the closest insomniac has yet come to capturing the exact texture of a comic book. this is some marv wolfman, bill mantlo type stuff. my review may as well just be a compilation of cover images for the issues it most inspires me to reread.
one of the first spider-man books I ever owned was a mid-2000s trade paperback called Spider-Man vs The Black Cat. my dad bought it for me at the Borders in the lobby of his office. it collects her first six appearances. baby kieran went cover to cover on it so many times the binding is now in tatters. so, of course this little nugget of story DLC sings to me.
playing The Heist again five years later, and after fully ingesting my lukewarm plate of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, I arrive at a great yearning. oh, ye sleepless ones! return to the way it was!
more of this! god please, more of this. no more drones. get the spider-man branded Uber for Superheroes out of the game. instead: more games which feature spider-man traveling of his own narrative momentum to Locations, seeking to perform Actions, all the while interacting face to face with Characters. please! and if you absolutely must deliver the majority of your story through phone calls and audio diaries… imbue them with as much crackling drama as they’ve got here, where Peter and his ex-girlfriend’s father subtly interrogate each other over the phone without the other realizing.
insomniac. you were so good at this before. what happened?
one of the first spider-man books I ever owned was a mid-2000s trade paperback called Spider-Man vs The Black Cat. my dad bought it for me at the Borders in the lobby of his office. it collects her first six appearances. baby kieran went cover to cover on it so many times the binding is now in tatters. so, of course this little nugget of story DLC sings to me.
playing The Heist again five years later, and after fully ingesting my lukewarm plate of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, I arrive at a great yearning. oh, ye sleepless ones! return to the way it was!
more of this! god please, more of this. no more drones. get the spider-man branded Uber for Superheroes out of the game. instead: more games which feature spider-man traveling of his own narrative momentum to Locations, seeking to perform Actions, all the while interacting face to face with Characters. please! and if you absolutely must deliver the majority of your story through phone calls and audio diaries… imbue them with as much crackling drama as they’ve got here, where Peter and his ex-girlfriend’s father subtly interrogate each other over the phone without the other realizing.
insomniac. you were so good at this before. what happened?