POST 9: My thoughts on the modern Spider-Man trilogy

POST 9: My thoughts on the modern Spider-Man trilogy So that brings me to the more recent Spider-Man games, and these are the ones I really wanted to sit down and talk about. There are three games in this series so far: Marvel's Spider-Man, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Marvel's Spider-Man 2. That's the order I'd play them in. If you're playing Spider-Man Remastered, that's the first game's story, not another entry you need to fit somewhere in between. When I first started Spider-Man, I honestly wasn't expecting much. Not because I don't like Spider-Man. I'm a huge Spider-Man fan. I'm actually in the middle of a chronological read-through of his comics too, although that's on pause while I catch up on some other stuff. I've already worked my way through part of it, and I plan on posting more about those comics when I get back to them. But going into these games, I wasn't expecting them to become some of the best games I've played in my life. That's where they ended up for me. Spider-Man, Miles Morales, and Spider-Man 2 were absolutely amazing. The story is a huge part of why I feel that way. I don't usually cry over a video game. It takes a lot of emotional investment, and I have to care about the characters. I'm not saying that because I think men shouldn't cry or any of that nonsense. I don't believe that. I just need a story to get me attached enough for it to hit me like that. These games brought me to tears at least three different times. Not sitting there bawling, but definitely sitting there feeling it. That's a pretty good indication of how invested I was in what was happening. The voice acting, the writing, and the way the characters interacted with each other all came together really well for me. I loved the dynamic between Peter and Mary Jane. I loved getting to spend time with these characters and seeing their relationships develop alongside everything else going on. There is a lot happening in these games, but the people involved still mattered to me. When the story got emotional, I was already attached. It had earned that reaction. And then you have Miles. Having his own game between the first Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 gives you more time with him before you get to the game where both of them are the main playable Spider-Men. I really like that progression. It is another reason I'd tell somebody to play them in order rather than skip straight to the newest one. Spoiler warning for Spider-Man 2 here, including something from later in the story. We got Venom. We got Peter's Anti-Venom powers. We got different symbiote enemies to fight and all of that built into the story and the combat. That part of Spider-Man 2 was just absolutely beautifully put together for me. I'm a huge Marvel fan, and at times it felt like they had taken so much of the stuff I love about Spider-Man and crammed it into this game. I could go on for a while about that alone. Beyond the story, I loved actually playing these games. The combat, the battles, the skills, the upgrades, the way you move around the city. All of it. There is so much to enjoy just in the basic gameplay that I don't feel like I need to reduce the whole experience to a list of story moments. I like having those progression and RPG-style elements too. Learning what the skills do, unlocking more options, and figuring out how they fit into the combat gives me something else to get into while I'm working through everything. I'm going to talk about that in more detail separately, because there is enough there to deserve its own post for each game instead of trying to cram every skill into this one. The recurring crimes are another thing I appreciate. I like that there is still an excuse to go out into the city and fight something. When I enjoy a game's combat this much, having that ongoing activity matters to me. I want reasons to keep using the things I've unlocked, even when I'm not moving straight from one story mission to the next. I've been putting together these content packs for some of the games and series I've beaten, partly because I wasn't really posting about this stuff on X when I originally played it. Some games only need a quick post from me. These deserve a little more time. So I'm starting with these thoughts, and then I want to follow them up with a few useful breakdowns across all three games. Skills, suits and how to unlock them, and possibly trophies and achievements. Nothing where I'm pretending to have some secret way to play that nobody else has figured out. Just some things I enjoyed, some things worth explaining, and some information that might help somebody working through them. I'll come back with more thoughts after that. For now, I just wanted to say how much I loved these games. Great story, great voice acting, great combat, and characters I actually cared about. They gave me a lot to talk about, and I'm looking forward to getting into some of it.