I never warmed to Peter’s new face in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Spider-Man 2. I know, I know. Get over it, it’s a tired conversation, but I couldn’t. He looks too much like Tom Holland, is weirdly young, and his hair is too… small? It took me out of maskless scenes while, in the mask, all I could picture when he spoke was that old look. But there’s more to Insomniac’s MCU fascination than a new face. How many 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:bloody Tom Holland costumes do we need?
There are nine, and one of them isn’t even from the movies, it’s just a suit styled on the MCU aesthetic. That’s nine slots taken up, and the last track of unlocks is a barrage of MCU costumes only broken up once by the classic symbiote, finally ending on his ugliest look - the inverted black and gold. I get why the MCU itself has so many Spidey costumes, because toys sell, but the fact we have all of them in the newest Spider-Man game feels like a waste of space, especially when Insomniac introduced colour palettes that, for whatever reason, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the movie suits don’t get.
Just imagine a pink Raimi suit. I know Tobey Maguire w🌄ould♒ rock that.
Miles has such a broad selection, from a Black Panther homage to his Absolute Carnage look to a costume ripped from a one-off variant cover. Insomniac dug deep to make his wardrobe interesting, but Peter’s🐷 is run-of-the-mill. Leveling up to get Tom Holland suit after Tom Holland suit was frustrating, and kille💝d my enthusiasm almost entirely. I still find myself swapping through a select few costumes that I unlocked way back within the first few hours, rather than the ones I pushed to level 60 for. The rush to unpack the next surprise fizzled out any time it wasn’t for Miles.
We all have our wishlists for what suits we’d love, and Insomniac can’t possibly satisfy every single fan on the planet, but using nearly ten slots for the same version of the character is a bizarre decision. Spect🌟acular, Asgardian, Captain Universe, the red-and-black look from Spider-Man/Deadpool, or even Unlimited to make use of the new cape physics - Peter has 60 years of 𝄹history to pull from, but Insomniac’s focus was on the last seven.
It feels like a natural evolution of the death of tie-in games. We still get the odd few, but 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Gollum and King Kong are stragglers overstaying their welcome. Studios are less interested in licensing their IPs for 1:1 adaptations, instead asking developers to expand their universes and tell new stories with the same characters. We’re seeing that with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars as we delve further into the galaxy far, far 𒅌away with Outlaws and the Jedi series, and for Marvel, we’re seeing that with uniqไue spins on favourite comic stories like Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, and even the maligned Avengers.
But they still have tie-in DNA, using the movies’ likeness and visual aesthetic for cohesion. Spidey’s new face model was chosen to better fit with voice actor Yuri Lowenthal, but the striking resemblance to Tom Holland feels like more than just coincidence. Guardians pulled from the movies with its designs of Drax, Star Lord, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot, so why wouldn’t other Marvel games? I’d hinge my bets on the inclusion of all the MCU suits being 🅠part of that, which is disappointing because it eats up space that could’ve been used to represent a much wider breadth of the character’s rich history.