The Problem With Spider-Man: Miles Morales

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Spider-Man: Miles Morales just isn't the PlayStation game I was hoping for. The gameplay is greatm but the story of The Tinkerer and Simon Krieger just doesn't match the high bar set by Peter Parker and Doc Ock in the 2018 video game. In this video, I dig into my problems with it, but also praise what the game got right.
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[@captainmidnight]

Have you played the game yet? If so, what'd you think of it?

[@Stalli111]

Cap has an almost exaggerated swagger that you can only truly appreciate at midnight

[@fandomfr3nzy735]

I'll tell you where the game fails when you fix this damn door

[@siosinsin7305]

My biggest issues:

[@benwasserman8223]

Idk I liked how this game's story wasn't so much about Miles "becoming Spider-Man" like in Spider-Verse, but developing his own identity as a Spider-Man. If anything, doing all those missions around Harlem and helping its residents let you build a specific bond with the community that made the stakes of Phin and Krieger's plan far more intimate than Otto unleashing a giant virus on NYC in the first game. Then again in the COVID-era, that storyline might be timelier for Manhattan than it was two years ago.

[@blackguythompson]

The biggest difference I felt between Peter and Miles had to be their responsibilities as Spiderman. Miles feels like he really only watches for crime in a certain radius while Peter had all of NYC on his shoulders.

[@lckaboom6810]

So basically:

[@Jates]

Comments:

[@Slame333]

Phin was really weak bc she’s essentially only mad at Miles bc he “lied” to her twice and wouldn’t listen to anything he had to say after that. (And each time was kind of necessary in the grand scheme of things.) In the first game we slowly but surely see Doc Oc become more mad and power hungry to the time it works. We also see his anger manifest over Oscorp more and more. He’s a tragic story. With Phin, she’s really just being a stubborn hypocrite who won’t listen. Her character doesn’t work at all.

[@gingercat5996]

How could this possibly be seen as bad? Miles has all the exaggerated swagger of a black teen

[@echotheworld8686]

Can we appreciate that Miles is having a great track record? Dude have his OWN movie with a sequel soon and his OWN game. The comics are getting good with him!

[@Josh-Parker_Battleedits]

People have a problem with this game because it makes you feel like an

[@cedar7560]

Ah yes. A man with spider powers crawling on the walls? Okay. A billionaire actually getting arrested for their crimes?

[@c_rem6101]

The only thing that's funny to me about Phin is how she was completely able to be as athletic as Spider-Man and keeping up with him even though she's technologically enhanced. To the extent that's she able to keep up with Miles amazed me

[@adammyers7383]

I dunno man, I feel like we can’t criticize the plot for being too similar to the first game’s and then blame it for not pulling off the same things that game did. I thought it was a fantastic game, I think Phin worked very well because she is very specifically not Miles’ old friend anymore, she’s as new to him as she is to us even if he doesn’t realize it at first. I don’t think there’s any problem with “what you see is what you get”. True, billionaire corporate CEOs don’t usually get arrested, and a criminals word definitely wouldn’t be enough (though I believe he submitted significant evidence of their work together). It IS actually quite realistic that a company like Roxxon keeps operating exactly as it was and just simply disavows a man like him as someone who abused his position, thereby making themselves look like the good guys and him as a rogue element. Anyway, I thought the game was brilliant, but I respect your feelings on it.

[@B_Draws]

The charges on Krieger were based on the files on newform in his office Miles found before their final fight with Rhino. I never saw Krieger as a deep, true villian, just more of a frame that surrounded the true issue with Phin and her brother. Yeah he's a by the books, money hungry CEO Disney villain, but I think that's all he needed to be for this game. It's a smaller game with a smaller story, not all of New York was in danger. Mainly Harlem. Yeah, they could've shown more with the relationship between Phin and Miles to make us care a little more, and I see the similarities between Otto and Phin but I think that's the point in a way. Miles and Peter are gonna come across similar situations but deal with them in their own ways as Spider-Man. I think this is a pretty good intro into this version of Miles. It's also Miles's first big adventure on his own without Peter. It didn't need to be an "Avengers level threat" like the last game. The small side missions that show off the character of Harlem and its residents try to make it so you care about the people of the neighborhood when Harlem is threatened. I loved the game, it does lag on the ps4 cause the system just can't handle the loading. But that didn't take away from my overall enjoyment as a whole. I give it a solid 7/10. Good start for Miles, good improvements on the mechanics of the original game, looking forward to more.

[@bobbybrown2291]

"Spider-Sense says this cake isn't for eating, it's for THROWING!"

[@cfighter95]

My biggest issue with the story is how much it asks me to suspend my disbelief with Phin. After she finds out Miles is Spider-Man, Miles spends the rest of the campaign begging her not to blow up the building and despite all logic and reason, she dismisses every attempt. To make matters worse, in the 3rd Act when Miles tries to warn her of the explosion she refuses to even hear it. And when she does finally hear it, she once again dismisses it. And

[@ALCATRAZx29]

I’ve theorised that this entire plot is set up so Miles can keep Peter level-headed when he finds out Harry is Venom. “I went through the same thing with Phin” kinda stuff.

[@cheezepuff_05]

I felt like an exaggerated swagger of a black teen