections that he could maintain in Spiderman's world that he can't in Peters. That's like so good? Instead of her just being "Wanna do the Big Fuck? Tee Hee" and that's it.

Tho this does manifest in a really funny way of every story mission being Spods is late for something! "Oh no I said I'd meet Mary Jane and the Meat Store to buy some Meat" like it's ridiculous. Get an alarm you dense cunt lmao


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