The Heartbreaking Perfection of Spider-Man PS4

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Aunt May asking Spider-Man to take his mask off so she can see her nephew absolutely gutted me. Good storytelling all around.

Insomniac just really understands the character. My favorite moment is towards the end when Doc-Ock says "We have to do what's best for those beneath us" and Peter just immediately says "No you're wrong". Spider-Man is my favorite hero of all-time because he's a nobody that got power but remained uncorrupted by it. He's not a god like Thor or Super-Man... he's not a billionaire like Tony Stark or Bruce Wayne.... He's a poor kid that lost his parents, lost his uncle, loses friends. Through all that though, he just wants to do what's best for the little guy because now he can. And feels the responsibility. Even though Doc-Ock is right in the sense that Peter and him are more powerful than others, Peter doesn't view it like that - not even for a second. Every person is important in his eyes and throughout the gameplay and story you can tell. Whether Peter's talking a homeless woman into going to get food at the soup kitchen or talking to a garbage man on the phone, he treats them with kindness and respect. I especially liked when Peter told Doc-Ock "You were everything I wanted to be" as he's holding one of his broken tentacles and said "But you just threw it away" as he throws the tentacle down. The strength and power that the tentacles give Doc-Ock didn't make Peter admire him more. Doctor Octavius was Peter's hero because he wanted to help people. In the end, that's all Peter wants to do.

The best part of his final fight with Octavius is that even after he threatens to reveal his identity and his tried to kill him multiple times, Pete still tells him that "ill get you the best help". That is Spider-Man

I love that MJ apologized to Peter just as much as he apologized to her for always trying to save her. She needed to prove to him that she could handle herself, but she realized that she was trying too hard to do so and it wasn’t fair to him, constantly scaring him into thinking that if he didn’t step in to save her, she would die. And then it’s revealed that she only wants to help more to make it up to Peter for all the times her saved her.

Insomniac really made the best spider-man game hands down. The second one is gonna be so sick.

After years of growing up sucking at trophy hunting, this and Miles Morales were my first 2 platinum trophies on PlayStation. 2 of my favorite games from the last decade bar none

This game to me is the greatest media adaptation of Spider-Man outside of the comics. They understood exactly how Peter Parker is and how Spider-Man acts. I really do consider this as the next "Arkham" styled games where they do incredible adaptations of the character and just make a great game overall

moving around in this game is so flowy and intuitive, i found that aspect of it absolutely addicting

Just finished replaying Spider-Man since it came out. The ending still hits hard. Truly a perfect game.

The “NO YOUR WRONG…YOU WERE EVERYTHING I WANTED TO BE!!” Are my favorite lines not just in this game but in any game. Literally gives me chills every time

8:31 Okay, Otto does have a selfish motive, but by helping himself, he's also helping others. I think this is something you may have overlooked, but it adds an extra layer to his character. He's creating these prosthetic limbs because his own are dying on him. But in creating them for his own (one day) benefit, he'll be helping others around him as well. That's why to him, Osborne cutting his funding and interrupting his research, while he still has the ability to do it cuts so deeply to Otto (it's personal on multiple layers. From past history with Norman, as well as the selfish underlying motivation of his research.) that he eventually (with the corruption of his neural transmitter) snaps and goes after Osborne. Peter is left in the dark about this dark truth that Otto's body is giving up on him, so he needs to create new limbs to replace them, and can only see the good natured good that their creation will bring to all. If he had known how close to this project Otto was, he may have see his transformation coming, which is why Peter blames himself for it happening at all. He was so close to Otto, didn't know about his muscular dystrophy, and by the time he figured out about it, he didn't put 2 and 2 together or realize someone so good natured may snap that way.

I really love the white spider-suit. It made me internalize this spider-man as its own thing from the very start. Wouldn't play with any other suit, playing in it "legitimizes" the separate spider-universe for me.

Genuinely my favorite Peter Parker story and my second favorite Spider-Man story overall behind ITSV. Basically a perfect licensed game or just action game in general, and this video is making me even more unbelievably hyped for the sequel then I already am, AGGGH. Great job!

"Buddy, if I had a nickel for every "don't move," I'd finally be able to pay my damn rent on time!"

I really love May's big quote of the game "when you help someone, you help everyone". It is so absolutely Spider-Man to the core and it's such a great foundation for this iteration of the character

That end scene with Aunt May is still utterly heart-wrenching even after already having witnessed it first hand on my own playthough. Honestly, if there were an Oscars for gaming (and in this day and age, maybe there should be), I'm sure Yuri Lowenthal would be an absolute shoe-in.

As someone who has been critical of the direction PlayStation has been taking, Spider-Man isn’t one of them. I just finished this game earlier this year and it’s easily one of the best written Spider-Man stories to come out from the franchise. I am eager to the play the sequel soon.

That May scene still makes me cry. The first Spider-Man was so good. It felt like it was two entire games with as much story as they packed in. Can't wait for the sequel.

Strangely enough I first heard Yuri Lowenthal in Fire Emblem. He's the english VA for the character's first and more predominant main character Marth. He uses a very similar voice and tone for Marth as he does for Peter, but sells it in a completely different way to entirely reshape the personality conveyed. It really goes to show to vocal talent Yuri has as a voice actor to use such similar voices for wildly different roles and managing to sell them both perfectly.