Vidjama Gmaes Work

The silver lining is that it’s over.

We’re finally here. The last episode of Spider-Man. It’s over, for now. At least until I decide to play through Miles Morale, and after this whole endeavor I think that’s going to be a while in the future. Let me play through something else first.

I can appreciate that the developers knew exactly what I wanted going into Silver Lining, and by that I mean giving me one mission before throwing Screwball in and letting me finish off several hanging threads at once. I was able to knock out Screwball’s five missions, upgrade my remaining gadgets, and unlock the last couple of suits. Screwball’s challenges were the usual course of dumb shitass, a little tighter than in episode 2.

It’s very obvious that Silver Linings was done on the lowest budget and the shortest timetable. There’s a marked degradation in QA over every progressive episode where the designers put less consideration into things like enemy spawns and much less playtesting or bug fixing was done. Every episode has more instances of goons spawning inside cars, inside geometry, inside unreachable places. Getting stuck between cars and poles and the AI breaking, getting stuck running into open car doors.

This time around there are only four districts with activities. The usual stuff, crimes, outposts, side missions, etc. I love the cartoon Spider-Man suits that look really out of place in the game’s cutscenes. It’s nice that they gave us so many options even if they don’t match the tone of the game at all.

The whole story arc of Hammerhead is kinda crap, with him turning into a head on a robot body. He just kinda pops back up with “hey Spidey I’m a robot now, I’m robot Hammerhead!” And it’s never really addressed after that. It’s also really boring how everything seems to be converging on Sable tech in this world. I’d rather go back to beating up normal bad guys and Spider Man’s roster of villains than deal with more Sable-teched up goons in Miles Morales.

Also hated Silver Sable’s character in the DLC, given she comes back and immediately assumes Spider-Man is the villain. She makes a ton of stupid decisions, blames Spider-Man when her plans go wrong, and then ends the DLC with “I always kinda liked you kiddo” as her final departure. It’s awful story telling and kind of a poor way for the game to go out.

With 94% of the trophies, I am officially done with this game forever. See you in hell, Spider-Man.